As stated above, it can be very different from town to town. Here are the basics. 99 out of 100 mailboxes are not on your property. Either the town or the State, in some cases, owns the land. Placing your mailbox there is a risk you take. Snow exiting the plow can exert the same force as David Ortiz swinging at it with a baseball bat. Why those of us here in New England mount mailboxes on a wood post is beyond me...but we do. Even a pressure treated post starts to rot in the ground after just a few short years.
The policy in my town is "you're on your own" unless you can prove the Town plow struck the box, i.e.; yellow paint on the box.
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