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Don Foreman wrote:

There is certainly nothing irresponsible, deceptive or immoral about
making a mailbox and post that look strong because they are strong.
It is no more a public hazard than a tree.

Maybe that's the answer; carve your mailbox out of a chunk of 24" dia
oak tree, buried many feet. It looks like a tree, acts like a tree.
Anyone dumb enough to ram a tree deserves what my daughter got when she
totaled my car on a roadside tree. The tree survived.

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