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Are you implying you lock your mailbox?
by ilozinski 13y ago
Are you implying you lock your mailbox?
- nwh 13y agoMine is certainly locked. Many places in Britain also just have the letter box in the front door, which I assume the parent is referencing.
- vitd 13y agoMy (US) house has such a slot but it has been glued shut decades ago so that nobody drops dog poop, or worse, a flaming piece of mail, into it.
- nwh 13y agoStrange country. Is never even thought of anybody doing that, and I've no reason to think that I would ever draw someone's ire who would do so.
- honzzz 13y agoAre you implying you lock your mailbox? Would that be surprising to you? I assume you might be an American - I was really surprised when I visited the US and noticed that most people use unlocked boxes located outside of their houses to get their mail. Where I live people either lock their mailboxes or they get mail through a slot in their locked door - nobody leaves their mail accessible.
- jlgreco 13y agoMail slots are typically used in America in all row-homes (aka, very nearly all houses in towns or cities). Apartment buildings almost always have locked mailboxes, unless you are really scraping the bottom or your apartment is in a converted row-home (my old apartment had a single mail slot on the front door, the 3 different apartments just sorted each others mail). Private developments often have locked mailboxes outdoors by the entry gate. Unlocked mailboxes outside the house really only exist in rural areas or regular suburbs (to be fair, these sort of homes probably make up a plurality of homes in America). The bigger problem is what happens with packages. Unless you live in an apartment building with a staffed leasing/mail office, chances are your packages get left by the door (usually in plain site), or you need to be home to sign for them.
- jacalata 13y agoI am from Australia and where I'm from everybody leaves their mail in an unlocked box outside.
- sp332 13y agoNo idea how this works in other places, but in the USA, messing with someone's mail or mailbox is a federal crime.
- dave5104 13y agoIt may be a crime, but an unlocked mailbox still leaves the temptation there.
- riquito 13y agoCool, so I suppose you don't use keys for your car neither. Convenient
- sp332 13y agoFirst, stealing a car or stuff out of a car isn't a federal crime. Second, I almost never lock my car, but that depends on the neighborhood.
- makmanalp 13y agoWell, in the US it's a substantial federal offense to steal mail or to read someone else's mail (coughunlessyouarethegovernmentcough), so that acts as a big deterrent, I think.
- aroch 13y agoHow many people are ever caught stealing mail though?
- makmanalp 13y agoI'm not sure, but I'd assume that if you go around stealing packages, you're probably not doing it just because. You're doing it systematically for financial gain. In which case you have to be a repeat offender for it to make sense. In which case it's easier to track down. This happened near me last year: http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/12/20/two-arrested-for-theft-of-christmas-packages-in-somerville/ http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/12/20/two-arrested-for-theft...