The thieves have the keys to the drop boxes. And the post office knows it. I was told by a mail carrier it’s an inside job because as soon as the change the locks the thieves have the new key. The police caught to Asians driving an expensive Audi suv stealing from a drop box by  crematory Hill a couple of years ago. Never found out what happened to those two guys and the police turned them over to the postal police who took credit for catching them and they did nothing. It was the cops from the 104 that caught after being tipped off by someone who lived there and saw them tampering with the dropbox.

Not sure about Middle Village but All of Maspeth's drop boxes have digital keys now...Impossible to clone

I always drop mail off inside an actual post office, these days..

This all started with the election ballots cast in 2016 and mail in ballots. After that Louis Dejoy was put in charge of the post office. It will never get better. Dejoy may be gone but he was a tool. Project 2025 at work.

Good information for people to understand. However, mail theft has been rampant and unrelenting, unchecked, unchallenged in our community for the last 15 to 20 years until recently when we sounded the alarm. Why did it take our politicians and elected leaders to even lift an eyebrow until now? That is completely unacceptable and reprehensible, and that’s on them. Lack of City, State, and Federal leadership has been hurting us for decades in many other criminal and quality of life matters. Why are we electing such useless people to our leadership posts?