made this many years ago.  cedar with exterior spar urethane.  copper cap that i made too.  it's hollow, so it fits over a sunk 4x4, few screws at bottom keep the kids from stealing it at night.  black paint for the routed numbers.

Very Nice!!

Nice Mailbox. Really like the copper top.

Nice Mailbox.  You really get your bills in style.  Is there a place for the newspaper?

5 minutes ago, HandyDan said:

Nice Mailbox.  You really get your bills in style.  Is there a place for the newspaper?

 

the newspaper guy would just toss it on the ground, even when we had a newspaper box, so we just got rid of that and cleaned up the design.  now....i just read the internet in the morning, no more newspaper.

Best mail box post I've seen in a while and I also like the top.

 

47 minutes ago, Ralph Allen Jones said:

Best mail box post I've seen in a while and I also like the top.

 

Agreed and let's go ''borrow'' it Ralph...

Nice~!!   You should see mine.  It's an old large farm style box that is crooked,  listing off to the side, been remounted several times thanks to the plows, rusty all over, handle replaced by a plastic wheel sawn in half. It's  been there better than thirty years.

 

 

4 hours ago, DAB said:

 

the newspaper guy would just toss it on the ground, even when we had a newspaper box, so we just got rid of that and cleaned up the design.  now....i just read the internet in the morning, no more newspaper.

The neighbor's box got knocked over and was laying on the ground for over a week and the dedicated postman would get out of his jeep and bend down and put the mail in the box with it laying on the ground.  I found it amusing but was awed by the postman.  They seem to get a bad rap but this one was dedicated.

1 hour ago, HandyDan said:

The neighbor's box got knocked over and was laying on the ground for over a week and the dedicated postman would get out of his jeep and bend down and put the mail in the box with it laying on the ground.  I found it amusing but was awed by the postman.  They seem to get a bad rap but this one was dedicated.

Generally, they are great.

 

Then you have the ones that they just busted in So. Cal. Took down 33 in an ongoing investigation. One had over 48,000 pieces of undelivered mail at her house, one got busted from stealing drugs from the VA being mailed to vets, another intercepted 133 cell phones.

 

...and you wonder why your mail doesn't make it!

How did you build this what are the dimensions can you please share the plan?

 

15 hours ago, HandyDan said:

The neighbor's box got knocked over and was laying on the ground for over a week and the dedicated postman would get out of his jeep and bend down and put the mail in the box with it laying on the ground.  I found it amusing but was awed by the postman.  They seem to get a bad rap but this one was dedicated.

Then you have to ones that if the box is not "just right", they will not deliver mail to it and won't tell you that either.

48 minutes ago, Michael Thuman said:

How did you build this what are the dimensions can you please share the plan?

 

 

no plans, just invented from my imagination.  if i recall, the PO specs call for the box to be 42" above the street level, and i think i designed the post to be the length of the mailbox above the top of the mailbox.  post fits over a 4x4 (it's hollow), so with those constraints, you can work out the exact dimensions.

 

it's cedar with spar urethane finish.  the pieces are fit together with biscuits and titebond 3 glue.

Edited August 29, 20169 yr by DAB

1 hour ago, Chips N Dust said:

Then you have to ones that if the box is not "just right", they will not deliver mail to it and won't tell you that either.

I used to shovel a path from the neighbors drive across my moms yard for the mailman because her mail was delivered to the door.  There was ice on her porch once and he refused to deliver the mail because of it.  Guess who had to walk down the neighbors drive, down the street and up my mom's drive and onto the salted porch to deliver the mail.  Bet he had a "what was I thinking" moment that day.