Pricing and Costs of Mail Boxes

Find a mailbox that fulfills your needs and fits your budget

Mail boxes are important items for every business. They allow you to communicate with the outside world as well as send out your bills and receive payments from customers. But they should also reflect the image your business wants to portray. Carefully think of what you want your customers to think of your business before you go out and buy.

The pricing and costs of mail boxes can vary quite a bit. If you're just looking for a simple wall-mount box to go outside your office door, you could find one for as little as $15. But if you're looking for something customized or unique in some way, expect to spend a great deal more. Consider the following:

1. Put up a traditional curbside or wall mailbox. Wall mailboxes are good for bustling business districts while curbside boxes are better for more suburban areas.

2. Secure your incoming mail with locking mailboxes. This will keep people out of your mailbox and keep private information safe.

3. Invest in a really nice mailbox if you plan to stay at your location for a long time. Architectural mailboxes definitely add a more luxurious feel to your business.

 

Attract customers to your business with affordable outdoor mailboxes

It's very possible that the first thing potential customers see when driving by or arriving at your business is your mailbox. This is especially true if you operate from a stand-alone building or a storefront in a strip plaza. The mailbox should reflect your business's style and have your street number on it for identification. You can use a plain mailbox and keep it simple, or jazz things up a bit with a novelty mailbox that correlates with your type of business (for example, a dog mailbox for a grooming salon). Expect to spend as little as $15 for a regular mailbox and upward of $300 for a novelty box.
Try: Hit your local Home Depot to shop for standard styles of mailboxes; many of these look similar to home mailboxes and will give a familiar feel to your business. Check out the wide variety novelty boxes at Marvelous Mailboxes, which offers something for every price range.

See how much secure, locking mailboxes will run you

If theft is an issue, you need to get a locking box. Although tampering with someone else's mail is a federal crime, it's hard to catch criminals in the act, so installing a locking box is the easiest way to put a stop to the theft. A single locking mailbox costs between $90 and $300.
Try: Get an idea of how much different styles can cost by using Mailboxixchange.com, which carries a large variety of locking mailboxes and even sells antique brass mailboxes. You can price out both wall-mount and curbside locking metal boxes at MailBoxes4Less.

Install architectural mailboxes for a touch of class

This kind of box can be a variety of shapes, sizes and structural elements. Concrete enclosures with a decorative finish are popular, as are brick mailboxes. The cost of this type of mailbox varies greatly depending on which type of material you choose (pre-fabricated concrete and faux stone are the cheapest while custom-poured concrete and hand-crafted stone are on the expensive side). Expect to spend at least a couple hundred dollars for a basic brick or stone mailbox.
Try: Get an idea of what an architectural mailbox will cost you by referencing Sculptured Gothic. If you're looking to save a bit of money on labor, consider building a box yourself using the pictorial instructions at BrickMailbox.net.

 

• If you're in need of a large quantity of commercial mailboxes, factory direct is the way to go. Simply contact the manufacturer and let it know that your company needs a certain number of mailboxes. You'll most likely pay a reduced rate, since you're avoiding the majority of the supply chain and the mark-ups that come with it.

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