THE REVERE ADVOCATE – FRIDAY, MAY 23, 2025 Page 11 USPS reminds customers to check and maintain their mailboxes during Mailbox Improvement Week W ith Mailbox Improvement Week approaching (May 18-24), the United States Postal Service (USPS) is encouraging customers to inspect, maintain and upgrade their mailboxes to help ensure safe, secure and efficient mail delivery. “Customer’s mailboxes are the first point of contact for receiving birthday cards, letters, and important documents,” said Acting Postmaster General and CEO Doug Tulino. “A well-maintained mailbox helps to ensure that every package and parcel makes it to its intended destination safely and efficiently.” Each year USPS designates the third week of May as Mailbox Improvement Week to encourage customers to examine and, where necessary, improve the appearance of their mailboxes. Through regular mailbox maintenance, efficient mail delivery, enhanced neighborhood curb appeal and imGRANT | FROM Page 10 of the ways Save the Harbor makes our whole state stronger through community engagement and awareness of harbor and beach ecology,” said MBC Commissioner Representative Jessica Giannino added. “It’s inspiring how Better Beaches expands engagement with ecology by creating personal connections to our fantastic state beaches.” “Not to mention making the beaches a blast all summer!” added Maya Smith, Better Beaches Program Director. “We’ve seen fi rsthand how much a good time can maintain and expand ongoing public investment in the Harbor. The lively Better Beaches activations are at the core of that success.” Since the program began, Better Beaches has supported over 2,100 free events and programs and leveraged over $7.3 million in state and local investment in our beachfront and waterfront communities. Meanwhile, this year’s Better Beaches events are expected to draw nearly 500,000 attendproved Postal Service operations are better ensured. Mailbox care tips The Postal Service annually calls attention to Mailbox Improvement Week because of the wear and tear that occurs to mailboxes throughout the year. Some of the typical activities homeowners might need to do: • Replacing loose hinges on a mailbox door • Repainting a mailbox that might have rusted or has started to peel • Remounting a loosened mailbox post • Replacing or adding house numbers Keeping security top-of-mind USPS partners with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service to keep postal employees, the mail stream and the American public safe, to prevent incidents through edees to over 200 free events and programs. These free events happen almost every day of the summer, right into the fall. Some of the Better Beaches events happening on Revere Beach include All Abilities Day Out at Revere Beach, Kite Festival, International Sand Sculpting Festival, Access Culture’s World Music Concert Series, and Revere Arabic Community’s Kids for the Coast: Beach Discovery Day, among several others. “I am proud and excited by the diversity of the Better Beaches partners,” said DCR Commissioner Brian Arrigo. “Working with Save the Harbor to improve the life and access to the waterfront for all visitors to our neighborhood shows how vibrant a community we have in the Commonwealth and how DCR’s beaches can welcome and serve everybody.” Better Beaches programming kicks off in late May and continues through mid-September. You can fi nd full listings of about 200 summer events at www.SaveTheHarbor.org. ucation and awareness and to enforce the laws that protect our nation’s mail network. Tips to secure your mail include: • Promptly pick up your mail: Try not to leave letters and packages in your mailbox or at your door for any length of time. • Report mailbox vandalism: If you see someone actively tampering with a mailbox, immediately report it to the police. If you know of someone who committed an act of mailbox vandalism, report it to Postal Inspectors at 1-877-8762455. Learn more at https:// www.usps.com/manage/mailboxes.htm For Advertising with Results, call The Advocate Newspapers at 781-286-8500 or Info@advocatenews.net or Info@advocatenews.net
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