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Posted by S. Barker on April 14, 2008, 11:21 am
ya right. _I'M_ liable, cause HE can't drive??? Not likely.
s
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>> letterman@invalid.com wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone know what the height is supposed to be for a rural
>>> mailbox? I live on a rural gravel road and there is a deep ditch next
>>> to the road. I originally put a wooden post right on the edge of the
>>> road, but in summer the box just falls over after heavy rains because
>>> the edge of the road to ditch is so steep that there is nothing to
>>> really dig in to, unless I put the post hole about 6 feet deep.
>>> Besides that, the box is actually hanging over the road, and more than
>>> once a car has hit it. In the winter, the snow plows have broken off
>>> the post several times, and that just happened this past winter again.
>>> I drove a steel t-post next to the wooden post and wired it on, but it
>>> rained hard the other day and I found the mailbox in the ditch again.
>>>
>>> I'm completely fed up with fixing that damn thing about 5 times a
>>> year, which means I have now fixed it around 40 times since I moved
>>> here 8 years ago.
>>>
>>> I just took an 8 foot piece of 2" steel pipe and welded a shelf on
>>> top, that sticks out 3 feet past the post. This way I can put the
>>> post down at the bottom of the ditch, and the mailbox will not
>>> overhang the road. This seems like a more sensible method and it's
>>> unlikely the plow will hit it. The only problem is that after I
>>> installed it, the mailbox is only about 40" above the road level. It
>>> looks low compared to neighbors boxes or what my old wooden post was.
>>> I'm only in the ground about 16" so I cant raise it any more.
>>>
>>> Is there some measurement that the post office requires?
>>>
>>> If it's too low, I'll have to either weld on more pipe at the bottom,
>>> or maybe get a larger pipe and make a sleeve. I plan to put concrete
>>> around the post, but until I know the acceptable height limits I am
>>> not going to do that. Right now I just packed some rocks around the
>>> post in the hole, so I can get my mail. (Its too cold to make
>>> concrete anyhow). And I suppose if I make a sleeve, the post and
>>> mailbox will rotate when it gets windy.
>>>
>>> Another thought is to put some old tires around the post and fill them
>>> with concrete, which so far seems to be the best idea I can come up
>>> with, and then I could raise the post in the ground.
>>>
>>> It's just a bad place to put a mailbox. On the other side of the road
>>> it would be easy since there is no deep ditch, but the P.O. said they
>>> wont deliver on that side.
>>>
>>> Anyone have ideas?
>>>
>>> thanks
>>
>> I had an idea. I searched the web and found this in about ten seconds:
>>
>>
>> "The distance from the bottom lip of the mailbox to the curb, or street
>> is a minimum of 42 inches and a maximum of 48 inches. The front of the
>> box should be 6 - 9 inches from the curb."
>>
>> I'd treat your post hole like a well. One deep one is better than forty
>> shallow ones. Dig the damn six foot deep hole, and put in a four inch
>> diameter pipe set in a couple of bags of concrete. Put a large orange
>> flag on it that sticks up about three feet above your highest expected
>> snow drift.
>
> If your design isn't break-away and the snow plow truck hits and damages
> the truck or someone slides into it with a car and gets hurt, you may be
> liable, depending on the laws of your state.
>
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