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USPS Warns Not To Use Their Blue Mailboxes
Kiam640 ^ | Mar 1, 2024 | Dave Basner

Posted on 03/03/2024 3:21:26 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

When it comes to mailing letters, many people do it by dropping their envelopes in the United States Postal Service's blue collection bins placed in neighborhoods across America. However, the USPS is now warning would-be mailers that those blue boxes might not be the safest option.

In a press release, the Postal Service explained that unfortunately, the collection bins have become very attractive to thieves looking to steal identities or checks, especially at specific times and on specific days. The agency stated, "The biggest variable enticing these criminals to steal are customers depositing mail into blue collection boxes after the last collection of the day or during Sundays and federal holidays."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blue; bluemailboxes; crime; culturerot; mail; mailboxes; security; theft; usps; uspsmailboxes; warns
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To: RetiredTexasVet

“Sounds like the FBI needs to get of their lazy butts and set up some stings.”

When I was in college several kids stole a mailbox as a prank (most likely having mail inside). While they may have been laughing, the FBI wasn’t and neither were their parents, nor the college.

But, of course, that was in a different America.


61 posted on 03/03/2024 5:25:42 PM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Emboldened criminals - another Obama/Biden legacy.


62 posted on 03/03/2024 5:27:21 PM PST by Allegra (Less propaganda would be appreciated. )
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To: DoughtyOne
My main post office in town now locks the opening to the outgoing mail container, at all non-operational hours.

Our local PO doesn't use outside boxes any more.

Decent area. County household income roughly $120k. Voted Trump twice.

We have video doorbells and cameras around our house. Nothing specific, just because these are trying times. I would have thought that USPS would have been able to figure this out without inconveniencing their customers.

63 posted on 03/03/2024 5:28:44 PM PST by Sooth2222 (“Toute nation a le gouvernement qu’elle mérite.” /"Every nation has the government it deserves.” )
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To: Mark
Hi JERRY.

Hellooo, Newman.

64 posted on 03/03/2024 5:30:32 PM PST by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: Inyo-Mono; hanamizu
hanamizu ~ I’m old enough to remember when they were all painted olive green.

Inyo-Mono ~ I too remember back in the 1950s and '60s when they were green.

Me too, but on the base everything was green...

65 posted on 03/03/2024 5:38:25 PM PST by null and void (I identify as a conspiracy theorist. My personal pronouns are told/you/so.)
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To: Wuli

How in the hell can someone get into the box through the access door? It seems to me that they could just have a mail slot, about 10 inches by 3/4 inch. Nobody could possibly get into it. Let me design it, very simple.


66 posted on 03/03/2024 5:39:31 PM PST by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Swirling deeper and deeper into the sewer, we are.


67 posted on 03/03/2024 5:39:58 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: SamAdams76
And these. The coin boxes were safe; nobody ever hit them.


68 posted on 03/03/2024 5:43:54 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: moreisee

Everyone where I live gets the mail from one collection point. We all have keys to our own box, and there are large boxes for packages. The mailman puts the key for one of the large boxes in your mail.

As for mail thieves, allow citizens to defend their mailbox, packages, and their cars with lethal force. IDK bout you guys, but at my age and income level, if my car is stolen I can never get that back. My car is mine, until it dies, or I die. I can barely afford tabs, and mandatory insurance. Who will make me whole? The government is all about putting people through the system, the Judges, attorneys, and even the cops make a very good living. Yet those harmed by crime lose in EVERY SINGLE CASE.


69 posted on 03/03/2024 5:45:25 PM PST by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Our local post office on Thomas Road and 40th street in Phoenix has these in the front of their parking lot. You drive on a lane to them. They have had to redesign the letter opening by eliminating the pull down now there is no pull down drawer and it’s a very thin opening for letters because someone repeatedly was putting some sticky goop on the area you put the letters in.

Criminals tie a string to something sticky, lower it into the big blue boxes, and pull out mail. They’re usually looking for checks and gift cards. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-postal-service-s-new-blue-boxes-designed-to-thwart-crime-not-for-ease-of-use/ar-AA1aNR8D


70 posted on 03/03/2024 6:05:21 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Glad2bnuts

How in the hell can someone get into the box through the access door?


I believe thieves steal the keys to the box.


71 posted on 03/03/2024 6:06:54 PM PST by hanamizu ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27
" In a press release, the Postal Service explained that unfortunately, the collection bins have become very attractive to thieves looking to steal identities or checks, especially at specific times and on specific days. "


72 posted on 03/03/2024 6:07:08 PM PST by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: Jamestown1630

I don’t disagree. Sign of the times…


73 posted on 03/03/2024 6:11:33 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: EVO X

Same here.


74 posted on 03/03/2024 6:12:03 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: Sooth2222

This level of skullduggery doesn’t serve anyone well.


75 posted on 03/03/2024 6:16:20 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

That booth would not be allowed today .

…..


76 posted on 03/03/2024 6:23:25 PM PST by Mears (pzzr)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Happened to me. Thief stole a credit card payment, made a business check out of the info but misspelled my name. “Washed” the payee info off the original check and tried again but by that time my bank had caught it. Haven’t used the post office since.


77 posted on 03/03/2024 6:41:30 PM PST by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

if you have box in the post office and a mailbox at or near your house, the p.o. Won’t deliver mail nor any packages to your house. They are lazy clogs. FedEx and ups deliver
to my door. Why don’t the p.o. Just give the business to the FedEx and ups. It’s a waste of taxpayers money. It’s govt welfare.


78 posted on 03/03/2024 7:04:24 PM PST by bunkerhill7 (Don't shoot until you see the whites of their lies)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’m old enough to remember when the USPS prosecuted people who stole mail.


79 posted on 03/03/2024 7:07:50 PM PST by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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To: bunkerhill7

One source of my mail uses the p.o. Box. The other the streets address required by some laws. Po throws them all in a plastic box instead of delivering to the house or into the po box. We have to drive 3 miles to get the plastic box fulla mail. They are Lazy slobs...


80 posted on 03/03/2024 7:16:01 PM PST by bunkerhill7 (Don't shoot until you see the whites of their lies)
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