"mm" wrote
I have a Rubbermaid mailbox and post that wad damaged in the snowstorms.
Replacement post, delivered $54
New mailbox and post $52

I've always had doubts about Rubbermain mailboxes.

For one thing, doesn't the mail get wet when you do the dishes?

In your case, if it's rubber, why didn't the post bend and bounce back
when the snow sat on it or the car hit it?

We don't do dishes until the mail comes first. Sometimes the mailman leaves
his coffee cup too.

I'm not sure how old it is, but over ten years. Until this year's heavy
snow, it has actually held up well against the plow debris. Maybe it just
got brittle over time, but it was cracked at the bottom and I had one hell
of a time breaking the rest of it off. The design is a steel rod pounded
into the dirt, no digging, no cement to mix.

The one feature of this mailbox we really like is the telltale flag. When
the MM opens the door, it pops up a yellow flag on the side and it is
visible from the house so you know if the mail came. We get mail late
(sometimes around 5 PM) so it has save many a false trip to retrieve it.
Not a big thing, but on a very cold or rainy day, we appreciate it. One of
those things, once you've had one you wonder why every mailbox does not have
one. Even all the Rubbermaid don't.