I was thinking something along the lines of 1/8 inch thick plate steel for the box, welded and lag bolted to a steel ibeam sunk about 8 feet with concrete poured around the base.
Anyone else have ideas?
Our box and pole has been stolen/smashed/whatever more than 30 times in the past 5 years.
Never been able to catch anyone.
I once chained a rubber mailbox (the ones that are supposed to be indestructable) to the telephone pole and it stayed for a while, until one morning when I walked out to a pile of goop melted around the chain....
Anyway, if anyone thinks there might be liability issues from making such a strong box, what about cars that crash into telephone poles? I've never seen a utility company sued over that. Plus mailboxes are federal property I believe.
Anyway, if there's still a liability issue about that couldn't I just have guard rail put around the box?
2007-08-02
06:52:20
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