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Postal Worker Robbed at Gunpoint in California in Broad Daylight (Video)
Gateway Pundit ^ | May. 12, 2024 8:30 am | Margaret Flavin

Posted on 05/12/2024 1:49:20 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie

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,’ just hit me ,and put a gun to my head,” said the female postal carrier who asked not to be identified.”He said, ‘Give me your keys. You don’t want to die, do you?’ I go no, no, no. So I reached in, got my keys, and he goes, ‘Where’s your phone? You got two minutes’.”

The worker went to the mail truck to get her phone and handed it to the armed robber while fearing the worst.

She said,”On my god, I’m going to die.”

But the two men ran away after taking the keys to mailboxes and the truck, along with her cell phone.

She went to a neighbor for help in calling 911.

The USPS is offering a reward of up to $150,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible.


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I personally heard from a postal worker that there is a reason for this recent rash of postal robberies.

The reason is to get the keys to these new postal box centers they are installing in neighborhoods. No door to door delivery any more. All postmen have a key and one key fits every box everywhere. Yes there is a standard skeleton key for all the boxes.

Call your congressman.

1 posted on 05/12/2024 1:49:20 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
This is in all new neighborhoods now. Not just apartment buildings but they all take the same key.


2 posted on 05/12/2024 1:51:58 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

2020 was a bad year for postal thefts as well, coincidentally.


3 posted on 05/12/2024 1:53:47 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

One more way liberal ‘elites’ give the shaft to everyday Americans. More billions for Ukraine I guess - they know how to ‘pay back’ our corrupt public servants.


4 posted on 05/12/2024 1:56:01 PM PDT by GOPJ ( MSNBC ghouls pretend their 'base' is elites - it's why Biden won't campaign in the black community.)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Undocumented reparations.


5 posted on 05/12/2024 2:05:04 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

I work for USPS, that key will only work on specific boxes, whether it’s 2 or 200, they will replace every lock that key fits. Just have to watch every box that uses that key until the locks are replaced. Some deliveries won’t be made until the lock is replaced. That’s what we have done when we’ve lost a key. Still it’s gonna be difficult to stop the theft of some boxes


6 posted on 05/12/2024 2:07:16 PM PDT by Ponyexpress9790 (Every one that votes democrat is your enemy, there is no co-existing with traitors and terrorists. )
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
About a decade ago, when I still lived in the once-golden state, thieves broke into a neighborhood mail box by prying into the outgoing mail section. Happened twice.

This new approach apparently gives the creeps keys to everything, no prying needed.

Pretty scary.

7 posted on 05/12/2024 2:09:47 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston ChurchIill)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Well that will be a lot of felonies. Apparently the USPS don’t mess around with that.


8 posted on 05/12/2024 2:10:48 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

In the 1920s the US mail was getting robbed, Marines in pairs were sent to ride with the mail. Their standard orders:

“To the Men of the Mail Guard, you must when on guard duty, keep your weapons in hand and, if attacked, shoot and shoot to kill. If two Marines are covered by a robber, neither must put up his hands, but both must immediately go for their guns. One may die, but the other will get the robber, and the mail will get through. When our Corps goes in as guards over the mail, that mail must be delivered, or there must be a Marine dead at the post of duty. There can be no compromise.”

Mail robberies stopped cold

https://www.wearethemighty.com/popular/intense-rules-for-marine-guards/


9 posted on 05/12/2024 2:17:27 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: Seaplaner

Postal Service needs to put one live rattlesnake in a random box. Don’t issue that box out to a customer. Put a sign on the box that one of them has a live rattler. In English… And Spanish.


10 posted on 05/12/2024 2:19:34 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: Seaplaner

And probably Ebonics.


11 posted on 05/12/2024 2:20:09 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
Looks like Canada Post "Superboxes" have now spread to the United States.


12 posted on 05/12/2024 2:33:24 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
Call your congressman.

Like any of our worthless pols are going to do anything about it.

13 posted on 05/12/2024 2:50:54 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason (To solve the Democrat problem, the RINO problem must first be solved.)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
It happened on Obispo Court in Dublin, CA. It's a nice area behind St. Raymond Catholic Church.

-PJ

14 posted on 05/12/2024 2:59:10 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: All

Worked at the post office for ten years before retiring . I don’t remember this ever happening before , though I wouldn’t be surprised if it did. Even when I worked the projects the people there were usually very nice .


15 posted on 05/12/2024 3:02:26 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: Reverend Wright

“Looks like Canada Post “Superboxes” have now spread to the United States.”

I’ve had one of the POS’s ever since moving to Phoenix 27 years ago - and I’m in a traditional neighborhood, not an apartment complex. I detest it.


16 posted on 05/12/2024 3:06:43 PM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

“$150,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of those responsible”

I know, I know!

Gavin Newsome and every other demonrat politician in the state.

Now, where’s my $150k?


17 posted on 05/12/2024 3:21:09 PM PDT by Newtoidaho (All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.)
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To: Reverend Wright

And not even with the courtesy of a rain shelter, obviously.


18 posted on 05/12/2024 3:29:53 PM PDT by OKSooner ("You won't like what comes after America." - Leonard Cohen.)
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To: Reverend Wright

management will do anything to make service worse.


19 posted on 05/12/2024 3:47:26 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: Magic Fingers; OKSooner
It can be hot in Phoenix etc., but it is extra nice in Canada when it is -10F.


20 posted on 05/12/2024 4:48:06 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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