Woke up this morning to find much needed rain falling. When I go out to get the paper, I notice some papers in the road. It is MY mail, completely soaked, with a now unreadable American Rifleman magazine among the bills. My mailbox is completely gone, nowhere to be found.

Apparently I missed a game of teenage mailbox baseball that took place on my homefield! I am not a real heavy sleeper, so I am surprised that I didn't hear the homerun. This really pi**es me off because I live in a neighborhood where all the mailbox posts have to be the same (a wooden structure). So, not only do I have to replace a mailbox, but a kinda custom post at a cost of about $100.

Hopefully, if this team comes to play again, they will ask me to pitch!!

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Miss My Buddy crsides!!

My mail box is also in the strike zone, gets hit on occasion. My neighbors and I are thinking about making a private road around the backside of our property to put the mail boxes on. If we do I'm going to fill up my old one with cement just to give them a little surprise.

Hi:
Last night (Saturday) my wife was watching a CSI-Las Vegas, where a gentleman tried of replacing his destroyed mailbox from this juvenile game filled his mail box with concrete. He ended up being arrested for mansaughter when this caused a vehicle accident and death to the juveniles playing "Mailbox Baseball" with his mailbox.
Jimmy

That's what's wrong with our world today. If they had not been doing something they shouldn't have...

Hopefully this can give you something to smile about.

I was once one of those wayward teenagers. While roaming after dark one evening two of my fellow aces and I realized that we were near one of our teacher's houses. Mr. Fox lived on a quiet cul-de-sac and had an attractive looking mailbox that resembled a barn. I thought I was the bees knees as I brought the pipe I was holding down on his mailbox full force ............only to discover that it was made of welded together steel plate!!!!!!

It didn't tickle and I can truly say that I was outfoxxed.

Oh yeah, about the mailbox? It's lid fell open. No damage done.

My dad got tired of replacing mailboxes. He contracted the blacksmith to build him a good one. 1/4" steel plate.......14' of concrete filled well casing, custom door, flat black paint for low viz at night. A real nice job.
My mom hit it with her brand new Coupe De'Ville. Both passenger windows and posts. Windsheild frame and a full legth crease on the roofline. As Gatorfarmer would say, "shrug".
OZ

You're lucky to get mail delivered on Sunday. They don't do that most places.

Thanks, I'll do that.

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Miss My Buddy crsides!!

Now and again they get thier's! My daughter while working as a emergency room tech in Texas, got a teener in who smacked a mailbox with a ball bat out of a car, bat bounced back into face, made quite a mess!

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Stay safe people!

With the mail in the box makes it a Fed. crime, contact the post office about it.

Last year we had some throwing beer bottles at signs. One of them leaned out the window of the car, got too close to the sign, and lost a hand. The deputy working the call had to go out and find the hand. He brought it to the ER but the docs were unable to re-attach it. I recently saw "Nubby" in jail for something else. Some people never learn.

Mail box posts and the shelf (arm) the box sits on are supposed to be structures stong enough to anchor a battle ship. The wife's original mailbox post was a whimpy 1-1/2" tube with some 'delicate' scroll work. The mailbox was repaired 3 times from bat or mirror hits.

The new post is two pressure treated 2 x 6's bolted to an extra landscape timber in the middle. Eight feet long, planted 4 feet deep in the sand. Mailbox sits on double 2 x 6 lag bolted to the top of the post.

The mailbox post is 'planted' 2 feet from the power pole. The home run hitter may get the mailbox, or the shelf, but will definitely smack the power pole. Door mirrors are now found (3 of them) laying on the side of the road. Three small nicks on the shelf and the mailbox is undamaged.

Like the realator says, "location, location, location" and then make it stout !

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S&WHF 366

Don't know about other states, but in Ga, you are fixing to be in a world of hurt if someone has a trafic accident and ends up injured as a result of impacting your mailbox structure.

Any structure placed in a public road right of way must meet state standards. Last time I checked it was something along the lines of "no larger than a wood 4X4", and designed so as to break in the event of contact by a vehicle.

By placing a hardened structure in the right of way, you have knowingly created a hazard and are criminally liable for injuries that may result from contact with that structure.

If you are that frustrated, spend a few bucks and just get a PO box.

Try puttying a trail camera out at night, and at an angle that will allow for taking a picture of their license plate. Then you can turn it in to the police, and hopefully confront the punks and their parents at the hearing.

Vulcan Bob,
Thank you for sharing, it's called "Instant Karma" ...

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