Post Office Warns People Not to Use Its Mail Boxes

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has warned people not to use its blue boxes on specific dates. It particularly warned about the chances of theft from these on Sundays and holidays. It raises the question of why USPS bothers to keep these boxes, which must be expensive to service at all.

The USPS's warning suggested how people dodge the trouble. “If customers simply used retail service or inside wall drop slots to send their U.S. Mail, instead of depositing it to sit outside overnight or through the weekend, blue collection boxes would not be as enticing after business hours to mail thieves for identity theft and check-washing schemes.”

As a solution, people should go to their local post office or put mail in boxes after the last dispatch time. It is a complicated way to decide when to mail a letter. It is also inconvenient.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/post-office-warns-people-not-to-use-its-mail-boxes/ar-AA13zBB8

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. They lock these off after hours around here. You have to go into the post office

Now. This is the shit world we live in now.

[badhair77]

2. We have a lot fewer boxes in my neighborhood.

One is in town and the other is a few blocks outside the city. Both are at intersections with houses close by so they’re fairly secure. What a pain it would be to have to go to the post office to mail a letter.

[Diamond_Dog]

3. There's a mailbox near me in the same parking lot as the police station.

An added bonus, it’s the drive-up kind.

But, yeah, what a shit world we live in now. You can’t even count on your mail being secure. Probably got a lot worse from MAGATs trying to sabotage mail-in ballots.

[thinkingagain]

4. I wonder if cameras

Like at the ATM getting the face and car plate would help.

I hear people essentally fishing? For the mail in the boxes.

[Progressive dog]

5. The only outside post office boxes

around here are next to the post office door. I haven't used one in years. What mail I send either gets picked up by the postal delivery person or gets mailed inside the post office.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. I wait for the post office to open

and mail stuff in their lobby wall slot and that is because the blue mailbox literally installed against the outside wall of the PO about 10ft from the doors, gets broken into and mail stolen. I.e., there are check-washing rings around that apparently have access to the "universal keys" that open those boxes.

[Samrob]

7. Even America's once ultra reliable postal service is fucked thanks to Trump & his MAGA appointments.

[dalton99a]

8. It is a serious problem

[no_hypocrisy]

9. Here in northern NJ, the PO has retrofitted the openings

of the blue boxes, making them a narrow slit. They got rid of the door that opened outward. Even if you used a string with a hook and glue, you couldn't get a letter back once you dropped it in the box.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

10. DeJoy should be in de jail for destruction of govt property to further his own business.

[maxsolomon]

11. There's nothing too low for today's thieves.

So many fewer things to monetize, so stealing mail is one of the only places to get hold of a check nowadays.

And LOL, I just put a check and a ballot in a blue box today. Should be pretty safe; my neighborhood is super bougie.