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Old 03-28-2013, 03:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Ooper View Post
I've seen keys left in the boxes with the doors open. I don't do anything with them, figuring the owners would be back since they need the keys. There is nothing to steel from the PO box since they already emptied it, and if the keys were still there in the morning, the postal workers would notice and hold them. If nobody touched keys leaving them in the box, it would have saved you a lot of grief and worry.
Good point and I did talk to the lady and man in the two trucks that deliver our mail and they both said they do not take the keys out of the slot either. They said if you already lost the other issued key, you could not open your box to retrieve the one they could put in there, so they leave it. If someone puts your keys in an outgoing mail slot, that is dumped into a common mail back and goes back to the post office, where if noticed, is simply put into a box full of keys and they call it lost and found. The Lady at the post office said very very seldom does anyone come in to look for their keys. Well, I did and they were there, she just smiled and said spread the word.