Baseball-bat-proof mailboxes?

[SHELLY]

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.

...when you live in a hood where bashing mailboxes is a sport--ya gotta do what you gotta do.

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[Lynnie]

Hilarious!

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!

 

[LuciferSam]

I could go with a big black cast iron mailbox if such a thing exists. Clank!

 

[Lynnie]

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!!

 

[Iris]

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 It was originally made for the northern part of the country and would swing designed for snow plows that would gently nudge it and it would move.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.

 

[Lynnie]

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 It was originally made for the northern part of the country and would swing designed for snow plows that would gently nudge it and it would move.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!

 

[Iris]

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!

 

[Lynnie]

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.

 

[Susan Horn]

Get a P.O. Box at SRB, Seaside, Rosemary Beach, whatever's closest, and end the worrying?