Mail theft is ‘the new hustle in urban America’ expert warns as another mail carrier is robbed in Logan Square {Chicago}

CWB Chicago ^ | January 3, 2023 | CWB Chicago staff writers

[Impala64ssa]

When I worked for the USPS occasionally someone would get busted for mail theft. I’ve even seen postal inspectors fit supervisors and postmasters with the silver bracelets. One time a mail contractor who ran the mail between our facility and the GPOs in NYC got busted for stealing registered mail.

[MayflowerMadam]

???

[ridesthemiles]

Another reason WHY payroll checks are electronically deposited. Same for Soc Sec payments.

[Parley Baer]

In this case Urban means Black neighborhoods.

[Mouton]

Yes but that was not available at that time.

[Vigilanteman]

One thing not mentioned is that the postal service hires a lot of third world people with third world values. Some years ago, my wife and I visited her parents in Californistan.

Whereas I had to fly back early to get back to work, she stayed an extra couple of weeks and mailed back a box with some excess luggage.

About three weeks after she got home, the box arrived with darn near everything that was new or resalable missing.