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NO! If the mail box is of the type authorized by the USPS for
private use, your landlord may not deposite any material not
bearing postage into your mail box.

[18 U.S.C.S § 1725.] Postage unpaid on deposited mail matter:

"Whoever knowingly and willfully deposits any mailable matter
such as statements of accounts, circulars, sale bills, or
other like matter, on which no postage has been paid, in any
letter box established, approved, or accepted by the Postal
Service for the receipt or delivery of mail matter on any
mail route with intent to avoid payment of lawful postage
thereon, shall for each such offense be fined under this
title."

If your landlord is using a "master" key to open the mail
boxes, he is in even bigger trouble.

[See 18 U.S.C. § 1704.] Keys or locks stolen or reproduced

"Whoever steals, purloins, embezzles, or obtains by false
pretense any key suited to any lock adopted by the Post
Office Department or the Postal Service and in use on any of
the mails or bags thereof, or any key to any lock box, lock
drawer, or other authorized receptacle for the deposit or
delivery of mail matter."