By Dan Merritt, Advocate reporter
Scott Nahnsen’s toilet mailbox in Winner was there for postal employees. For about a year, he said.
And they used it, no questions asked. They used the mailbox portion that is.
But no more. The whole thing— toilet and mailbox —tipped over and broke in chilly spring wind gusts early last week.
Gone is a place in town where people got out their cameras. “Every once in while you’d see people driving by taking pictures,” Nahnsen reported.
“It was on Facebook a couple of times.”
Nahnsen is in the process of remodeling a home in the 400 block on East Third. He had curbside delivery of mail into a mailbox duct-tape strapped to an old toilet.
It apparently wasn’t a problem for the postal delivery people on the route, he noted. Mail was placed regularly inside the slightly smashed mailbox — the side of it in the back was pushed-in.
But the mailbox door opened and shut with no major troubles.
Nahnsen said mail was generally delivered after lunch. But sometime during a wind gusty afternoon Monday, March 16, the toilet and mailbox were pushed to the ground, smashed, and rendered unusable.
He tossed them onto a nearby scrap heap of remodeling debris.
He was in the process of locating a post and new mailbox he said when contacted March 16. “You can get one down at the hardware store.”
But now, his residence won’t be distinctive, anymore, he acknowledged.
“My old man actually said I had the most unique mailbox in town.”
But he wasn’t thumbing his nose at the post office, Nahnsen made it known. “If they would have complained about it, I would have gotten rid of it right away.”
According to post office regulations, for curbside delivery, mailbox holders must be 41- to 45-inches in height and the mailbox facing the curb, 6- to 8-inches recessed from it.
Toilets aren’t generally seen as mailbox holders. A favorite are old-time cream cans.
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