Our mailboxes are being broken into recently by some of the wonderful souls of which we are seeing more & more of these days. Wondering if anyone might have any clever ideas on how to bolster the 'flap' doors that have a simple/central 'tongue' key lock latch. Personally I'd like to secretly have the metal doors and frame directly connected to the power from nearby street/pole wiring but might be hard to find a lesser legit' electrician to do the job and he'd have to charge extra for doing covertly for sure. We could have a hidden switch so whenever we collected our mail we could interrupt the power supply. We'd have to inform the postie' and junk mail people (?) informed as well I suppose. But getting back to reality we are concerned about our mail being stolen and the potential for identity theft related issues in days, months or years to come.
The flaps are left ajar so I'm quite certain they haven't been accessing by turning the key barrels. These types of mail boxes and said door flaps would easily be pried open with a medium/large screw driver.
The R/E agents 'property manager' is consistency indifferent, often outright hostile & hopeless and this is well known amongst other residents so appealing for better/more secure boxes aint' gonna happen. I have thought about paying for a post office box but another expense along with everything else going up and of course other expenses such as this 'popping' up out of the blue leaves me hoping that some of the good souls here on OB might have ideas or suggestions if especially some way to bolster/improve the existing 'system'. Would be nice to beat these %*:$#'s at their own game. We sure seem to be having to 'accomodate' a lot of bad/unethical behaviour these days don't we.
Many thanks,
Chris.
Maybe put a fake piece of mail in there to see if you were robbed. You might consider a fake CCTV camera nearby. It would be nice if you could booby trap a few but that's not legal.