I am looking for an attractive baseball-bat-proof mailbox and post. I was just about to order the Seranto mailbox (Mailboxes & Posts - Grandin Road) when last week our neighbor's mailbox like this got bashed in. They quickly put up a stone mailbox (which I think is illegal because it doesn't break away if a vehicle hits it).
When we built our house, all of our neighbors had off-street mailboxes. So we built two brick posts, one of which was intended to hold the mailbox, the same distance from the street as our next-door neigbors' (one car length). We got a note from the mail carrier saying that he wouldn't deliver mail there. We talked to the postmaster and asked why everyone else in the neighborhood was allowed to have off-street mailboxes and we weren't. He said they were grandfathered in. Then several houses were built later, and they were allowed to put their mailboxes near their houses!
We have a baseball-bat-proof mailbox now, but it's ugly and the post is dying. With the wedding reception at our home in June, we want the mailbox to look good.
I have googled and found a few options, but was wondering if any of you have an attractive mailbox that fits my bat-proof requirement.
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SoWal Insider
Do people take their frustrations out on mailboxes? :idontno:
My mailman has 'predator bug' issues and wants my mailbox to be nekked. I rather like my jasmine growing on it~~~~~~
I like copper mailboxes, but don't think they are baseball bat proof.
My mailman has 'predator bug' issues and wants my mailbox to be nekked. I rather like my jasmine growing on it~~~~~~
I like copper mailboxes, but don't think they are baseball bat proof.
beats on hoodAuthor
Do people take their frustrations out on mailboxes? :idontno:Mailbox bashing is a sport here. A few times a year I'll drive by several homes with newly-bashed-in mailboxes.
My mailman has 'predator bug' issues and wants my mailbox to be nekked. I rather like my jasmine growing on it~~~~~~
I like copper mailboxes, but don't think they are baseball bat proof.
Copper isn't bash-proof unfortunately.
SoWal Insider
Kids these days! I guess resin isn't really baseball bat proof.......maybe brick enclosed! That would be pretty with your house!
Ours got run over all the time. Straightest, flatest, but looooong driveway and some kid always ran it over backing out at 90MPH!
Ours got run over all the time. Straightest, flatest, but looooong driveway and some kid always ran it over backing out at 90MPH!
Banned
Kids these days! I guess resin isn't really baseball bat proof.......maybe brick enclosed! That would be pretty with your house!
Ours got run over all the time. Straightest, flatest, but looooong driveway and some kid always ran it over backing out at 90MPH!
It's not just these days. That started back in the 70's.
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SoWal Insider
"Attractive and baseball-bat-proof mailbox" goes together like "inexpensive and dental-implant."
Get a one of those really big standard mailboxes and a smaller standard mailbox about 4" smaller. Remove the door of the smaller mailbox and place it inside the larger mailbox leaving an inch or more of clearance around all sides. Fill the gap with quickcrete--let dry. Secure the mailbox to a heavy-duty post, paint a bulls-eye on the side and circle the area with some attractive plants. Upkeep requires keeping plants pruned and watered and cleaning up portions of splintered bats.
For added fun, keep a night-vision camera trained on the mailbox and another in the emergency room to film the mothers bringing in their "good kids" in to get treated for dislocated shoulders and broken wrists. Produce a film montage set to music and post on Youtube.
Get a one of those really big standard mailboxes and a smaller standard mailbox about 4" smaller. Remove the door of the smaller mailbox and place it inside the larger mailbox leaving an inch or more of clearance around all sides. Fill the gap with quickcrete--let dry. Secure the mailbox to a heavy-duty post, paint a bulls-eye on the side and circle the area with some attractive plants. Upkeep requires keeping plants pruned and watered and cleaning up portions of splintered bats.
For added fun, keep a night-vision camera trained on the mailbox and another in the emergency room to film the mothers bringing in their "good kids" in to get treated for dislocated shoulders and broken wrists. Produce a film montage set to music and post on Youtube.
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SoWal Expert
That was mu suggestion too - though beware retaliation and/or lawsuits if the would be mailbox smasher injures themselves. :roll:
beats on hoodAuthor
"Attractive and baseball-bat-proof mailbox" goes together like "inexpensive and dental-implant."Hilarious!:floor:
Get a one of those really big standard mailboxes and a smaller standard mailbox about 4" smaller. Remove the door of the smaller mailbox and place it inside the larger mailbox leaving an inch or more of clearance around all sides. Fill the gap with quickcrete--let dry. Secure the mailbox to a heavy-duty post, paint a bulls-eye on the side and circle the area with some attractive plants. Upkeep requires keeping plants pruned and watered and cleaning up portions of splintered bats.
For added fun, keep a night-vision camera trained on the mailbox and another in the emergency room to film the mothers bringing in their "good kids" in to get treated for dislocated shoulders and broken wrists. Produce a film montage set to music and post on Youtube.
How about this? http://www.steelmailbox.com/html/heavybilt_mailboxes.html ? Is that just too gross?
Lynnie, we have two brick posts. A third brick post would mess with my OCD with symmetry.
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SoWal Insider
How about this? Heavybilt Mailboxes and Mailbox Posts, by Steel Mailbox Co. ? Is that just too gross?
...do you really, seriously give a rat's rectum as to what your guests "think" about your mailbox? :blink:
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beats on hoodAuthor
...do you really, seriously give a rat's rectum as to what your guests "think" about your mailbox? :blink:I want it to look good because our home is so pretty. On the other hand, I could go rogue in the 'hood and have a cheap mailbox that just just disappears because it is so vanilla.:idontno:
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SoWal Insider
I want it to look good because our home is so pretty. On the other hand, I could go rogue in the 'hood and have a cheap mailbox that just just disappears because it is so vanilla.:idontno:
...when you live in a hood where bashing mailboxes is a sport--ya gotta do what you gotta do.
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SoWal Insider
Hilarious!:floor:
How about this? Heavybilt Mailboxes and Mailbox Posts, by Steel Mailbox Co. ? Is that just too gross?
Lynnie, we have two brick posts. A third brick post would mess with my OCD with symmetry.
I was going to suggest steel. Those look pretty danged good! Go with that!😀
Banned
I could go with a big black cast iron mailbox if such a thing exists. Clank!
SoWal Insider
Hey BR, I noticed a couple of the steel ones in my neighborhood today and they do look nice. I also saw one made to look like cast iron, which was really handsome, too!
Good luck!!
Good luck!!
Beach Fanatic
We had the best mailbox made. It was wonderful and somewhat baseball bat proof. But not CAR proof. It was sold by Classy Mailboxes in Atlanta, however they have since changed ownership. It was originally made for the northern part of the country and would swing designed for snow plows that would gently nudge it and it would move.
We found this one because we live partime in Atlanta in Morningside/Johnson Estates on an extremely busy road. It is like almost getting killed by cars when getting your mail.
It has been run over by cars fours times now. The first was replaced, the second the arm replaced, the third went to the welder, the forth was fixed by a friend and now the fifth is the original box, with the original numbers, and placed on a regular post. It no longer swings. It is so sad. And it wasn't inexpensive. I do care and I don't care what it looks like. We might care this spring when we try and sell the house.
Please let me know if anyone finds swinging mailboxes. I googled for a year!
Thanks.
We found this one because we live partime in Atlanta in Morningside/Johnson Estates on an extremely busy road. It is like almost getting killed by cars when getting your mail.
It has been run over by cars fours times now. The first was replaced, the second the arm replaced, the third went to the welder, the forth was fixed by a friend and now the fifth is the original box, with the original numbers, and placed on a regular post. It no longer swings. It is so sad. And it wasn't inexpensive. I do care and I don't care what it looks like. We might care this spring when we try and sell the house.
Please let me know if anyone finds swinging mailboxes. I googled for a year!
Thanks.
SoWal Insider
We had the best mailbox made. It was wonderful and somewhat baseball bat proof. But not CAR proof. It was sold by Classy Mailboxes in Atlanta, however they have since changed ownership. It was originally made for the northern part of the country and would swing designed for snow plows that would gently nudge it and it would move.
We found this one because we live partime in Atlanta in Morningside/Johnson Estates on an extremely busy road. It is like almost getting killed by cars when getting your mail.
It has been run over by cars fours times now. The first was replaced, the second the arm replaced, the third went to the welder, the forth was fixed by a friend and now the fifth is the original box, with the original numbers, and placed on a regular post. It no longer swings. It is so sad. And it wasn't inexpensive. I do care and I don't care what it looks like. We might care this spring when we try and sell the house.
Please let me know if anyone finds swinging mailboxes. I googled for a year!
Thanks.
Great neighborhood!
Isn't the speed limit 25MPH, though? 😀 Dang in-town speeders and now texters!
Beach Fanatic
Great neighborhood!
Isn't the speed limit 25MPH, though? 😀 Dang in-town speeders and now texters!
Johnson Rd, 30MPH, but I have been on a MARTA bus coming from a downtown fuction and seeing them going 55 to 60MPH.
The last lady that hit it just blacked out. At least she left a note. We were down in SOWAL and got a note from our housesitter that the mailbox was gone!
Speeders, texters, DUIers, Emoriers, and MARTA bussers!
And now live most of the time on a dead end street in SOWAL that one can walk in the middle of the night and watch the stars!
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SoWal Insider
Johnson Rd, 30MPH, but I have been on a MARTA bus coming from a downtown fuction and seeing them going 55 to 60MPH.
The last lady that hit it just blacked out. At least she left a note. We were down in SOWAL and got a note from our housesitter that the mailbox was gone!
Speeders, texters, DUIers, Emoriers, and MARTA bussers!
And now live most of the time on a dead end street in SOWAL that one can walk in the middle of the night and watch the stars!
Isn't it great seeing the stars and and walking without have to jump to a curb? Speed limit in my neighborhood is 25MPH and I have been road-raged here! Grumble, grumble.
Beach Fanatic
Get a P.O. Box at SRB, Seaside, Rosemary Beach, whatever's closest, and end the worrying?
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