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Since your box wasn't locked, they probably took the mail they wanted and left everything else. For security's sake, it might be best to get a P.O. Box in town (they're generally not expensive) and have your banking and financial letters sent there.
That is what we are considering. UPS has a facility where you can receive both mail and packages. I will call Monday to ask rates.
If it’s any consolation, when I first moved to my new property, I went through 3-4 beautiful mailboxes over the span of a couple years. I’d pick up bottles almost daily that were thrown at the mailbox but missed and shattered glass all over the ground. Occasionally thrown bottles would directly hit my chinsy tin mail box and all but destroy it till I had to replace it, again and again. I was pissed to say the least. This culminated into one night a firecracker being placed inside my mailbox, completely exploding into unrecognizable shredded shrapnel. After that I went on a mission, even going as far as camping out by the mailbox (several thousand feet away and unseeable from my house) trying to catch the perps, but to no avail.
I’m proud to say that my new extra large mailbox, big enough to fit large packages in, hasn’t had a single bottle thrown at it on several years now. The bottle thrower/fire cracker planter must have gotten bored or moved on.
Since I usually get at least one piece of junk mail every day or two, when I don’t receive any sort of mail for more than a few days in a row, I can’t help but think I’m a victim of mail theft. I have had a couple of packages from amazon be “lost” as well.
So I consider mailboxes to be expendable and mail to be insecure in a mailbox along a road that you can’t see from your house. I’ve thought about buying a secure locking heavy duty mailbox, but that just makes it more of a target IMO and costs 4x as much as a regular mailbox.
Good luck to you, and **** the scum of the earth that mess with people’s mailbox.
We haven’t had any firecrackers or glass bottles thrown. I am sorry that happened to you.
If none of you can see each other's mailboxes then what is the point of a watch group ?
Set up a game cam where it can also grab the license plate of any vehicle caught tampering with your mailbox.
We are retired so can walk at random times. We can see who belongs in this neighborhood and who doesn’t. It is a dead end road. Yeah, we might consider a game camera. The neighbors up the road have one. We would also like the signs that proclaim an area a block watch.
You would have to make sure that it is high enough that it cannot be removed. If it is spotted and they think they can damage it of remove it; they will!
Besides a camera; one could try buying some old Magicubes (https://www.amazon.com/GE-MAGICUBES/...93960431&psc=1). You can make them go off with a trip wire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHW6t4bC3ag. So for somebody grabbing mail at night it would scare them into thinking somebody just took their picture. It would not be successful during the day. But, as the sun set, if you hooked your trip wire on the mailbox (remembering to remove it before the mailman) then it might be effective or at least make these crooks think twice.
We have lots of trees by the road so we can camouflage it easily. The Magicubes idea might work but we get lots of foot traffic on our road.
We live rural, had our mailbox get ripped off and got a PO box in town. Kind of a pain but these days not all that much of interest comes to us in the US mail anyway so we go into town every 2-3 days to get mail.
UPS and Fedex bring packages to our door or put the box on the other side of our fence if our gate is shut. USPS packages go to the post office and they put a notice in our PO box.
Since I usually get at least one piece of junk mail every day or two, when I don’t receive any sort of mail for more than a few days in a row, I can’t help but think I’m a victim of mail theft. I have had a couple of packages from amazon be “lost” as well.
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Get a USPS account and you'll get an email every day as to what is being delivered.
Since I usually get at least one piece of junk mail every day or two, when I don’t receive any sort of mail for more than a few days in a row, I can’t help but think I’m a victim of mail theft.
You can sign up with USPS to get an email every day with pictures of your daily mail. It's called Informed Delivery. If you aren't getting real mail, just junk mail, they don't send you an email for that day.
I've found it to be pretty accurate. Once in a great while, what they say is coming that day will actually come the next day instead, but that has been very rare, maybe once or twice over the last few years.
I just found out that the thieves were targeting mailboxes for tax info. We haven’t received several documents so first thing Monday I am making some phone calls. Damn criminals!
Howdy xPlorer48,
I'm sorry your having these problems. I hate thieves.
We live out in the country on side of a forested mountain. USPS has never delivered mail at our location. I've had a PO Box for 32 years. We've never had a mail problem, having the box. Post Master keeps our mail as long as needed when we get snowed in, etc. It might be a good idea for you to get one...
Best of luck to y'all.
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