Posted on 01/03/2023 4:41:17 AM PST by Salman
Chicago — A US Postal Service mail carrier was robbed by two men in Logan Square on Friday evening, the latest crime in an ongoing assault on the mail system in Chicago.
“Never put anything into the postal system unless you are comfortable with it landing in the hands of criminals instead of at its intended destination,” advised an investigative source.
Like dozens of other mail carriers, the postal worker robbed on Friday was targeted for her “arrow key,” a US Postal Service universal master key that opens collection boxes, parcel lockers, mailbox panels, and apartment building mailroom boxes.
The robbers, who targeted the carrier in the 2600 block of North Washtenaw around 5:45 p.m., also went through her pockets and took other items before escaping, a Chicago police spokesperson said.
On December 21, a witness called 911 after seeing a fake postal worker using a master key to open mailboxes in the 1800 block of West Belmont in Roscoe Village. The man was gone when the police arrived.
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When I worked for the USPS occasionally someone would get busted for mail theft. I’ve even seen postal inspectors fit supervisors and postmasters with the silver bracelets. One time a mail contractor who ran the mail between our facility and the GPOs in NYC got busted for stealing registered mail.
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Another reason WHY payroll checks are electronically deposited. Same for Soc Sec payments.
In this case Urban means Black neighborhoods.
Yes but that was not available at that time.
Whereas I had to fly back early to get back to work, she stayed an extra couple of weeks and mailed back a box with some excess luggage.
About three weeks after she got home, the box arrived with darn near everything that was new or resalable missing.
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