ANTI-MAILBOX DESTRUCTION Thread
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From: Merrill, WI
Originally Posted by alchymist
How in the HEdouble toothpicks can you get into trouble when someone skids off the road onto private property and hits something? Had it been a parked car instead of a barrel full of concrete would it have been any different?
I have seen some god-awful barriers in northern PA where someone has a house at the bottom of a hill on a T intersection or on a sharp curve, etc.
More than once they scraped a wayward vehicle off one of these, and no trouble for the homeowner......
I have seen some god-awful barriers in northern PA where someone has a house at the bottom of a hill on a T intersection or on a sharp curve, etc.
More than once they scraped a wayward vehicle off one of these, and no trouble for the homeowner......
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Originally Posted by 00BlueOvalRanger
No pics to share, yet, but this is very similar to my maibox.
It is Louisville Slugger proof.
I saw the quote on the federal law, but, when the feds (Postal Police) come out and start prosecuting the hoodlums that destroy the mailboxes in my neighborhood, I'll put my little box on the post back up.
It is Louisville Slugger proof.
I saw the quote on the federal law, but, when the feds (Postal Police) come out and start prosecuting the hoodlums that destroy the mailboxes in my neighborhood, I'll put my little box on the post back up.
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From: Clarksburg WV
Originally Posted by 76supercab2
I've seen a 5 mile stretch here where every mailbox was destroyed by the snow plow after a snow storm. The snow being launched off the plow going 40 mph just obliterated every box on the road.
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From: Lancaster, MA
Originally Posted by freirefishing
we got taken out a couple of times in the early 90's, my pops went to a po box after that
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From: Clearwater, Fl
Originally Posted by cdrmotorsports
Hahaha. that's the best solution I've heard so far. The only time our mailbox has gotten smashed is when I took it out while plowing my driveway with our tractor. Ooops. That mailbox didn't stand a chance to the Deere with a 500 pound plow on the front.
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In the neighborhood I lived in about 14-15 years ago, there was a streak where some kids went running through the neighborhood on a semi-regular basis running over mailboxes. I think my dad went through two of them before he bought a 8' 4x4" post and some 1/8" angle iron that was about 6 feet long. He bolted the angle iron to the post and set them in a ~4' deep hole filled with concrete. The idea was that if they were stupid enough to even try to run over the 4x4 in the first place, they'd get hung up on the angle iron (which was mounted on the back corner of the post, not really visible from the street), leaving all the evidence the cops would need to prosecute these bums sitting right in our front yard.
Last time I drove by there, that post is still there. The folks that bought the house from us prettied it up a little bit, but probably gave up trying to get that post and concrete out of the ground.
Last time I drove by there, that post is still there. The folks that bought the house from us prettied it up a little bit, but probably gave up trying to get that post and concrete out of the ground.
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From: Right Behind You
Originally Posted by 00BlueOvalRanger
No pics to share, yet, but this is very similar to my maibox.
It is Louisville Slugger proof.
It is Louisville Slugger proof.
Tim
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From: Lancaster, MA
Originally Posted by freirefishing
your mailbox probably put up a fight for a second or so,lol
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where i grew up in kansas the county passed an ordinance against the "super mail boxes" after a wreck.
some kids at night were out box bashing and decided to drive over what they thought to be a normal mail box. the mail box was actually a steel box sitting on metal p[ole sunk into the ground filled with concrete.
it stopped the truck right on it's tracks, injured everyone inside (4 people, none wearing seatbelts).
well, the families of the kids decided to sue the home owner for it and won in a civil case, i do not remember the details of the case or what awards or anything, i know it was nothing excessive.
i will follow along with what someone else posted, i will comply to standards when either the post office pays for me a mail box when it gets damaged or actually pursues people who damage them.
some kids at night were out box bashing and decided to drive over what they thought to be a normal mail box. the mail box was actually a steel box sitting on metal p[ole sunk into the ground filled with concrete.
it stopped the truck right on it's tracks, injured everyone inside (4 people, none wearing seatbelts).
well, the families of the kids decided to sue the home owner for it and won in a civil case, i do not remember the details of the case or what awards or anything, i know it was nothing excessive.
i will follow along with what someone else posted, i will comply to standards when either the post office pays for me a mail box when it gets damaged or actually pursues people who damage them.
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From: At the Station
My neighbor has one of the all green mail boxes filled w/concrete. I only found this out when the awning from my camper decided to unfurl at 40 mph. The top of the box popped right off like it is supposed. I just about got a hernia trying to put it back up on its base. $200 damage to awning...none to mailbox.
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From: Lorain County, Ohio
Originally Posted by Nitramjr
... railroad rail (38 #/foot)...
That 114#/yd rail was ONLY used by the New York Central Railroad.
Now you can really say you learned something today.
I only know this because we have a flat car full of it that nobody else wants. Maybe we should turn it into mailbox posts.
I had a neighbor who sunk a 6" square steel tube filled with concrete, then lined his big rural box with welded 1/4" plate. He had a proud collection of damaged baseball bats and other odd implements. His location made him a prime target, the only house on a ~500" stretch of wooded road.
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From: Mifflin, PA
Originally Posted by lsrx101
Here's a trivia tidbit that you never cared to know and still probably won't care about.
That 114#/yd rail was ONLY used by the New York Central Railroad.
Now you can really say you learned something today.
I only know this because we have a flat car full of it that nobody else wants. Maybe we should turn it into mailbox posts.
I had a neighbor who sunk a 6" square steel tube filled with concrete, then lined his big rural box with welded 1/4" plate. He had a proud collection of damaged baseball bats and other odd implements. His location made him a prime target, the only house on a ~500" stretch of wooded road.
That 114#/yd rail was ONLY used by the New York Central Railroad.
Now you can really say you learned something today.
I only know this because we have a flat car full of it that nobody else wants. Maybe we should turn it into mailbox posts.
I had a neighbor who sunk a 6" square steel tube filled with concrete, then lined his big rural box with welded 1/4" plate. He had a proud collection of damaged baseball bats and other odd implements. His location made him a prime target, the only house on a ~500" stretch of wooded road.
