Is mail theft surging in the U.S.? Postal Service inspectors don’t know – By Rich Schapiro (NBC News) / Sept 27 2020
Anecdotal accounts suggest mail theft is on the rise in parts of the country. Postal inspectors don’t have a reliable internal system to track the crime.
One day in January, a pair of thieves in black ski masks drove into a restricted area behind a post office in Phoenix. They jumped out of their car, snatched several trays of mail that had just been dropped off and sped away.
Over six days in early April, thieves in New York City stole several bags of mail from a carrier cart, swiped packages from a Postal Service truck and made off with an entire pushcart filled with mail near the famed Grand Central station.
In a city outside Seattle, mail has been stolen so many times at a sprawling apartment complex that carriers avoid leaving unemployment and Social Security checks.
“It’s accelerated to the point where it’s insane now,” Jack Huster, a post office supervisor in Federal Way, Washington, said of the region’s mail theft problem.
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