Now that we moved in here, we will need a postbox outside. As we are not living downtown, we cannot have our postbox at the door, but need to have it outside on the road. There are on the opposite side of the road these typical postboxes. Directly opposite of our house we could not find one with our number on it, so we thought, it would be time for us to get one and put it out there as well. Could have been that the former owners had a postbox with the post itself instead. So we went to the famous "Home & Hardware". You do not have a large variety of postboxes there, basically one style in silver, black and green... This metal box will be put on a 4" x 4" pole, with a base plate of wood to fixate it onto the pole. This pole then has to go into the ground.
Without a smile, the sales person said: be careful where to put the postbox out there on the road. Do not put it too far back on the property, as then the postman will not be able to reach it from the car. You should also not put it too close to the road, as when the snowblower comes in the winter, you may have to re-do it all in the spring...
When he said that, Bianca did not smile, but when she gave me the translation of it and I started to laugh like crazy, she had to laugh as well. I was crying tears for laughter on the way home. Thinking in pictures... :-)
To the car situation, we are trying to get an financing for this until our money finally arrives from Germany. So, after the postbox issue, we stopped there as well to find out where we stand with it. Waiting for the financing manager she chatted with the sales person - Matthew, son of our real estate agent. A friend of him must have had the problem with the postbox and the snowblower as well, it seems to happen here more often... So he has lost a postbox to the snowblower as well. In order to pay back, he apparently used a lot of concrete in a big hole in the ground, but unfortunately, again at the same location as the previous one.. Next winter, snowblower... the rest you can imagine ;-)
This time, the thing did not disappear together with the snow, he could get his mail a couple of meters away from the ditch on the other side of the road. Plus - a couple of days later he received an invoice from the city government... :-) I am still crying tears of laughter when thinking in pictures about this :-)
But this is canadian! The snowblower is loved here ;-) Airmail becomes a special meaning in this case.
In the meantime we found out that the postbox on the other side at the height of our neighbours and us (so not directly opposite), carrying only a 3 as address, must be ours. Pure guessing, 431 is further at the beginning of the road, followed by 408 and 428 and then the 3. We have to renew the 4 and 0. However, the 3 will not survive much longer.. Maybe waiting for the snowblower :-)
This postbox must have survived the last winter, but in case the snowblower will come too close to our postbox this winter, we will already have a replacement :-)
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