Mailbox hit once again - Page 2

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

@chrystaltree wrote:
Are you saying that cars are hitting your mailbox deliberately?

Yes, I have known of that to happen. Our neighbor had his hit by cars (not deliberately) at least 3 times in 25 years. And it is a neighborhood where all the mailboxes are brick.

Then one lady in a van swung out over a curve, hit a work trailer full of pvc pipe parked in front of our house, drove it up on the curb and hit the fire hydrant! SHe admitted to us her travel cup fell and she looked away to reach for it. While going around a curve at a good clip no less!

I don't think she told the policeman that!

new nickname 4 · ‎05-21-2018

In my state, we are required to install a breakaway mail box post. You need to check with the Post Office in your area for regulations reguarding whether you are allowed to install a solid, reinforced post. We can be held liable for injury or damage, ie lawsuits, if our post doesn't break when hit.

kitty60 · ‎03-13-2010

This reminded me of a dear friend of mine. Many years ago after moving to a rural location their mailbox was consistently ending up missing. It would sometime obviously have been hit and other times the box was just missing. One day after visiting dh and I were driving down the road and saw one of their mailboxes off the side of the road. We pulled over, got out and picked it up. Being only a few weeks before Christmas we boxed the not damaged mailbox and wrapped it and gave it back to them. It was too funny!

Travone · ‎10-14-2016

I don't mean to make light of your situation, but I have to admit it reminded of the comic strip Crankshaft with the bus driver always hitting the mailbox. Made me smile.

I do hope you find a solution. I know this is not a joke to you. Happy New Year.

Fressa · ‎03-20-2012

We have had a similar sitution with ours but believe it or not it's the neighbors turning around in our street. No one even admits that they have done it. That's the part that "gets" me. Accidents happen but own up to it and fix it.

Here's what we did to help reduce the problem. We purchased a metal mail post. Filled it with cement. I have a brick border around the mailbox with marble chips. I put a stone cement planter in front of the post (large size) .All of this should discourage the "quick turn arounds that are not checking their mirrors). So far, this system has worked the best. The planter in front of the post needs to be heavy enough to scrape a bumper or make a noise. I had a resin one previously and they just bent that one in half.

Good luck!

AuntG · ‎03-09-2010

Main roads can be bad for mailboxes. I replaced two at my old house.

novamc1 · ‎07-02-2015

@Still Raining

@goldensrbest

Years ago we had our custom-built large mailbox (looked like wooden house and had a shingle roof) set on fire during a wave of teenage vandalism affecting other mailboxes, too. They had doused some newspaper with flammable liquid of some type. Could have set the entire neighborhood on fire.

We woke up in the middle of the night to flames and fire trucks.........a nice neighbor happened to be awake and saw the fire and called 911.

After that, we had a carpenter make a similar mailbox, but it didn't last long. It wasn't built as well as the first.

Then we invested in a first-class, heavy-duty white cast iron mailbox on a thick iron post. All of our mailboxes were embedded in big slabs of concrete.

One New Years Eve, someone attending a party across the street was probably the culprit who backed into the mailbox and knocked the box off the post. I found it lying in the yard the following morning.

That little incident no doubt did some major damage to the hit-and-run car that apparently hit it. Would have loved to be a spy in the yard when that happened. Too bad we were sleeping too soundly to hear the crash and see what the driver's car looked like.

No matter how hard you try and how much money you spend, mailboxes seem to be fair game for destruction!!

goldensrbest · ‎03-10-2010

My first mailbox here was very expensive ,steel ,set in contcrete, did the second one the same,this latest one was cheaper,if i could i would get a solid rock post, but think i will get a post office box ,instead.

When you lose some one you L~O~V~E, that Memory of them, becomes a TREASURE.

ann1989 · ‎02-24-2019

@new nickname 4 wrote:
In my state, we are required to install a breakaway mail box post. You need to check with the Post Office in your area for regulations reguarding whether you are allowed to install a solid, reinforced post. We can be held liable for injury or damage, ie lawsuits, if our post doesn't break when hit.

@new nickname 4I've never heard of that. What state are you in if you don't mind my asking. Mailboxes sometimes do get vandalized. We had a kid with anger issues that took a bat to a whole lot of mailboxes and it was at considerable cost to each homeowner to replace. I suppose a metal pipe would just cause an uncomfortable reverberation up the poor dear's arm if he took a whack at one of those. Hard for me to have any sympathy in those cases and would be angry if one of my neighbors got sued by the kid's parents.

Kachina624 · ‎03-10-2010

@Krimpette wrote:
I guess that's why I sometimes see a curbside mail box with a brick surround! Sorry it's happened to you so often!

@Krimpette. I've seen those bricks crumbled into a pile of lumps and dust. My suggestion would be to mount a mailbox on the biggest boulder you can have moved to your house.

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