[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

It's for having your own post office box in or near your neighborhood, where you can receive mail and packages securely.

As opposed to having a mailbox outside your house that can be knocked over, broken, contents stolen from without needing to break into it, etc. etc.

Granted, we're not *allowed* to take the "risks" involved in having our own mailboxes on our own property, but the question wasn't whether we were allowed. It was why we're paying for something else.

So in other words the new folks like us are paying for the upkeep.