Re: Post-mailbox repair ideas?

I've got a post mailbox that has been partially destroyed by the snow

plow

and I'm looking for ideas to repair it. It is a 4x4 post anchored in

the

ground with concrete which I really don't want to have to dig out if

it can

be avoided. And, for that matter can't while the ground is frozen

solid.

The post is shaped like a 7 with the mail box fastened to the top of

the 7.

After last winter, the upper part of the post split so I ran bolts

through

it to pull it back together. This year, that repair failed and it

split

even more. So I'm left with approximately 2 feet of solid post

sticking out

of the ground. Does anyone make a clamp that could slip over the

remaining

base, which could then support adding on another 2ft of post that I

could

attach the mailbox to? Or?? Looking for repair ideas to last at

least

until the ground thaws, which here in Wisconsin is at least 6 weeks

away.

Thanks