"There's really nothing you can do," Lynch said. The U.S. Postal Service asks that roadside mailboxes be 36 to 42 inches off of the ground and 8 to 12 inches behind the shoulder or the curb.

Q–We are moving to a rural home and would like to put up a roadside mailbox. How deep should the post hole be and should there be gravel at the bottom of the hole? A–For solid support ...

That method is the most expensive and least safe, Shaw said. Freestanding roadside mailboxes boost a mail carrier's route to between 450 and 650 stops a day, he said, while a centralized system ...

Richard Vreeland thought he’d finally found a way to beat the plow truck. Tired of having his roadside mailbox knocked down by snow pushed off his road by PennDOT plows, Vreeland bolted the box ...

The deadline for residents in Belleve Vernon to have roadside mailboxes installed at their homes has been pushed back."I just explained that 30 days is not enough time for these older folks to ...

MEDINA, Ohio -- There are about 40 mailbox enclosures along Medina County's 329 miles of roadway that violate county and federal safety regulations, but the county engineers office won't be ...

Any resident who has erected a brick roadside mailbox will be required to sign an indemnity agreement that would lessen the village’s liability should a snowplow accidentally damage the mailbox ...

Dowdy says the issue he has is that he recently bought and installed an official roadside mailbox that even says the US Postmaster General approved it. He says most packages he receives will fit ...