Our Story

Judy and Dick Maran of Little Rock, Arkansas, replaced their mailbox time and again because of mailbox vandalism.

“The boxes were bashed and ripped from the pedestal, mail was stolen, and even one entire mailbox was stolen,” Judy said. “And we live in a good neighborhood!”

They are not alone.

Local law enforcement agencies said that mailbox theft and vandalism is a major problem that proves very time consuming for law enforcement. The paperwork alone takes hours and it is difficult to prove a suspect committed the crime unless caught in the act.

Judy and Dick suspected they were missing mail.  Their suspicions were confirmed when a woman, who lived about ten miles away, called and said their canceled checks were blowing across her front yard.

Over time, they missed some uncashed checks, bank statements and some bills.

“When we called the post office for help, they asked us who the culprit was who was vandalizing our mailboxes and stealing our mail. Naturally, if we knew that, we could have put a stop to it.

"But the post office is not in a position to monitor mailboxes, so they suggested that we rent a post office box. That meant we would have to go to the post office to get our mail every day.”

There had to be a better solution!

As a temporary remedy, Dick cut a slot in their mailbox door and padlocked it. But mail was sometimes torn as it was shoved through the slot, and only the mail that could fit through the small opening was delivered; the rest had to be retrieved at the post office.

Next, they began the hunt for a mailbox that would lock automatically after mail was deposited--one that would hold packages and be impervious to baseball bat blows. After months of searching through catalogs and hardware, discount, wholesale and home stores, they found that no one mailbox met all their criteria. So, out of necessity, they did more research and invented The MaiLocker™ .

A Happy Ending