Steel Mailbox Company is located outside Batavia in
the bucolic countryside East of Cincinnati, Ohio. Designated by Atlantic Monthly Magazine as the mailbox vandalism Capitol of the World, they sent a
writer here to find out why Cincinnati breeds so many mailbox vandals. [Read the article] I told them, “We
produced Pete Rose, didn’t we?”
This company is not a faceless entity. It is owned and run by me, Richard C. Lee (pictured at right). My
formal business training occurred early in life, when I sat next to Jim Koch in Mrs. Flye’s Sixth Grade Class at Indian Hill Elementary School here in Cincinnati. Mr
. Koch went on to found the Boston Brewing Company, maker of Sam Adams Beer. I picked up a little of Jim’s business acumen by osmosis. That was the
extent of my business training when I started Artisan Productions and Steel Mailbox Company, because I’d
been a Psychology major at Duke University. Thanks Jim... You were my mentor and didn’t even know it.
Also sitting next desk over was the future owner of Veeders Mailbox Inc. Put these two early influences
together, and Voila! I became a mailbox businessman. I guess you could say, I learned everything I needed to
know about the mailbox business in Sixth Grade. Seriously, my first experience with mail order mailbox
marketing occurred in the late 1970’s, when I made and marketed unique cedar mailboxes through Sunset and
Yankee Magazines. By this time, Veeders Mailboxes were being marketed around Cincinnati by Veeders Mailbox Inc.. We began offering the Veeders nationally online in the 1990’s with great success.
Personalized service and attention to your special needs are top priorities for www.SteelMailbox.com. I am
joined by a small but brainy staff in this effort, among these being alumni of: Duke University, Franklin &
Marshall College, Pratt Institute, and Charles University in Prague. Our Office Manager once was #2 in
command of a governmental Ministry of a European nation. Together, we can figure out a great solution for your mail or drop box needs, I am certain.
Mailing address: Steel Mailbox Company
P. O. Box 135 Miamiville, OH 45147
