The U.S. Postal Service handles 668 million pieces of mail every day. The vast majority of it arrives intact and to the hands of its rightful owner. However, mail theft still does exist. In fact, mail theft remains the most common form of white-collar crime in America.
Mail theft is the act of one person taking, destroying, or otherwise tampering with another person’s mail for the purposes of obstruction or learning the secrets, business, and personal information of the other person. One way to avoid mail theft is to simply retrieve your mail as soon as it is delivered, but how do you know when it’s delivered?
The answer is the STI Wireless Mail Alert. The Alert (STI-34200) will immediately let you know when the mail has arrived, eliminating repeat trips out to an empty mailbox and any chance of someone swiping your mail before you get to it.
The STI Wireless Mail Alert beeps and flashes when your mail is delivered. The mailbox sensor is triggered when a postal carrier opens the mailbox door. The sensor sends a wireless radio signal to the indoor receiver (up to 1000 feet away) which will chime and flash letting you know the mail has arrived. If the supervised sensor is removed from the mailbox, stolen, loses signal or battery is low, the receiver will beep once a minute.
Mail Alert is designed to work with conventional mailboxes with doors that open downward. A magnetic contact with an 18 inch lead is included for mail boxes that do not open downward.
Oh ya – and a word to would-be-thieves, mail theft is punishable under federal law by heavy fines and potential jail sentences of up to five years.
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