Maybe The Best Mailbox Ever!!

[COSteve]

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[Blaine]

Did you notice that the front sight is the Mail Pickup Flag?

[kimwcook]

Cool idea, but it only begs for someone to throw an M80 in it.

[HEAD0001]

That would not last a week on the back country road I live on.

My brother fixed em good. He bought a box that was about 10 inches taller than most boxes, and he poured the bottom 10" with concrete. Somebody tried to get it with a ball bat. Don't know who it was, but I bet he broke his arm!! Tom.

[AJMD429]

Probably would be illegal in New York, New Jersey, Illinois, or Wisconsin...!

A neighbor had a mailbox on a 6 ft piece of railroad rail in concrete, but 'boxed' in the above-ground part to look like a regular post, due to folks who'd run over mailboxes in their monster-trucks. If they weren't politically connected, the guys who totalled their pickup and injured the occupants severely would probably have retired on the lawsuit winnings.

Not many mailbox run-overs after that around here though...

[kaschi]

Nothing like showing off to all the deadbeat passerby clientele what goodies probably await them inside(if no one is home)...

[Hobie]

A local hardware store sells a welded steel mailbox. Our friend mounted his on a length of structural steel he got somewhere in a large poured concrete box... His box was between two others (neighbors). The batter brigade tried for one and it followed through to his which abruptly stopped the attack. The bat bounced back and smashed the rear passenger window in the drivers' FATHER'S car. Needless to say that stopped that in that area.

[Chas.]

Here's another:

[2571]

"Probably would be illegal in New York, New Jersey, Illinois, or Wisconsin...!
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Technically violates USPS rules everywhere in country & they don't have to deliver mail to such a receptacle.

[COSteve]

"Probably would be illegal in New York, New Jersey, Illinois, or Wisconsin...!
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Technically violates USPS rules everywhere in country & they don't have to deliver mail to such a receptacle.

Actually, it's likely legal as a custom made mailbox can be approved by the Postal Service IAW THESE standards.

[Old Time Hunter]

"Probably would be illegal in New York, New Jersey, Illinois, or Wisconsin...!
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Technically violates USPS rules everywhere in country & they don't have to deliver mail to such a receptacle.

Checked it out at the local PO, it is perfectly legal here in Wisconsin...but the Post Master said she would frown on it....therefore, I need one!

[adirondakjack]

Cute!

We have all kinds around here. One guy has a biplane hanging from cables. Ya open the nose to insert mail. Serves a dual purpose of looking cool and being snowplow-proof as the post is about 6 ft back of it, and it hangs from an arm about 10 feet high.

On the subject of snowplow-proof mailboxes: My dad once had a beef with a town plow driver who would absolutely bury his driveway, scraping back the bank into his yard, etc. He complained, so then the plow guy clipped off the mailbox in a little show of "who's boss".... The following spring, while wandering a scrap yard at GE, Dad got himself a mailbox "post" in the form of a coil spring from a locomotive. About 4 1/2 feet long, 15" around, and the coils themselves about 1 1/4" He potted the spring in a the ground using a couple of wheelbarrow loads of cement and attached the mailbox and newspaper tube on a board affixed to the top.
The next winter he and the town had a bit of a reprise of their feud, and sure enough one day after a 12" snow fall, he hears the plow coming up the hill. Dad yelled "here he comes" and we raced to the windows. Sure enough the plow was pushing back the snowbank, the wing plow fully extended, bailing along at maybe 30 mph. He never even attempted to raise the wing plow or avoid the mailbox, hitting that spring post with about 2 ft of wing to spare. The 10 wheeled IH plow truck snapped hard right and skittered ahead at about a 30 degree angle, swerving violently as the driver regained control, the wing plow badly bent and (I later heard) the wing extension mechanism bent beyond salvage. The little board atop the mailbox post and the box itself broke off at the moorings and we never found any of it, likely rocketed down into the woods behind the house. The spring of course was none the worse for wear except for some missing paint. Dad gleefully replaced the board and mailbox. That was about 38 years ago. Dad is gone, and the town tax assessor lives there today. The mailbox is the same one dad replaced all those years ago. Oh, FWIW the town has been real good ever since about raising the plow wing and not filling the yard with snow,.....

[Ben_Rumson]

Neat story AJ...
My mail box kept getting bumped...It's a post and box planted in gravel in a half a whiskey barrel half...I live at a sharp turn in the road and figured it was trucks backing up to get another angle on the turn... Wrong... It was the stand in mail delivery person.. I saw her hit the barrel part... She said she can't get used to the extended bumper on the truck!...I said I was going to make her one out of a piece of railroad track that she could practice on all she wanted...My luck is still holding and the thing hasn't moved an inch in the last year...