I think some slap-nut is stealing my mail. I haven’t had mail for several days, which is odd. I live in the sticks and didn’t really think anything of it till today. Bought an item on Fleabay for my sons birthday. Tracking shows delivered to my mailbox...nada nothing. I’m gonna try to catch my driver tomorrow, but I doubt they could possibly remember mine out of all the deliveries. Ticks me off...

Shirley you're joking, taking someone else's mail is agin the law!


Good luck, I hate thieves.

A good friend received a birthday card
from his elderly mother, and the humidity
is such in that region that the money she
enclosed made a print on the white inner
portion of the card.
By the time the rural mail carrier delivered it
to his box, the mail carrier had already removed
the cash, but didn't figure on the ink transfering
onto the greeting card. She'd been better off
to carry the card home along with the money
she stole

It wasn't too long ago that the local news
had a story about how many of the mail
sorters here were setting aside greeting cards
until they had enough to look through and
check for enclosed cash and checks and
money orders, but mostly for cash.

We too live a long ways out in the country and our mailbox is not visible to us (or anyone else). Due to that we have a locking mailbox and haven't had a problem. On larger items, UPS and Fed Ex deliver to our second gate. USPS leaves a note in the box and we pick it up at the post office.

Perhaps a game cam would catch the thief.

Go to the USPS site and sign up for "Informed Delivery". You'll get a picture each morning of every envelope that's coming to your box everyday

I’ve been using it for several years, pretty handy.

New neighbors have twin 5-6 year old boys.

I ran them out of our creek and out from under our farm bridge, warned them about snakes. They ran off

Yesterday, I was digging gravel out of our creek, seems I stifled their program. They stood over by mine and my uncles’ mailboxes and started going through our mail.

I yelled at the little bastids and one gave me the ‘ crotch grab and lasso roping motion’

Bwahaha. I had to laugh. But I will have to speak their housecoat wearing mama.

A few years back, noticed an odd check that had cleared my USAA account. The only checks I had been writing were for the water bill. Pulled the image up, my 49 dollar and change check for my water bill had a 1 in front of the 49. The city name and account had been whited out and the dude put his own name on the check and cashed it. USAA stopped payment on it as soon as I called.

Went to the local post office filed a complaint with them. I even found the guy online and knew what apartment complex he lived in. The investigator told me he was wanted for numerous mail theft cases.

That was 2015. He has never been prosecuted to this day.

Local newspaper rural motor-route delivery person was busted taking mail from mailboxes on his delivery route. Authorities reported his back floor board and seat were piled full with mail of all kinds he took. He served some time in prison for it. Saw him out in a store about a year and a half - two years later.

Same weird thing has been happening to me.
Sometimes a whole week goes by and nothing.
4 Things come to mind.

1. Businesses aren't advertising. It recently opened up so ive gotten a few glossies.

2. Mailman doesn't want to get the coronavid so he's maybe choosing or told to not deliver. Most unlikely scenario.

3. Mailman/ woman delivers to the wrong address.
That used to happen every other week at another location. Sometimes id get a stack for other roads. Id have to put them back with the flag for redelivery. Lid was always open. I ask the carrier and was told she was running late. No apologies.

4. Somebody's stealing mail all over the neighborhoods and going back under the bridge or homeless shelter fishing for Stimulus checks and info for cashing them

Out of those, which is most likely?
Maybe there's one I forgot.

Our mailbox is one of about 2 dozen on the end of the street. Each house in our subdivision has its own box for letters and when you get a package the mail carrier puts a key to a locked compartment in your box. That dumb SOB might get half of the letters in the correct box and I would bet that he gets less than 1/3 of the packages correct. There are weeks that I get more of my neighbor across the street’s mail than my own.

USPS used to jump all over such things as mail theft and try to catch thieves. There was a time when a Postal Inspector was a badazz dude. My wife started working at the post office around the 1977 time frame, and postal inspectors would be on a case in a New York minute. I'm guessing that over the years, as more crimes were being committed, they quit going after the small ones, and concentrated on the bigger ones.

When I was working as a rural carrier, we had a Black dude break in a steal some Christmas packages. The local cop, a Barney Fife clone, was actually able to solve the crime and catch the guy. However, since the crime had been committed on government property, the postal inspectors had to file the charges. They never showed up, and the guy was never charged.

One word of caution, never, ever mail cash. We had a local Amish man mail $5000 to his bank, and it never got there. I had warned the Amish community that it wasn't safe to mail cash, and if they couldn't help it, then they needed to hitch ole Betsy to the buggy and go to the bank in person. But, it is actually pretty rare for mail to be stolen, and if you're concerned that it might be, then rent a P.O. Box.

USPS has taken a turn for the worse.

About a year back we had one of those disappearing mail things going on in my neighborhood. Turns out a 13 year old up the street from me was looking for Xmas shopping money. He was under the care of his grandparents because his parents were in jail. One of the neighbors caught him at it and held him until the cops arrived. He had a letter addressed to the fella that caught him in his pocket that held a cashiers check for $50K. He be living as a guest of the state in Juvy Hall.

Set up a game camera.

Lol!!!
When you told me this the other day

LMFAO!!!!


I yelled at the little bastids and one gave me the ‘ crotch grab and lasso roping motion’

This happened a few years ago. It was late August and I sent a computer printed check for $26K to a stone supplier in Toronto, ON. Unfortunately, this company doesn't send out monthly statements. At the end of September, when my book keeper reconciled, it hadn't cleared yet, but she didn't question it. By the end of October when she reconciled, the check had cleared in early Oct. for $36K and she told me about it. So I called my supplier and asked WTF? They said that they never got the check and I still owed the $26K. So I go to the bank and the branch manager pulls up a picture of the check. It was my check with my signature but it was made out to Rock Star Recording Studio in NY City. I googled the address and it was an empty lot. I had to file a claim with the bank and it took 6 months to get my money back.

Lol!

I was wondering about mail theft, my daughter graduated from HS and she sent out dozens of shameless solicitations for money. Aka graduation invitations

I think she pretty much got something from all on her list of send-outs. And many sent cash. Surprised me. Must only not be any of them EEOC [bleep] in our post office.

Just talked to a friend who is a local letter carrier. She said there is a new boss at the USPS and they are changing everything up. She said that the whole virus thing has them short handed as well. Said that my mail is most likely being held at the P.O.
I asked why the tracking is showing it as Delivered to my mailbox. She said that’s what the tracking will show if it’s being held. Makes complete sense to me🤪

Ahhhhh, “being held”

So that’s what happened to a $135 pair of contact lenses.

We have “informed delivery” and we had a credit card bill that didn’t show up. Not long after we had some bogus charges and then somebody tried to go after the checking account. Then we had a replacement card that was stolen so keep an eye on your mail and don’t assume a bill is just lost if you don’t get a bill

That's BS, the PO is constantly short handed year in and year out. The cause of that is all the higher ups requiring all Postmasters and Stupidvisors use less and less "Hours" in the misguided effort to save money. Problem is they don't understand that it takes X amount of hours to move X amount of mail no matter how much they cut back on worker hours. The other problem with items that are scanned as delivered as soon as they arrive at the PO is nothing more than people at the top wanting to see that stuff scanned no matter if it's delivered or not, it's all about numbers to the people who have no idea how to actually run the PO and sit on their fat asses looking at those numbers to enhance their bonus checks at the end of the year. They have no interest in providing Service.