Any advice on how to deter mailbox vandalism?
December 202009
Over the years I have replaced 7 curbside type mailboxes. I have tried the heavy duty kinds, the rubber kind, and tried putting it high, low, all to no avail. The baseball bat kids are winning! My mailbox is at the end of a long driveway, so I can’t monitor it. We are in a nice area with a private security guard. Once someone was caught and his mother replaced my mailbox. Now that one is gone.
I do not care for the brick mausoleum looking ones. Any experiences or suggestions?
Get a pretty wrought iron garden arch and place it over the mailbox. Just sink it deep enough into the ground at the bases. You could even plant a nice flowering vine on it. The vandals will not be able to hit the mailbox because it will be protected by the iron arch. Good luck.
December 20th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
get a fairly long post, dig a hole about a foot deep, put a foot of your post in the hole then fill with concrete… best to use an iron post. When they hit it a baseball bat they will get so much re-verb they will think twice before doing it again.
Did this myself & it fixed my problem with vandals.
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December 20th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
find a welding shop in your area and explain your problem to them it won’t be cheap but a 6′ steel post filled with concrete is pretty well indestructable, and if they are any good they should be able to manufactur something that looks about like a regular mailbox out of 3/16" or 1/4′ steel plate pretty easy
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December 20th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
A friend of ours had a big problem with the same thing. What they did was get two long steal pipes and sunk one into the ground on each side of their mail box that came up higher than the mail box stood by about 6 inches or so. That way when they swung at the box they hit the steel pipes and got the jar of their life. It stopped quick.
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December 20th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
Hi Bren. Have you notified your local police about it? It’s a federal offense to vandalize mail boxes and if this is a recurring problem, maybe they can patrol your neighborhood a little more often.
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December 20th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
Hi Bren!
I agree with Diana. And the post office should be doing something this is not your responsibility. It is a malicious Mischief and contact the police. Good Luck.
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December 20th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
neighborhood watch.
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December 20th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
I say bring back the pony express and let him deliver the mail to your door.
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December 20th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
I would talk to the security management, seems they would be the folks to stop harassment
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December 20th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
One pound of C-4 (plastic explosive) on a pressure sensor, inside the box…works every time.
No trial, no reports to file.
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December 20th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
It’s a federal offense. Contact your postmistress/master for the procedure. Federal tampering, it would seem to me, would enable the post office to call on its inspector to serve as surveillance. If not, I would file a complaint with the FBI.
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December 20th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
Get a pretty wrought iron garden arch and place it over the mailbox. Just sink it deep enough into the ground at the bases. You could even plant a nice flowering vine on it. The vandals will not be able to hit the mailbox because it will be protected by the iron arch. Good luck.
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December 20th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
My man is a brick mason and he builds mailboxes for people and they either use brick or rock!!! I like native rock myself!!!
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December 20th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
I have lived here 20 years and am on mail box 13. The strange thing is 2 years ago I put a second mail box in front of the real one and filled it with rocks and no one has hit it.
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