Mailbox Vandalism Rant

[cracked butt]

For mailbox baseball. Buy the largest mailbox you can find. Buy the smallest mailbox you can find. Center the small mailbox in the large mailbox and pour the space in between full of cement. Mount it on a normal pole so nothing looks suspicious. Again, video surveillance would be fun.

Someone in my state did just that a couple of years ago because their mailbox kept getting destroyed. Shortly after reinforcing it, a couple of punks drove up in a beat up pickup truck, put a homemade exposive in the mailbox, and found that their truck stalled. The driver could not get the truck started in time, and suprise, he and his passenger took the brunt of the explosion, killing both.

The only unfortunate thing to come out of this was that the homeowner was sued by the families of the two punks that died. I can't remember if there was any money awarded or who won the lawsuit, but nevertheless, the homeowner spent alot of money defending himself in court :banghead:

 

[einnor1040]

The only unfortunate thing to come out of this was that the homeowner was sued by the families of the two punks that died. I can't remember if there was any money awarded or who won the lawsuit, but nevertheless, the homeowner spent alot of money defending himself in court

Sued for what? It's sad they were killed but they initiated it by being a dumbass. It wasn't the homeowners fault. I hope that case went to judge that had some sense and thru it out of court about 2 seconds after it hit his desk.


Sorry to here that Glockten. That sucks.

 

[Carlos Cabeza]

It really floors me to think that this is the only form of entertainment some kids can come up with ............................. LOSERS !

 

[XLMiguel]

Umm, I believe it's the Postal Inspectors one needs to call re: Mailbox vandalism, not the FBI. A quick call to you local Postmaster should get the ball rolling. Good luck, have fun, get even

 

[bogie]

I was a bad person when I was a kid... We used to take those "pull the string and it goes bang" fire crackers, and tie 'em to our mailbox, and then sit up in a tree above it when the mailman set it off...

 

[LawDog]

The guys-n-gals you want are the United States Postal Inspection Service.

They're liable to take the destruction of US mail kind of personal-like.

The ones I've dealt with have been genuinely nice people.

Heh.

Waa-aay out north of town we had a big old house that a couple from Dallas used as a vacation/occasional weekend house. This house was up on the cap-rock on a slight rise above a canyon - which meant that even with the lights off an S.O. cruiser could be spotted about a week before getting to the house.

After much cogitating, the High Sheriff decided that we would put the house under video surveillance.

Gawd. Do you know how much stuff is required to tape/record/store video information? And none of it waterproof.

After further pondering, the Sheriff went to Lowe's and bought a bloody huge hideously green poly-something-or-other mailbox.

Voila! The video camera, processor, VCR and wiring fit into the mailbox with a gnat's whisker of extra room -- and the whole thing was waterproof!

We pulled the old mail box, put in the new, improved Mailbox, Mk1.

That very evening, one bored young honyock and three of his buddies spread 4 digits worth of the County's money across the landscape with the aid of a Ford F-150 and an aluminum baseball bat. :banghead:

LawDog

 

[Phyphor]

**** Lawdog,

Ok, I KNOW that's not supposed to be funny, but I can't help but laugh at it....

 

[mrtgbnkr]

A neighbor growing up got tired of some punks running over his mailbox about every 2 weeks...so he dug a nice deep hole and sunk half of a railroad tie in the ground, half above ground, and mounted his new mailbox. Two nights later, the crash could be heard all over the neighborhood...that mailbox is still there!

 

[rtpzwms]

I went through this a few years back with kids playing mailbox baseball. I found out a few things. Call the postmaster and report it is important but will most likely see no real tangible results. In my case I was the last mailbox in the gang of mailboxes. This was a rural mail delivery by definition in their regulations.

You can MOVE your mailbox as long as:
1 you do not change the delivery order (I was the last mailbox)
2 you do not change the side of street for delivery (I lived on the same side as the gang box location)
3 you install your new mailbox at proper height and distance from the curb
4 USPS did not supply the mailbox in question

They had a 800 # to call the USPS to ask questions. I called and documented the phone call asking permission to move the mail box. I received a verbal OK to the move the box to the front of my home.

I constructed the Mailbox form he!! to stop mailbox baseball. Concrete 2 feet into the ground then 16" square block with re-bar on the outside of the block then covered the whole thing in brick. I inserted a locking mailbox in it and capped the whole thing with 2 pieces of rosa stone and a light. It was the nicest looking mailbox in the small town.

Then came the mail carrier who told me that she would NEVER deliver to my new mailbox. Another call to the local postmaster and a conversation about my phone call with USPS and the notes that I had on the phone call and that afternoon... NEVER happened. My postal carrier was none to happy but she got over it with time.

End result I had a great mail box and it was in a great location. The kids continued to play mailbox baseball but not with my mail box.

 

[Sam1911]

Seven years ago, when this thread was active, THR was very new and certain norms had not yet been established, tested, and inscribed in stone.

Over the many intervening years, THR.org's mission has narrowed to be firmly focused on guns, shooting, self-defense, and RKBA. Mailboxes are off-topic.