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The Most Useless Post Box

In 1979, workmen at Ballymacra, County Atrim in Ireland were taking down old telegraph poles and putting up new ones. One of the old poles had a post box on it. The workers did not have the key to unlock the metal ring that tied the post box to the pole. So they lifted the box and the metal ring over the top of the old pole and dropped it down the new one. But the new pole was thicker than the old one and so the post box did not fall all the way down. Instead, it stopped nine feet above the ground.

It stayed there for three weeks. During that time some people were able to post letters. ‘I have heard,’ said Mr Ernie McDermott, the postman, ‘that someone left a ladder there,’