The Brownstone Mailbox Dilemma
During our renovation, we were too busy worrying about things like plumbing and flooring to even think about a mailbox. And now here we are, almost a 18 months after moving in, and we still don’t have one. We’ve been keeping an eye out for something antique but haven’t found anything. We just can’t bring…
During our renovation, we were too busy worrying about things like plumbing and flooring to even think about a mailbox. And now here we are, almost a 18 months after moving in, and we still don’t have one. We’ve been keeping an eye out for something antique but haven’t found anything. We just can’t bring ourselves to put up one of these metal boxes either. Granted, they look better when they are recessed into the stoop but we have to believe there are better options out there. What have some of you done? Our tenant is getting tired of wet mail.
Help!
I live in an apt. in a Brownstone in W. Harlem. The Mail is delivered to the super, who lives in the Basement, and leaves the mail on a table upstairs in the main foyer. HOWEVER, There is a new SUper and Mail is now missing and frequently torn- clearly someone is rifling the mail to pick out anything that appears to be of value.
1)Is the Landlord required to provide separate mailboxes for tenants?
2)What’s the best way to have this investigated? (I called the postal Inspector and asked if I should run some “Test Mail” with a Photocopied dollar or something visible in an envelope – Her response was “If you do that someone in the P.O. will steal it for sure !!!)
Just add a catch-basket to the inside of the door so the mail doesn’t get all wet on the floor.
What do you all do about larger packages? Does giving out a key to the security gate on the garden level door work with the USPS? Like will they open the gate and put packages inside that gate? Currently their practice is to put items through the slot in the door and leave what doesn’t fit on the stoop. I think we’ll have to get a mailbox at a nearby shipping place, for packages, but say for checks from the bank (sent from out of state) those can’t be sent anywhere but to the home address on the checks. Talk about a problem if those get taken!
http://www.mailboxes.com
What’s next..an award for compromising
the security of their mail?????? How
about some “real” issues on this site !!
For some reason my hyperlink didn’t go through. Here’s the address:
http://www.rejuvenation.com/fixshow1588/templates/selection.phtml
You might try Rejuvenation. They have some great mailboxes that look pre-war and older.
Rejuvenation
No matter what you try..you’ll still have to sort through the big rubberband jumble yourself and put in front of your tenants apt. door.
a mail slot is the best way. it’s pretty simple to install with a good carpenter.