Patent ID: 8025246

Claim:
A combined shredder mailbox apparatus, comprising, in combination: a parallelepiped case having a front spaced apart from a back, a top spaced apart from a bottom, a first side spaced apart from a second side; a mailbox disposed upwardly within the case; a door disposed on the case front, the door selectively opening to the mailbox; a horizontal handle disposed upwardly on the door; a lock disposed on the door above the horizontal handle; a pivoted flag disposed on the case second side; a sliding drawer disposed within the case below the mailbox, the drawer having three spaced apart walls, a drawer front, and a drawer bottom; a drawer stop extended from adjacent to the drawer front on the drawer bottom; a handle disposed on the drawer front; an identical spaced apart drawer slide disposed within each case side, each slide meeting the case bottom, the drawer stop abutting the drawer slides with the drawer fully closed; a shredder feed disposed in the case front between the door and the drawer; a divider horizontally across the shredder feed; a shredder within the case behind the shredder feed, the shredder comprising: a heavy duty first shredder wheel; a heavy duty second shredder wheel gear engaged with the first shredder wheel; a motor within the case; an axle engaged with the motor via a primary drive belt; a slave drive belt engaging the axle with the second shredder wheel; a power cord exited from the case back; an electronic control within the case front, the control in communication with the power cord and the shredder.