{"id":18,"date":"2008-02-15T14:10:35","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T18:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgetownshores.org\/private\/blog\/?p=18"},"modified":"2008-02-15T14:11:55","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T18:11:55","slug":"mail-box-meyhem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.georgetownshores.org\/private\/blog\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"Mail box Meyhem!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">As you already know, a number of mailboxes have been damaged\/destroyed by the Ottawa County Road Commission plows this winter <\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">and I have been contacted by the homeowner for repair or replacement.\u00a0 I decided to contact the Road commission to see if there <\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">is a reimbursement program for this damage.\u00a0 This is what I was told:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">The Road Commission will reimburse the homeowner $15 for a busted post and $15 for a damaged mailbox if, when they inspect <\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">the damage, they can determine that the plow caused the damage by seeing orange or black paint on the damaged piece.\u00a0 The <\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">orange or black paint would come from the plow blade itself.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">I have closely inspected several boxes and found no paint left by the snowplow which doesn&#8217;t surprise me because, by now, the <\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">paint has been worn off the plow blades due to heavy use this winter.\u00a0 Therefore, unless there is obvious orange\/black paint left on the <\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">damaged mailbox, it would not be worthwhile to file a claim by the homeowner.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">If, however, the homeowner decides to pursue a reimbursement, he\/she can file a claim with the Road Commission by calling\u00a0 <\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">1-616-842-5400 (Grand Haven).<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">Submitted by Jim Frieswyk <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you already know, a number of mailboxes have been damaged\/destroyed by the Ottawa County Road Commission plows this winter and I have been contacted by the homeowner for repair or replacement.\u00a0 I decided to contact the Road commission to see if there is a reimbursement program for this damage.\u00a0 This is what I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-site","category-public-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.georgetownshores.org\/private\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.georgetownshores.org\/private\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.georgetownshores.org\/private\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgetownshores.org\/private\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgetownshores.org\/private\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgetownshores.org\/private\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.georgetownshores.org\/private\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgetownshores.org\/private\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgetownshores.org\/private\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}