[TheForge] Crush proof mailbox

[Peter Hirst]

Camera can be routed to record on a chip, card, zip dries, etcwhich can hold 
way more than 24 hours data.  Check box and erase once a day.  No problem.

A local honors system veggie stand caught a thief this way last summer.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Albin Drzewianowski" <dski1045 at qis.net>
To: "'Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA'" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 9:36 PM
Subject: RE: [TheForge] Crush proof mailbox


> ON the surface the video camera is a good idea.  Only thing,  Back when my
> mailbox was being attacked on a semi-regular basis, the attacks would be
> anywhere from 3-18 months apart.
>
> The hoodlums would go down a particular road once every blue moon.  Over 
> 30
> years that still adds up to a good number of mail boxes.
>
> So the camera idea probably would not work.   No way to anticipate when it
> is   "your turn" again.
>
> Regards,
> Albin
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:theforge-
>> bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jerry Frost
>> Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 6:39 PM
>> To: Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA
>> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Crush proof mailbox
>>
>> It is true a mailbox has to be of an approved design
>> but the specs relate to height and distance from the
>> driving surface rather than size, shape, color, etc.
>>
>> The real thing you have to think about is liability. If
>> you put ANYTHING in the right of way YOU are liable for
>> damages and injuries caused by idiots hitting it. Some
>> things like standard approved mailboxes are covered as
>> they come from the store and liability is the
>> manufacturer's. However, if you build one from steel
>> plate, fill it with concrete, set it on a section of
>> well casing, etc. and someone hits it at 50mph or rips
>> their arm out hitting it with a b'ball bat at 70.
>> You're IT and your insurance company isn't likely to
>> have any sympathy for you let alone covering it for
>> you.
>>
>> What I like are the plastic fall apart mailboxes. They
>> just come apart when hit so there's little to no
>> satisfaction in bashing them and you the home owner can
>> just snap them back together in the morning.
>>
>> If it were a problem here I think I'd hang a video
>> camera and let the postmaster general prosecute the
>> little felons. Yeah, it's a felony to interfere with
>> the US mail.
>>
>> Frosty
>> -------------------------------
>> If it ain't forged
>> it ain't real.
>> Wrought iron is.
>> The FrostWorks
>>
>> Meadow Lakes, AK.
>>
>>
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