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Hit and Run Mailbox #6621679
09/21/19 12:47 AM
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Twice now. The mail carrier has ran into my mailbox with their side mirror. The latest incident require metal reconstructive surgery to get the door to even close and to look halfway normal. I will have a word with the postmaster, but don't expect much help.
Thinking about adding a 4x4 or 4x6 next to it in concrete and see how that works on side mirrors.
Any cool ideas would be appreciated? Sarge


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Re: Hit and Run Mailbox [Re: SGT. C] #6621688
09/21/19 12:59 AM
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Put a regular mailbox inside a rural mailbox and fill the void with concrete. Or mount it on an old truck coil spring.

Re: Hit and Run Mailbox [Re: SGT. C] #6621701
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Do a brick/ cinder block reinforced concrete "post" and enclose the regular mailbox. Go 1' deep with reinforced concrete. Here's a few ideas
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Re: Hit and Run Mailbox [Re: SGT. C] #6621705
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I used to live on a road that turned in to 30+ miles of dirt roads known as truck trails. We used to have our mailbox busted by teenagers with baseball bats a few times a year. Virtually impossible to catch as many times it seemed to happen from a moving vehicle. We went the smaller mailbox inside of a larger one with the void filled with concrete. Seemed to work as after because I found broken shards of a baseball bat in the ditch and we never had to replace them again.


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Re: Hit and Run Mailbox [Re: SGT. C] #6621708
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Yup, shards of bat and broken glass for us...my guess is the bat bounced back and broke the rear door window on their moms car.

Re: Hit and Run Mailbox [Re: SGT. C] #6621720
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Had the same hit and run mailbox assaults with a baseball bat, drove a cast fence stake alongside the box on the approach side, never lost another box,

Re: Hit and Run Mailbox [Re: SGT. C] #6621728
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fill it with tannerite









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Originally Posted by pcr2
fill it with tannerite


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Re: Hit and Run Mailbox [Re: SGT. C] #6621765
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Install two steel pipe either side of mail box and few inches ahead and about 6' away from the front of box. Cement them in and that will take care of any mirrors that are attached to a vehicle.


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Re: Hit and Run Mailbox [Re: SGT. C] #6621771
09/21/19 07:32 AM
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Had someone smash our mailbox with a bat.

Went out and did the small box in the big box and fill the void with concrete.

Must have been almost 20 yrs ago and no one has tried to hit it yet.

Must have some kind of deterrent effect. Truth be told, it makes me a little sad.

Re: Hit and Run Mailbox [Re: SGT. C] #6621772
09/21/19 07:33 AM
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My dad built a mailbox after having his smashed a couple of times. It looks like a regular mailbox but is made of 3/8 steel plate on a 4x4 steel post set in concrete. Must weigh 200 lbs.

One night he heard a crash in front of the house in the middle of the night. There's a totaled pickup truck with truck parts spread out 50 yards down the road. Some drunk is standing by his truck wondering how his truck ended up in 100 pieces from just hitting a mailbox. Cops came, drunk arrested, truck towed. My dad got his front end loader out and stood the mailbox back up.


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Re: Hit and Run Mailbox [Re: maintenanceguy] #6621773
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Originally Posted by maintenanceguy
My dad built a mailbox after having his smashed a couple of times. It looks like a regular mailbox but is made of 3/8 steel plate on a 4x4 steel post set in concrete. Must weigh 200 lbs.

One night he heard a crash in front of the house in the middle of the night. There's a totaled pickup truck with truck parts spread out 50 yards down the road. Some drunk is standing by his truck wondering how his truck ended up in 100 pieces from just hitting a mailbox. Cops came, drunk arrested, truck towed. My dad got his front end loader out and stood the mailbox back up.


LMAO !!

Too funny.

Epic win for the good guys !! laugh

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Re: Hit and Run Mailbox [Re: SGT. C] #6621776
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I used a piece of 6" steel well casing but they made me take it down. Said it was a road hazard. The real road hazard is a teenager with dad's car and a baseball bat.
Kind of reminds me of my former daughter in law who always went out of her way to run cats over....until one day she flipped her car over in a ditch while chasing a cat. I gave her a kitten as a get well gift.

Re: Hit and Run Mailbox [Re: SGT. C] #6621783
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We live on a county blacktop in the middle of farm country. Ours gets hit once in a while with the big, wide tillage tools. I repair it if I can, or put up a new one if necessary. Life is too short to spend my time whizzed off over something as simple as a mailbox.

Re: Hit and Run Mailbox [Re: SGT. C] #6621798
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A lot of people in Michigan put a Wooden type wall on the upside of there mail box to keep the snow plow from knocking it over with snow. Some look nice and some don't but it works, it would work in your case.


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Re: Hit and Run Mailbox [Re: SGT. C] #6621822
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A swing arm and a bat proof Poly box has worked for us.


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Re: Hit and Run Mailbox [Re: SGT. C] #6621836
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Messing with mail boxes is a federal offense. Why isn't the law trying to outlaw these "assault bats". I never see anything on the news about it.


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Re: Hit and Run Mailbox [Re: SGT. C] #6621842
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Most of the time it is just teenagers being teenagers. I suppose you guys never did anything as teens you aren't proud of now. I agree with #11.


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Re: Hit and Run Mailbox [Re: SundanceMtnMan] #6621868
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Originally Posted by SundanceMtnMan
Most of the time it is just teenagers being teenagers. I suppose you guys never did anything as teens you aren't proud of now. I agree with #11.


Not for me. One summer, after the third time they smashed my mailbox and three it off a bridge, I brought it in at night, and set it out in the morning till they caught the kids.

The kids opened the gate to our cow pasture, cut down trees in blind spots on our road, and smashed the window in one of my trucks.

I got $250 for the window but never read the kids names in the Sheriffs reports because their families "knew people" .

I never smashed mailboxes as a kid. My dad wouldn't stand for that kind of foolishness.


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Re: Hit and Run Mailbox [Re: Sprung & Rusty] #6621882
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Originally Posted by Sprung&Rusty
Messing with mail boxes is a federal offense. Why isn't the law trying to outlaw these "assault bats". I never see anything on the news about it.

grin I know you're joking but I was told the PO won't charge these crimes. I was told that from pd, the po station post master near me, and the state DA.

1 year ago some punk's stole a truck and went on a vandalism spree in my neighborhood. They ran the truck into a couple dozen garage doors and ran over about 15 mailboxes and randomly shot while driving. Thankfully they only ran over my mailbox. I gotta go to court soon for the driver. Funny part is as I was wrapping up the report with the officer there's a call on his radio a suspect is fleeing westbound towards my house. Told the officer that's the next street east of me. He said he wasn't worried about ther suspect running towards us. Told him neither am I I got my 45 with 14 on me. He said have a good day and went west for the next report.

I'll take a pic of the mailbox I made a little later.

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