Mail Box 3 Cars 0

[Pereira]

Had a high school teacher that got tired of (probably students) taking his out.
He got a 35 gal. metal drum and filled it with large rocks.
A couple tried it and didn't fair well and it got around. The problem was solved.

RP

[WILCO]

I think car thieves should be handled the same way they used to handle horse thieves.

Agreed!!!!!!!!!!!

[DougGuy]

The HOAs in and around Wake Forest NC use the DOT statutes since 10' off the edge of the right-of-way belongs to the state, they use a relatively thin steel pipe in the ground with a decorative cast iron scroll that sits under the mailbox and it uses 4 little mickey mouse screws to hold it to the iron work. DOT regulations here say it has to be able to bend, break, swing, fall over if a vehicle hits it. They make it weak by mig welding cast to carbon steel with small tack welds.

We ran a mobile welding business for a few years and we'd constantly get calls to these high end subdivisions to weld the mailbox back on. $135.00 a trip. The HOA agreement mandates a certain mailbox, replacement cost = $900.00 pre-pandemic pre supply chain shortages price, I shudder to think how much that same mailbox costs homeowners now days. They have to buy one that matches everybody else.

[Hannibal]

There is some liability in owning a mailbox that can teach criminals a lesson. Some drivers strike mailboxes for other reasons like glare ice, swerving to avoid an animal, a blowout or being run off the road. If that happens and injuries or death result from the crash, you can be held responsible. In our woke society I’d be surprised if you weren’t.
That’s why commercially available rural mailboxes are made the way they are, so as to not cause injury when hit.

Exactly. If someone dies hitting your mailbox it won't go well for you.

[Kenstone]

Swing away/break away Mail Box posts:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Swing+awa...f=nb_sb_noss_2

Urban swing away:

https://www.amazon.com/Original-Simp...2-63e904010ad0

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[firefly1957]

When OI bought this place (2004) A treated 4X4 was deep in the ground three weeks straight some fool wrecked the mail box then on the 4th week they hit the post as well parts from a 80's chevy pickup and oil was on the ground Post was broken off about a foot high. I replaced it with a 15" diameter cherry tree trunk that lasted only a few years but no more hits. When that rotted I put another Treated 4X4 in the ground deeply . I suppose it will only be time before some new stupid generation comes along trying to smash mail boxes . My road gets very little traffic I have never looked at what the actual regulations are on mail box posts here .

[warren5421]

Will 7 hours and post and mail box is done. With the ground frozen it was hard putting a hole in the ground. Hope it last as at 78 it gets hard using a post hole digger!