Postal Service taking new steps to counter surge in robberies and mail thefts

Robberies of postal carriers have exploded, surging 78% to nearly 500 in 2022.

A tray of mail on a cart before being loaded into a United States Postal Service mail delivery vehicle at a post office in Louisville, Kentucky, US, on Wednesday, July 6, 2022. Photographer: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images

On Thursday, federal officials announced two more people were charged on allegations of pulling a letter carrier off a home’s front steps while stealing an arrow key and using a knife to rob another carrier last year in Massachusetts. But efforts by criminals to intercept the mail go beyond robberies to steal those keys. The Postal Service said also there were 38,500 thefts of mail from blue collection boxes in the 2022 fiscal year.Criminals are targeting the mail, often in an organized fashion, to commit financial crimes, including altering checks to commit check fraud, officials said, but there are steep federal penalties for doing so.

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