1250 Vertical Series 6-Compartment Aluminum Surface-Mount Mailbox

Like: Look and finishing. Auth Florence has a polished aluminum finish with thin vertical lines. The matte finishing on Salsbury brand vertical mailboxes makes it look chalky and cheap. Like: Auth Florence vertical mailboxes have name card slots for removable name cards. Salsbury mailboxes only allow you to put a sticker. Depending on how you look it this feature can be a negative since the card slots provide an opening for water intrusion. Dislike: Quality issues. (please read below.) BEWARE QUALITY ISSUES. Have your local USPS maintenance technician come out and test your mailbox with a USPS approved lock to make sure the mailbox opens/closes and locks with ease before mounting. I've purchased two Auth Florence 1250 Vertical Series 6 compartment mailboxes (12506SMSHA) and both have had issues requiring replacement. Incident 1: The lock support bracket was assembled incorrectly requiring excessive force in closing and locking the door. (see photos) Incident 2: Unit was poorly packaged. Inspected by inspector with the initials of "PJ". The lip of the anchor support bracket and lock support bracket collide with one another upon closing. The lip of the anchor support bracket should slide on top of lock support bracket upon closing. The USPS maintenance department is strict on a mailboxes ease of operation. If the technician can't easily open/close/lock with one hand, since mail carriers are usually holding mail in the other, USPS will reject the activation of the new mailbox. The reason for these stringent requirements is because liability. If mail carriers get injured as result of having to fidget with a mailbox in order to get it to properly open/close/lock then the USPS is liable for on the job injuries and unfortunately mail carriers will find almost any excuse to get on disability.