Are Villages postal boxes secure?
 

We just moved here to the Villages and checked our mail for the first time and found a hand written note on top of our mail from the person who apparently shares the same postal box from the other side/opposite wall.
The note says “don’t rip down things on my side of the box.”
We were perplexed and had to get down on our hands and knees to look inside our newly assigned postal box to see there is no barrier between our boxes! How can this be allowed? So (me guessing), my neighbor thinks we tore things down in her mail box? Holy cow. This is weird and who does that?!

Who might we call to fix this, or is every mail box a sharing type of thing?

Thanks in advance.

That’s odd. What mail center are you talking about? All the mail centers I’ve seen do not “share” anything.

Our box is only accessible by us. Very strange talk to the mail carrier

I don't understand how your postal boxes are configured. If I look into mine I see more than 10 feet of empty space where the delivery person works. There is no way for me to reach anyone's box but my own.

The empty space at the end of the mailbox is where the mail person slides the mail in - if you are sharing the back with someone else, how does the mail get in?

Seems like it might be a note from mail person.

My guess is that Thomas is your mail person and by other side of the box he meant the interior opening. I wonder if there was some paper there that you removed, maybe the name of the previous owner of your box? A self- reminder to Thomas to check the names on the mail so as to not deliver material addressed to your home with the previous owner's name on it??

Addendum; Apparently there is no Thomas, the word is Thanks. Don't ask for Thomas.

The mail carriers occasionally put notes on the inside of the box to alert them to forward mail, hold mail, etc.

No one has access to your box.

This seems like a good explanation if in fact OP removed a note that was taped to the inside of his box. The "It does not concern you" could have been stated more kindly. "Thomas's" printing appears to be coming from a female. (For one thing, it's legible.) So maybe Thomasina.

You do not share a mailbox, the other side that you are looking at is the post office side. They do put notes there, for their use, I have a yellow post it note hanging there for months now, its not a concern, and I have no idea what it says, and will not remove, it since the post office person put it there.

The last word of the note says”Thanks” not “Thomas”.

We of course do not know where you are. I must say the people who run our pick up center are great.

As someone else said if, I had to guess the writer of that note is a female. I would go to where you pick up your mail and ask. If, the staff surely someone will recognize the handwriting.

Since all we get in the mail are bills and junk mail, anyone who wants our mail is welcome to help themselves.

OP seems to think there is a mailbox behind theirs. Don’t think they realize it’s a open isle for the workers.

As others have said you are not sharing a mailbox. The open end is how contractor places mail in all boxes. Our mail person has a sticky note on our box when we forward mail. And yes they do let you know not to remove their notes.

Yes it's the mail person saying leave their notes they stick on their side of the box, alone. They post notes to themselves like hold mail until, forward mail, etc. Don't take it personally. It's only business.

It looks like others have provided a reasonable answer (it’s the postal worker leaving a reminder) so here’s a bit of humor from yesteryear regarding a similar situation.

1971 Right Guard “Hi Guy” commercial

“….Mona?”

1971 Right Guard "Hi Guy" Commercial - YouTube

Obviously from the postal clerk ,whatever you took down was for the clerks info.

Chuck McCann! Remember this well. Thanks for the flashback.

Thats from the mail carrier. They put notes or whatever on the side where they insert the mail. Example: if there are 4 people with different last names at residence, sometimes they list all the names so they have the info. Besides, why didnt you just ask the post office instead of posting on an open forum? You would have had an immediate answer and avoided all this speculation by strangers

Yes, I have a note to them in my box about the parcel lockers since I am height challenged. :) The "it doesn't concern you" was a little rough, tho.

If you are new you should have filed a change of address form with usps. The note is usually to remind them to forward the prior owners mail. I had a note and five years later they still put prior owners mail in my box

Hand Written Notes
 

It most likely is a note from the postal worker to make sure any mail to the previous owner is forwarded. That way there is no mail that does not belong to you in your mail slot. Of course, if you get the previous owners mail, you could drop it in the mail slot that is designated to misdirected mail and write on the mail to forward.

Have you ever seen a rural mail box, the are not secured with a lock. So it's possible that it is just a shelf inside.

I would guess that is a Note from the Mail person, they often hand things over a box on the inside as a reminder to them of something. No Boxes are mutually used by another resident.

:boom:

I believe that ‘Thing’ from Adams Family is to blame.

These postal boxes have been used for many years and are well designed to deter mail tampering. Unless your box is on the very corner of the building AND you have extremely long arms, you or anyone else are unable to reach another person's box. Mail carrier notes are commonly taped to the delivery side of the boxes, so don't worry about it.

The note looks to be written by someone with a low IQ. Probably a postal worker.

Like that post????? Or was that just some lame humor. Over 600,000 postal workers would disagree.

At this point I think the OP's question has been asked and answered, and it's time the thread was closed before it deteriorates any further

Are Villages postal boxes secure?
 

This comment is rude, mean, and totally uncalled for. Just shows what type of person you are that you would disparage the intelligence level of a person whom you’ve never met. Perfect example of what’s wrong with the world today.

contact the postmaster immediately

The postal people, if that's who it is, should not be so caustic with their words. That's what I would be irritated about. I would find out which one wrote it and tell them they could be nicer with their comments. " It doesn't concern you" is Crude and rude. A simple "It's a note to remind me of something" would have been better and then a nice "Thank you" would be sufficient.

Of course they would disagree, the average IQ of a mail carrier is about 92, and falling. Clearly it doesn't take much intelligence to deliver mail. The note was also rather rude.

Are you saying the rude, poorly written note was not written by a mail carrier?

Exactly. At least this carrier didn't just throw the mail away (maybe next time. If they read this thread). That's quite common. There are many lazy + low-IQ carriers.

Have to agree the note could have been worded better.

The people who work at our mail stations are not postal workers, they are independent contractors. So their "IQs" could be higher or lower than 92 and could be rising or falling. Who knows, and does it matter?

I thought having more than one member name was against the TOTV rules. Wonder what woke this name from it's 4 year sleep?

I hope you are kidding.
 

Do you really think that a poatal person opens each box from the fron. The boxes are filled from the rear by a postal contractor. The paper you pull off is for that person to find your box for you mail. This is a real US Postal mail box.

Should have stayed asleep if that’s all he/she can offer………

You seem to know an awful lot about mail carriers...is that because you are one?...related to one...or just rude in general?

Please show proof of your stats.....oh, that means statistics

Amazing, the answer was on page one, when I got to the bottom of page one, there were two more pages of answers starting with the same answers and ending with nasty ones.