[TheForge] Crush proof mailbox

[Albin Drzewianowski]

I probably should not say this out loud, as it will probably jinx me. 

anyway here goes.  After my last mailbox was totally beat to smithereens,  I
bought a large country mailbox at the big-box store and then made a box out
of 2x6's that this mail box slides into.  all the exterior  corners  of the
wood box (where a baseball bat might hit) are lined with angle iron.  Then
the whole thing was painted white. 

So far, no one has tried to hit it as far as I can tell (no scraped paint,
dents).   And I have seen evidence of other mailboxes on my road trashed
since I built the wood box. 

the legal issue from what I have read and heard is that the mail box post
must be breakaway.  So that if a snow plow or vehicle hits the mailbox post,
plow or vehicle  is not severely damaged.  Nor the occupants injured.    My
house is on a curve and our mailbox has been taken out twice in 30 years by
a car sliding into it  when going too fast around the curve.   Accidents,
not malicious intent.

ON the other hand, since moving to Westminster, I have had my mailbox
"baseball batted" probably 6-8 times,  maybe more.   Lost count. 

CSI/ Las Vegas  had an episode not that long ago where kids in a car were
killed while "baseball batting" mailboxes.  The guy responsible had a
mailbox full of cement that he would put out at night and take his "good"
mailbox in.  As I remember the episode,  when the kid it the cement filled
mailbox, the bat splintered and a splinter from the bat hit the driver who
lost control and the car smashed into  a tree.  all the kids in the car
killed.   I believe they did arrest  the guy who put out the cement filled
mailbox. 

D-ski 
Westminster, MD     
The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:theforge-
> bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of PlumDon at aol.com
> Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 9:15 AM
> To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [TheForge] Crush proof mailbox
> 
> Anyone know of any convenient plans for a near  crush/vandal proof
mailbox? I
> found nothing but crumbled metal and splinters  this morning.
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions
> 
> Don Plummer
> 
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