My home address is in the UK, but I live in a flat and my neighbours are mail stealing...
Are you sure it's your neighbors? We get mail theft here (in Silicon Valley) all the time; thieves harvesting mail for valuables, credit cards, tax data, etc. for ID theft.
In my city, police will not respond even if there is theft in progress and they have idle units at Starbucks next door, claiming that there is no state law against mail theft -- it's up to the USPS to deal with it.
I have a PO Box for everything but junk mail. The much-maligned USPS has a really nice feature nowadays: you can sign a (free) agreement allowing them to accept packages on your behalf from other carriers... so I have FedEx, UPS, etc. all going to my PO Box, using the street-address format for the Post Office proper. It's much less expensive than private services like the UPS Store and such.
Your neighbors are probably more focused on stealing your newspaper. Or spouse.
In my city, police will not respond even if there is theft in progress and they have idle units at Starbucks next door, claiming that there is no state law against mail theft -- it's up to the USPS to deal with it.
I have a PO Box for everything but junk mail. The much-maligned USPS has a really nice feature nowadays: you can sign a (free) agreement allowing them to accept packages on your behalf from other carriers... so I have FedEx, UPS, etc. all going to my PO Box, using the street-address format for the Post Office proper. It's much less expensive than private services like the UPS Store and such.
Your neighbors are probably more focused on stealing your newspaper. Or spouse.