How To Repair Broken Mailbox Door

Conversely if the mailbox is broken because the door is too hard to open bend the top of the hasp away from the door.

How to repair broken mailbox door. Here s the broken side and here s the unbroken but also rusted and soon to break side. To fix this simply take a pair of pliers and bend the top of the hasp toward the door. If your door is barely hanging on as in the above picture your mail is in full view for anyone passing by think theft of small packages. This is because rural mail carriers typically need to deliver to over 400 mailboxes in less than four hours.

This video shows just how easy bo. The door of the mailbox needs to stay shut after being tapped shut one time. Posted by ivey at 12 27 pm on july 7 2010. The dirt rust and dangling mailbox door had all become white noise that hadn t been obvious until june when we painted the outside of the house.

This should help with an easier entry. A broken mailbox door can be very annoying for your mail carrier and can lead to a host of problems for your mail. If you must lift on the door wiggle the handle or whack it shut then it isn t going to work. This should allow the hasp to again close tightly against the mailbox.

Re installing a mailbox door on a 16 unit cluster box is not very difficult also installing a mailbox lock is even easier. And yeah i should just get a rivet gun.