mailbox support

11-11-2012, 06:40 PM	#1
gt1935 Newbie   Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 25	mailbox support Want to install a 4"x4" treated post into one of the setting concrete mixes to put a mailbox on it. Read numerous how to's to set the post and most of them set the post in concrete. In the diy central section it mentions setting a post in concrete and if someone hits it they may be liable.

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11-11-2012, 08:05 PM	#2
spotco2 Member   Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 30	mailbox support If you are asking if you would be liable if someone hits it, then no. It will not do any more damage if it is set in concrete than if it was not. If someone hits it, the post is going to break. The concrete keeps the post from becoming loose in the ground over time.

11-12-2012, 11:48 AM	#3
Mort World's Tallest Midget     Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Twisp, WA Posts: 468	mailbox support Maybe what you're thinking of is when people have their mailboxes repeatedly hit, so they fill a dummy box up with concrete to mess with the vandals? Setting the post in concrete is the proper way to do it.

11-13-2012, 06:25 PM	#4
Evstarr Member   Join Date: Nov 2011 Posts: 513	mailbox support I'd fill it with explosives if they kept taking it out....