I had an incident Friday evening with neighborhood vandals/thieves. Saturday morning I left to go to the store and noticed my mailbox was GONE.
The post had been broken at the lap joint connecting the vertical and horizontal portions of the post (which had been weakened by a previous event - although it was still pretty sturdy). My daughter who also lives in this neighborhood said that she saw some boys running up a connecting street to mine while she was taking her evening walk and didn't realize anything was amiss. She was too far away to identify them.
My main concern is that I did not check my mail Friday and that some mail is lost. Hopefully none of the lost mail included donation checks or bulk-buy purchase checks.
I have posted signs around the neighborhood offering a $50.00 reward for information leading to the discovery of the villians. Maybe that will be fruitful. If not I intend to incrementally raise the reward until results are achieved.
I had to rush to Lowes Saturday and purchase a new mailbox which cost me $55.00. I reported the incident to both the Sheriff's dept and to the Postal Authorities.