Show me your welded mailboxes!

[the old grind]

Incorporate an automotive coil spring into the mount then add weight? School buses and soccer moms survive, bashers might get a surprise? Difference between a maintained highway and a subdivision as to what might be ruled a hazard. My rural box is in the middle of three at most 2' apart on separate posts. (a cheap 'large' and expendable) We've been hit twice in 20 yrs and I've had survivor's guilt a time or two.