Maibox baseball problem and worse

[husband_dad_engineer]

especially when the act is deemed by the court to be a felony. Offenders can lose their right to vote, carry firearms, serve on juries or hold public office. In most cases, convicted felons cannot seek state licenses, nor bid on government contracts. Federal regulatory agencies may also bar convicted felons from employment, as well.

If they're caught, I still wouldn't count on those consequences sticking. I know of a least two cases around here where the judges gave "suspended sentences" and they didn't lose any rights.

 

[forgeblast]

I like the paper mache look alike mail box idea. Fill it with manure and let them swing at it just put up the real one every day.
could also rig something https://www.pbsports.com/shop/product.php?productid=16552
like this paintball grenade, so when they hit it paint goes all over.
My mail box goes with the idea that its so sorry looking that no one wants to put it out of its misery.
Its been knocked down, pushed over, kicked, etc...now its ziptied to the post, looks sad but it hasnt been messed with in a long time.

 

[DANOCHEESE]

You have internet. Switch everything you have to electronic statements. Get a PO box and check it once a month. Who needs junk mail.

 

[ShenandoahJoe]

In the middle ages, they trained for jousting with a device called a "quintain". It was a target attached to a horizontal beam with a big bag of sand hanging from a rope at the other end. The whole thing was mounted on a swivel. If the student hit the target exaaactly right, he wouldn't get socked in the back of the head by the sandbag.

Just thought I'd mention it.

 

[sailorman]

You have internet. Switch everything you have to electronic statements. Get a PO box and check it once a month. Who needs junk mail.

Thanks for the suggestions . A few misconceptions with those ideas . 1) Not all companies will send statements electronically . 2) computers will crash sooner or later 3) I have a private UPS P.O. box in my name for important none junk mail ( business and personal ) and I definitely get junk mail all the time. I even get junk mail addressed to the wife who doesn 't even know what the address is and has never given my address out. She has her own P.O. box. 4) Most companies that a person does business will sell your addie to others no matter what you do. 5) If I had a USP box they would not sort out junk mail and even if they did, I wouldn 't want them deciding what is junk . 6) Some junk mail I actually do want to get .

Mostly the box mashing is a matter of principle to me . Not a matter of the minor inconvenience . Heck, I 'm retired and got more time to burn than the box bashers :laughing:. Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill almost every time .

 

[sailorman]

Thanks ya 'll for all the suggestions both good and.... well lets just say imaginative : ) .

 

[Tenn_Blue]

I really liked the paper mache surprise box too. Some of y'all would make scary enemies!!!!

WAYY back when, someone was targeting mailboxes in my father's neighborhood - they would run them over, and make a trip through the yard as well in the middle of the night.

My dad, who was an auto mechanic most of his life, welded 2 auto crank shafts together and set that loosly in the ground as his mailbox post. :thumbsup: He also welded up a couple connecting rods and such as side covers for the mailbox and some old mechanic tools. an object-de-art so to speak... I used to have some pictures, but can't find them now....

One night we heard the crash. Dad never went out to look, but in the morning, we found the box laid over in the yard. There were also truck parts and a big puddle of oil/radiator fluid leading off down the road! :laughing: Never did find out who did it, but the neighborhood never had any more problems either! Dad just stood the box back up and it stayed there till he eventually sold the house.

That type of thing was ok back then, but you would probobly get sued to high heaven now.......

 

[EE_Bota]

I 've read some good ideas here and some a little way out . Unfortunately most of the good ones are not workable in my property location situation. But they have given me this idea :

Since I 'm a creature of habit, I leave my house for a short time every morning at 7:30 . I check my mail shortly after the expected delivery time. I 'm gonna remount my box to the post in such a way that it can be easily removed from the post .

Check my mail in the p.m. and remove box . Remount the box in the a.m. when I leave . Repeat as needed . If I slip up and forget to remount box it won 't matter if I miss a day 's mail . It will come the next day. I don 't care if they pound away on my post.

Added benefit is it may just aggravate the heck out of them . Not worried about this escalating their action ' cause plastic boxes are cheap . May even just mass produce a bunch of disposable luan wood boxes for repeated destruction . Retired and have the time . I might even just fab a completely removable post and box. That aught to really p.o. them .

What do ya 'll think ?

I had a moveable box that I liked because I could move it, mow, and put it back. My neighbor kept knocking it into the ditch and ruined it.

I found one at either Lowes or Home Depot where you bury the base flush with the ground, and the pole slides into the base. So, when I mow, I pluck it out of the base, mow right over it, and put it back. Easy. You may want one of those for easy ability to take it with you.

But...I ALMOST bought a mailbox mail order...it was snow plow resistant such that when something knocks the heck out of it, it flies to to the side and upward, and most likely completes a full circle, only to return to where it was to begin with.

Postal Flex - Flexible Mailbox Mounting Bracket

MailSwing, the Swing Away Rural Mailbox that is Snowplow and Vandal Resistant

Good Luck! I haven't read all replies, so if this is redundant, I apologize.

EDIT: The one that I mow over
http://www.lowes.com/pd_95921-1518-...3_4294937087_?Ns=p_product_price|0&facetInfo=

 

[2manyrocks]

Where I used to live, some kid would just pick up my mailbox and walk off with it. They took my metal plate with my address off my box and I found it a few feet away.

People find a way around about anything. Creativity is a good thing in the right hands, and not so good in the wrong hands.

 

[JDGreenGrass]

POB #.....Problem solved, unless they step it up to your house.:confused2: