To continue this thread diversion:
At the last place I lived before buying this little farm, we had to have our mailboxes encased in an approximately 2 foot by 2 foot by 5 foot high brick enclosure. Most were just hollow shells, broken to bits by the first car that hit them. I filled mine with a mixture of wet concrete and broken bricks. When it first got hit (by a city truck backing too fast) it was just knocked over. The city guy had a backhoe come and set it back upright. No damage that time but some chipped bricks. The next time it got knocked over (by a speeding car that was heavily damaged), I had to put a few rows of new bricks on the top, but never any damage to the mailbox itself. If I had poured a two or three foot deep pad and used several 1" rebars up into the structure, it might have never been knocked over, but it was just sitting on a flat concrete base.
I give thanks every day that we no longer live in a subdivision in a college town. Nearly every mailbox on our block and the next block over was knocked over at least once in the 15 plus years I lived there. It was almost always a mixture of college boys and alcohol. Such brick mailboxes should have never been required, as they were a waste of money and resources. A simple T post would have sufficed.
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