My gate alarmed.
My laptop dinged a notification.
Ah, package delivery.
I waited. No forthcoming UPS truck.
Well as usual the UPS man just chunked the box over my gate and moved on.
I swear one of these days I’m gonna report this. I’m too happy to care.
I jumped in the car and drive down. There’s the box. I can’t remember what I ordered.
I opened the gate and step out to get the box. Oh I remember I ordered the lil’wrekker some jeans.
Oh, what’s this?
To my left is the road sign to the next county. I live slap-dab on the county line.
Oh what’s that. I shook my head and look again. The sign is on the ground. And that big thing there is a huge RV, parked on the county rd. What? Who?
This is a narrow unimproved gravel road. Well mostly sand. There’s no shoulders.
The RV is canting toward the ditch. Not a real stable looking predicament.
I notice it has 2 flats.
What do you think ol’beck did?
See if you can picture this.
I walked over the road sign and promptly hid it in the brush. (God I hope this ain’t poison sumac, all I need is a new rash to complete my look of leper)
I’ve been wanting this sign for awhile. It has lots of bullet holes. It’s past due needing to be replaced.
Then I walked over and knocked on the RV door.
What was I thinking?
I don’t know. I thought someone was visiting I guess. Alas, no answer.
I alarm myself some days.
I need a babysitter.
The lil’wrekkers new jeans didn’t fit. Too big.
I alarm myself, that girl don’t need new jeans anyway.
So…let’s say this happened to your friend. 
Did your friend end up with a new road sign?
A friend lives on a road similar to the OP’s, a gravel road that is rarely used. A few years ago the road became a popular spot for trash dumping. If he found any identifying info, he would take it back to it’s owner. It got to the point he would have to make monthly trash runs to a transfer station, fortunately for him, he was allowed to dump this stuff for free.
One day last summer he made a run to a grocery store. Returning an hour later, someone had abandoned a junk travel trailer in the middle of his road. The local police would not do anything, a towing company would not impound it, it had no value as junk. Within a week two more junk trailers were left in the road.
He took the VIN’s to a local vehicle licensing agency to see if they could find the owners. Turns out all were trade ins at a car dealer that was offering a nice trade in allowance for anything that could be driven or towed in. He also found out that our state charges a small fee with each travel trailer license to deal with abandoned travel trailers and motor homes. With that info he was able to get the trailers removed. He also put up a gate to keep trash dumpers from driving up the road, now they just dump it at the gate.
I think I was hoping that the delivery was orange pants with a green top so that you could hide in plain sight behind your lovely new outbuilding – y’know … just to mess with your husband.
As Becks said this is on a narrow unimproved gravel road, I would think any box is going to soon be blown up with fireworks. My grandparents spent a lot of money on mailboxes due to firework damage.
Glad the friend has a new sign. Wonder how long it will be before the county puts up a new sign, especially if the near neighbor forgets to tell them it’s missing.
There this weird 3 way intersection further down the road. The county puts a stop sign there. No one ever stops. Not exactly a high traffic areas.
Ahem…I know of a person who… umm…has 3 bullet hole ridden stop signs in her…I mean his garage.
We also have the garbage dumping problem.
That’s an odd take. Why would you assume this behavior is wide-spread? Our road is unimproved, unlit, all the driveways for the 3 houses on it are very long, and we have zero problems with vandalism. Now, the occasional littering, on the other hand…
Since my my driveway is 1/10th of a mile long and narrow, and hard to reverse out of, I have a package box myself. Instead of buying something like the ones linked above which were too small IMHO, I got the post office to OK attaching a 70 gallon deck box to the wooden address post at the end of the driveway. They were quite enthusiastic about it given they don’t need to come up the drive, and I don’t have packages left in the middle of the drive by substitute mail carriers, so win-win.
The mailbox is 3miles from my door. My actual mailbox has been stolen several times. Knocked over dozens of times.
Mr.Wrekker buried a iron post several feet and cemented it in and put a large mail box on it with several bolts. Occasionally we see a paint color on it. Once it was bent and the door was broken. Yet she still stands.
A delivery box would have to be made out of steel or something.
We’ve been thinking on it for years.
I make sure any important mail goes to my PO box in town.
I have no idea where you live, but my in-laws are in eastern Pennsylvania and my grandparents were in southwest Ohio, both in rural areas, replaced dozens of mailboxes due to vandalism. When the driveway is 1/5 mile long, the nearest neighbor is 1/2 mile away, and there’s not much to do, the mailboxes are great targets for bored teenagers.
My grandparents eventually mounted a steel trashcan on its side and gave up on having a lid. My inlaws got a P.O. Box.
