I know it must be tempting for a lot of kids and young adults to see a street filled with mailboxes along the side of the street. They figure a good baseball bat and driving a car to knock down the neighborhood mailboxes would be fun. Well it can be fun and a lot of laughs, until someone gets hurt. It’s not so fun anymore. Mailboxes are designed for one thing and one thing only and baseball targets are not one of them. There are some mailboxes you know you could knock off the post with a good swing; while other mailboxes you wouldn’t even dare to try.

I believe this home owner is safe from mailbox baseball. They made it very clear to leave their mailbox alone, but some other home owners take a different approach. If you see a few mailboxes that look like easy targets for mailbox baseball, you are probably not the first ones to have seen it. Sometimes these home owners have already been struck by the silly kids of this mailbox bashing game. They have taken hidden measures to make sure their mailbox doesn’t get hit again. Someone at night with a baseball bat, driving down the road may not see these hidden measures and will take a good swing at a mailbox that appears to be defenseless. When in fact, the mailbox doesn’t give and creates a force back toward the person swinging the baseball bat. When the box doesn’t give, it’s the person’s arm or arms that will. People have had their arms broken, severely injured, and even ripped right off their bodies from playing with mail boxes they shouldn’t have. This is one tradition for teens that needs to stop now, so nobody else has to lose an arm or their life to this silly game.

If you played this game as a kid, you should go back as an adult and make up for your actions. Go see if the people are still living in the homes, where you knocked down their mailbox and offer to buy them a new one. You can go online and look at some really cool mailbox designs at Mailboxixchange.com; where you could order these people a new one. They have a wide variety of Residential Mailboxes to choose from. If you knocked down the mailbox of any businesses in your area, you could go back and apologize to them and see if they would be interested in a new mailbox too. There are a lot of modern Commercial Mailboxes you can buy today and some small business owner may want to upgrade their current box they have now. This would be a nice gesture on your part and a good way to make up for your actions of the past. Let’s leave the mailbox duties to the U.S. postal workers and let’s keep our arms for something better in life than smashing up other people’s possessions.