I'm planning a new rural mailbox and post, thinking solar light box numbers and remote wireless delivery alert system when the door is open. Any thoughts or ideas for a custom style setup?
I'm planning a new rural mailbox and post, thinking solar light box numbers and remote wireless delivery alert system when the door is open. Any thoughts or ideas for a custom style setup?
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if allowed in your area but with your particular motor.
If you order a lot of stuff online I'd opt for the large mail box for the smaller items can fit inside.
I'm interested in that wireless delivery alert system.
Hi Mike.
Not sure about your area, but around here, the more attention you draw to your mailbox, the more likely that it won't survive Halloween. Perhaps a plain Jane mailbox would suffice.
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Plain jane is what I’d go for. Just maybe me, but fancy mailboxes are not my thing. Had many destroyed by snowplows and careless drivers.
Alert system options with Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=mailbox+m...l_544g6t8b2r_e
No problems in this area with punk's or drivers.
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Around here the snowplow guys aim for the pretty mailboxes first. When those are gone they start working on the plain metal ones
Some people are so judgemental. You can tell just by looking at 'em.--Some random meme
Thankfully we have no snowplows lol and no hoodlums to speak of. Maybe a stray wasp nest under the mailbox or fireants around the post.
Hi Mike.
I don't know how classy your neighborhood is but I'd go with a one that looks like Friday Farm Girl bending over with her fanny facing the street
Some people are so judgemental. You can tell just by looking at 'em.--Some random meme
Would USPS delivery notice be easier?
https://www.usps.com/manage/informed-delivery.htm
If you trust the mail carriers in your area that would/should work great. Would not work in my area. 75% of the time my carrier doesn't even close the door or leaves my mail in other peoples mailbox and I get other's mail in mine.
Hi Mike.
Plain Jane for sure.
Just a plain ol' mailbox with a flag works great.
Cheaper the better.
Another big plain Jane for me: During Halloween around they go by them and throw huge pumpkins and knock them off the pole. The last time that happened to mine several years I took it up to my shop(it is .2 of a mile from my house on my private drive), hammered the dents out and placed a 25# lead weight I used to use on my dirt cars inside and bolted it down nicely. Now the pumpkins just bounce off it. Ha. It sits on a bulldozer track pad and steel pole!
Mailman kept leaving door open. Put a locking one on a steel post. Holds small packages.
HAHA One cherry bomb with door closed.... mailbox is history. AHhhh, saw a friend do it!
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I never backlash, but each time I go fishing I practice fixing them, just in case I ever do really backlash.
My son has a welded 1/2" steel box on a solid 5" steel post in the country after punks took out a couple normal box'es. It was not long and he found a broken ball bat and some glass with blood in the road next to it.
We went with this Oasis model by Architectural Design. The only issue we had was the rubber gasket for the lower door had to be glued back on but otherwise it's done well. The top door is baffled so you can't reach down into the lower locked section to pull mail back out.
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Yup, something that won't cost you a bunch to replace.
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