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A post office in a remote but probably around some homeless people go, in my area, is now running limited hours. Many in this post office's area in Verdi, NV do not get mail to their houses and have to go to the post office to pick up mail.
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Post office locations in high crime cities in the San Francisco Bay Area do close early. There is theft due to people trying to break into the mail boxes or the mail room.

There are still 24 open lobbies in the lower crime suburbs.

UPS stores have some locations that have PO Boxes rooms that are open 24 hours and some are closed completely after the store closes.

Perhaps they need to upgrade their security.
Allow people with PO boxes to enter using a special code that opens the door. The code will track who accessed the lobby last.

Many years ago there was Kinko's which became FEDEX Office. There were many that were 24 hours in the 90s. Then over time they all started closing earlier. This was a popular place for people to photocopy things or print out school papers. They also had computers that you could pay to use.
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Alpha8472 wrote: July 15th, 2022, 10:39 pm Post office locations in high crime cities in the San Francisco Bay Area do close early. There is theft due to people trying to break into the mail boxes or the mail room.

There are still 24 open lobbies in the lower crime suburbs.

UPS stores have some locations that have PO Boxes rooms that are open 24 hours and some are closed completely after the store closes.

Perhaps they need to upgrade their security.
Allow people with PO boxes to enter using a special code that opens the door. The code will track who accessed the lobby last.

Many years ago there was Kinko's which became FEDEX Office. There were many that were 24 hours in the 90s. Then over time they all started closing earlier. This was a popular place for people to photocopy things or print out school papers. They also had computers that you could pay to use.
Map out this Verdi, NV post office and you will see this is the last place you'd be expecting to have this type of problem.

I remember in the old days on trips sometimes finding a FedEx Office for internet use pay per minute. They stayed open until Midnight in busier areas well into the 00's.
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Alpha8472 wrote: July 15th, 2022, 10:39 pm Perhaps they need to upgrade their security.
Allow people with PO boxes to enter using a special code that opens the door. The code will track who accessed the lobby last.
Or just use the keys they already have for the mailboxes!

Or simply have the boxes separated such that those are all you can get to, and then it isn't an issue (as no one can get into the boxes themselves without the correct key).
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BillyGr wrote: July 16th, 2022, 12:21 pm
Alpha8472 wrote: July 15th, 2022, 10:39 pm Perhaps they need to upgrade their security.
Allow people with PO boxes to enter using a special code that opens the door. The code will track who accessed the lobby last.
Or just use the keys they already have for the mailboxes!

Or simply have the boxes separated such that those are all you can get to, and then it isn't an issue (as no one can get into the boxes themselves without the correct key).
There are some post offices that actually do not have a public indoor collection box and the only collection box if you are mailing something is outside (the post office in Dayton, NV is like this). So for post offices like that they could absolutely key or card the facility so only boxholders could enter the location after staff has left for the night. But if going this route they need to have a mailbox outside or somehow otherwise accessible to the public for mail drop off. Post offices tend to be staffed at odd hours, even when you think there is nobody there, there is likely a person or two in the back sorting mail. Not at 10 PM at a small post office, but at a suburb one absolutely there is a person or two in back trying to stay caught up.
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There’s always a been a lot of variability depending on the local postmaster. My town’s post office never had after hours access even decades again. The equally dull ‘burb next door had access to PO Boxes and an inside mail drop. It was under a different postmaster. The only change I’ve seen in DC aid that one post office that was open on Sunday hasn’t resumed that service after the COVID lockdowns.
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