Always use a PO Box, as it has proven over the years to be the safest/most direct access to my mail. Recently was out of the city and returned to find the doors to the building of the Post Office bent and the glass shattered. And my held mail inside. Of course it was no longer inside… it was at another PO, much farther away. Life in the City.
The NBC report: “Authorities are investigating after a car hit a parked taxi, jumped the curb and smashed through the front of a post office in the West Village early Monday. Chopper 4 showed debris and shattered glass on the sidewalk in front of the post office on Hudson Street … around 4:30 a.m. Police said there were no life-threatening injuries.” NBC
We had two cars smash into our little post office. I’ve read is very common.