If this happens to you, remember that stealing a person’s mail in the U.S. is a federal crime, one with a penalty of up to five years of jail time and heavy fines, which compounds with every individual offense. Know your rights, especially your rights as a tenant. Fuck landlords
Report them to your local post office, notto the local police.
USPS Inspection is pretty much the only law enforcement agency worthy of respect. They’ve literally always resolved any problem I reported to them (albeit often slowly) and I have never once heard of them extrajudicially murdering someone.
And when I say “always” I mean, there are law firms around the country that will happily advertise themselves as able to get you off the hook for police, statie, FBI, CIA, and UCMJ situations with an almost 100% success rate. And they will outright refuse to go up against postal inspection, because that’s a legal fight no one else ever wins.
Cops will take the landlord’s side.
The USPS is here to help you.
(Which is probably why the feds keep going out of their way to try and nuke the entire postal service tbh)
I had a neighbor that kept stealing my mail. To prevent this, I had to be outside when the mail carrier arrived. I informed them of my dilemma, how long it had been happening, I had photographs of them doing this. The carrier then only delivered mail at my door after knocking and waiting for me to come to answer. It took several months, but my neighbor got landed with almost ten years in prison for this because 1) USPS doesn’t fuck around, 2) I had pictures of over a dozen instances; they often took my mail, poured beer or soda on it, and then dumped it in the trash, and 3) I wasn’t the only person they did this to.
The cops took no interest and told me to just get a PO Box. FYI, those aren’t free and getting to the post office is difficult when Disabled.
I wasn’t required to go to court. It was all taken care of. No more mail was stolen. The USPS does not fuck around, they fuck you up if you fuck up.
Dang. I wonder if there is a any Canadian postal board like this? I should have reported the idiot identity thieves breaking into my mailbox over and over and over that one year to whatever Canadian equivalent there is of this, because yeah, the cops literally didn’t do a single fucking thing to help me out.
