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As we wait for the smoothed dirt to dry on the newly torn up and backfilled driveway, a word about the inconveniences of this repair/replace project.
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Ours cars now have to sit outside in the elements for the week it’s taking the crew to do the job and probably for 2-3 weeks after that. Forget the fact that Ethel, my Subaru, is a garage virgin and has never spent a night outside…. not being able to use the driveway means the only place we can pull into our property is way out here.
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Which makes walking to your car in the rain and hauling groceries back to the house a right royal pain in the *ss.
And since we contracted to have the culvert replaced?
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Our mailbox had to go as well.
Trying to predict what time the postman will drive by so I can run out there to meet him is getting old fast.
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River's world..... 
Put your mailbox on the other side up the road temporarily, or just place it on the ground without that big post attached. It’s easier than watching and running. Just by the way, how much useful mail do you get these days. If we check our superbox once a week we are happy. Sometimes we go 10 days without checking. Nothing urgent comes through the mail anymore! Most things are crap.
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They won’t deliver if it’s on the ground. And since I’m old school when it comes to paying bills we’ll have to figure something out soon.
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I heard UPS is going on strike soon, so it may not matter, but why not divert your mail to General Delivery or a tempoarary post office box until the road is fixed and your mailbox can be put back where it belongs.
But I cannot believe there is no system in place to accommodate temporary disruptions. In the last 200 years surely this has happened a million times to a million different people. There should be a plan in place!
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For $20,000,, the driveway guys can (a) carry your groceries for you, and (b) retrieve your mail. They are already out there, and if they have time to jibber jabber with the Marine, they have time to play delivery guy.
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I like the way you think….
👍
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Have the mail delivered to your door by drone and have Lord Dudley watch for its arrival and let you know (meow?) when it comes. That’s the least he can do to earn his keep, since I understand he spends most of his time looking out the window anyway.
If that’s not a cat’s meow of an idea, I don’t know what is!
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His Lordship runs under the bed if anyone approaches the house so that may not work.
😉
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Soon, others will want one just like this but not for $20,000.
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We’ve had our mailbox knocked over a number of times and received many a complaint from the post office. Good luck!
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The snow plow took out 6 boxes on our road this past winter. But they never have to replace them…
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You call your Subaru….Ethel? I knew we got along so well for a reason, my cars name is Pearl….😆
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I do.
A friend bought one the same time I did. She named her Lucy….
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Is there any way you can have your mail forwarded to a neighbor or a local PO Box for a bit? I would call your local Post Office and check your options.
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We rigged up something.
Stay tuned…
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You can have them hold your mail at the post office, then run to your car in the rain and pick it up. *runs and hides*
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Sounds like fun.
Not.
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no sense of adventure
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Ethel’s cherry was bound to be popped eventually.
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She’s held on to it for a good long while….
🤣
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The mail is a big issue!!
I heard my car the one night it had to sleep outside; I feel your pain.
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She’s going to pay me back for this indignity… I know it.
🥴
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