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The two steel, concrete filled pipes is your best bet. A brick retaining wall will require constant maintenance.
I have mail thru the door. My problem is lazy carriers putting mail in the slot and not pusing it thru, resulting I a huge hole in the door for heat to escape and frigid air in. If I am lucky, I will be home and catch it early, but there have been instances I have been gone until late, or even overnight. Calls to USPS management have had so- so results.
This is what I was thinking. If you could make your box shorter than the other boxes, theirs would get hit instead of yours?
They can’t be too short, one of my tenants got a note from the mail carrier one time that read “mailbox is too low, please raise to the required height”.... I don’t remember how many inches it said it had to be.
Mine was run into, run over. It's better now. Just tire tread mark along the edge of our front grass where it meets the road, a continuous scrape in the concrete (what's causing that?).
But often the front flap of the mailbox is closed so the mail is not too wet.
Get a video. Ask the carrier politely to stop. Get another video. Go see the postmaster (not a random clerk) at your post office, show them the videos, and hand them a written complaint. If it still doesn't stop, send the video to your local television station and put it online.
Half of the suggestions you're getting aren't in compliance with USPS regulations and they'll likely hassle you about it and stop delivering your mail. Organization Information
The other half (giant bollards) likely aren't in compliance with your town and/or city highway ordinances and are going to interfere with snow removal.
Half of the suggestions you're getting aren't in compliance with USPS regulations and they'll likely hassle you about it and stop delivering your mail. Organization Information
The other half (giant bollards) likely aren't in compliance with your town and/or city highway ordinances and are going to interfere with snow removal.
Clearly, what is happening now will continue to happen. Have you talked with the other folks in your group? Or is she only banging into yours?
There are regulation boxes that don't have that hook. You could change your boxes to that. Of course, they are more expensive, but it might save money in the long run.
The bollards filled w/concrete would work, and put the onus on her. But in fairness, the current situation is obviously not making it easy for her, and I've always found that the best solutions to problems like this is to make things easy for everyone involved. After all, she probably doesn't bang up every mailbox on her route, there's something about the alignment/placement of yours that is conducive to her banging into it.
Of course, she could park nearby and just get out and place the mail in the individual boxes to avoid doing all that vehicular huckabucking. But obviously that hasn't occurred to her.
Except that when served by a motor carrier it's the homeowner's responsibility to make sure the carrier can deliver the mail without leaving the vehicle.
Except that when served by a motor carrier it's the homeowner's responsibility to make sure the carrier can deliver the mail without leaving the vehicle.
That sounds like the builder's responsibility to me.
I just saw a video on postal-report.com about someone who finally got resolution for her terrible mail carrier. Lots of problems unresolved until she was able to catch him in the act throwing an expensive book delivery on the ground under her mailbox. She video taped it and put it on fb. That brought lots of comments and action and her PO mgr came to apologize.
This is what I was thinking. If you could make your box shorter than the other boxes, theirs would get hit instead of yours?
Your main problem is that it's not always the same driver, so I don't know if complaining would do much good. Since more than one driver are hitting it, it sounds like it's just in a bad spot.
This one looked interesting. Says it's indestructible. It's just filled with sand and is free-standing, so if it got knocked over, you could just put it back in place.
Yes - I have a "plastic" mailbox in a somewhat sleeker more modern style and it has stood up beautifully to weather as well as various assaults by snow plows and mail deliverers - for more than 15 years!
Beyond that, there are regulations about how high the mailbox has to sit and how close to the road/curb - perhaps the OP's is out of alignment.
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