Mail Box Destruction

[Scooby074]

alltoys: At least you still have mail delivery to your driveway..... Just wait till they make you goto get your mail at one of those "Super Mailboxes" like they've done here.

Canada Post wants all mail delivered to Super mailboxes. They say its safer for the drivers, but im sure its faster and more importantly cheaper for CanPost. I hate it.

 

[TTTTTT]

I know it would be extremely inconvienient to have it located in your nearest town for some, but with your own post office box you can eliminate the possibility of identity theft. This is one of the main ways this can happen. Bills, especially CC and government related with your ID on it are stolen an after that it can be very easy for a pro to assume you and milk you for a lot.

Just another angle on the whole mailbox issue and you would't have to worry about it getting hit.

Dave

 

[forgeblast]

I go with the "take pitty on me" mailbox. My mail box was hit and kicked off the post and the post was also cracked. So i zip tied the mailbox back on, and put some deck screws in the post to have it stand up and wouldnt you know it is never destroyed anymore. My neighbor puts out a new one every so often and its smashed flat. I think that when they see mine they dont see a challenge so it avoided.

 

[Dave5264]

2 years ago, up at our cottage, Victoria Day Weekend (May 2-4), I went down to the mail box on the Saturday morning to find it flattented (it had been fine wehn we arrived friday night).

The driveway is about 500ft long, so the mailbox is out of sight from the House.

I bent it back to shape on Saturday mornig, but found it bent again on Sunday Morning.---- Game on!

Sunday Night, 11pm I parked my truck in the bushes at the bottom of the Driveway, digital camer in hand. 2 way walki talki to the wife back at the house (this is exciting stuff -- she thought i was nuts). I sat there for over an hour, then a car slowed down and was about to stop at the mail box.

All i had to do was take one "Flash" picture and trun on the lights on the truck. The car was gone in a heart beat & a spray of gravel.....no more mailbox vandalism.

 

[LBrown59]

I go with the "take pitty on me" mailbox. My mail box was hit and kicked off the post and the post was also cracked. So i zip tied the mailbox back on, and put some deck screws in the post to have it stand up and wouldnt you know it is never destroyed anymore. My neighbor puts out a new one every so often and its smashed flat.
*I think that when they see mine they dont see a challenge so they avoided it.

That's rite their target is the nice shiny new box.
Who wants to bash up and old dilapidated one.
I put up a new Mail Box about 10 years ago but I didn't throw the old one away but instead installed the old box rite beside the new one on the same post.
This did 2 things: Blocked the view of the new box when coming up the road and drew attention away from the new Mail Box.
Works great : Not only has the new Box been left alone the Vandals haven't bothered the old junk mail box either.

 

[blueriver]

LB says "Blocked the view of the new box when coming up the road"

LB .... the road is a one way???

 

[ehchvac]

Well casing and truck coil springs, make a mailbox thats hard to beat.

 

[BearKiller]

Living in very rural Kentucky, where rednecks reign supreme, mailbox bashings are a nightly thing.

Being the meth capitol of the world, having your mail "checked" by someone other than yourself is also all too common.

Those two reasons are why I go to the expense and trouble of having a P.O.Box at the post-office in town.

It is aggravating to drive the extra distance every two or three days, to find nothing at all in the box, but it is far better than constantly repairing/replacing mail-boxes and always wondering where the birthday-card with cash in it actually ended up.

Even though they never seem to actually try to catch and prosecute the ones doing the bashing, they are real quick to put a little notice in the bashed box that your delivery will be suspended if you don't repair the box.

 

[LBrown59]

LB says "Blocked the view of the new box when coming up the road"

LB .... the road is a one way???

Mail boxes generally get attacked from vandals in vehicles.
The vehicles and mailboxes are on the same side of the road therefor there is no need to make them (Mail BOX) less visible to the traffic on the other side of the road going the other way.
If you're still concerned about that all you have to do is put up another Dummy/Decoy mail box on the other side of the real one.

 

[The Haymaker]

Being a welder by trade I had some 1/4 inch plate laying around so I made up a new box and welded it to the now metal pipe I cemented in the ground. I would dearly love to see their faces when they take a mighty swing at this new mail box!!!!

Have fun paying the lawyer fees when some kids mother sues you for breaking the little turds arm!