"Bob Eager" wrote in message
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On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:44:16 UTC, Richard Faulkner
wrote:

I live in a flat where the letterboxes are a bank of 7 at the front
door. They all have normal letterbox flaps but the mail falls into a
fairly shallow box and is easily removed from outside.

Some of my mail is being stolen from my letterbox - before I get to it,
and I am reasonably sure that someone is having a go at identity theft
or similar.

A sideways approach....

Get a PO box and collect it from the delivery office (this is different
from the sorting office in many cases, and may be nearer and easier).
Costs about a pound a week.

You can ask for mail to be held for that particular address, but it
isn't a specific service as far as I know. It seems to be a bit
unreliable, and depends on the particular postman on duty.
--
Bob Eager

When you have a PO Box number as your address, certain organisations
naturally will not deal with you. Fraudsters use PO Boxes liberally.
Although anyone has the right to know the name and address of the holder of
an any PO Box number. Few people know that.

You also have the right to have a bank account in another name. As long as
the account leads back to you it is fine. I'm not sure if a bank has to give
the real name of the holder on request. I think they don't have to. Again,
fraudsters use this facility liberally. A PO Box number can raise alarm
while a bank account as a front cannot. Britain is a fraudsters paradise.



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