A resident, 60, stopped at the police station on the afternoon of Aug. 13 after noticing that a wrought-iron ornamental post had been removed -- again -- from his mailbox. He noted that a few weeks ...

In the late 1970s, my dad attached a 1940s-era cast-iron mailbox to the front of our house. The box, with a thin slot at the top, was long and narrow and covered by a hinged metal lid. Inside the slot ...