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Shoulda-Coulda-Woulda...purchased a Mail Boss in the first place!
Our entire neighborhood mailboxes were hit again, in the early morning hours on Friday. So our new (2-month old) $75 "security mailbox" is a bust. Our next door neighbor purchased the same box as us, and his was hit, too, broken entirely open with a crowbar. He lost mail. Fortunately for us, we'd picked up our mail the day before.
So now we've purchased a new security mailbox from Amazon. It's a Mail Boss. Our elderly neighbor across the street has had a Mail Boss for a couple years, and his mailbox DIDN'T suffer break-in like our security mailboxes did in Dec 2017 and then again 2 1/2 months later in March 2017. We should've invested in a Mail Boss back in December after that break-in! Grrrr.
I was driving through a neighborhood yesterday, and stopped the car when I saw this set of 3 curbside mailboxes that were hit by mail thieves! What was remarkable about them was this: 1 & 2 were the identical "security locking" mailboxes we'd owned when we were broken open in Dec and March! And the 3rd mailbox style is identical to our elderly neighbor's mailbox, that DIDN'T get broken into in Dec and March! One-Two-Three...side by side. The proof is in the pudding, right? I took pictures of these three mailboxes! I've posted them for you to witness, but I've masked over the addresses that were on them, of course.
March 2017 · Tools and Home Improvement · verified purchase