mail theft

The News4 I-Team found an increase in mail theft and attacks on postal carriers. Consumer Investigative Reporter Susan Hogan reports one lawmaker wants more postal police on the streets.

New U.S. Postal Inspection Service data obtained and analyzed by the News4 I-Team shows robberies and assaults against postal carriers are up across the country, and one postal insider says it’s likely connected to the spike in mail theft during the pandemic.

New U.S. Postal Inspection Service data obtained and analyzed by the News4 I-Team shows robberies and assaults against postal carriers are up across the country, and one postal insider says it’s likely connected to the spike in mail theft during the pandemic. Susan Hogan reports.

Dave Wood’s bank returned the funds, but he will not be putting checks into the blue boxes anymore.

Police are looking for a man on surveillance video who they say targeted at least one U.S. Postal Service collection box. News4’s Shomari Stone reports authorities are warning that thieves are swiping money from people’s mail.

The U.S. Postal Inspection Service and Montgomery County police are investigating a series of mail thefts from several blue collection boxes. “It’s really disappointing, because I love the postal service,” mail theft victim Ashley Patterson said.  Last spring, she wrote a check for $300, put the envelope in a collection box on Fox Hall Road in Northwest D.C. Weeks...

A policy change could be to blame for increased mail theft across our area, a postal insider told the News4 I-Team. The head of the Postal Police Officers Association says the U.S. Postal Service removed its uniformed officers from patrols that deter those kinds of crimes, instead stationing them inside postal processing facilities. “It’s nuts; it’s absolutely crazy,” said...

A postal insider tells the News4 I-Team a policy change could be to blame for increased mail theft across our area. Investigative Reporter Jodie Fleischer reports.

Pam Wasserman thought she was being careful when she mailed checks on behalf of her company in September. Working from home amid the pandemic, the Silver Spring, Maryland, nonprofit executive didn’t want to enter a post office. Instead, she said she checked the pickup time on the blue mailbox closest to her house and made sure to drop the...

Thieves are stealing from blue mailboxes, and Investigative Reporter Jodie Fleischer says the Postal Service is struggling to stop it.