My mailbox has been taken out twice - ran over. We are on a straight road with no turns nearby so I don't see how they hit it. I think it is in purpose. I am going to replace it but am wondering the laws and potential liability of making it stronger. I have some ideas that would be darn near I destructible but I don't know if that is a good idea or not. I was thinking maybe 24" heavy wall pipe set 8' or so in the ground with the mailbox inside the pipe and the whole thing filled with concrete.
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Neighbor set a large boulder with the mailbox on top... so far so good.
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My Dad had the same problem. He had the mailbox beside the driveway. The school bus driver kept on running over it and apologizing. My Dad built two "gateposts" on either side of the driveway (about 12' or 15' apart) out of rocks set in concrete in a form about the size of a 50 gallon drum, 2 drums high. H put the mailbox in one of them.
The school bus driver never hit them or the mailbox again.
My Dad never hung a gate between them.
Not all counties have building inspectors.
The school bus driver never hit them or the mailbox again.
My Dad never hung a gate between them.
Not all counties have building inspectors.
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Around here, it is the DOT that determines what kind of mailbox can be installed. I would check with them, bdog.
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Not sure about your area,couple years or so fellow hand his mailbox and post destroy number times,he spent $$'s and time making it crash proof..he did outstand job..that winter driver slid into mailbox smash car also got hurt,driver sue mailbox owner and won,for the mailbox was with road limits,again your area may have different rules.
dave1949
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The occasional mailbox vandalism or snow plow hit sort of comes with the territory in rural settings. What is really frustrating is maintaining a mailbox for 98% junk mail.
If it was at all convenient for us, I would rent a mail box at the post office and be done with it.
If it was at all convenient for us, I would rent a mail box at the post office and be done with it.
k0ua
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Yes, but in 2 days they are absolutely full of the junk mail you mentioned. We have the largest rural mailbox you can have, and it fills rapidly. We don't have a wood stove, but I am starting to think you could meet most of your fuel requirements by just burning the daily junk mail. I think your 98% estimate is not far off.
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Around here the postmaster rules when it comes to mailboxes. Had a school bus driver that got the some mailbox two days in a row twice a day. Owner confronted driver she said "what mailbox". He showed her and she told him she was the bus driver and he had to move it. He told her he didn't care who she was the postmaster said he had to move it to that location and she would have to stop hitting it or take it up with the postmaster. She reduced the number of times she hit it. It was the bus I rode to school. Funny thing she was the only driver that would hit it. All the subs missed it.