Thanks to Colby for tweeting the photo and tip – the drive-up/ride-up mailbox outside the Westwood Village post office is out of service again. This is less than four months after the last time it was damaged and removed; that time, it was back after less than a month, but some previous damage-related removals have lasted a lot longer.
Geez that’s awful! I just dropped off mail in that box late last night, hopefully it still gets mailed out. Awful that someone damaged it again, how frustrating. Can’t they just take dents out of box and still use? Still looks in decent condition from photo.
Met Market in Admiral recently installed (more) big pillars to keep drivers/vehicles from going directly into the alley/crosswalk. I actually misjudged my back-up one night years ago and dented my car, brushing past one of them.Wouldn’t this be a simple fix to have concrete-filled pillars around these mail boxes?Where and how are these guys getting their DL’s???😕
I think they will still find a way to damage the box itself. Maybe make the box out of 1″ armor plate also.
Yep – they need to install the WWV drive up mailbox just like the one at the Burien post office. It has a couple of those giant yellow posts in front of it but the mailbox is behind a fence!
Poor thing is even in that “OOOMPH!” took a punch to the gut pose… —Mike
Said it before – A nice steel pipe/concrete bollard installed on the NW corner of the mailbox pad would prevent this from ever happening again.
If this is due to people driving into it, couldn’t they put up some concrete barrier around it to protect it?Sigh. This is why we can’t have nice things.
Some people shouldn’t be allowed to drive. That could easily have been a pedestrian.
Pedestrians are typically not human piñatas filled with mail that someone wants to steal.
Wonder if they’ll fix the giant pothole that you had to drive into to mail things.
Perhaps it was a bicycle rider that swerved off the sidewalk. Bikes are the real problem in West Seattle as many commenters have already observed elsewhere in the blog.
A perfect example of why I don’t send anything in the mail anymore.
I said this before (California PO) so many times, I ‘m tired of it. Why don’t they install Steel Bollards around the boxes. They WILL get hit. Better a stout bollard than the box. What is the problem???????? This is such a no brainer. Here, let me help.GRAINGER APPROVED 42 in Fixed Carbon Steel Bollard with 4 1/2 in Outside Dia., Safety Yellow – 1GUD6|1GUD6 – Grainger
It’s more than likely someone ramming it to try and steal the mail instead of having to have to drive neighborhood to neighborhood to steal.What they should do is have a drive up window-slot on the building where you just toss your mail into it.
I was wondering that too. Probably one of those stolen pickup trucks we always read about now has a big dent in the bumper.
Based on the VERY large picture at the top of the article, this does not look to fit your narrative against people living in or below poverty. Honestly, I’m surprised it too so long for a WS resident to make such a silly fear mongering comment.
Cars don’t dent mailboxes, people do. The only thing that will stop a bad guy with a car, is a good guy with a car.
Instead of being required to back around a corner for your field drivers test, lets eliminate that procedure and make it a requirement to pull up to a post office mailbox without hitting it! All agreed say “I”.
In a city where winters are so gray and rainy and most people don’t know how to use their daylight running lights -especially Prius drivers- it doesn’t surprise me that they don’t know how to drive either, so they keep knocking the mailbox constantly.
mailbox in crisis, call 911.,,,….no worries, I’m sure it will be replaced quickly. LOL
Wonder if this is related to the severely damaged white car in front of Target on Barton street?MISW is spot on, bollards are needed.
Has anyone given serious thought to this mail box being cursed? Also, bollards, install some bollards.
Maybe if/when they install a barrier, they could fill the axle-busting pothole directly in front of the box. It’s been there for months.
Maybe doing nothing to protect the PO box is part of the “cost savings” that Postmaster General and Chief Executive Officer, Louis DeJoy, has been promoting for the U.S. Postal Service?
It happened during the Obama administration to the Westwood drive up box and to the drive up box on California. Someone even drove into the Westwood PO building. This is not a Trump administration thing.
In the mean time, you can put outgoing mail in any locked cluster mailbox in your hood. They all have a spot for outgoing mail. If you look on your neighborhood walks, you will soon those locked cluster boxes are all over the place.
I’m guessing it was not a bicycle or pedestrian that caused this level of damage? Here again we see the remarkable costs that automobiles place on our society in ways some can hardly comprehend.
How about we put the replacement mailbox in front of the police station instead?
At least it wasn’t set on fire this time. Although who knows how long it’ll take to replace it. I think it’s really a shame especially with the age of this post office if it wasn’t damaged / destroyed so many times we could potentially have a box out there dating back quite a ways
I went to this box Sun, Dec 12 to drop my bill payments. It was chock full in the drive through slot, so I didn’t drop my mail. I’m guessing this was intentional to get the box open and steal the mail. When I went back Dec 14 (later than this pic) the unloading door was sprung open, so I assume they got all the mail.Now I’ll only drop my bill payments inside.
sure seems like a simple back up into box situation…are the handicapped spaces still directly in line with the box?
The door was closed when I took the picture…actually jammed shut. So I am assuming Postal workers had to pry it open to get the mail out, and could not shut it again because of the damage.
Well shoot…had planned on going there today to drop of Christmas cards. Our mailbox on 63rd SW on Alki Point disappeared again…for I think the third time…without any notice. Anyone know the story? I doubt we’ll ever see it again. :-(
It hasn’t come back since last disappearance. USPS refuses to answer inquiried. If it had been a permanent removal, it should have been posted ahead of time, per USPS policy.
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