These SF and Oakland neighborhoods had the most letter carrier robberies in California

SF Gate ^ | 4/1/2024 | By Madilynne Medina

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Several neighborhoods in San Francisco and Oakland had the most postal worker robberies in California in 2023, according to data from the U.S. Postal Service. According to the data analyzed by ABC7, about 61% of the 145 reported postal robberies across the state last year happened in the Bay Area.

Robberies of postal carriers and drivers have increased across the country in recent years. Thieves, often armed with guns or other weapons, have stolen mail carriers’ master keys to gain access to large groups of mailboxes.

The robberies have become an increasing concern since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic particularly. As stimulus checks began to arrive in April 2020, the postal service saw an uptick in robberies of postal workers and mail theft, according to a 2020 report from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. Postal Inspection Service data also shows that robberies of letter carriers in particular saw a 543% increase across the country between 2019 and 2022.

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First there were food deserts. Then shopping deserts. Coming soon to the s***holes known as San Francisco and Oakland, mail deserts? Enjoy the suck clowns. Keep enabling the criminals because of "social justice" or sumthin'.

[ActresponsiblyinVA]

I thought Biden claims crimes are down???

[NohSpinZone]

No, that’s just an old Ministry of Truth trick. If you remove calling things a crime, the crime rate magically drops! Whowouldhavethunkit?

[xoxox]

foment lawlessness then roll-out the (bigger gummint) ‘solutions.’

[fwdude]

I thought Biden claims crimes are down???

Up is down, so he's not completely wrong.

[monkeyshine]

“Give me all your mail in ballots!”

[lapsus calami]

 

 

How times have changed -

 

 

1921 - and again in 1926 when things went to getting out of hand again. https://www.uspis.gov/history-spotlight-2023/send-in-the-marines

 

 

“You must, when on guard duty, keep your weapons in hand and, if attacked, shoot and shoot to kill. There is no compromise in this battle with bandits. If two Marines guarding a mail car, for example, are suddenly covered by a robber, neither must hold up his hands, but both must begin shooting at once. One may be killed, but the other will get the robbers and save the mail. When our Marine Corps men go as guards over the mail, that mail must be delivered, or there must be a dead Marine at the post of duty.“ - Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby, November 1921

 

 

Article from September of 1926