Mail box

In a mail box a pair of side walls with substantially semicircular upper ends, straight bottom ends and vertical forward and rear edges;

• a bottom wall extending horizontally between the bottom edge portions of the side walls;
• a rear wall extending vertically up between the rear edge portions of the side walls and a top wall extending from the rear wall upwardly and forwardly along the semicircular ends of the side walls and terminating slightly forward of a plane passing vertically through the center of said semicircular upper ends, a door pivoted at the forward edge of said bottom wall and extending upwardly between the front edges of the side walls to the bottom edge of a front wall between forward edge portions of the side walls;
• a top wall front portion extending rearwardly from the top edge of the front wall at an upward inclination and terminating below and rearwardly of the forward edge of the top wall, a normally vertical closure member pivoted at the rear edge of the top wall front portion and having an upper and lower sections forming a mail receiving chute, said upper section being of a width to extend from one side wall to the other;
• horizontally disposed slide means inside said mail box at each of said side walls;
• mailbag holding means comprised of a rigid frame carried by and between the respective ones of said slide means and having an opening for receiving the upper portion of a mailbag and adapted for removeably holding said mailbag in open position in said opening and beneath said closure member lower section, said slide means having capacity for movement and support of said mailbag holding means with said mailbag held thereon forwardly to a position substantially completely outside of said mailbox when said door is in open position;
• and baffles at the side, front and rear walls above said mailbag holding means and below said closure member lower section and having deflection members extending downwardly from said walls to a position overlapping the opening of said mailbag.