Custom Mailboxes in Lausanne

Lausanne: A City Demanding Custom Solutions

No other city in French-speaking Switzerland blends so many building typologies. Around the train station and in the Flon district, you'll find Belle Époque income properties with narrow entrance halls. In Chailly, La Sallaz, and Pontaise, there are 1960s condominiums with original mailbox banks often lacking a parcel compartment. In Ouchy and on the hills (Chailly, Sauvabelin), villas with boundary walls require mailboxes to be integrated into the gate without disrupting the style.

This diversity is precisely where a standard off-the-shelf mailbox fails: it imposes a format that Lausanne's facades simply weren't designed for. By manufacturing each mailbox individually in our workshop, we tailor the installation to the actual space – hall width, existing niche, ceiling height – rather than forcing a catalog product into an unsuitable setting.

Mailbox Installation in Lausanne: Practical Solutions

Many Lausanne apartment buildings have non-compliant mailbox banks: missing parcel compartments, access behind a locked door, or corrosion. We conduct on-site surveys, manufacture a mailbox bank perfectly fitted to your entrance, and install it without major construction work when the location allows. Ready-to-use labeling for each dwelling is included.

For villas on the hills of Pully, Ouchy, and the surrounding areas, we integrate the mailbox into the boundary wall or gate, at the property line, with the slot facing the street, as required by law. We offer brushed stainless steel or anthracite finishes to match your shutters, ensuring durability despite exposure.

Postnorm Compliance: Avoid Service Suspension

In Switzerland, the location and dimensions of a mailbox are legally defined (Postal Ordinance, articles 73 to 75). A compliant mailbox includes a letter compartment (10 × 25 × 35.5 cm, slot 25 × 2.5 cm) and a parcel compartment (15 × 25 × 35.5 cm), in a location freely accessible from the street. If this is not the case, Swiss Post can, after a warning, suspend home delivery (article 31, paragraph 2, letter c).

For a Lausanne apartment building, this means no more mail delivered for all tenants: this is the number one reason we are called in the city. Source: Swiss Post brochure 221.04 and Postal Ordinance (OPO), articles 31 and 73 to 75.

Our Services

• — Custom Mailboxes
• — Apartment Building Mailbox Banks
• — Property Management Solutions
• — Compliance Upgrades
• — Postal Standard Testing
• — Dimensions and Regulations
• — Collective Buildings

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