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When I was in high school, there was a group of guys (of which I was NOT a part) that made busting up mailboxes a summer activity. The owners finally went to purchasing the large rural mailboxes, setting a standard mailbox inside and pouring concrete around the smaller box and mounting them on 6x6 posts. That fixed the problem after a couple of broken wrists happened to some of the football players...
Selmer "Daddy, can you sometime maybe please go shoot a water buffalo so we can have that for supper? Please? And can I come along? Does it taste like deer?" - my 3-year old daughter 
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I built mine out of a small portable air tank mounted to 3" pipe……and a front coil spring from a Pinto. There is a section of 3" pipe cemented into the ground, the coil spring is welded to the top of that, the mailbox is welded to another section of 3" pipe which is welded to the top of the coil spring. The result is perfectly legal. Lots of mailboxes on my road have been the victim of drive by baseball bats……strangely, mine has never been damaged. 
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I built mine out of a small portable air tank mounted to 3" pipe……and a front coil spring from a Pinto. There is a section of 3" pipe cemented into the ground, the coil spring is welded to the top of that, the mailbox is welded to another section of 3" pipe which is welded to the top of the coil spring. The result is perfectly legal. Lots of mailboxes on my road have been the victim of drive by baseball bats……strangely, mine has never been damaged. Pics please
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Here you go. ![[Linked Image]](http://i857.photobucket.com/albums/ab140/cfcsearch/unnamed_zpslgm37fmo.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](http://i857.photobucket.com/albums/ab140/cfcsearch/unnamed_zpsqfikeq57.jpg) I think I posted that this is 3" pipe, I think it's actually 4". Pity the fool that hits it with a bat!! This mailbox hits back!
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That my cyber-friend is awesome.
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I had a friend ,back in the day,fell asleep driving his day old f150,crossed the road,hit a mailbox mounted on a railroad tie, on the drivers side.
another six inches and he probably would have died
As it was,it took off the entire side of the truck.
totaled,one day old.
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Hope he paid for a new mail box on a rail road tie.
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Hope he paid for a new mail box on a rail road tie. IIRC,it wasn't damaged in the least
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kinda like an earthquake proof building...
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“Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.”
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When I was in high school, there was a group of guys (of which I was NOT a part) that made busting up mailboxes a summer activity. The owners finally went to purchasing the large rural mailboxes, setting a standard mailbox inside and pouring concrete around the smaller box and mounting them on 6x6 posts. That fixed the problem after a couple of broken wrists happened to some of the football players... I have seen this, let 'em try and beat that one down.
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