Anybody built one they care to share?

Well casing and concrete.

Now days with lawyers out to make a buck probably better off with a cheap plastic box on wood post.

You can always do the well casing like Rancho suggested and weld into an old truck rim. Heavy as hell but still 'moveable' upon impact.

Non factor.

Thinking something like these....

Where does a guy have to stand in line to get a "postman" like THAT one?

Mine is 3'x3' brick. Looks like a big chimney.

heavy mail boxes here are illegal, at least to the point the PO won't deliver.. too much vehicle/person damage if hit...

Don't agree at all, but what options...

Mine would up end a UPS truck.

Years ago a guy I knew got tired of kids knocking down his rural mailbox so he rebuild the post out of an old railroad rail in cement. A few days later a kid came to the door asking to use his phone to call his dad. His pickup was down by the road with the radiator caved in.

I know! You see the size of the guns on that gal?

We had a problem with ours getting smashed by vandals, apparently with baseball bats, years ago at one plant. The mechanics built a new one out of 3/16" spring steel, reinforced with 3/4" square spring steel bars. I would have loved to have a video of the first time they whacked it with a bat

We did the same but sized it so that it would fit inside one of the large rural mail boxes. One night, it had about a 1/2" dimple in the top middle and after that - no more problems. We finally went to a heavy duty, locking mail box after mail was stolen out of a number of nearby boxes.

Similar situation, back in my high school days we had certain teacher who defined the word P.R.I.C.K. to the extreme!
He lived in the country and as you can well imagine his mail box was considered a target of opportunity for nearly every student he screwed over. Bricks, cinder blocks, even bowling balls were launched from vehicles driving by a pretty good clip.
He ended up having a box built from 1/4 plate similarly to the description above, after that the projectiles I mentioned only scuffed the paint.

(Honest Injun, I was not one of the perps) but I did witness the aftermath a time or two when the word got out.

Our postal carriers or highway department ripped out all the hardcore mail boxes on our rural farm route and put in aluminum boxes on tiny poles b/c I gather they were worried about them basically being lethal boobie traps. It's hard to feel much sympathy for assmonkeys who get what they deserve though for trying to vandalize your property. Most of them are just drunk white trash who need an expensive lesson. You know the type - poachers, trespassers, and low-lifes who run hog dogs across your property.

This one is pretty cool looking

Hope they removed all trees, power poles, fences etc.

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 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

Here you go.






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!

That my cyber-friend is awesome.

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.

Hope he paid for a new mail box on a rail road tie.

IIRC,it wasn't damaged in the least

kinda like an earthquake proof building...

Hah! Nice.

I have seen this, let 'em try and beat that one down.