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"Stfu ipodqueen ignorant bitch" - Wow, what a tough keyboard queen tigerbait2008 is! Bet she would even want to meet someone at a Sonic! :lol:

USPS has allowable heights and distances from street for mailboxes listed on their website.

After thinking about it for a bit, I have a recommendation. But first, some history.

Several years ago after much research, I started off with a Reolink system that was using their new 12MP cameras. I found that they were great - in the daytime. At night, not as much. Using the LEDs on the camera, you get pretty much the range they advertise, but not in color. However, the LEDs attract bugs - spiders particularly. And if it is raining or misting at night, the infrared bounces back off the water in the air making for a pretty bad picture. I learned to live with those downsides, because the daylight images really were great!

Back then, I thought that they had the best value, especially since you didn't store data in the cloud. It seems that a lot of manufacturers have caught on and have local storage these days, so maybe that is not such a big deal for Reolink now. I haven't done any real research on that.

Within the past year, I upgraded my cameras to their new CX810s (8MP cameras) that offer color vision at night with very minimal illumination - A standard LED bulb equivalent to an incandescent 60 watt bulb is more than enough to have color vision for hundreds of feet, with no infrared or white LEDs being used! In fact with a full moon out, you see very, very distinct shadows of items - It really looks like daylight! And with no LEDs, there are no problems with bugs or rain at night.

The CX810 cameras still have some problems at night with movement (as do most other cameras, except those that cost much more), but generally, the closer and slower moving the object is to the camera the better the quality. I have no problem making out slower moving small animals (skunks, possums, etc) at over 100 feet at night, but deer at 100 feet can be a bit blurry while they are moving.

So I still like Reolink (although other manufacturers may be just as good for the same price - I haven't looked into any other manufacturers, so I just don't know), and I will recommend them as I think that they are still a good value, but I would really advise going with their CX810 cameras. Looks like Amazon has a four cam system with a 2TB HD NVR for $570 right now and the cameras by themselves are $88 each. I know that this was a good bit to read in today's world, but I wanted to give you the good and the bad. Good luck!

Based on my experience, I would guess that at 4K with 2TB, you would get somewhere between five and seven days before before it starts recording over the oldest files.

Reolink's POE cameras record independently of the internet, as do their WiFi cameras (as long as the WiFi is operational). Reolink is a nice system and their new CX line of cameras have really good color vision at night with very low ambient lighting.

I had a frozen shoulder years ago that never got totally back to normal, so drawing from my hip is difficult. Cross draw is much easier for me.

I used to own part of a security company, so I had experience running wires through houses. Depending on the house layout and where you want the cameras, it might not be too bad to run the wires or it might be darn near impossible unless you have some specialized tools.

Annin flags - They have a manufacturing facility near me. Annin

Old video, but probably still accurate.
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