I would give the mail box 24 hours before the *force* of a baseball bat crushes its head in

The Dark Side is strong with this ^ one...

1960s: Geeks design and build ARPANET.
1990s: The Internet's mass popularity, showcasing the speed and thrift of electronic mail, renders the United States Postal Service largely obsolete in many ways.
2007: The USPS decides to appeal to the geeks.

About the same slick timing as their package tracking.

We have at least one freshly bolted down mail-droid in town.

$20 says the droids have GPS trackers in 'em :)

We have a couple of them on the U of MN campus

our went in about 2 weeks ago, still there and no crushed head....yet