So you’re saying that he should have send it registered mail so that postal employees don’t help themselves to it? That’s very reassuring.
Let's say you had a po box. Anyone with a box within maybe 5 feet of yours can, in fact, be accessed from your box ~ open the door, reach in with your handy dandy box emptier, and you can use a mirror on a stick, and your emptier to go through all the mail and find what pleases your eye.
Envelopes with money kind of stand out.
This is a common method for stealing.