PO boxes

subieRSgrrl

subieRSgrrl

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I hate having a PO box. Maybe it's just because I can't even drive myself there right now, but even if I wasn't on crutches I couldn't get there because I would be at work and they would close before I could even get there. Maybe if the friggin' plow guys hadn't cut our mailbox in two. And our mailbox is on a swivel, not to mention the 4x4 post, that we turn prior to every storm...and yet they still seem to get it, every time! This time they did it good though....no way we can put another one in until spring so we had to get a PO box. It sucks!! Anyone else have these issues?

 
what you really wish is that they would fix the sh.. they broke lazy ass's

 
I do, except it was the state that plows here, so I can forget that. I seriously thought about sending some pictures to that state, but I think I would be wasting my time!

 
I do, except it was the state that plows here, so I can forget that. I seriously thought about sending some pictures to that state, but I think I would be wasting my time!
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don't talk with the state. talk with the postal service. Call the portland office and ask to speak with someone there (most likely a postal inspector). they will have the best info for going after your replacement.

Or in the spring talk to me and I will share my "indestructable mail box"

 
I did talk to the postal service and they claimed that sometimes when they are plowing just the force of the snow will break mailboxes. Yes, sometimes, but not when it's completely out of the way and posted on a 4x4 piece of wood. I don't think the snow did that. You can see on the ground where the plow dug into the dirt right in front of where the mailbox was hit. Bullshit it was the snow. I live in Limington, so I don't think Portland would do anything for me. But I may take you up on this "indestructible" mailbox you speak of.

 
i've seen a couple of them
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Years ago I bought a "Baseball Bat Proof" mail box. that's what it said on the box. They sell them at Hardware stores and Lowes or HomeDepot. Its just rugged plastic that folds slightly when hit. I secured it with a million screws on a piece of plywood to the post.

It withstood several years of juvenile abuse until someone was so frustrated with hitting it and nothing happening that they just pulled the post and everything out of the ground. I fixed them. I found the mail box still attached to the post in my neighbor's yard. I went and got it and cemented the post to granite ledge about 3 ft under my driveway. My neighbors ask me how come my mail box never gets wrecked like their's do every other month. Strategy

Mailbox guidelines:

1. Keep the post and box out of the line of a straight shot from a moving vehicle. This deters the snow plow from hitting it, and deters pranksters from drive by bat swingers. Ours is moved back from the road so only a slow moving mailman can pull up to it. The drawback is having to shovel it way more so the mailgirl will deliver.

2. Cement the post in the ground.

3. Get the baseball bat proof box and secure it soundly.

4. don't make it pretty. The better it looks the more attention it gets.

 
Our mailbox had all the standards. The post was a four by four post that was very deep into the ground. The mailbox had a steel frame around it and the mailbox itself sat on a swivel post. We turned the mailbox almost completely around when storms were coming. Even when the mailbox is facing the road the mailman still had to pretty much go into a gully to get close enough to the mailbox. I should get a picture on here of the mailbox after the storm. The four by four post is jagged toward the bottom where the plow hit it low and chopped it right off. We still haven't taken the post/mailbox out of the snowbank. I may have to look into one of those "baseball bat proof" mailboxes. Are they expensive does anyone know? I hate to put too much money into something if it may end up in a snowbank. :-

 
you would also be better off with a steel pole filled with concrete and concreted to the ground.

my friend has this chainmail stuff around his so when someone swing a bat at it.it would usually take the bat out of their hand

 
We don't really have a problem with people hitting it with bats. What would happen if the plow hit it and it was filled with cement?

 
they won't cause they know what will happen. wood splitters metal don't >
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Couldn't ya get fined from the state if it damaged the truck/plow. We live on a main road....they probably would hit it...again. We seem to be the target on our road. You look down our road and the plow went out and around all of the other mailboxes they didn't even attempt to move for ours. Bastards.

 
no fines they hit your property.the only way you would get fined is if it to close to the road.theres a certian distance from the road it has to be

 
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