RescueWV said:
An old joke among plow drivers...
If you're driving along and realize that the mailboxes are pointing the wrong direction... it's probably not the mailboxes that are wrong.
I am from Wisconsin and as a kid we lost about 3 mailboxes over the some 15 years. My neighbor made a really cool design after his fist mailbox loss that would spin the mailbox around and generally only damage the box and not the pole and base.
This is what my childhood neighbor build some 30 years ago and is still there today per Google street view 2012, not sure about the main box but the base and swing is still the same.