Well, I left for work this morning and noticed some a-holes smashed my 3 day old mail box with a bat This is the second time in the last 3 months this has happened, but what really frost's my *** is the fact that I just installed the new box on Saturday The first time, they opened the box and unloaded about 10 painballs into it and 2 days later smashed it with a bat. I replaced it Saturday because I was tired of getting wet mail every time it rained or snowed. I'm not replacing it this time, I guess I'll have to live with soggy mail. Both times it was reported to the police, but that is kind of like calling the fire department after your house burned down.

 

report this to the U.S.P.S. Next install a new box inside of a bigger box with cement between the 2 boxes. then anchor to a steel post that is too filled with cement.

 

No, mike is way off. All you need is a boxing glove and a huge powerfull spring.

 

That sucks man. I don't know why people have to damage other people's property. You could rig up a motion sensitive explosive to it then when they come buy with there bats. Kaboom!!!!

 

And get sued by the postman.

 

Get one of these here: LINK
52 lbs. of 7ga steel, nobody's gonna bend this one with a baseball bat, kinda pricey, though.

 

Yeah, I should have said put it in after the postman comes and remove it before he comes.

 

Set video camera.

 

electrify it, but make sure its off durning the regular mail delivery times

 

Wouldn't you just blow yourself up then?

Sorry to hear about your mailbox Ford79, hopefully you get a hold of those vandals.

 

I've actually been thinking of getting one of those wildlife cameras and setting it up on a tree behind and above(out of reach without a ladder) the mail box. This might capture an image of the person/persons involved and possibly a vehicle type, but most likely not the plate number. Also, I'm not sure how good the photo's would be from 15+ feet away.

Another idea is building my own mailbox out of 1/4" plate steel, but building it to look like a normal box.

 

Or you could do like I did. Our mail was taken out of our box and thrown down the street for two years. I called and even met with a Usps person. A waste of my time. I called metro. Metro cops in Las Vegas are like the looney tunes, unless you are homeless. If you are homless they will kill you, sorry another topic.

After not getting any help with our mail being strewn all over our street, I took this problem into my hands.
Day 1 I waited in my front yard bushes for 2 hours. No show!
Day 2 I waited in the bushes again, no show
Day 3 I waited in the bushes, no show.
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Day 5 '' '' '' '' '' '' ''
Day 6, kid comes down the street. He opens my mail box and pockets my mail. I jump out of the bushes with my ruger in tow. I yell at the kid. He takes off running. Un beknownst to me mt youngest son who is visiting with me see this going on because he is outside haveing a smoke. He runs up and tackles the mail stealer. My son is 6'-1" and 206 lbs. He damn near kills this little wimpy mail stealer. We drag this bum fodder into my garage, and trust me the terrorists under Marine order would be better off. We interrogated this low life for three hours. Trust me folks this is one little sh!# that will never do that kind of stuff again. We let him go and there was pee pee all over where he sat!. Hey the local law are wimps, and the feds are worse. I have a right to defend my stuff!

 

you are my hero

 

My neighbor had an idea after his mailbox got hit and knocked down by cars several times. The cars would lose control in the curve and run off the road and hit his box and then keep going. He got a piece of RAILROAD TRACK and buried it about 3 feet deep and left another 3 feet to mount his box. One night a few weeks later I heard this terrible loud sound and a thump . Looking outside I saw a car turned over on its top . The car hit the box and fliped over....no one was hurt bad but this time they didnt knock down his box........true story

 

Can you weld? just weld a box out of 1/4 inch or so steel and weld it to a post that you put a few feet down into the dirt with the last few feet anchored in concrete. This way you take care of the baseball bat and rule out any other alternate plans they might have.