"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 6/22/2014 10:53 AM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>> "Julie Bove" wrote:
>>>
>>> They would require you to call the locksmith and get a new lock put in.
>>> Do
>>> you think they really have extra keys for all those thousands of
>>> mailboxes?
>>
>> You don't get to choose your locksmith, the USPS contracts with their
>> own locksmiths, cost's $15 to re-key for a lost key and I think $3 for
>> each key over two.
>>
> Absolutely right, Sheldon. If the USPS mailbox has a lock, you can get it
> re-keyed or the lock replaced. Apparently she's too busy figuring out how
> to spend money on ways to store potatoes and onions.

Of COURSE I can get it rekeyed. But I don't want to have to go that route.
It's expensive!

And Sheldon is wrong about the post office contracting locksmiths. Maybe in
his area they do. They sure as heck don't here!

I just tried to search the USPS on this and there are no answers there.

But I did find this and it says that what you have to do varies from area to
area.

http://www.city-data.com/forum/real-...ey-work-2.html

I don't think anybody here lives in Bothell so they don't know how it works
here. Just because you do something one way where you live, doesn't mean it
is that way here.

We have to compost food scraps. I gather that is not common elsewhere.