A sign of increasing local post-office problems…

…with stolen and washed checks, above and beyond this conversation I overheard at the restaurant earlier this summer, where a(n early 50s) (white woman) (nurse?) was telling her two coworkers about how someone had gotten hold of a check that she had written and dropped off in a curbside mailbox by a well-trafficked local minimall, and she had to go through all of this trouble with the bank to try to straighten it out:

The local public radio station now has a preprinted note on the back of its donation envelope that they send you during their fund-drive, stipulating that the preprinted return address where you send your checks goes to a safe lock-box in another city, and that they’ll be sending your donation receipts from a different local address, after they receive and process any check you send them.