HorneTD wrote in
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Oscar_Lives wrote:
"Nehmo Sergheyev" wrote in message
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- orangetrader -

Now I need to buy a new mail box and post. Question is how can I

build a

new post?

- Nehmo -
Anything by the side of a road has the potential to be hit by a
vehicle going off the road. A conscientious mail box installer plans
for this possibility, and the first concern is that an impact of
vehicle and the mail box & post doesn't kill anybody. Modern street
light poles are break-away. Make your mail box post with similar
forethought. Make it weak, brittle, or flexible.

Make the post of PVC, ABS, fiberglass rod, or a 2x2. If a car breaks
the mail box down, that's what was supposed to happen.


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* Nehmo Sergheyev *
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This is bull****. It some drunk hits my mailbox, I want to help
encourage him to meet his maker.

I have a friend out on a country road who used to lose his mail box
to joy-riding good ol' boys every other saturday night. Finally, he
fixed it good: He got a 6" heavy steel "I" beam, sunk it into about
3.5 feet of concrete, and covered it with a thin veneer of bark to
make it look like an ol tree limb. The next sunday morning, he found
tracks in the mud leading up to his mailbox, with a couple of scrapes
on the bark, antifreeze all over the ground, and broken glass and
turn signal lens laying all around.

If some ******* hits my mailbox, I want to make sure he know it.


I for one draw the line at setting out to kill or maim someone who
hits my mailbox unintentionally. Anything that is in the public
easement should be constructed to minimize injury to the occupants of
a motor vehicle in the event of a collision with that object. If the
box is mounted out of the easement then I suppose it is your business.
--
Tom H

If the damage is intentional from something like joy-riding and let's see
how many mailboxes we can knock down, then the *******s deserve whatever
they get. I'd just as soon see them lying dead in the road.

--
Wayne in Phoenix

*If there's a nit to pick, some nitwit will pick it.
*A mind is a terrible thing to lose.