How to Protect Your Mailbox From Snow Plow Trucks

Ahh... winter - designated as 'mailbox season' for climates blessed with snow. Every year, mailboxes are taken out by county plow trucks. The county is not liable to replace your mailbox when they damage or destroy it while plowing snow. Given the fact mailboxes are so expensive - and near impossible to put back up in the dead of winter - it's in your best interest to protect your mailboxes from falling victim to the snow plows.

Instructions

1. Keep the area directly surrounding your mailbox cleared of snow at all times, especially to the side and behind your mailbox. Allow for a few feet in each direction. This will allow the snow being forced towards your mailbox a place to go other than building up on your mailbox. Your mail carrier will also appreciate the extra effort.

2. Ensure your mailbox post is secure as part of your fall maintenance routine. Use good, solid material for your post. Hire a brick layer to build an attractive brick base for your mailbox. That would be a secure method of protecting your mailbox. If you use a post, ensure that you sink it down into the earth a minimum of 18" for added strength.

3. Place an orange flag on a post or stick a good deal higher than your mailbox and place it behind your mailbox as a visual marker the snow plow truck driver can see more easily.

Tips & Warnings

• Never place items that would be intentionally damaging to a plow truck should they accidentally hit your mailbox such as short metal posts I see all to often. Despite popular belief, they aren't hitting them on purpose and it's the taxpayers (ie YOU) money that has to pay to replace or repair damaged plows.

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