If your mail box is two feet off the road, I have to assume that it's in the right of way. Liability aside, I would feel pretty bad if someone was killed when they ran into something that I built next to the road.
Building a overly heavy mail box is no guarantee it won't get wrecked just the same. My neighbor has one made of bricks and set in concrete. Someone ran into it last winter and knocked it over. That was a big job to repair; if somebody knocks down my wooden post it's a half hour job to fix (after I get done cussing).
Many years ago in my home town, the city got tired of kids driving into the cemetery and wrecking their cars. (The cemetery was at the end of a dead-end road.) They set a piece of well casing in concrete in the middle of the road and ran a locked chain accross the entrance. A car driven by an out-of-town kid (who didn't know about the dead end or the gate) slammed into the post at high speed, literally cutting the car in half. As I recall, two kids were killed and a third was seriously injured.
If the mailbox is on a county road, I think I'd call the county road commision and see what they say. The Oakland County Road Commission has a web page on this subject.
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