Posts Tagged ‘attempted burglary’
Keep your Mail Safe this Holiday Season
The Holiday Season is officially upon us as we close the first full week of December. Along with all the holiday cheer and festive activities the season bring, it also means an increase of mail sitting in your mailbox. Be it flyers advertising sales, perfect for last minute shoppers, package deliveries or cards from friends…
Read MoreMail Theft Monday-February
Sunday, February 4: Fort Bragg, NC: Daily Journal Local News – Men Arrested with Heroin Stolen Mail; “The men reportedly were in the process of consuming heroin and officers searched the vehicle after learning they were both on probation. Drug paraphernalia, heroin and several stolen checks were located inside the vehicle.” Lincoln, NE: Lincoldn Journal Star – Ex-Postal Worker…
Read MoreMail Theft Monday – 1/15/2018
Here at Mail Boss, we love giving you pointers regarding ways to prevent mail theft. Unfortunately, mail theft isn’t the only concern. Another major issue that happens in neighborhoods are vehicle break-ins and just like mailboxes, these thieves look for easy targets. So, if you are one of those types of people that don’t lock…
Read MoreMail Theft Monday – 12/18/17
With Christmas around the corner and mail thieves being more proactive that ever around this season, Chino police are placing GPS tracking devices inside bait packages to try and catch “porch pirates” from stealing packages delivered at homes. For more details about this news article, check out: Champion Newspapers It is never…
Read MoreMail Theft Monday – 12/26/2017
Florida man, Bend woman charged in mail, ID thefts Mail found scattered over five miles of Ward Road BEND, Ore. – Mail scattered along miles of roads east of Bend and in northeast Bend and a credit card theft from a car led to the arrest of a Florida man and Bend woman late Thursday,…
Read MoreHappy Customer Alert!
John called us recently to let us know what a happy customer he is for choosing our product over all the other locking security mailboxes out there! He stated that his neighbors got their mailboxes broken into while his Mail Boss outlasted the thief. As you can see, while thief was able to bend the…
Read MoreAttempted Mail Boss Prying… Twice
We have a Mailboss locking mailbox that someone tried to pry open. We’ve had it for about five years. It has a barrel lock. Here are some pictures of our damaged mailbox. The mailbox was not entered as far as I can tell but the door is damaged and I want to replace it. Is the barrel lock still being used or is the new style lock preferred?
Read MoreAttempted Mail Boss Burglary in Auburn
Brian in Auburn Washington called to tell us a story we have heard before: Years ago his mail was stolen. He said his wife thought it would be “prudent” to buy a locking mailbox. He didn’t think much of it at the time, but happened upon the Mail Boss Curbside at McLendon Hardware. He had been…
Read MoreA True Life #BetterByBoss Success!
Neighbors replace burglarized mailboxes with Mail Boss, thieves return! Well here’s something that just doesn’t happen every day… A group of neighbors in Santa Rosa reached out to us back in April after their Oasis Jr mailboxes were burglarized. Below is one of the photos of the bank of mailboxes after the burglary. The neighbors all took…
Read MoreLodi Prying Thieves Target Mail Boss
Mail thieves in Lodi have burglarized 3 other models of locking mailboxes; can’t defeat Mail Boss Nancy has spent dozens of hours and hundreds of dollars trying to deal with the mail thieves that have been raiding her Lodi California mailbox. When she first learned that her mail was being stolen, she purchased a locking…
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