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On Monday, a 63-year-old female mail carrier was robbed at gunpoint by two thugs while delivering mail in Dublin, California. Surveillance video of the incident shows the carrier, who has worked for the U.S. Postal Service for 33 years, delivering mail in a quiet residential neighborhood around 4:30 p.m. when suddenly a masked man emerges behind her. A second masked individual follows closely behind. Suddenly, a masked man comes up behind the mail carrier, followed by a second person who is also masked and the two masked men pull a gun. KTVC reports: “Somebody came up behind me and ‘boom,’...

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...

In fact, between 2011 and 2016, there were roughly 14,000 USPS mailboxes removed, which was during the Obama-Biden administration. A 2009 Washington Post article stated, "In the past 20 years, 200,000 mailboxes have vanished from city streets, rural routes and suburban neighborhoods – more than the 175,000 that remain." "The U.S. Postal Service says it removes 'underperforming' mailboxes – those that collect fewer than 25 pieces of mail a day – after a week-long 'density test,'" the report read, echoing what Frum said last week. Because of the hysteria over the relocated mailboxes, the USPS said they would not remove...

A conservative, California-based filmmaker said this week that his company is distributing more than a million free copies of a conspiracy-laden DVD that claims much of what the public knows about President Barack Obama's early life is false. The movie — called "Dreams From My Real Father" — began appearing in Central Florida mailboxes sometime last week. It is the work of Joel Gilbert, a director whose other movies have focused on everything from militant Islam to Bob Dylan to Elvis Presley. He said the DVD is being sent to swing states, including Florida and Ohio, but would not say...

What are these about? Somebody has put mysterious dots on the mailboxes in my subdivision in the last day or two. These are thick reflective dots about an inch in diameter. The one dot on my mailbox is yellow. My next door neighbor has a red dot. My other next door neighbor has 3 green dots. Neighbor down the street has 2 greens and a blue on theirs. They are on both sides of the mailbox, stuck right onto the mailbox itself, not the post. I drove a little throughout the town and many mailboxes have no dots on their...

A loosely knit group of thieves have been driving through subdivisions and business parks in several North Georgia counties in recent months, authorities say, stealing mail and identities to obtain money and drugs. But they were tripped up when they grabbed a laptop computer during a sting in Lumpkin County a few weeks ago, and that's when the roundup of suspects began in earnest. Federal, state and local authorities are now working to unravel the tangled network. No fewer than 20 members of what authorities call the "Mailbox Meth Gang" in Forsyth, Lumpkin and Dawson counties have been arrested and...

Man killed while throwing rocks out a moving van Saturday, August 31, 2002 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VANCOUVER, Wash. -- A 23-year-old man, who was riding in a van and opening the slide door to throw rocks at mailboxes and cars, fell out of the van and died. John E. Reynolds died of head injuries at the scene early Thursday morning, said Sgt. Craig Randall of the Clark County Sheriff's Office. He hit his head on the pavement. "Ultimately, it's a tragedy of something stupid and juvenile," Randall said. There were five people in the van. Throughout the night, Reynolds had...