Resident catches neighbor as she goes through their mailbox, reports her to the post office after neighbor claims she has mail delivered to their address: 'Please stop'

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Jul 6, 2026 11:15 AM EDT

Have you ever caught your neighbor doing something they shouldn't be doing with your personal belongings?

Since you generally don't get to decide who it is you are going to end up living next to, you are expected to put a lot of trust in a complete stranger. Even though you aren't going to be living with these people in the same house, there is still a certain connection that forms when two people live right next to each other.

Even if your house is fenced and fortified, your neighbors can still be privy to a lot of inside activity around your house, and even collect information about you as a person. It only takes a few months of living with each other before they know what time you usually leave for work and when you return. They will find out all about the occupants of the house, and which food you enjoy DoorDashing the most. If they really want to, they can even guess your income based on the house you live in and the furniture they can see through the window.

Want it or not, your neighbors become insiders to information you might not even share with your own family.

Another thing a neighbor can get a glimpse of that you have no control over is your mail. As long as you have an outdoor mailbox, that little metal box can be a way in for your neighbor to get a lot of information about you, and even take items they shouldn't get their hands on. As long as they're there, they can get away with pretty much anything, so you have to keep your eyes peeled in order to stop that from happening.

That is what the homeowner in the story below is trying to do after finding out their neighbor regularly looks inside their mailbox. They keep catching them in the act through their ring camera, but they still can't make their neighbor stop. The only other option they have left is to formally report the crime…

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    Neighbor has been trying to go through my mailbox the last two weeks

    edited: Since last Monday I've been getting notifications on my app for my ring cam that my neighbor had been going near my mailbox and using the two- way talk function I've spoken
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    Woman checking mailboxes inside an apartment building.
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    Woman checking mailboxes inside an apartment building.

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    directly with my neighbor asking what's going on which neighbor replies, "Mail carrier said they accidentally put one letter meant to go to my house in your mailbox by mistake." I told them,
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    "you realize you're tampering with someone else's mail please stop. I'll notify my daughter who is home to get the mail and if she sees anything that says your name I'll have her bring it over.” I
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    should note the mail carrier in my neighborhood is very reliable, never have they given anyone the wrong mail.
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    Every time my daughter has checked there's nothing with my neighbors name on it. Today was the final straw and when I saw my neighbor was back I told them, "Touch that mailbox and I report
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    you to the post office." Neighbor says to get my daughter outside to prove there is nothing for them. I text my daughter and she goes outside to get the mail thus she proves there is nothing. I
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    Opened Mailbox with Letters Inside.
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    Opened Mailbox with Letters Inside.

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    have countless footage of the neighbors behavior and I reported it to the post office because it's disrupting me at work and I think they're doing this on purpose just to be j k.
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    Luckily every time the neighbor has done this I'm on lunch break but still it's annoying. Post office said they'll deal with the neighbor tomorrow but to keep the video evidence.
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    update: I have also informed the police and the police said they will deal with the neighbor as well.
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    update two: for people asking how old is my neighbor, I am posting it here as I have commented the answer one too many times, she is a woman in her early thirties who is a single
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    mom of two young kids and my daughter who had to go tell her her mail wasn't mixed with ours used to babysit for the woman. As for the mail carrier they are
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    completely innocent in all this, the woman made a dumb excuse to just be ignorant.
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    MHW93 The mail carrier said that? Makes no sense. If the mail carrier noticed it, she would put it in the right mailbox, not gone and told the neighbor.
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    cardiganunicorn Neighbor is likely getting something sent to your address they want to keep hidden from their spouse...
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    mightyhigh404 Don't stress, the post office people are always bored. They will happily treat this crime as if the world is at stake. You're neighbor is now in the find out stage. Keep us updated.
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