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Checks are being stolen from Postal Service mailboxes, raising concerns about the blue boxes’ security
Philly.Com ^ | 01/26/2021 | Ellie Rushing

Posted on 01/26/2021 10:10:51 AM PST by Kid Shelleen

Thieves are breaking into blue U.S. Postal Service collection boxes across Philadelphia, stealing mail and checks, costing victims thousands of dollars, law enforcement officials say.

The thieves have been stealing checks, forging signatures, and amassing personal information from the mail to commit identity theft, according to interviews with victims, Philadelphia police, and postal sources.

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The break-ins call into question the security of the iconic blue boxes, which residents use to mail everything from checks and confidential records to election ballots.

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1 posted on 01/26/2021 10:10:51 AM PST by Kid Shelleen
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To: Kid Shelleen

And costing for damage to the blue box.

Which we will find out are made of blue paint covered gold.


2 posted on 01/26/2021 10:13:26 AM PST by Scrambler Bob (This is not /s. It is just as viable as any MSM 'information', maybe more so!)
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To: Kid Shelleen

No cameras close to the boxes?


3 posted on 01/26/2021 10:13:27 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

BLM/ANTOFA terrorists in action?


4 posted on 01/26/2021 10:15:01 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: Kid Shelleen

Impossible the mail is totally and utterly safe. Checks, ballots all of that is totally safe.


5 posted on 01/26/2021 10:15:27 AM PST by pas
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To: Kid Shelleen

I never put my mail in those blue boxes. If I can’t pay something electronically, I’ll take it to the post office when they are open and drop it in the slot inside.


6 posted on 01/26/2021 10:16:06 AM PST by ObozoMustGo2012
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To: Kid Shelleen

Phila USPS is major screwed up overall. Have had two Priority Mail envelopes take 15 days and 8 days respectively. USPS is not posting tracking info to the web site, but my postmistress was able to get the info. Four days from S.E. Ohio to Phila, where they just sit, day after day after day.


7 posted on 01/26/2021 10:19:51 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan (Eleutheromaniac)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Instead of renting a safe deposit box, I just put all my bond certificates in mail, addressed to myself. It takes a long time to arrive back, and US mail is one of the safest. And saves me trips to the bank and pay yearly fees. /S


8 posted on 01/26/2021 10:20:53 AM PST by entropy12 (It is NOT WHO VOTES, it is who COUNTS THE VOTES wins elections...paraphrasing Joe Stalin)
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

I live in a small borough outside of Pittsburgh.

People are so trusting of the blue box in front of our post office they actually leave packages underneath and on top of it after hours if the box is full.


9 posted on 01/26/2021 10:22:17 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

But your ballots were safe.


10 posted on 01/26/2021 10:23:28 AM PST by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Kid Shelleen
… amassing personal information from the mail to commit identity theft, …

Where do I hide...and how do I get there!

11 posted on 01/26/2021 10:24:55 AM PST by immadashell (New Planned Parenthood slogan: Black Babies’ Lives Don't Matter!)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Pffft some postal workers are crooks.


12 posted on 01/26/2021 10:27:23 AM PST by Irenic
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To: Kid Shelleen

This is just another “reset” for a cashless society. Think about it.


13 posted on 01/26/2021 10:27:24 AM PST by Maudeen (A question to answer, "Will my name be written in the Lamb's Book of Life?" Revelation 20:15)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Are they sure the “checks” aren’t late incoming MAIL IN Ballots.... for 2020 Presidential.... it’s not too late folks... keep them cards and ballots coming.

Mail in checks— stolen. Imagine that. Said no one who lives in rural America and cannot have a mail box on their property entrance— for theft and vandalism reasons, both.

Prosecute these thieves— Postal Inspectors.

Instead of being called out to arrest Brad Parscale (imagine that happening in Broward County FL— don’t have to- it DID happen to a rather foolish Parscale. But also— points to the THEFT role in the elections on the digital side of the Postal Inspectors- who clearly looked the other way on Mail In Ballot fraud, as they were supposed to monitor the surveilling of mailed ballots by the USPS “Mail Covers” program (which photos all sorted mail as 200 processing centers across the US and assigns a registration to each envelope printed on the envelope and scannable under ultraviolet light to illuminate the number).

The Mail Covers program is one more way to verify fraudulent ballots, back dated ballots, origin and destination of mail in ballots completed. A major tracing of physically fraudulent Election fraud, and defrauding of legitimate voters (already voted, when they had not- and their provisional ballots never counted, etc.). Imho they are part of the Great Immaculate Election.


15 posted on 01/26/2021 10:30:07 AM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Thank God there are no votes ever put in those mailboxes.

Oh? Nevermind.


16 posted on 01/26/2021 10:32:10 AM PST by oldbill
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To: pas

Unless it’s a ballot for taking Amazon union. Then the mail is completely unsafe.


17 posted on 01/26/2021 10:34:45 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Blue U.S. Postal Service collection boxes are being broken into in Austin, TX, as well.


18 posted on 01/26/2021 10:50:17 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Have had two Priority Mail envelopes take 15 days and 8 days respectively.


My wife used Priority Mail to send some checks from SE MO, to her son in Atlanta. She mailed them on the 14th. By the 18th they were maybe 10 miles from her son’s house. On the 25th they were in Baltimore MD, from there they got to Linthicum Heights, and Hyattsville, MD. The USPS says they’ve left Hyattsville and on the way to the destination. So it’s not just Philadelphia USPS that’s screwed up. My wife is pissed because she spent extra money to get the checks there quickly.

I’m old enough to remember that you didn’t want to screw with the U.S.P.O. Reusing a stamp could get you locked up. Breaking into a mailbox would result in penitentiary time.


19 posted on 01/26/2021 10:54:49 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
The same for my condo. Packages and mail are left out in the open for pick-up.

USPS, Fed Ex, and UPS packages are simply left in the lobby. No one has had any problem.

20 posted on 01/26/2021 10:55:06 AM PST by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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