Don't mean to hijack your thread, .... but why are the mail boxes so low to the ground? Ours, and nearly every one in the neighborhood, is less than a meter high. The door over the opening in the back, from which you can collect the mail, opens to vertical, so if you want to reach or look inside you have to get down on your knees
and bend over. The opening is so small I can barely fit my arm in, and then I have to reach down and feel around in the dark, damp hole to check for small, flat mail. Is it a law here that mail boxes should be designed to be as inconvenient to the user as possible?! How I miss having a big mailbox that has a door that opens wide so I can see inside and reach inside with ease.
OK, enough whining.