Bennett Valley Community Association Alert

• Sign up for the US Postal Service's (USPS) free mail delivery notification service: "Informed Delivery". That way you'll know what to expect.
  Informed delivery gives you a daily email notification of all letters and packages arriving to your address that day. It includes a picture of each envelope and tracking numbers for each item that has one.
  You can also check recent delivery history on the Informed Delivery website: https://informeddelivery.usps.com/
• If your mail is stolen, report it to the USPS and Sonoma County Sheriff. Here's a reference on how to report it: https://www.wikihow.com/Report-Mail-Theft
• Use Direct Deposit to get checks and other payments into your account rather than mailed to you. This is especially important for recurring checks like Social Security. 
• Sign up for eStatements rather than USPS mailed statements from your bank, utilities, and other providers. Even innocuous items like utility bills and statements can be used by identity thieves. 
• Watch your accounts and credit reports for identity theft attempts. Sign up for one of the free credit monitoring services. 
• Install a high security locking mailbox. A typical high security model is the Mail Boss 7106 other models are available, but the best are heavy gauge steel. Some on the market are quite flimsy. It's also important to mount your mailbox securely.
• Use a USPS Drop Box for outgoing mail containing checks or other personal information. Don't send it from your home box.
• Pay your bills using online bill pay rather than mailing paper checks. A paper check is the LEAST secure form of payment as all your important account information is on the bottom (MICR) line of the check.