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Ina Steiner is co-founder and Editor of EcommerceBytes and has been reporting on ecommerce since 1999. She's a widely cited authority on marketplace selling and is author of "Turn eBay Data Into Dollars" (McGraw-Hill 2006). Her blog was featured in the book, "Blogging Heroes" (Wiley 2008). She is a member of the Online News Association (Sep 2005 - present) and Investigative Reporters and Editors (Mar 2006 - present). Follow her on Twitter at @ecommercebytes and send news tips to ina@ecommercebytes.com. See disclosure at EcommerceBytes.com/disclosure/.

2 thoughts on “Watch What You Drop in a Mail Collection Box”

  1. The past couple of years, I noticed that my local post office’s drop-box has had Priority Mail boxes covering the opening. When I first saw that, it was around the tax deadline and I just figured they didn’t want people putting their returns in there, but they’ve never taken them off.

    It’s a small post office and they don’t have drop boxes inside for anything other than letters. So, I thought it odd that they wouldn’t have had the drop-box fixed by now if there was something wrong with it.

    Now I see this announcement and it suddenly dawned on me the real reason, which I can’t believe I didn’t think of before. I live in Texas and it was in Austin where they had a serial bomber disguising bombs as mail packages back in March 2018 (when I first noticed the drop-box being covered).

    I don’t frequent any other post office and I don’t think I’ve ever noticed a drop-box anywhere else. So I just thought it was that particular box that had an issue. Now I’m curious to see if the other post office has covered their boxes, too. I’ll be heading that way sometime this week to run some errands, so hope to remember. Haha!

  2. Ya, they welded All the mailboxes shut here.
    You can only get the thinnest of letters in.
    This after I witnessed a heavy set middle aged woman trying to shoe horn a Fat Package into the Good Ol’ mailbox.
    Ruined it for every one.
    As a M.A.D. fan, it was quite comical at the time :o)

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