The postal inspector said there has been an increase in attacks on postal employees. Postal Service was supposed to have, authorities said. Jason Gagnon, the Communications Director for Congressman Ken Calvert, wrote on the community Facebook page on Tuesday saying: “The postal service believes this is most likely connected to recent assaults on postal employees who had the key stolen from them.”Ī security video shows a man and woman in Studio City opening the mail boxes at an apartment complex with a master key last month. The victims have also been reaching out to local politicians. Residents from the different communities set up a Facebook page after the postal service failed to do any thing about it, they said. She too has fallen victim. “It makes you feel like you’ve been violated,” she said. Janene Vinson lives in a gated community in Sycamore Hills. Adrian said it has been happening throughout of Corona, Horsethief Canyon Ranch, Montecito Ranch and Painted Hills among others. This is more of an identity theft than it was before,” Adrian said.īut it’s not just in her Sycamore Creek neighborhood. Now that tax season is coming, she is worried thieves will steal her critical personal information. “Now, these are tax forms, w2’s, to file our taxes, to get information. But the thefts continue to happen, she claimed. She took pictures and reported the crimes. Larissa Adrian started noticing her mailbox and her neighbors’ were left open and empty over the holidays. But we don't have centralized delivery here, and if the carrier is willing to carry a copy of our building key.CORONA ( ) - Residents in some Riverside County neighborhoods are upset because thieves have been stealing their mail for months. And perhaps part of that shift is phasing out installs of Arrow locks on individual building entries and mailboxes. I know that USPS policy has been shifting towards centralized delivery in recent years, so that they no longer have to visit individual addresses in order to deliver mail. I'd have thought there would be a form and/or documentation somewhere on the USPS site, but all I've come up with is an almost-suspicious lack of any information whatsoever.
While it's easy to find the hardware for sale (sans lock), my not-inconsiderable web skills have failed to find any information whatsoever about the process of getting the box outfitted with a lock.
USPS MAILBOX MASTER KEY INSTALL
So my question becomes, before I consider ordering one of these: How do you go about getting the actual lock installed? Is it a service provided by the USPS directly? How does one even go about making an install request? Are there fees involved? You can buy the actual boxes from many sources (here's one version from ), but as one might expect they come without the lock installed. When fitted with a standard USPS "Arrow lock", any postal carrier can open the box, then use the key stored inside to unlock the door and enter the building. Fortunately, there's already an existing (and much better) solution, which I've seen employed at other residential locations: An exterior box, sometimes called a "key keeper", mounted outside the front door and containing the door key on a chain. I've already ruled out "more keys for the USPS!" as an option for solving this - that way lies madness. (Say, dropping off a Priority or Express package, or even just someone else covering our regular guy's route when he's out sick or on vacation.) Without that One Key we've provided to the USPS (really, one specific individual employee), the mail can't get in. Problem is, that doesn't help at all if a different USPS employee needs to deliver mail. To deliver mail, a copy of the building front door key has been provided to our regular mail carrier. We have a 9-unit apartment building with USPS-approved mailboxes mounted in the secured entry lobby.
Perhaps this is a question I should just ask the USPS directly, but I wanted to first try to collect some third-party experience with the process. I'm not sure this question is at all appropriate for DIY.stackexchange, but it seemed the best fit so if it's not appropriate here it's probably not appropriate anywhere.
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