Police urge residents to be vigilant and report suspicious activity immediately.
Montgomery Township Police are warning residents of several mail thefts from residential mailboxes occurring recently in the township.
Police urge residents to be vigilant and report suspicious activity immediately.
The following precautions, police said, will ensure that mail is safe and secure:
- Check your mailbox often and avoid leaving mail in an unsecured residential mailbox.
- Bring sensitive outgoing mail to the post office rather than leaving it in your residential mailbox.
- Consider a locking residential mailbox. There are many residential mailbox options that allow mail to be delivered to a home, but require a key to retrieve the mail.
- Do not send cash in the mail.
- Report mail thefts to the local police department and the United States Postal Service.
- Consider requesting a vacation hold for mail, even if absent for a few days from home.
- If you move, make sure to file a change of address form with the postal service. Update your financial institution of your change of address as well.
- Sign up for USPS Informed Delivery online. You will receive daily emails with scans of your mail and package information, and you can be aware of when sensitive mail arrives. Sign up here.
