Help me reinforce my mailbox post

[starquestMM]

Thats the one I mentioned above. It made it to ohio supreme court and the driver eventually won.

Mailbox owner won.

 

[Spud McGee]

Mailbox owner won.

Yeah, that. I must have had a mini stroke when I wrote my post. I went back and fixed it.

 

[Ricky Joe]

Yes, they are kind of neat, curlicues instead of going through your windshield.

I saw a truck that hit the end of a guardrail once. The guardrail went through the grill and firewall and out the back window and extended almost to the end of the bed. Driver was fine, probably drunk. He must have been flying on a very curvy road.

 

[finn]

I saw a truck that hit the end of a guardrail once. The guardrail went through the grill and firewall and out the back window and extended almost to the end of the bed. Driver was fine, probably drunk. He must have been flying on a very curvy road.

That’s why the changed the design to make them energy absorbing devices. The old style were spears.

You often see sand filled plastic barriers too.

 

[Junkman]

The best way is what I did. Remove mailbox and post, get a PO box at the post office and just add the PO number to your current address. Get the app from the USPS that tells you what mail is in your box and only go pick it up when needed.
Yes you have to pay once a year for the box but it's less than a new post and mailbox.
Todd

I pay $115 every 6 months for the small box at the post office.

 

[Lassen Forge]

The inlaws had the matching solid brick porticoes at the entrance to their driveway with lights on top (VERY common in their neighborhood), one held the mailbox, the other just decorative. Drunk hit it, traded a facial crack in the bricks for a number of car parts and a ticket to the graybar resort. No lawsuit as they were both a common feature of the subdevelopment and well within their property line. Folks eventually got the repair costs to the brick block reimbursed....

 

[Certified Drunk]

Use a 4 inch .250 wall square tube filled with concrete. I did one for my dad 40 years ago, its taken out two cars and hasn't moved yet.

 

[Benny Franklin]

The shop my buddy just bought used to house a core drilling outfit- the mailbox post is an auger we estimate to be at least 4' in the ground, painted yellow. That's not going anywhere.

Our mailbox by the county road has yet to be hit (surprisingly) but the ground is wet and the 4x4 post will need replacing soon. My plan is to use a fence post and drive it as deep at I can

 

[rooster59]

Probably not typical…

 

[Crowbarman55]

I pay $115 every 6 months for the small box at the post office.

I pay $95.00 a year for a small box but I see they charge by location.
Todd

 

[finn]

I pay $115 every 6 months for the small box at the post office.

Our P.O. Box is $54/yr, so about $1.00/week. We drive past the post office whenever we leave the house. It’s on the only road out of here.

Plus, with informed delivery, we only have to stop if there’s something important in the box.

 

[HoosierBuddy]

I'm probably the only one on the thread that's been involved in this sort of lawsuit.

The issue you will run into, if sued, is the concept of "Standard of Care" which is the degree of care a reasonable and prudent person would exercise in these circumstances. I.e. Were you reasonable and prudent in your construction and placement of a mailbox post that ended up injuring a person or persons.

Bottom line...you better hope you have good insurance and they'll cover it. The legal fees will run to high 5 figures and the judgement or settlement could be 6 figures.

In other words, I would make darn sure nothing I did in setting that mailbox was unreasonable or imprudent.

 

[AldeanFan]

Shortly after buying my house I received a visit from the mailbox inspector.
He informed me that my mailbox was not in compliance with the regulations for rural mailboxes and that I had 30 days to correct it or my mail service would be suspended.

There were rules for the post material, height, distance from the edge of the road and distance from the nearest intersection.

I had to move my box about 2’ to the left and about 10” closer to the road. As a result it now gets knocked over by the snow plow.
I’ve been using the metal spikes that you pound in to the ground and which accept a 4x4. The road salt eats the spike so they last about 5 years.

For the most recent replacement I dug a hole with my post hole digger and filled it with cement and added a post holder that bolts down with J bolts sunk in the concrete.

 

[ybnormal]

You mean the ones that roll the guardrail up as it collapses so it can't go through a windshield?

yeah, THOSE ones!

 

[ybnormal]

Funny how the city/county/state can put up phone poles, steel posts for lamps/traffic lights, steel pipe/concrete barriers, guard rails, plant trees, etc... without issue. But don't you dare put your mailbox on a 6x6!

you forgot the guy wires to hold up the poles, those can slice a car in half

 

[Crowbarman55]

yeah, THOSE ones!

Those guard rails are always jumping into traffic.