Yea, I think the hope is to hurt the car worse than the mailbox, but the reality is, that could seriously injure someone. While I'd be pissed if someone took out my mailbox due to negligence/stupidity, I'd be really upset with myself if my mailbox post got someone seriously injured or killed, simply because I was on a (trivial) warpath.

 

6 x 6 posts!

 

In some States along the roadways it is illegal to over engineer your mailbox post as it most times lies in the road right away.

We have a ritzy subdivision and they had to out do each other with most ornate mailbox posts made from solid concrete to solid brick lighted structures. All was well and good because us commoners didn't give a holy hoot what went on in there until the RITZ was not happy about having to drive bye our common run of the mill mailboxes sitting on 4X4 posts on their way home.

Well people snit hit the fan and one of us common people was a very good at reading our local and state laws along with the state statutes regarding placement and types of permitted posts. The Ritziest lost and had to remove their ornate structures and now use the common knock over 4X4 post for their mailbox posts..

Live on a curve on a County road here in Central Wisconsin. Have a temporary permitted steel fence post which can be driven in along side the in ground broken off stub then the temporary mailbox with a stub post can be bolted in place until the spring replacement can be done. For this to work the mailbox post is back filled with common 3/8" pea gravel which allows moisture to drain away down into the subsoil.

Always have this spare set up ready to go up. It is not something to be mad or frustrated about. Most times the people stop and apologize and my thoughts are your car took the worst of it.

 

Im sure most people don’t go out in their vehicles and decide to run over mailboxes because they have nothing better to do. If they do hit one accidentally and don’t stop that’s another story.

In the neighborhood I grew up in kids would come by and hit mailboxes with bats. But I know in my neighborhood now that won’t happen because this generation of kids are too lazy to do anything. Especially go outside

 

I'm on a quiet side street in town, not much traffic by my house. But there are always kids, some worse than others. Never fails, around 4th of July, the kids have their little bombs. They like to set them off in mailboxes with the door closed so they can watch the mailbox explode, screwing it up. They tried that in mine, but my box is made out of flexible plastic with doors on the front and back. All is does is pop both doors open. Big woop. They don't bother it anymore, no fun!

 

Lived through both of these out here also, All fun and games until our local Postal Inspector got into the act and the little rascals got caught on camera.

Didn't sit well with their parents having to making restitution and replacing the damaged mailbox posts. Word got out the kids don't even think about it anymore.

 

Sorry about the mailbox troubles. But seeing that Honda 3 wheeler brings back memories from about 45 years ago!

 

The old girl turned 40 this year! she still runs like a sewing machine too.

 

6x6 1/4 inch steel post filled with concrete, and 1/4 inch plate steel mailbox?

 

My last house was on an inside curve. Mailbox got wiped out twice in the first year we lived there and neither of the ba$tards had the courtesy to admit their mistake and pay to fix it. I added a 200 lb boulder as decoration in the flower bed around the mailbox. Amazingly, nobody hit the boulder or mailbox for the next 18 years.