Maine DOT Says Your Mailbox Needs to be This Many Whoopie Pies Tall

If you have lived in Maine for any amount of time, especially during the winter months, you're likely no stranger to the town plow guy whacking your mailbox off into the stratosphere every other time it snows.

Now, to be clear, I'm not calling out your town's awesome plow guy. As a former town plow guy myself, I know the crazy hours that the guys and girls work during a long winter storm.

And, to be fair, not all mailboxes are placed at the proper height or the proper distance away from the road. Well, as I was scrolling through Facebook the other night, I came across this handy dandy graphic from the Maine Department of Transportation that explained the proper measurement for your mailbox.

However, they didn't do it in imperial or metric... instead, they did it in whoopie pies. No, seriously, see below.

Now I couldn't just leave this be at whoopie pies. I was dying to know what other 'Maine' items we could convert this math into. So with the help of my Chat GPT subscription (yes, I pay for premium, sue me!) I was able to some quick conversion math.

Lobsters

• ~2.3 Maine lobsters long
  (Assuming an average lobster is ~19" from nose to tail)

Paper towel rolls

• ~4.0 paper towel rolls tall
  (Assuming a standard roll is ~11" tall)

Duct tape rolls

• ~9.7 duct tape rolls tall
  (Assuming a typical roll diameter is ~4.6")

Whoopie pies

• ~30 whoopie pies high
  (Assuming a whoopie pie is ~1.5" tall)
  ✅ This one checks out — MaineDOT wasn’t kidding.

Moxie bottles

• ~4.2 Moxie bottles high
  (Assuming a ~20 oz soda bottle is ~10.5" tall)

Bean boots

• ~3.7 pairs of LL Bean boots high
  (Assuming the boot height is ~12")

☕ Dunkin’ iced coffees (medium cup)

• ~6.8 Dunkin’ iced coffee cups high
  (Assuming a medium cup is ~6.5" tall)

Maine license plates

• ~7.4 Maine license plates tall
  (A plate is ~6" tall)

Allen’s “nip” bottles (50 mL minis)

• ~11.9 nips high
  (Assuming ~3.75" tall per mini)