Mail Box Destruction

[SARG]

I have started seeing mailboxes mounted on a sawhorse with a sandbag put on the back for stability. Kind of a pain to have to move your box twice everyday ...... but the turds either grow up or get caught at some point.

 

[Ken45101]

Ken its not the vandals they are trying to protect. I had the misfortune of being a passenger in a car that slid on a icy road and hit a mail box that didn't move. Some times innocent people accidentally hit mail boxes.
Bill

Then why don't they prohibit telephone poles from being close to the road?

My saying it was to protect the vandals was partly tongue in cheek.

When they do catch the morons, they ought to throw the book at them, but they don't. I'm tired of the system protecting the juvenile criminals and giving them a pat on the back.

Ken

 

[NewportNic]

As a retired guy who told the construction guys where to plant the poles, I can tell you I always tried to put them at the edge of the road right of way. On the street I live on the poles didn't move but when they rebuilt the street some years back, the road did get much closer to the poles in some of the curves.

Too bad we can't upgrade to floating poles...

It could prevent accidents...

 

[lostcause]

years back i had one blown up with a pipe bomb. apparently they got several random ones that night over a stretch of a couple towns.

i had one of the large metal boxes - blew the back off & about 50 feet up the driveway. the u-shaped top/sides blew all the rivets out at the base and folded the ends up to they were almost touching each other. the bottom wrapped itself down around the post cap, and i never found the front door.

 

[Mace Canute]

years back i had one blown up with a pipe bomb. apparently they got several random ones that night over a stretch of a couple towns.

Too bad one of their pipe bombs didn't go off inside their vehicle.

 

[Rogator]

Try this. Buy the cheapest mail box you can get. For the weekend put three or four balloons with paint in them. Bet if they get some nice orange and yellow and purple paint on daddys pick up once they'll leave your mailbox alone.
P.S. Oil base not water base paint.

 

[steveoutdoorrec]

When my wife and I delivered the local Pennysaver there was one house where the mail box must have been hit one time to many. The owner built an outer box of steel that was 3" larger then the mail box. The space was filled with concrete and was welded onto a 6" diameter pole that I assumed was also filled with concrete. That box was going nowhere.

My own was filled with a dead squirrel, a lit road flare and the whole board with mine and my neighbor's mail boxes ripped out and left by the road a mile away. The dumb *** that did the first two was out to get my son but too stupid to not brag about it in school within ear shot of his sister.

 

[MikeD74T]

What you need is a trained guard skunk.

Somebody thought of that Odorant and marker capsule for deterring mailbox vandalism - Patent 7014098, just be sure to warn the mail carrier!! MikeD74T

 

[2manyrocks]

Good idea! We will all send them to you for training! :laughing:

I'll be happy to fill your order. How many would you like?

 

[Contagious]

Also, anyone looked at the Fort Knox Mailbox - The Leader in High Security Mailboxes! mailboxes? Stout and postmaster approved[/QUOTE]

I got a Fort Knox Mailbox almost 10 years ago. Haven't had a problem since! Don't have to worry about some drug thief stealing my mail either.... That is what scared me more. Anyway....thumbsup: