So, our mail carrier left the mailbox unlocked

[Xist]

If who mentioned theft? When did these conversations happen? The only contact that I have ever had with local mail carriers, besides the relevant "Hello" and "Thanks" was last night when I received:

I apologize on behalf of the Show Low PO and will speak with the carrier about her response to you informing her that the mailbox was still open. If you continue to have issues with your mail carrier please send me an email or call the Show Low PO to report the incident. We strive to be polite and courteous to all our customers.

We appreciate your patience while we investigate this matter.

The post office isn't the only one delivering packages, either.

I do not have any idea how common mail theft is. All that I found was one neighborhood trying to figure out how to stop it: https://www.turnto23.com/news/local-...th-stolen-mail

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$20 and some maybe a soldering iron to cauterize the wound would solve that problem.



At least people couldn't get caught more than 8x with this method.

[Xist]

I will need to look up wound cauterizing with a soldering iron later. I burned my finger a week ago using a wood burner. It doesn't look great yet.

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At least it's sterile and not bleeding though. The pain is there as a reminder of what not to do; the same principle I'm suggesting with mail theft.

[Xist]

If someone is accessing the back of the mailbox and they are not a mail carrier, their pinkies are undoubtedly null and void.

If they are accessing the front then hopefully they are just getting their own mail.

The Postal Commander or whatever e-mailed me again this morning:

Thank you Xist for the information on the open neighborhood boxes. The unit was secured last night. The sub carrier assisting on that route was addressed on her performance and your interaction with her.

What was more important, her leaving the mail of sixteen families unsecured or not responding appropriately when a stranger demanded to talk to her?

Hey, I did not say "I pay your salary!"

[shudder] I hate when people do that!

I don't care if they are my boss!

Oh! That was the Postmaster!

Postal Commander sounds cooler.

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Originally Posted by Xist

If someone is accessing the back of the mailbox and they are not a mail carrier, their pinkies are undoubtedly null and void.

If they are accessing the front then hopefully they are just getting their own mail.

The Postal Commander or whatever e-mailed me again this morning:


What was more important, her leaving the mail of sixteen families unsecured or not responding appropriately when a stranger demanded to talk to her?

Hey, I did not say "I pay your salary!"

[shudder] I hate when people do that!

I don't care if they are my boss!

Oh! That was the Postmaster!

Postal Commander sounds cooler.

Locked mailboxes are a joke. I open mine at the rental using channel lock pliers because they are easier to locate than the key and just as fast. Probably same method thieves used before.

All I have to go by is your account of the interaction. If the only words to acknowledge your complaint to the letter carrier was "I know", then I would say that is the only problem. If the box is broken, that isn't the carriers problem. Mail is always unsecured, even if there's some false security given by a lock. We secure things first at the family level by instilling values, then communities, and finally by law enforcement.

The reason I haven't been murdered yet isn't because of excellent gun restrictions; it's because society mostly produces people that don't want to murder. Likewise, my house hasn't been broken into for the same reasons.