Mail theft complaints have jumped 327% since 2018 and a big part of the problem stems from the keys USPS uses for mailboxes. National consumer correspondent Ash-Har Quraishi has more.
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Sounds like MAGA's next conspiracy theory for boter fraud…
With radical extremists democrat soft on crime its only going to get worse
Defund USPS convert all post offices to computer labs staffed by grandchildren
that is not true as mail people keep getting robbed for the keys some at gun point
Post office is in big financial trouble and poorly managed
I don't use the USPS system unless there's no choice. I have a mailbox at a UPS store instead. The reason is they are much more responsive because they are aware that I pay them and I could stop. The USPS doesn't care because I pay them out of taxes, so if I'm unhappy with their service, there's nothing I can do about it. Unlike UPS, FedEx, and every other delivery service, USPS does NOT deliver to my house, but instead forces me and my neighbors (14 other households) to set up unsecured mail boxes on the side of a highway, where they are subject to everything from aggressive snow plows to kids knocking them down for fun. Then there's the actual mail…I have to know my neighbors really well, because the mail often gets delivered to the wrong box, on a daily basis. They just don't care which mailbox they put it in, and when we complain, they claim that it was delivered correctly "according to the GPS" which is stupid because the accuracy of GPS does not allow you to distinguish between mail boxes that are next to each other. If you look up the rating for our local post office, it gets 1 star only because there's no lower rating, yet nothing changes, because there's no accountability. USPS had a purpose once…back in the Pony Express days. They are now simply a drain and a frustration in the system.
One word: DEJOY.
I reported mail theft, and I got a caring response from the 1800 number, but my local post office was very dismissive. I quickly realized that I was upsetting myself, and wasting my time.
My advice is stop being lazy and bring it to a postal office.
They should also report oh the theft by management towards their employee. Esp the rrec robbery the rural carriers are experiencing
I think mail group should get free fight training then or if fight may cause get beaten, then if get beaten(but does this means fake mental places support thieves like a fightback = to create this man a mental problem profile or logic?) – this is spoken before: a topic by trend, a movement somewhere, means the thieves maybe 1 of the movement group that create trend of a topic to exist in the world.
Mail is important – a lover need to know stuff maybe? A code like item pattern maybe in a lovers' life? Maybe this is about importance of police? Then easily police hide in the vehicle and follow as an assignment if truly a humanity justice take such job? If detective don't exist, a fighter or gangster, it's still the same. Situation = public, items = support of civilians, if they beat maybe to injure joint of legs at body is the only idea?
Wow, you got them after hitting 2,200 address. Great job.
The USPS is also failing to investigate all the counterfeit stamps that have flooded the market in recent years! The postal service is going to cause their own downfall!
USPS THEFTS DONE BY…by postal employees are responsible for a significant amount of the thefts. I photographed a USPS employee stealing on several occasions. Rather than enduring the bad PR, they retired the criminal with full retirement/benefits.
Shoplifting, theives targetting postal services and ppl stealing ur deliveries.
Whats America doing to handle such crimes?
mail in ballots are not safe
why are people and companys still using checks? They can get stolen so fast.
Joe Biden's America….
Considering how inept my local post office is, I'm not remotely suprised.
You want answers to this? You want a difference to be made to protect your mail/packages/privacy? Ask Louis Dejoy. Stop slandering the hard working mail carriers, supervisors, and postmasters… Ask Dejoy. He is the last person to approve ANYTHING.
While all this is happening, Louis Dejoy is changing USPS into a logistics privatized 'company'. All he cares about is profit. He's sold USPS air-mail contract off to UPS (a company Dejoy owns stock in), and continues to condense processing/distribution centers WHICH causes backed up mail/parcel's. 1 giant building is not suppose to process and distribute to 4 surrounding states.
You want answers, ask Louis Dejoy, Postmaster General.
I just saw boxes at private homes open to the road with mail in them! Not smart people.
When we do need to mail something, I take it,directly to the Post Office and drop it in the slot inside! Yes, it does take more time (and the traffic where we live is horrendous) but we never use a blue mailbox, even the one outside the PO!