Mail Boss 7108 Security, Bronze Curbside Locking Mailbox

Load image into Gallery viewer, Mail Boss 7108 Security, Bronze Curbside Locking Mailbox

Mail Boss

Mail Boss 7108 Security, Bronze Curbside Locking Mailbox

Regular price: €555,00
Sale price: €555,00
Regular price: ~~€916,00~~
Unit price: per

Save 39% (€361,00)

Tracked Shipping on All Orders
14 Days Returns

Description

Large capacity USPS approved high security locking curbside mailbox made of 12- and 14-gauge electrogalvanized steel for strength and durability
Patented anti-pry latch locking mechanism and 12-wafer disc lock to prevent leveraged entry
Patented Fast-Trak Mounting Plate for easy installation on existing posts in minutes
Stainless steel hinges and powder-coated finish for optimum weather resistance
Includes 3 keys, reflective house numbers, 4 lag bolts and drill bit for installation. Locking access door with commercial grade high security wafer lock.

Shipping and Returns

We offer tracked shipping on all orders. Tracking information will be shared as soon as the order is dispatched.
Please check the delivery estimate before adding a product to the cart. This is displayed for every product on the website.
Available shipping methods and charges will be displayed at the time of checkout, depending on your exact location.
All customers are entitled to a return window of 14 days, starting from the date of delivery of the product(s).
Customers are advised to read our return policy for details of the return process, eligibility, refunds as well as cancellations or exchanges.
In case of any issues or concerns about Shipping or Returns, please contact us and we will be happy to help.

Customer Reviews

First Mail Boss Box Defective. Second Mailbox Arrived Chipped But it's the Security that Counts I bought this top-of-the-line Mail Boss after my roadside box was broken into (lock cut off, box pried open). I read reviews of many "secure" mailboxes nonetheless pried open. This model is no exception none of them that I know of are. That said, there is no higher-gauge (pry-resistant) box on the market that I know of so it was this product or something even less sturdy.True to the description, this is a monster box in terms of heft (some ~40lbs). That said, its size does not make it accommodating to anything but a checkbook-size package. (This limitation appears to be by necessity to ensure no opening is large enough to fit a hand through with ease.)True to some of the criticisms in the reviews, the first mailbox arrived with a faulty lock. Just two of the three-supplied keys turned successfully. On the third key, the lock jammed and refused to operate thereafter. Fortunately, the defect presented during testing before the trouble it took to install it.Amazon promptly delivered a replacement Mail Boss box for which the lock thus far in about six weeks of use appears to be without problem. Unfortunately, the replacement box arrived with a chip in the painted finish right down to the bare metal on the upper left corner. Not wanting to hassle the post office any longer to keep our mail pending a replacement box, we patched up the chip as best we could with Rust-O-leum and put it to work.I will update this review should anything significant should change about the security or durability of the box or the lock. 3Removed worry about our mail We live a 1/2 mile up a hill and through a wooded area from our mailbox. Neighbor children started stealing our mail and we looked for a solution. The Mail Boss 7107 was it. TheMail Boss is heavy so you might need help installing it. My husband pre-drilled holes for the base and then installed it using quality decking screws. It took a couple of tries to get the box to slide in properly. You'll know if it is right when you're able to easily screw in the two high-quality screws hidden by the locked door that connects the box to the base. It is clear that a lot of thought went into this product. For the first time in a long time, we don't have to rush down to check the mail worried about someone taking it. With Christmas season underway, this time of year could have the mail carrier late by a number of hours and we have no way of knowing. Now, we don't have to be concerned. I only have to remember to bring my key when I go to get the mail. It didn't take but one 200 ft 1/2 mile climb down and back to make sure I remember. 5Solid as a Rock About twice the size of the average mailbox, I appreciate that this doesn't look like anything special, as I hate to announce to every passing car that I bought some fancy mailbox. The directions were good and all the parts fit perfectly. The biggest challenge was properly mixing the concrete for the base, and getting the mailbox to sit at the proper height. I just looked up USPS requirements and used a tape measure and a post hole digger. It has plenty of room if you want to let your mail pile up. It seems very secure, but it hasn't been tested yet that I know of. I do know that I haven't had any missing mail since installation, which is great. 5Very good mailbox but one safety defect on mine I ordered and received the Mail Boss 7106 mail box and the Mail Boss 7121 in-ground steel post through Amazon. Both arrived undamaged within the normal time. The single quality issue I immediately noticed was that, on the Mail Boss 7106 mail box, the steel plate that forms the lockable door has a bottom edge that was as sharp as a kitchen knife along about half of the edge. I was lucky that I immediately noticed the unusually sharp edge when I placed my fingers under the mail box to pick it up, or I would have had a bloody incision in my fingers. It seems that the sharp edge resulted from a combination of a steel plate that was not adequately filed on the bottom edge and which then collected a sharp edge from the plating process. I considered just filing the sharp edge to prevent me or someone else hurting themselves, but it would apparently expose bare steel that would eventually rust. I m hoping neither the postman nor a local child will come into contact with the knife edge. The mail box had the stamp of Quality Control Inspector C on 23/04/2017, so he/she needs to do a better job of looking for sharp edges. Otherwise, everything was well-made. One other potential problem that I noted after installation is that the top surface of the mailbox collects a substantial pool of water when it rains (assuming it is mounted level). It would probably be better if the company could slope or curve the top so that water is mostly shed after rain. While I would otherwise give the mail box five stars, the sharp edge safety issue, and the possible problem with water pooling on the top, causes me to reduce the rating of the mailbox to three stars.I don t understand why Mail Boss refuses to place exact descriptions and dimensions on its sales sites, but here it is (learn something Mail Boss). The mail box is 35 pounds including its mounting plate. It s clearly very strong and I doubt that any normal attack would do more than scratch or dent it slightly. However, at that weight, you will need to sink a post rather deep (or encase it in heavy concrete) to hold up the box adequately. When one opens the mail entry slot, the exact dimension of the opening is 10.25 inches wide by 2.00 inches high. I have a slim arm and was able to get my arm into the box up to near my elbow, but I probably could only have grabbed any mail if there was a substantial stack inside the box. I don t think the baffle could be forced by any normal person. The mail entry slot door is hinged on a strong piano-hinge and pulls down easily to about 120 degrees where it stops. It must be manually returned to the closed position because it is not spring-hinged. However, there are two fairly strong magnets, one mounted at each side inside the box that will attract and pull closed the door when it approaches the closed position. So the mail entry door is securely held closed by the magnets. Below the mail entry slot, there is a substantial space (10.25 W x 2.5 H x 5 deep) where one can place outgoing mail for the postman to take when he opens the mail entry slot. Note that the door hides outgoing mail placed on this space and mail cannot fall into the box, but that it is not locked and anyone could open the door, see the waiting mail that the owner placed there, and take it. The lockable bottom door (which on my box had the bottom knife-sharp edge), which the owner opens with one of the three included keys to take mail out, opens easily downward and will open to beyond 180 degrees. If you do not close it, it will simply hang down as it is not spring-loaded. The bottom mail retrieval door, when opened, has an opening 10.25 inches wide by 6 inches high. The box interior is 18 inches deep, and is 7 inches high under the anti-fishing ledge and 12 inches high beyond that. The three included keys all fit the lock well and open easily. Each key is 2 long by 1 wide by 3/16 inch thick, and each has on it the code number that can be used to order new keys. The lock is sturdy and the shaft of the keys is keyed similarly to car ignition keys so that it would likely be very difficult for an amateur to pick the lock from the outside. Within the lockable mail door, there are two holes into which included two included flat-head bolts (with Phillips head) are placed to attach the mail box to its included mounting plate. These two bolts will enter two threaded inch female connectors that are welded securely to the mounting plate, thereby securely connecting the mail box to the mounting plate. The bolts can only be accessed and removed by opening the lockable mail box door, so no one can remove the mail box from its mounting plate without opening the locked door. The included mounting plate will be bolted onto the steel post with four included hex-head lag bolts (which strangely require a 12 mm socket wrench to turn a inch wrench will not work). The bottom plate of the mail box itself has four 3/16 holes spaced 10 apart front to back and 4 apart side to side. There are another two holes in the very back of the bottom plate that are probably just for water drainage. The top of the mail box bottom plate has a knobbly surface so that mail is held up a bit off the main surface which might be moist due to condensation or the like.Both the post and the mail box were completely black. When the post is set into the ground, the mounting plate is bolted onto the top plate of the post. The heads of these bolts will be inaccessible to a thief once the mail box is placed onto the mounting plate and secured to it with the two bolts described above that are accessible only by unlocking the mail door with one of the included keys. After bolting the mounting plate to the post, one slides the mail box onto the mounting plate, and then attaches them with the two screws previously mentioned. No bolt or screw can be accessed by a thief unless they open the lockable door.U.S. mail regulations require that the mail entry slot of the mail box be located between 41 and 45 inches above the road surface. The mail entry slot on this mail box is approximately 12 inches above the top plate of the steel post when the mail box is mounted on the post using the included mounting plate. Since the post is 43 long, this means that you will only be able to sink about 10 to 14 inches of the steel post into the ground if the roadway is level with the ground onto which you will mount the mail box. If you are on a residential street with a curb and you will mount the mail box into ground that is a few inches above the street surface, you may be able to sink the steel post a few inches more. But even this is probably not deep enough to securely hold the heavy mail box, even if you concrete the post all the way up to the surface. It is highly likely that you will want to use a pressure-treated wood post inside the hollow steel post to enable you to sink the post significantly deeper particularly if you do not use concrete. In cold climates, you probably want to be at least 3 to 4 feet deep in the ground. Note also that the front face of the mail box should be between 6 and 8 inches back from the side of the road surface (close enough for the postman to reach it comfortably but not so close that he hits the mirror of his van on it).I had a handy man install my mail box. He charged $150, but I gave him a little more because it was difficult to break up and remove the concrete footing from the previous mailbox post. He used an 80 pound bag of Quikrete to install my post. Installation of the mailbox on the post once it was installed was easy and quick. 3Very satisfied. Over the past few months our area has had a lot of mail theft and mailbox vandalism. I have had important mail stolen, and on our street I have seen locking mailboxes destroyed (plastic mailboxes) or smashed open (metal mailboxes).So I decided it was time to buy a locking mailbox: one that is highly resistant to vandalism and as secure as possible. Having done a lot of research before making my choice I thought I'd share my findings in case anyone else in the neighborhood is in a similar position.THE BOX I BOUGHT:The mailbox I bought, and with which I am very happy, is the "Mail Boss 7107 Curbside Security Locking Mailbox" by Epoch Design, available from amazon.com for $160.Here are some of it's key features:o It's made of thicker steel than most other mailboxes: so it will stand up to physical attack better than most.o It has a strong, hard-to-pick lock: so it will resist lock-picking better than most.o The way the lock latches the door closed is strong and pry-resistant: so it will resist brute-force or prying attacks better that most locks.o Neither an adult nor a child can reach into the slot and extract mail: unlike some others I researched.o It's pretty easy to mount (compared to most other large, locking boxes).o It comes in four colors: Which is great, because I wanted a white box, not a black one.WHAT ABOUT PACKAGES?I get a lot of packages. They come in all different sizes. I researched mailboxes costing up to $800. None of them could accept anything more than rather small packages, which comprise only a small percentage of the packages I get. Most cannot even accept the smallest boxes that amazon.com uses.I analyzed my risks, and determined that the mail I can least afford to lose are envelopes with credit cards, payment checks, PIN numbers, bills (although many bills we get electronically), and someday Social Security checks. The mailbox I bought is the best I found for this class of mail. It can also accept very small boxes that are no thicker than the boxes that batches of checks used to come in.THE NEXT BEST OPTION:In my neighborhood, the locking, metal mailbox that I have seen most often is the model 6200B-10 "Oasis Jr." by Architectural Mailboxes. This can be bought from Lowes, Home Depot and amazon.com for just under $100.Although I have never seen a vandalized one in our neighborhood, compared to the one I bought it has a flimsy lock, a flimsy latching mechanism, and thinner metal (which seems less resistant to baseball bat attacks). I also found a YouTube video (that Amazon does not allow me to provide the URL for) that shows how easy it is to break into, or in some cases to reach in and extract a package. 5Shoulda-Coulda-Woulda...purchased a Mail Boss in the first place! Our entire neighborhood mailboxes were hit again, in the early morning hours on Friday. So our new (2-month old) $75 "security mailbox" is a bust. Our next door neighbor purchased the same box as us, and his was hit, too, broken entirely open with a crowbar. He lost mail. Fortunately for us, we'd picked up our mail the day before.So now we've purchased a new security mailbox from Amazon. It's a Mail Boss. Our elderly neighbor across the street has had a Mail Boss for a couple years, and his mailbox DIDN'T suffer break-in like our security mailboxes did in Dec 2017 and then again 2 1/2 months later in March 2017. We should've invested in a Mail Boss back in December after that break-in! Grrrr.I was driving through a neighborhood yesterday, and stopped the car when I saw this set of 3 curbside mailboxes that were hit by mail thieves! What was remarkable about them was this: 1 & 2 were the identical "security locking" mailboxes we'd owned when we were broken open in Dec and March! And the 3rd mailbox style is identical to our elderly neighbor's mailbox, that DIDN'T get broken into in Dec and March! One-Two-Three...side by side. The proof is in the pudding, right? I took pictures of these three mailboxes! I've posted them for you to witness, but I've masked over the addresses that were on them, of course. 5Not secure at all. Only keeps me out. Zero stars. This mailbox is merely intended to look secure. It is not actually secure. Sure it has some somewhat thicker metal than the $50 mailbox at Home Depot and the lock looks like it might stop someone equipped with only a screwdriver. However, better security features do not make secure. It needs to satisfy the criterion of actually keeping people out of your mail.As it turns out, my 7 year old daughter can simply stick her hand in the slot at the top and pull out whatever she likes. No key required! She ate the better part of a box of cookies this way and was quite delighted at the ease with which she could defeat the "theft proof" box. There is nothing in the mailbox to prevent access to the inside of the mailbox while the top door is open. It just relies on the criminals being full grown with arms too thick to reach in. Surely half a dozen means of defeating that mechanism could be contrived from mechanical grabbers, vacuum cleaner hoses to children of a certain age by even the dimmest of criminals to defeat this box.So sure, my previous mailbox was made of straw and kept only children out. This one is stronger and will keep out inexperienced and undetermined adults. Neither will keep out both. If you are looking for a mailbox that will actually stop theft, you need to move on to find a better design, not just heavier metal and better keys.Update: After owning this steel disaster for 3 months, we have found that the lock mechanism is malfunctioning. It takes about 5 minutes of key wiggling to get it to open. Maybe one of the pins is bent, or rusty. Maybe today I won't be able to open it at all. All I know is that the security features of the mailbox utterly fail at their intended purpose of keeping our mail safe, but seem to be entirely effective at preventing me from uninstalling the thing. This is going to be a b---- to get off, if I can't open it. Be sure to factor in the cost of a locksmith when pricing out this option. 1LOVE THIS BOX!!! Thieves don't! We have waited 2 years for posting a review as we wanted to make sure that it was worth what we posted about it. We were victims of mail theft within 6 months of being here. We already HAD a locking mailbox! Needless to say, the theft came as a surprise to us!We did a lot of research before deciding on this mailbox. As we live at the bottom of a hill and just before a turn, as well as being the ONLY house located in this spot, we are a prime target for the thefts to occur! The fact we haven't had any since getting this box, is a testament to how great these boxes really are!Yes, they are expensive, but ID theft is much more expensive than the Mail Boss is. Either you protect yourself now, or you will be scrambling to make up for it later.Pluses: Strong STAINLESS STEEL metal. Many redundancies to help protect your mail. Large inside. They stand behind what they advertise! There is a lot of thought that went into the design of the box.Minuses: I don't really see any! Does the job that the previous one that we spent $110 on, didn't do! 5Not all it's made out to be...years later rusty hinge & broken door I am writing this review approx 3yrs after purchasing this mailbox. While the construction appears as durable & secure as described, and the working function is great, I'm sad to report that the bottom hinge of the locking door rusts. I'm pretty disappointed that after paying almost $200 for a mailbox, that it isn't worth the amount of use you can get out of it. The mailbox is now unusable bc there is no way for me to fix it, and the door for incoming mail no longer secures. To add to my disappointment, the "lifetime" warranty excludes rust. It's a shame, bc the box itself is secure, but the metal hinge appears to be faulty, as it is the only spot that has rusted. However, without this hinge the box is useless. Now I'm on the hunt for a new secure box, but will not be repurchasing this brand or pay near as much. 1UPDATE I'd like to update this review, which was written about six or eight months ago. The other day as I was walking the dogs I found the front panel of a locking mailbox in my front yard. The thing, which had clearly been ripped off its box, was clearly not from the MailBoss, but I checked mine just to be sure. All was still secure. A day or two later, I mentioned this to a neighbor, and she said the part must have belonged to another of our neighbors: his locking mailbox had been prized apart and robbed. Her office window looks directly into my frontyard...and she also said that while she was working she observed an unmarked white panel truck pull up to the front of my house and stop. The man inside, she said, sat and stared at my mailbox for a minute or two, and then moved on.Pretty clearly, the Ft. Knox effect repelled a planned theft. This was a good thing: I was waiting for a $1350 check from PayPal and a $570 check from a contracted client. That would have been a major loss for me.I felt the cost, when I had to buy the MailBoss, was breathtaking -- way more than I could afford as a self-employed person forced into early "retirement" by a layoff. But this week it paid for itself. In spades.**************************************So glad to get my hands on this, after a series of mail thefts that included a product I needed to take to a trade show!!!! Installing would have been beyond my little-old-lady skills, but fortunately I have the Handyman from Heaven, who purchased a heavier post than the flimsy number that held my old standard rural-delivery type mailbox. He had to hammer out the concrete to install the new post: service above and beyond the call of duty! But attaching the Mailboss to the new post was no problem (partly thanks to advice from Amazon customers here...).As Wonder-Handyman was working, the mailperson happened by. We chatted. He highly approved of the MailBoss . I pointed out that it wouldn't accommodate a very large package. He said that was NO problem: the postal service is now advising carriers to bring packages to customers' doors. My front door is inside front courtyard, so it's easy for him to hide stealable packages from curbside view. He felt sure the MailBoss would discourage further thefts.Before MailBoss, the theft rate was about once a week. After Mailboss? Nil. :-D 5

Categories

Headsets

Computers

Laptops

Mobile menu

Mail Boss 7108 Security, Bronze Curbside Locking Mailbox

Description

Shipping and Returns

Customer Reviews

Mail Boss 7108 Security, Bronze Curbside Locking Mailbox

Categories

Headsets

Computers

Laptops

Mobile menu

Mail Boss 7108 Security, Bronze Curbside Locking Mailbox

Description

Shipping and Returns

Customer Reviews

Mail Boss 7108 Security, Bronze Curbside Locking Mailbox

Send a Message

Please adjust the following:

Request a Call back

Please adjust the following: