I’ve been telling people this for a couple years now. Our blue box was stolen from outside the PO a couple times about 3 years ago. Next thing you know, everyone is taking their mail to the drop inside. People were still having checks stolen, washed, and cashed for low to mid 4 figures. Inside job. I heard about it early, I had inside sources at the PD.
DO. NOT. MAIL. CHECKS. if you don’t absolutely have to.
There was an incident a while back in MN. The postmaster would look for birthday cards and steal those because they often have money or lottery tickets in them. This happened to a retired police officer, who then got up with the lottery commission and obtained some “special” scratch off tickets. Only when she tried to cash them in did she find that they were worth a free ride to jail.
A heartwarming story indeed.