Rural mailboxes are usually mounted on vertical wooden posts, which are subjected to deterioration through decay or termite attack. Also, the typical square or round wooden mailbox post can be loosened and lifted out of the ground by pranksters—much to the irritation and inconvenience of the mailbox owner and mail delivery personnel.
An elongated plastic ground mount post is provided for supporting a mailbox. The post has a substantially square cross section and a lower portion with scalloped corners forming notches, which are filled with earth or gravel when installed. By tamping the soil and/or gravel of the earth around the post upon installation, the packed earth in the area of the notches affords considerable resistance to any attempt to remove the post. By forming the post of a suitable strong plastic, deterioration of the post is avoided and a strong installation is provided which resists accidental or vandal like destruction.
The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:
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A four corners of the lower portion 36 of the post 11 have a plurality of vertically spaced indentations or notches 41 which form recesses extending slightly more than one third of the way into the sides 16, 17, 18, 19. The notches 41 form pockets for soil or gravel tamped or packed around the post 11 installed in the hole 37 in the ground 42, thus providing resistance to removal of the post 11. The upper portion 51 of the post 11 is releasably secured to the hollow post receiving support column 31 of the plastic mailbox 12 by suitable fasteners such as screws 52.
The plastic ground mount post 11 is suitable for mounting a plastic mailbox of the type having a hollow support column such as shown in
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