Mail Fraud

Do you ever get that feeling that you should not do something, but you don't know why, so you do it anyway? I put a payment for an invoice into my mailbox for the postman to pick up and that little feeling came not to do that, but there were other envelopes in there already, and besides the mailman should be coming soon. You guessed it, someone stole my outgoing mail, altered my check and cashed it. Luckily I had the money to cover the check, because they only changed the 3 to a 5, but I lost the whole afternoon reporting it to my bank, the fraud department, and the US Postal Postal Inspector. (The Police said I didn't need to file a report with them, just the Postal Inspector.) Monday I get to go and open a new account, because they closed my account today as an added measure of safety, in case the criminals try to do anything else.

I know, and we all know we should never leave our outgoing mail in the mail box to be picked up. I usually take it to the Post Office myself, but I was lazy and rushed for time. Well, look at the time it has cost me today. We are now going to buy a mailbox that can lock. This will protect our incoming mail, but I will always have to remember to take my outgoing mail to the Post Office. It is a small inconvenience for that added measure of safety.

But the day didn't start off bad. We helped with an Eagle Scout project this morning, painting a new design on the play ground wall at an elementary school. A lot of people turned up to help and the wall looks so colorful, light blue, with yellow, red, and green designs, and it looks fabulous.

Hope you all have a great day and remember to protect yourselves against fraud.