Are there guidelines for the proper installation of mailboxes and newspaper delivery boxes?
Each year, 70 to 100 people are killed in accidents involving rural mailboxes. Many accident victims that are not killed are often blinded and disfigured for life because mailboxes and their supports penetrate the windshield and hit the victim in the face. Mailbox owners are limited only by their imagination. Steel tractor wheels, water pumps, milk cans filled with concrete, chains and massive I-beams are a few devices used to support mailboxes. Although such supports may be artistic to some, most are serious roadside hazards to motorists. The use of massive rigid mailbox supports such as bricks around the mailbox, heavy metal posts, concrete posts and items of farm equipment, such as milk cans filled with concrete must not be used. In Florida, uniform minimum standards and criteria for the design construction and maintenance of all public streets, is presented in the “Manual of Uniform Minimum Standards for Design, Construction and Maintenance for Streets and Highways.” This publicati
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