We have a home with a mail slot/chute on the outside that goes directly into the house with a little wooden door. Often the mailperson will leave larger pieces like magazines sticking outside. I'm wondering about some kind of lock that would work at least on the inside to keep mom with dementia from getting access to the mail. We have switched 95% of the mail to be delivered to a PO box, but there are a couple exceptions and this week their Social Security statements arrived. Dad's was left alone but mom ripped hers into pieces having gotten her hands on it; Dad retrieved what he could from the trash to patch together. Then tonight I was catching up on newspaper reading and came to discover the property tax statement/bill which was sent 12/23/19 had not been passed on to me, which means mom intercepted it, dad was unaware it even came, and she threw that out as well. It's due the end of the month...
There are quite a few locking mailboxes on Amazon.
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We had mthr's mail forwarded (lasts a year in US). Important mail will have something on it like, Forwarding Service Requested, which means that the sender gets a notice of a new address. In the mean time, you change the address on all the mail that is coming. On magazines, you get one issue forwarded before they start going to trash. We were able to round up everything she had - even these giant class action lawsuit filings follow her around!
You might want to talk to the County Clerk where the property is owned and ask if the property tax statement can be sent to your PO Box or to your house. In some states, the property tax statement cannot be forwarded because the the County Assessor/Clerk is a County/State/Federal "business" and their mail cannot be forwarded by law in some states. Also, some County Clerks will NOT send the property tax statement to another address other the one listed for the owner(s) of the property or to a PO Box; NOR will they resend the property tax statement if it is lost or accidently destroyed.
Since you do not have the property tax statement, you will most likely have to go to the County Clerk in person and pay the property tax at the court house. If you want to find out what the property tax is and the property is in Cleveland, you can contact the Cuyahoga County Fiscal Officer at this website:
https://fiscalofficer.cuyahogacounty.us/
Hope that this information is helpful.
Can mail be sent to your home or another relative and retrieved or delivered weekly? That’s kind of a pain, though.
If not could you use a wall mounted box and seal up the chute?