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KennyG
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Depends on what you call cheap. The Step2 Mailmaster series is available lots of places, including Amazon.com. The cost will be about $50 plus the 4x4 post to mount it on. It will outlast a lot of cheap mailboxes.
uglyboywith11fingers
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You can have our Step2 Mailmaster if you come pick it up...
The Postal Service (Canada Post) decided that our road is too busy for safe rural mail delivery, so we now have to drive into town to get our mail.
Pete
The Postal Service (Canada Post) decided that our road is too busy for safe rural mail delivery, so we now have to drive into town to get our mail.
Pete
QRTRHRS
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I think mine is a Mailmaster. I got it at home depot three or four years ago. They come in a couple of compartment sizes with I believe the same overall mailbox size. Mine has the larger compartment so mail does not have to be folded so badly.
One of these days I need to add some drain pipe and fill in behind my box so I don't need to go in the road. But then there are only about six families past me on our dead end road.
Seriously though, these things are also supposed to be somewhat vandal resistant to a bat and with the back door, no explosive will be totally contained. The wasps and the spiders do take a liking to them. That and they won't win any beauty contest.
One of these days I need to add some drain pipe and fill in behind my box so I don't need to go in the road. But then there are only about six families past me on our dead end road.
Seriously though, these things are also supposed to be somewhat vandal resistant to a bat and with the back door, no explosive will be totally contained. The wasps and the spiders do take a liking to them. That and they won't win any beauty contest.
creekbend
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I don't recall the brand name of mine. I bought it around 9 years ago. It is the large size with a rear opening. It also has a bottom section where the newspaper is inserted. Both sections have rear openings. I bought mine at Lowes. Best wishes.
T_e_r_r_y
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Use small piece of pipe welded to a flat plate, a little longer than post. (assuming a square post). Bolted to the top of the post. A little larger pipe and a plate with mail box attached to slip over and be able to spin. Hole drilled in flat plate at the back. Attach a pin on the back of the mail box to drop into the hole drilled in the plate. Then when you are at the back of mail box, lift pin, turn box around, get mail, turn box around and pin drops in to notch. Opening is now back facing front.
"Easy, peasy nice and easy" not quite an exact quote from a movie.
Maybe this gives you an idea for something else.
T.J.
"Easy, peasy nice and easy" not quite an exact quote from a movie.
Maybe this gives you an idea for something else.
T.J.
JDgreen227
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All the big box home center stores carry these Step 2 polyboxes, I think they are way, way overpriced at $40-$50 plus the cost of the post. I got mine new in the box from Goodwill for $10 and tax...:thumbsup:
I have never understood why nobody seems to make a steel mailbox with a door on each end as I would prefer steel over plastic.
Notice the steel pipe and plywood shield in front of my box, it will help prevent a vandal from bashing the box and also serves as a shield for snowplows. The broken off post is left from where the fartbreath plow driver hit my new post two winters ago and the county said "oh we didn't do it" but if the s**theads hit my steel post they won't be able to explain THAT damage away so easily.
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MossRoad
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The guy that lives across the street from us has his double opening mailbox in our front yard (all the mailboxes on our road are on our side of the street) about 25 feet right smack in front of our front door. On many occasions I will see the rear door hanging open with mail sticking out the back (sometimes even laying on my lawn). It appears the mailman shoves it in too far, which pops the back door open. So, be sure to get one with some sort of secure doofus resistant latch on the rear door. :thumbsup:
polo1665
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I tried on of those doofus resistant boxes and couldn't seem to get my mail out of it
polo1665
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I see a lot of mailboxes pushed over in my area during the winter plow season. Pretty brazen of them to tell you it wasn't them.
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I like the shield. Should slow down those who want to smash your box. I might put a set of house numbers on the shield to make it easier to see them.
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I have seen some town around me (anderson i think?) that has the mail boxes mounted paralled to the road. so the mail person pulls up like normal, but instead of mail going in perpendicular to the road they put it in parallel to the road. So the person getting mail is standing on sidewalk or lawn still and peeking in the box from beside it.
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These will only work on one side of the road.
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I tried on of those doofus resistant boxes and couldn't seem to get my mail out of it
Ha! I almost did a spit take! :laughing:
I've saw the mailmaster, I want a cheap (less than $100) metal or alum. plain jane box that opens on both ends so I don't get run over getting it. Not a plastic one.
Looks like there could be a market here for someone that bends sheet metal. The prices I've saw are way above market values for an alum. or sheet metal box, and I for one am not looking for a fancy one, just a cheap one that opens on both ends. Rural customers at a cheap price would buy them in a heartbeat, at least I would rather than get run over in the road.
JDgreen227
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I have never understood why metal mailboxes with dual doors are so hard to find and why the plastic ones are so overpriced.
someone makes them, I'll just have to keep looking, even if it comes down to buying two and riveting them together, it would still be cheaper if USPS will accept it.
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I had metal boxes for decades, they rust, get dented, joints get tight, etc... The Take 2 or whichever brand I have is several years old, been moved, and still looks as good as the day I bought it, no faded paint or rust to maintain. Plus I like getting the mail and paper out the back. If a youthful prankster (punk), hits it with a bottle it bounces back, yep it looks different than Grandpa's, but so do my clothes.
I had metal boxes for decades, they rust, get dented, joints get tight, etc... The Take 2 or whichever brand I have is several years old, been moved, and still looks as good as the day I bought it, no faded paint or rust to maintain. Plus I like getting the mail and paper out the back. If a youthful prankster (punk), hits it with a bottle it bounces back, yep it looks different than Grandpa's, but so do my clothes.
Oh, to each our own. Just wanted to find one that I liked. I do not like a plastic mailbox although I believe they are just as good. Guess I'm just oldtime and like the oldtime looks and feel.
