Mailbox Security The Homemade Way

[BIG DOOLEY]

Hereis a few other large mailboxes

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I guess these don't meet federal guidelines

 

[BIG DOOLEY]

No matter what the guide lines.
He still keeps filling it with junk mail

 

[bearcreek paul]

I like it! I used a 6x6 pt set 42 deep in concrete . I found a postal approved box called Ironsides that I attached to the post with 1/2 in lags and bolts. The plow trucks haven't knocked it over since. Also the kids must be getting smarter no one has tried to use it for batting practice. Sort of disappointed.

 

[murphy1244]

Watch out for scrappers

 

[Hooked_on_HP]

Watch out for scrappers

LMAO:laughing:

 

[BIG DOOLEY]

I like it! I used a 6x6 pt set 42 deep in concrete . I found a postal approved box called Ironsides that I attached to the post with 1/2 in lags and bolts. The plow trucks haven't knocked it over since. Also the kids must be getting smarter no one has tried to use it for batting practice. Sort of disappointed.

My BIL went to one after all the repeated batting practice thru is neighborhood also.
He wanted to put a camera out there to watch the next drive by batter and the recoil of the bat:laughing:

 

[FredH]

Similar in design to the one I purchased at Home depot a couple of years ago for same problem . Ours unlocks on the front and it would be rather difficult to get it off the Post Office approved mount since you have to unlock it to get to the bolts . So far , no one has touched it , ( 2 years anyway ) . S.O.B.'s did take my old stop sign that I had bought at a yard sale , painted blue with our address numbers on it . They also tried to take neighbors solar gate , but he heard them trying that and chased them off . Anyway , Great Job !!

Fred H.

 

[Cat_Driver]

I bought a VANDAL proof mailbox that they keep breaking into. I can't find a good mailbox. I now looking at this one...
Armadillo Mailboxes Post Master General Approved Mailbox Enclosures

 

[mjncad]

The OP did a heck of a nice job with his mailbox, and all stainless steel to boot!

We have numerous mailboxes embedded in brick, stone, concrete, etc monuments in my neighborhood, and the USPS hasn't griped about them. On one street a mailbox-monument was struck by a vehicle. It's no longer vertical; but it's intact.

As for junk mail. I signed up for the junk mail "do not call" equivalent at https://www.dmachoice.org and my junk mail has been reduced by 90% or more.

 

[BIG DOOLEY]

The OP did a heck of a nice job with his mailbox, and all stainless steel to boot!

We have numerous mailboxes embedded in brick, stone, concrete, etc monuments in my neighborhood, and the USPS hasn't griped about them. On one street a mailbox-monument was struck by a vehicle. It's no longer vertical; but it's intact.

As for junk mail. I signed up for the junk mail "do not call" equivalent at https://www.dmachoice.org and my junk mail has been reduced by 90% or more.

Thanks for that link to dmachoice.
Just registered and filled out the required info.
:thumbsup:

 

[mjncad]

You're welcome. Now if only my wife would sign up for it.

 

[BIG DOOLEY]

You're welcome. Now if only my wife would sign up for it.

She's probably to d busy if she's like my wife.
A good husband would step in there,give her a hand, and do it for her.:thumbsup:
Don't ask me how I know these things.
I bought my Wife a new Kindle reader gizmo.
What a great investment.
It's like giving a kid a video game.
The more time my wife has to read a book, is just all the more time she doesn't complain about what I'm not doing.:laughing:

 

[rekees4300]

I agree. If it's a home made box that is heavy and goes through a windshield when someone hits it, you will need a lawyer that is tougher than your mailbox. just saying

Big Dooley I hate to rain on your parade but ruffdog is right. Even if just some kid hits it with a baseball bat and ends up with a broken arm you will be liable. My absentee neighbor put up a box and filled it with concrete. After he checked with his lawyer he replaced it with a $10 plastic cheap-o. You can buy alot of cheap-o mailboxes for what defending a lawsuit will cost. Nevertheless Big Dooley your mailbox is a work of art. :thumbsup:

 

[mjncad]

She's probably to d busy if she's like my wife.
A good husband would step in there,give her a hand, and do it for her.:thumbsup:
Don't ask me how I know these things.
I bought my Wife a new Kindle reader gizmo.
What a great investment.
It's like giving a kid a video game.
The more time my wife has to read a book, is just all the more time she doesn't complain about what I'm not doing.:laughing:

Oh my wife is busy all right with her latest hobby, which means things don't get done around here. I already take care of repairs and improvements, the outside, the garage, and the basement; therefore I'm not taking on anymore if I can help it. :laughing:

A friend of my wife and I bought her a Kindle for her birthday with the hopes of them sharing ebooks and put some birth control on the ever increasing population of physical books in this house. That hasn't happened.

 

[BIG DOOLEY]

A friend of my wife and I bought her a Kindle for her birthday with the hopes of them sharing ebooks and put some birth control on the ever increasing population of physical books in this house. That hasn't happened.

:laughing:

I feel your pain.
8 or so paper books just this x-mas not counting the electronic ones.
I built a book shelf for her not to long ago that holds books 2 deep,two other bookshelfs full, and there are boxes full of books still floating around.:confused3:



She wants me to build another book shelf.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Big Dooley I hate to rain on your parade but ruffdog is right. Even if just some kid hits it with a baseball bat and ends up with a broken arm you will be liable. My absentee neighbor put up a box and filled it with concrete. After he checked with his lawyer he replaced it with a $10 plastic cheap-o. You can buy alot of cheap-o mailboxes for what defending a lawsuit will cost. Nevertheless Big Dooley your mailbox is a work of art. :thumbsup:

The Post Office or local highway authority will cut it off at the ground when they see it. Heck, fifteen years ago a bud of mine here in Wylie, TX put up a monster box similar to this one and came home to find it in the bar ditch, full of mail btw, courtesy of the State Hwy Dept.

If you look at the mailbox you will see it is in the public right of way. Of course he wouldn't get mail delivery if he put it up on his own property. What I'm seeing now in rural areas where we are is the mail box posts are pvc. It makes sense when you think about it. People text, talk, etc and we get a lot of distracted driving. Heck it only takes some snow or ice and a young driver and you have a fatality.

 

[mjncad]

:laughing:

I feel your pain.
8 or so paper books just this x-mas not counting the electronic ones.
I built a book shelf for her not to long ago that holds books 2 deep,two other bookshelfs full, and there are boxes full of books still floating around.:confused3:

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She wants me to build another book shelf.

Nice bookcases. I won't show these to my wife as she might ask for more bookcases, which results in more books, which is the last thing I want to see around here. Don't get me started about her shoes, they breed like rabbits in spite of the fact she gave 24-pairs away to charity recently.

People text, talk, etc and we get a lot of distracted driving. Heck it only takes some snow or ice and a young driver and you have a fatality.

Geez, since we have so many distracted idiots driving, I guess we better ban bridge abutments, galvanized gates, and anything else that may injure the irresponsible, or put massive pillows or airbags on anything and everything a person may collide with while driving.

For those that read the comic strip Crankshaft, I'm sure the Keesterman character would love to have the OP's mailbox.

 

[BIG DOOLEY]

Nice bookcases. I won't show these to my wife as she might ask for more bookcases, which results in more books, which is the last thing I want to see around here. Don't get me started about her shoes, they breed like rabbits in spite of the fact she gave 24-pairs away to charity recently.



Geez, since we have so many distracted idiots driving, I guess we better ban bridge abutments, galvanized gates, and anything else that may injure the irresponsible, or put massive pillows or airbags on anything and everything a person may collide with while driving.

For those that read the comic strip Crankshaft, I'm sure the Keesterman character would love to have the OP's mailbox.

Where has common sense gone?
We are adding "Accident avoidance systems" to cars to make the drivers safer.
WHAT!

New car accident avoidance technology shows promise - CBS News
They don't work!
YOUR ADDING A SYSTEM TO ENCOURAGE A DRIVER THAT LIKES: eating, reading, texting, playing with the DVD player, talking on the cell phone, programming the GPS, changing CD's, adjusting the heated seat level, adjusting the tire pressure, putting on make-up, syncing their i-pod or downloading a new app., driving while impared......................

Are you kidding me!

Thats not correcting any problem.
It's inviting more trouble.
People feel it's safer to do those things.
Where is common sense going?
A few years ago kids were stealing cars and crashing them into a hard surface to bounce themselves off the air bags for fun ????????????????
What the heck ever happened to just driving a car safely from point A to point B.
Do you need on screen navigation to go get a gallon of milk?

We cannot keep going down this path.
The Root cause to "Bad driving" is the "Bad Drivers with no common sense".
Probable causes to a "Bad Driver" I already listed.
Corrective action to "Bad Driver" is the elimination of the probable causes.

Padding guard rails with pillows, No more bridge abutments
Might be in our future?

We can keep on driving with no common sense,
Right

32 YEARS ACCIDENT FREE
Knock on wood!
(It's getting harder to avoid the idiots)

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Okay let's blame the drivers. But for just one minute think like a rational person. Let's say it's your daughter and she is going down the street and she is distracted, whatever reason, reacting to the phone, the kids in the back seat, or let's say the kid sitting in the front seat. She drifts off the road and hits a mailbox like yours, something illegal placed in the public right of way. Your grandchild is killed because that box ends up in the passenger seat with her.

You see some of us look at what can happen instead of what should happen.

 

[BIG DOOLEY]

Okay let's blame the drivers. But for just one minute think like a rational person. Let's say it's your daughter and she is going down the street and she is distracted, whatever reason, reacting to the phone, the kids in the back seat, or let's say the kid sitting in the front seat. She drifts off the road and hits a mailbox like yours, something illegal placed in the public right of way. Your grandchild is killed because that box ends up in the passenger seat with her.

You see some of us look at what can happen instead of what should happen.

apparently you didn't see the photos of the post office approved boxes i posted that are twice as heavy as mine.
1/4" thick plate steel security boxes.