Those federal rebate checks headed for the nation's mailboxes will provide an easy target for thieves.
The pros will be expert at stealing your identity, nabbing your check and getting it cashed.

Not all the thieves are good at avoiding detection,apparently. Chicago's postal inspection service office alone made more than 5,000 theft arrest in 2006. 

Honest entrepreneurs have taken notice of the crime: a variety of security mailboxes can cost up to $260. So if you thing your mailboxes is in danger place you should contact your IRS to send the rebate check to different address. if not, just put the lock on your mailbox. guarantee no body will touch it.........unless the thieves damage the mailbox with the hammer.....these days many possibility what people will do to you to earn money.

be safe.....and cautious..........