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Posted by larry on April 13, 2008, 2:40 pm
TD wrote:
> letterman@invalid.com wrote in
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>>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
>>
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> Another long story.
a lot better than the two liners that don't give enough
detail to thoughtfully answer the question.
but you can always look at the line count, if it's over 4
lines skip over it
i thought that would have been obvious.
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