While I'm absolutely thrilled that we've been making great strides to finishing our front vestibule project, something left me feeling a little uneasy this week. That's where my new buddy Merv comes in. You see, Alex spent a good portion of the weekend "growing" the new front door, and we even managed to hang it in its final location last night. The great news -- it was a perfect fit. The bad news? Our new mail slot opening is giving me the heebie jeebies.

While growing the door, Alex cut the opening for our new (old) mail slot. The location of the mail slot in our new door will be roughly waist height, where our current mail slot is just inches from the floor. Here's our current door, seen in the photo below, which was taken when we were tiling the entryway. 

Call me crazy and/or paranoid, but having a hole in the middle of our new door is freaking me out. What's stopping some pervert or burglar on the street from lifting open the new mail slot, pressing his face up against our door, and taking a look around? 

(Thanks Honey for acting as a stand in for Merv in the photo above.) 

Alex thinks I'm totally nuts, and disagrees that we should be concerned because the slot is too small for someone to reach their hand through to be able to manipulate the lock. We also will install a deadbolt higher up on the door, and we're diligent about using our home security system.

Even still, I worry about the errant peeping Merv Tom. I'm trying to come up with a way to somehow shield the back half of the mail slot. Sort of a privacy flap if you will. Any ideas?