@JLeslie, no. I am asking for the letter carriers to be reminded not to leave first class mail sticking out of the mail slot, easy for anyone to grab. There have been many brazen thefts of mail around here, envelopes as well as packages: people coming right up to someone’s house and stealing the mail. Neighbors have even captured that on their door cameras.
The carriers typically double the catalogs and magazines and advertising flyers over, with the envelopes folded inside, and leave the whole works sticking four to six inches out of the mail slot, ready for grabbing. They should instead make sure that the envelopes go all the way in first—the checks and bills and important notices such as tax documents. Then they can stuff the junk mail anywhere they want.
I have a basket for packages and magazines, but they usually don’t use it.
The main thing is the envelopes. Once someone stole an incoming check from us that was worth more than $900, and we got it back only because we knew someone who knew someone who lived on the street—i.e., homeless. We were lucky.
I have many times asked individual carriers to do this, make sure the real mail gets inside, but there are different ones all the time and they don’t remember. And one of those times, the guy snapped at me, “Don’t tell me how to do my job!”
So I’m taking another tack.