I admire mailbox locks!

[Bleach]

He, he, that's not very important, but I really love mailbox locks.

So small, so miserable, cheap metal, little plug - BUT DOUBLE SIDED!
I had problems with those locks - 50% because I am a beginner,
50% because THEY ARE COOL!

Just try to pick them in a short period of time!

Bleach

[HeadHunterCEO]

if you have a double sided lock on your mailbox you are not within the spec defined by usps

you should have a 5 pin

[Chucklz]

I don't think USPS regulations apply in Latvia.

[Romstar]

if you have a double sided lock on your mailbox you are not within the spec defined by usps

you should have a 5 pin

Might have something to do with his being in another country.

My post office box uses a standard double sided wafer lock. Nifty little thing. Some are single sided. There are a few pin tumbler types.

If you think this is strange, there is more.

We still have community mailboxes all over the place. In most areas those boxes never have locks on them. The customers just never put on a lock.

Some of the newer boxes have integral locks, but in many cases, they are left unlocked. It's like this Canadian habit of leaving the doors unlocked. They myth is alive and well in many places here.

Romstar

[WhiteHat]

heck! 5 pin for a mailbox lock!!!

I'm in an apartment complex and my mailbox just has a cheap 3 wafer lock, and it's very not uncommon for most normal houses in brisbane to have no lock at all on their mailbox.... heck - half the time, I can just take my mail out through the front of the box anyway....

[mcm757207]

Where I live they are starting to switch out locks with a new keyway. This is sorta a good thing, however- we have not been able to find where to purchase the blanks

[quickpicks]

It's like this Canadian habit of leaving the doors unlocked. Romstar

Yep. Sounds like the canadian tradition of sometimes feeling too safe.
Compare Canada's crime rate to The U.S and you get the awnser to why everything is unlocked, or else we just couldent give a crap if it was locked or not.

[Romstar]

It's like this Canadian habit of leaving the doors unlocked. Romstar

Yep. Sounds like the canadian tradition of sometimes feeling too safe.
Compare Canada's crime rate to The U.S and you get the awnser to why everything is unlocked, or else we just couldent give a crap if it was locked or not.

Start looking at the crime statistics per 1000 people, and you begin to realize that it's a cultural thing, and not anything to do with safety.

Canadian media has only recently begun to scare the crap out of it's audience. In the United States, it's been an ongoing race to capture more and more ratings since the 1960's.

"If it bleeds, it leads." Its a common enough phrase heard in newsrooms across the United States, and now Canada.

We are becoming more and more like the Romans. We want to see death and dismemberment. All the grotesqueness without the effort or danger. Brought to you in living colour every evening on your television set. Digitally enhanced, colour corrected, high definition, so real you can almost taste the brain matter.

Welcome, to the new world order.

Romstar

[DanD]

Current standards for USPS postal locks, I believe, are high security Medeco locks, with all locks within a particular Zip code being keyed alike.

[S3rratedSp00L]

hehe, all that money and effort to use Medeco and they go and key the whole zip code the same. That sucks. When will people ever learn..

So when one lock or key comes up missing they have to re-key the entire zip code. I bet that they would'nt even re-key and would just hope for the best. Key control might be easier, cuz there is only one key bitting for each zip, but I guess they don't want their workers to get angry having to carry so many keys... Wouldn't want them "going postal" on anybody!

[frollard]

Canada Post has a really odd lock - 'large' in comparison, the key looks more like a wrench - t-handle cylinder key, with several bits cut out of the end. then again, the lock (as previously mentioned) has to stand up to -50 (worst) to +45 Celcius. - and work daily.

as for the medeco thing - I assume thats the control key to get into the 'master' door on PO-boxes...

[jason]

In the UK we don't have this problem - just a hole in the front door which the postie pushes the letters through. Nice and easy to use a letterbox tool to open the door from the inside