AI6YR BenHearing through the grapevine that people are stealing from the blue post office boxes everywhere here in town... now recommending you drop your mail inside the post office (or I suppose, hand it to your mail carrier directly). #ThousandOaks #NewburyPark #mail #crime
Paul Chambers🚧@ai6yr That's been an problem in #AppalachianOhio for a couple years.
JL Johnson 
@ai6yr probs best to drop it inside. A shocking amount of outbound mail gets lost w/ carriers. Here at least w/ experience in different neighborhoods. I don’t blame them. Their union is crap, and we ask way too much of them
qurlyjoe@User47 @ai6yr Copied from today’s WaPo.
Frank Albergo is the president of the Postal Police Officers Association.
Over the past two decades, the U.S. Postal Service has steadily dismantled its uniformed police force. The agency employed about 450 postal police officers last year, down from 1,400 in 2000 — a decline of nearly 70 percent. (1/3)
In 2020, the agency went further, de-policing itself with a directive that limited officers to protecting Postal Service property. Proactive, street-level patrols designed to stop mail theft in real time were eliminated. (2/3)
What followed was predictable: Letter carrier robberies surged by 845 percent nationwide between fiscal 2019 and 2023, from 64 robberies per year to more than 600. High-volume mail theft has skyrocketed 2,500 percent since 2010, with more than 52,000 reported cases in fiscal 2024, according to federal data obtained by the Postal Police Officers Association, the organization I lead. (3/3)
Stumpy The Mutt@ai6yr They disappeared years ago around here, except for the big one outside the Post Office.
benstiglitz