Patent ID: 7992767

Claim:
A safety promoting mailbox mounting for use along well traveled thoroughfares comprising: a. a support plate for attachment to an upper portion of a mailbox support, b. a low friction bearing mounted on a first side to the support plate at a low angle with respect to said support plate, c. a mailbox direct support plate mounted upon a second side opposite the first side of the angled low friction bearing, d. the mailbox direct support plate being adapted to extend toward any road along which the direct support plate is mounted, with a mailbox secured upon the direct support plate, when in a balanced position, or when unconstrained, and being at said balanced position substantially parallel to the support plate attached to the upper portion of the mailbox support, e. the mailbox direct support plate being mounted upon the low friction bearing such as to be parallel to the support plate attached to the mailbox support when facing a thoroughfare, but extending upwardly at a low angle when facing away from the thoroughfare, f. whereby the lowest energy point, or rest point, of the mailbox direct support plate and the mailbox supported thereupon, is when the two support plates are substantially parallel with respect to each other and the front of the mailbox direct support plate extends toward the road, this being the balance point and rest point of the mailbox secured to the mailbox support.