# The legality of deterring mailbox baseball

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 22, 2011, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-legality-of-deterring-mailbox-baseball/593646 "2011-08-22T12:24:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 4, 2021, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-legality-of-deterring-mailbox-baseball/593646/238 "2021-07-04T01:53:46Z")

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God you’re lazy.

> Sec. 102.03. - Support structure.   
> Every mailbox permitted within the village right-of-way shall be mounted either on a wooden post no smaller than four inches by four inches and no larger than six inches by six inches or on a light gauge hollow pipe no smaller than one and one-half inches in diameter and no larger than three inches in diameter.

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