What Maine Does

  It's just a standard issue mailbox.  Cost: $24.99 at Home Depot. Its current resting place is on the front stoop of our lovely townhouse in Stockton Springs, Maine.  At this point the insightful reader is no doubt wondering how any mail will make its way into the mailbox given its current location. It won't. The USPS has some pretty specific restrictions regarding the placement of mailboxes. Poles are good. Posts are fine. Platforms will do nicely. Stoops, not so much. The mailbox represents just the latest engineering/mechanical challenge facing your lame blogger. I have tackled these kinds of challenges before. There are numerous epic fails and very few successes in my sad resume. The reason the mailbox is resting on our stoop is because the platform upon which it is meant to be attached is a sumbitch.  Out at the end of our access road sits a mailbox platform that was built to accommodate the 16 mailboxes for the 16 townhouses that make up our community called S...