Vandal Proof Mailbox (is there such a thing?)

[aps45819]

On the way to my folks home, I drive by the elemantary school in Montross, VA on Rt.3.
Their mail box is mounted inside a cage made of re-bar.

 

[DEEKAYPEE8569]

In the neighborhood where my Brother lives, the mailboxes are encased in brick and mortar approximately 2 feet off the ground. Of course, the door opens but it tends to deter vandalism.

 

[cwo_ghwebb]

Y'all don't like my duct-taped mailbox?

We luv it hun! We were all just trying to help the downtrodden.

 

[Dymphna]

I am cheap.

Hmmm, could this be what is keeping you from putting a screw into our mailbox post before a brisk wind blows it apart the rest of the way....At least we don't have to worry about baseball players, it'll fall off the post before the bat could connect hard enough to so much as scratch the box.

 

[jazz lady]

We luv it hun! We were all just trying to help the downtrodden.

More like just plain tired of replacing my mailbox every year.

 

[Rael]

I've seen these for sale along the side of the road Rt. 301 just before you get to Bowie...

Home Page Brick Mailboxes

This is what I finally had done. It is mailbox number three, and hopefully the last one.

Might be. Their necessary proximity to the road would make them dangerous to cars and our beloved snow plow operators would have to learn how to manuever to miss them while still getting the max. amt. of snow in your driveway entrance.

I try to look out for the plow after I shovel the driveway. When I hear it, I go out and stand at the end of the "clean" driveway and So far a good success rate of not having to shovel again

 

[clevalley]

There is an indestructable mailbox - it advertises a bulldozer can run over it. The guy I know who installed one tried it with one of his loaders in Missouri and did not crush it. Nice looking mailbox, rather large in size and will last forever. I know he has had it for about 15 years...

The story goes... he and his brothers own about 3000 acres in Missouri. There was a time where "mailbox baseball" was a fad and they were replacing mailboxes or posts about once every two weeks. They ran across this mailbox and bought one... After testing it they sunk a 12' support beam about 7' in the ground encased in concrete. They finished by welding the box to the support beam and painted it.

For the first month they found broken wooden or complete aluminum bats around the box! To this day - every month or so, they still find pieces of a wooden baseball bats, or dented aluminum bats the perpetrators dropped when they "stung" their hands. This box has been there for about the same amount of time!

 

[ironintestines]

Mailbox construction is a double edge sword.

USPS wants the indestructible kind. The only regulations USPS has pertaining to mailboxes is set back from the street, height & size.

SHA is a different story. The location the USPS wants the box to be is in SHA territory. SHA requires that the pole be a break-away type- wood, steel that will bend, fiberglass. They advised that if I was to install a non-break-away type of pole that I would be held liable in the event of an accident.

I liked the idea of a heavy steel mailbox but I didn't like the idea of a heavy steel mailbox flying thru the air when they wrecked into it..

After pondering the liability issue, I ended up getting a PO box..

This was about 9 years ago..