[Shop-talk] Mounting a mailbox to the side of a round post?

[John Innis]

In this scenario I think I would just use a right angle bracket on the
bottom of the plate and a couple u-bolts to attach the right angle plate to
the post.  Not super fancy, but it would get the job done.

On Fri, Apr 10, 2026 at 7:23 AM Jim Franklin <jamesf at groupwbench.org> wrote:

> My carrier has requested I move my mailbox to a place he doesn't have to
> hike to and I would like to help him out. I have a survey post that's very
> much like a chain link fence post with the cap removed. It's on the
> property line so I don't want to top-mount a mailbox. I haven't found
> anything in my searches that will let me do this without hacking it so much
> it looks super sketchy. Are there any mailboxes, or adapters, that will let
> me do this? I'm thinking a standard rural mailbox that sits on a plate, and
> the plate has a recess to slip over the top of the post, just offset so the
> mailbox is on my side. I could imagine there's a 2-mailbox plate that
> centers itself over the post, and I'd just cut off one of the plates.
>
> thanks,
> jim
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