My landlord is crazy…I mean really crazy. We are planning to move when the lease is up (if we break the lease she says that she is going to sue us) So we are waiting until May to move. Anyway, she has put a lock on our mail box. She lives right beside us so we share the same mail box. It states in our lease that she is supposed to bring our mail to us. However, we have received a few pieces of mail that have been opened and taped shut again, We called the people and companies that the mail was from, and they state that they did not tape the letters sent to us. So our landlord has been reading our mail. So we started to check our own mail. A few days ago I went to check the mail, and there was a lock on the mailbox. We do not have a key to the mailbox so we can not get our own mail. When we asked for a key, she responded "No". Is this legal?
The lock is legal. Opening your mail is not.
However, tape does not mean she opened it. The postal service tapes mail too, sometimes it gets caught in machines and ripped.
She locked the mail box becaue in order to get to your mail you had to go through hers, and she never agreed to that.
You paid your rent on time, but there is more to your lease then just that. There is that requirement that she brings in the mail, both you and her have to follow that, and you decided to break it.