omg, that's my exact mailbox and post! I was tired of people turning around in my driveway and hitting my box. Gotta get clever out here in the boonies.

That's what my dad did! Those kids next tried M80s and nothing! Brilliant! P.S. Parents sold the house 25 years ago and two more owners later, the box is still there!

local community should set up a roster so theres always someone to destroy that familys mailbox everytime the put one up.

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Basically you either are running around or are in a car reaching over with a baseball bat smashing mailboxes.

Something US kids do apparently. Never seen it in movies?

Idiots go around bashing letterboxes for fun. Someone tried doing that to our old letterbox, it was made out of cast iron. They left a boot print and with a sore foot.

When teenagers drive around, usually in more isolated areas and destroy people's mailboxes by hanging out of a moving car and swinging at it with a baseball bat. Stupid vandalism, doubly stupid because the fines for messing with the U.S mail is pretty severe. See the movie Dazed and Confused.

Maybe you saw already in an American movie. A friend drive near to mailbox and the other friend on the passenger side smash all mailbox on the road side with a baseball bat.

Bored and obnoxious kids drive around and someone in the passenger seat smashes the targeted mailbox with a baseball bat as they pass.

This is a game, usually played by teenaged boys. They get into car, drive close to a mailbox which is mounted on a post on the side of the road and take turns slugging mailboxes with a baseball bat as they drive by. Silly and foolish? Yes. And against the law.

when bored kids go riding along rural roads and hit the mail boxes as they are usually at the end of a driveway...

In the united states, the mailboxes are on the passenger side with the driver's side towards the oncoming Lane. The passenger will take a baseball bat and hang out the window while the driver zooms past a mailbox, and the passenger will swing at the mailbox is trying to knock them off their posts.

It's when smart aleck, high ego asshat teens drive along a country road (in USA mail boxes are on the road where the driveway comes out). One leans out the passenger window and swings a baseball bat at a mailbox, hoping to smash it.

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That's a great saying! :)

I guess for you it would be post box cricket

Mailboxes don't exist in the UK (at least, a postbox in the UK is a 6ft structure that anyone can put a letter in but it's for sending mail only, and it doesn't belong to any one specific address). Houses in the UK have slots in their front doors so mail comes right inside your house. We don't have anything similar to what's in the photo.

Kids drive close to the edge of a country road. One on the passenger side hangs 1/2 way out of the window with a baseball bat. The bat is used to hit mailboxes as they drive by. It is very destructive, not to mention illegal.

Wankers driving around and smashing mailboxes with a baseball bat

It's where bratty teens (usually) drive by with one teen sticking their torso out the window with a baseball bat and try to hit/break people's mailboxes when they pass by. I've never seen it personally, but I've heard of it.

Kids in cars (or I guess you could go on foot...) with baseball bats take swings at mailboxes to destroy them/smash them.

When teens take a bat with them while riding around the countryside or even suburbs and they try to knock down the mailboxes with their bats.

In the united states, the mailboxes are on the passenger side with the driver's side towards the oncoming Lane. The passenger will take a baseball bat and hang out the window while the driver zooms past a mailbox, and the passenger will swing at the mailbox is trying to knock them off their posts.

Bored kids go around go around in bash your mailbox w a baseball bat. Isn't America great

Bored and obnoxious kids drive around and someone in the passenger seat smashes the targeted mailbox with a baseball bat as they pass. I heard of one kid where the bat bounced back and broke out the car widow behind him!

See above

kids in a car/truck going down country roads with one hanging out of the passenger window with a baseball bat swinging at mail boxes to vandalize.

That’s ridiculous. It’s not like she told them to drive around smashing mailboxes! That episode of CSI makes me wonder if he would have been punished had he NOT tried to cover up what he did? Honestly, it’s your mailbox, you should be able to do whatever you want with it!

What???

Guarantee that was in USA

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Not necessarily. The concept that your mailbox is Federal Property is kind of an urban legend. You own it, and you can do what you like to it. It's only considered "federal property" so that the Federal Government can prosecute other people that "willfully or maliciously injures, tears down or destroys any letter box or other receptacle intended or used for the receipt or delivery of mail on any mail route, or breaks open the same or willfully or maliciously injures, defaces or destroys any mail deposited therein". (18 U.S. Code § 1705). Without that nuance it would be a simple local/state issue. Now if you do modify your mailbox as shown, you wouldn't get prosecuted, but the USPS could refuse to deliver to it.

How is it the homeowners fault if someone sends them a block of concrete in the mail and they just don't take it out of the mailbox?

Well sh!t... the US don't mess with mail... insane regulation on mail, it's a federal offense to mess with it ... Why not use the same energy on something more important like, i don't know, gun control, human rights, healthcare ?! i'd never understand...

The outside looks USPS approved to me.