Today I saw this row of mailboxes that had been plundered by a mail thief. Notice that the second and fifth boxes remain unscathed. They are produced by MailBoss, a Redmond-based company. I believe they make the most secure mailboxes on the market. They’re very difficult to pry open and the locks are hard to pick. I always groan when I show up to replace the lock on a mailbox with no keys and find that it’s a MailBoss mailbox.

These mailboxes are a little pricey compared to other products on the market, but in an area with as much mail theft as we have in and around Seattle, they’re well worth the cost. If you go into their warehouse in Redmond, you can usually score a store return for half price. But please don’t make the clerk open ten boxes in search of a perfectly unblemished mailbox. If you require perfection, new ones are available at many major retailers.

The model I like best is actually called the Mail Boss. It has a door that’s tilted inward when closed, so it’s especially hard to pry open. I believe both the boxes in this video are examples of the Mail Manager.