Another mail box question

[Link]

Didnt want to ask a question with in ZmOz's post.<br /><br />If the mail box is federal property or it is at least a federal offence to mess with it.<br /><br />How come I had to buy mine! <br />How come when the posts holding it rotted I had to buy the wood, cement and build it myself<br /><br />Shouldnt the post office be doing this?<br /><br />And can I take it with me when I leave?

 

[rwise]

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Hey the city replaced mine 2 years ago! Ok they were doing road work and ran it down. I thought they should have used treated wood as was there. But at least they fixed it.

 

[Twidget]

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Just one of those hidden taxes Link. <br /><br />In my old neighborhood, we had kids running over mailboxes at night. After the first time, I dug the hole about 6 ft in diameter and 2 feet deep, filled with about 3 bags of sackcrete. The next time they ran over mine, I found a car impaled on a big lump of sackcrete.

 

[jtexas]

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way to go, Twidget! Hey, if the mailbox is fed govt property, then any crimes against 'em should fall under the Dept. of Homeland Security, right? Call the FBI!<br /><br />Growing up I lived in a house with a mail slot in the front door - good thing we didn't know that meant our whole house was a mailbox, and therefore US govt property.<br /><br />+++++++++++++<br /><br />To answer your questions, Link:<br /><br />Q. How come I had to buy mine! <br />A. It's not govt property until you designate it as a mailbox.<br /><br />Q. How come when the posts holding it rotted I had to buy the wood, cement and build it myself<br />A. You didn't have to; you could have paid somebody else to do it. <br /><br />Q. Shouldnt the post office be doing this?<br />A. That's a joke, right? Actually they might, if you just give 'em enough time to get around to it.<br /><br />Q. And can I take it with me when I leave?<br />A. If you can get it outta the ground.

 

[RubberFrog]

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I think the mailbox in question was one of those large multi-compartment, metal jobs. Not the little POS we all have at the end of the drive way.

 

[ndemge]

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My brother had a problem with kids driving by and hitting his with a baseball bat.<br /><br />So he bought a BIG box, and a LITTLE box, put the little box inside the big box and filled the 4" gap with concrete and put er on the pole. They couldn't resist this new huge target!<br /><br />He just happened to be sitting on his back deck on night, just after dark and hears a car slow down, hears a DONG, and then the crash of glass breaking.... their bat bounced off and broke the back window of their car out.<br /><br />15 years later, the new owners of that house still have the same box