[jimtorr]

....the U.S. Postal Service has a mandate to deliver mail to secure mailboxes.....

Nonsense. The USPS delivers mail to millions of nonsecure mailboxes every day.

[nuconvert]

It’s ridiculous. My mailbox isn’t secure and neither are those of any of my neighbors. Anyone can open it - which is why the Post Office periodically warns people not to leave mail sitting in it or leave their outgoing bills with checks in it because they can easily be stolen.
There must be tens of millions of people who get mail delivered in unsecure boxes

[Daffynition]

Depends on what your definition of 'secure' is. Looks secure to me. ;)

[festus]

the usps has a long tradition of delivering my mail to other people. I met half my neighbors as we redistribute mail to the recipients.

[bert]

.....The USPS delivers mail to millions of nonsecure mailboxes every day......

Yes, but..... my unsecured mail box, the one with the red flag on the side, is a USPS Approved mail box.

A weather proof galvanized steel receptacle generally used as a trash can is not.

[boogerbear]

Not for long. They’ve been clamping down on stuff lately. Apartment and condo dwellers were the first to notice this when they closed the outbound slot on all the multi-boxes to “prevent theft”. Now they’re starting to refuse odd ball delivery points like this. They’re obsessing on the “secure and safe” part of their mission rather than the convenient. Pretty soon we’ll all need some sort of lock on our boxes, to make sure we don’t get stolen from.