Compact Letterbox, Lockable Mail Chute, Personalised Letterbox

Description

A letterbox is the first thing anyone sees at your address, and the standard powder-coated box from the hardware store does nothing for a home you’ve spent years getting right. The Compact Letterbox is our smallest and most affordable size — 300 mm wide, for narrow frontages, townhouses and garden beds where a bigger pillar would crowd the entry.

Every one is laser-cut to order at our workshop in Berkeley, NSW, with your chosen pattern and your house number cut into the face.

Choose your pattern

The options above list the patterns we cut at this size — Australian botanicals like Grevillea, Agapanthus and Gumleaf Cascade, alongside Sedges and the bolder linework of Fanfare. Each is cut clean through the metal, so the pattern reads as shadow by day and glows if you add internal lighting at night.

View the pattern gallery → (opens in a new tab)

The gallery is a sample, not the full list. We’ve cut hundreds of one-off designs over the years and we’re happy to make any of them again — or cut something new from a photo, a sketch, or just a description of what you’re after. The Big Ben design in the photos above was a one-off. Send yours through with a quote request and we’ll price it.

The Compact is too narrow for the pattern to wrap around the sides. If you want a wrap-around design, look at the Medium, Standard or Wide Form.

Choose your finish

Cor-Ten steel develops a natural rust patina that deepens over years and never needs painting. It suits rendered, timber and natural-stone frontages, and pairs with Cor-Ten garden edging or planters if you’re doing the whole yard.

Powder-coated aluminium comes in the full Dulux powder coat range, weighs half as much, and holds a crisp colour edge — the choice for contemporary builds and darker palettes like Monument or Deep Ocean. Browse the Dulux colour chart →

Specifications

• 1000 mm H × 300 mm W × 300 mm D
• 3 mm material thickness
• Cor-Ten steel: approx. 30 kg  |  Powder-coated aluminium: approx. 15 kg
• Fully lockable mail chute with rear access
• Weather strip above the letter slot to keep rain out
• Removable base plate included for dynabolting to a concrete pad

Optional extras

• Frosted perspex backing (front) — we recommend it on every letterbox. It makes the pattern and house number read clearly in daylight, spreads internal light evenly at night, and keeps insects and spiders out.
• Newspaper cylinder — choose perspex, the cylinder, both or neither in the last option above.
• Internal lighting, faceplates and enlarged mail flaps — available as custom additions. Request a quote.
• Want room for parcels? The Standard and Wide Form letterboxes take a lockable parcel box.

Ordering online

Select your finish, pattern and extras above, then add to cart. Please include your house number, and your Dulux colour name if you’ve chosen powder coat, in the Order Notes field at checkout — we can’t start fabrication without them.

Ordering something custom

For a different size, a pattern that isn’t listed, or a design of your own, fill in the quote form below, email info@ironbarkmetaldesign.com or call 02 4229 2222. Custom orders run on a 50% deposit, after which we produce a computer mock-up for your approval before anything is cut.

Lead time, delivery and installation

Each letterbox is personalised and made to order, so allow 3–4 weeks for design and fabrication (3–5 weeks on custom orders). We deliver Australia-wide with insurance through the courier, or you can collect free from Unit 2/7 Warehouse Pl, Berkeley NSW. See our Shipping & Returns policy for details.

Installation is straightforward — the supplied internal fixing plate dynabolts to a concrete pad roughly 50 mm larger than the letterbox footprint and 50 mm deep. Any local handyman or landscaper can handle it.

Cor-Ten letterboxes ship un-rusted for mess-free delivery, and develop their patina on site over the first few months. To speed it up, dissolve a handful of table salt in 500 mL of white vinegar and apply in a shaded spot. Internal lighting is not included.