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Outdoor Recreation - Mailboxes

About Mailboxes

Introduction

Mailboxes are essential for all residential homes. In recent times, mailboxes have evolved to be attractive and unique features of a front garden. Mailboxes can easily be incorporated into your landscape and decorated by plants, flowers and pebbles.

Mailboxes can be matched to the design of your home. Especially when building a new home, a mailbox can be constructed in the same design and materials as the house to form unity and elegance in the front landscape. There is an endless array of trendy and stylish designs to compliment any residential home. Custom designs can be manufactured if you don’t find a design to suit your home.

The Origin of Mailboxes

Mailboxes were originally designed to reduce the need for the mail carrier to walk to the front door to deliver mail when the distance from the street is excessive in rural areas in the United States. Mailboxes have now become a necessity for every home. Mailboxes are mounted on convenient posts on property boundaries. Mailboxes are especially useful for apartment buildings to separate the resident’s mail.

What Makes a Good Mailbox?

There are distinctive features of a good Mailbox that will sufficiently protect your mail and will last a long time. A good Mailbox will have the following features so look out for these when selecting a Mailbox for your front yard:

• Manufactured in high quality durable materials that will withstand all weather conditions from the harsh sun to the excessive rain
• Front and back opening models to allow easy access for the mail deliverer and for the resident to collect the mail from either side
• Key locking system providing security so your mail is kept safe and secure
• Able to accommodate the capacity for magazines, and larger letters so your mail does not get creased or wet.
• An added bonus of a separate newspaper holder
• Some mailboxes are fitted with a semaphore arm that indicates to the mailman that there is outgoing mail to collect.

Self-Installation of a Mailbox

Installation of a Mailbox should be very easy. There is no need for a tradesman to install it for you. Simply dig a hole to the desired size, depending on the shape of the mailbox. Be sure to put the mailbox in to test the deepness of the hole. Empty two bags of pre-mixed concrete into the hole and position the mailbox to suit. Hold into position with either poles or wooden planks until dry. When purchasing a mailbox, choose one that has all the pre-determined holes and screws so no manufacturing is required. Simply put it together and install.

Benefits of a Quality Mailbox

A quality casing will provide your mailbox with a unique identity A durable and weather resistant casing ensures a clean and fresh look for years A UV triple coat will protect the finish of the mailbox and prevent fading Even after long periods spent away from home, your mail will be completely safe and well contained in the spacious cavity

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