Re: [UC] Possible Mail Thief in the hood
Naomi, I've had credit card statements taken from my exterior mailbox before on 48th between Chestnut and Market Sts. I've had a PO box for the last 3+ years and have continually had my important legal/financial mail sent there as well as other mailings and parcels. You just can't trust outdoor mailboxes anymore. It's a damn shame. Mario On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Naomi Fiordimondo naomif...@verizon.netwrote: So I’ve confirmed that there are at least two homes near 50th Baltimore that have had mail going missing over the last few weeks. Both homes have exterior (unsecured) mailboxes. One neighbor has been finding both her own and other people’s mail opened in her box days after it should have arrived. (Personal cards appearing in the wrong box with no envelope, just the card. Credit card applications opened and addressed to folks a few blocks away. Important gov’t forms appearing in the mailbox with no name or envelope. Etc. Etc.) The other neighbor has had Netflix disks go MIA and confirmed seeing a woman take mail from a neighbor’s box on her block this morning. She also spoke with our USPS delivery person who said, in her travels, she saw mail from the 49XX block on the 50XX block. (Otherwise, USPS delivery has been consistently good for the last 6 months since this new mail person took our route.) If anyone else is having problems, please post where and what you are seeing so we can stay alert. (And if you have an exterior mailbox, now may be a good time to get a current credit report to make sure everything is on the up and up.) - Naomi 5000 Catharine St. -- Mario Giorno PO Box 30932 Philadelphia, PA 19104 westphi...@gmail.com
Re: [UC] Possible Mail Thief in the hood
I haven't used an unsecured mailbox since I moved away from my hometown nine years ago. I had lots stolen out of my mailbox there... and that was Boulder, Colorado. A bigger problem is what I encountered in Fairmount where people would break into the locked door of my building and then break into the locked mailboxes. I am shocked at how many of my neighbors actually have packages delivered to their homes and have the delivery services leave them on the porch in this day and age. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 20, 2011, at 2:37 PM, Mario Giorno westphi...@gmail.com wrote: Naomi, I've had credit card statements taken from my exterior mailbox before on 48th between Chestnut and Market Sts. I've had a PO box for the last 3+ years and have continually had my important legal/financial mail sent there as well as other mailings and parcels. You just can't trust outdoor mailboxes anymore. It's a damn shame. Mario On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Naomi Fiordimondo naomif...@verizon.net wrote: So I’ve confirmed that there are at least two homes near 50th Baltimore that have had mail going missing over the last few weeks. Both homes have exterior (unsecured) mailboxes. One neighbor has been finding both her own and other people’s mail opened in her box days after it should have arrived. (Personal cards appearing in the wrong box with no envelope, just the card. Credit card applications opened and addressed to folks a few blocks away. Important gov’t forms appearing in the mailbox with no name or envelope. Etc. Etc.) The other neighbor has had Netflix disks go MIA and confirmed seeing a woman take mail from a neighbor’s box on her block this morning. She also spoke with our USPS delivery person who said, in her travels, she saw mail from the 49XX block on the 50XX block. (Otherwise, USPS delivery has been consistently good for the last 6 months since this new mail person took our route.) If anyone else is having problems, please post where and what you are seeing so we can stay alert. (And if you have an exterior mailbox, now may be a good time to get a current credit report to make sure everything is on the up and up.) - Naomi 5000 Catharine St. -- Mario Giorno PO Box 30932 Philadelphia, PA 19104 westphi...@gmail.com
Re: [UC] Possible Mail Thief in the hood
In a message dated 7/20/2011 2:31:05 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, naomif...@verizon.net writes: So I’ve confirmed that there are at least two homes near 50th Baltimore that have had mail going missing over the last few weeks. Both homes have exterior (unsecured) mailboxes. Sadly, it's not a good idea to have mailboxes that are accessible to any miscreants who happen to wander by. This, whether they're unsecured or have key locks -- because it doesn't take much to pry open a locked mailbox door. (Tenants sometimes do it when they can't find their keys!) We tried using those officially-recommended post-office key keepers. Small metal boxes locked with keys only postal people are supposed to have -- inside of which is a key to the front door of the building. In theory, the letter carrier gets the key to the building and puts the mail into boxes inside. Unfortunately, these are also vulnerable to low-life ... who can then not only gain access to the mail but to the inside of the building as well. The best solution we've found -- and it's not ideal -- is to keep the outer doors of our buildings locked and have fairly big mail slots in them. The mail then gets dropped on the floors of the vestibules. We have also built a shelf in each vestibule and have found our tenants cooperative when we ask them to pick up anything they find on the floor and leave what isn't theirs on the shelf for the other occupants. - Alan Krigman KRF Management, ICON/Information Concepts Inc 211 S 45th St, Philadelphia PA 19104-2918 215-349-6500, fax 215-349-6502 krf...@aol.com or al.krig...@krf.icodat.com
[UC] YAY! Chelsea is going to New York! But she needs an apartment....
Hello All, Our daughter Chelsea has been accepted at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theater in New York. Beloved Philly has been such a nurturing and rich environment and has brought her to this point, and we are so excited! Now we need to find her an apartment... She is looking in Brooklyn. Does anyone know of an inexpensive apartment or sublet? She is hoping to find a spot for 2, as she would like to live with her friend who is an artist relocating to New York as well. We would appreciate any leads that we can get Thanks so much! Yours, Patty Bulack 215 906-0243 pbul...@gmail.com
