Locking Security Mailboxes

Locking security mailboxes have typically been those in high security environments, such corporate, legal and post offices; law enforcement and military facilities; and hospitals. Any form of administrative and/or bureaucratic entity requiring privacy has always used locked mailboxes for the sake of ensuring that confidential mail remains that way.

Commercial mailboxes come in a variety of forms, the two designed specifically for security are the horizontal and vertical displays. These displays come in small and large and offer individual privacy. The horizontal provide smaller boxes, the vertical larger; smaller are reserved for lighter mail parcels, the larger for heavier. The type, horizontal or vertical, depends entirely on the nature of the space in which it is intended to be used.

Today, however, due to the rise of mail intrusion, even residential mailboxes are made lockable. Lock-and-key sets are included and available separately for insertion into the assembly of these mailboxes. They serve as clips, but once secured hold mailbox doors tightly closed. These lock-and-key insertions work on any type of residential mailbox.

Locking mailboxes are a relatively new innovation in the postal delivery system, but it is unfortunately a necessary one. Still, thank goodness that they do exist; without them, no mail is safe.