OAKLAND, Calif. (KTVU) – Mail theft isn’t that uncommon, but thieves took it up a notch by stealing a collection box from an intersection in Oakland. Liz Chapman said she stepped outside her home at the corner of Chabot Road and Chabot Crest on Monday and noticed that the USPS mailbox that sits on the […]
3/30/2018 GLENDALE, AZ – A man in Glendale was caught on camera breaking into mailboxes near 53rd Avenue and Cactus Friday morning, and homeowners want answers. The man appears to be shirtless and shoe-less as he runs down a residential street with a handful of mail, stopping to check each mailbox for more. The home […]
2/10/18 COLUMBIA COUNTY, Ga. (WJBF) – Two Columbia County postal service offices were exposed to break-ins into their delivery boxes over the weekend. The USPS managers from both locations called the sheriff’s office on Monday morning to report some mail was stolen from their drive up mailboxes, after it was pried open. The manager of the Ronald Reagan Drive office […]
12/03/17 YONKERS, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) – The United States Postal Service and police are investigating after three mail boxes were ripped out of the pavement and stolen overnight in Yonkers. “They took the whole darn mailbox,” resident Charles Yockelson told CBS2’s Erin Logan. Yonkers police say thieves targeted three locations – the intersection of North Broadway […]
11/28/17 As the flurry of holiday packages and Christmas cards make their way to homes across the country, people living in one east Dallas neighborhood say their mailboxes sit empty. In Casa View, dozens of homeowners say mail often goes undelivered. For some, mailboxes sit empty two to three days. Others say, it’s been up […]
11/4/17 MEMPHIS, Tenn. — We found mailboxes wide open and seemingly empty. “Every morning when I get ready to go to work they’ll be open,” Kenneth Quarles said. The postal service won’t deliver mail to boxes that don’t lock. Quarles says his does, but he like people with unlocked boxes hasn’t gotten any mail in […]
10/23/17 – Families in the Madera County neighborhood known as Indian Lakes say they are fed up. “You feel so violated,” says Darlene Housely. A mailbox at the corner of Delaware and Avenue 417, south of Coarsegold, was hit by crooks sometime Saturday night or early Sunday morning. “I’d say 90 percent of the homes […]
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Some Brooklyn residents are caught in the middle as the city battles with the U.S. Postal Service over broken mailboxes. As CBS2’s Dave Carlin reported, Mitchell Yates and many of his neighbors at 580 Stanley Ave. in the Linden Houses are not receiving delivery of their mail. It’s blamed on a […]
9/14/2017 JACKSON, Mich. (WILX) – It may seem like a petty act of vandalism but it’s also a serious crime that has people in one Mid-Michigan neighborhood worried that their personal information may have been stolen. Residents in one Jackson County neighborhood were surprised to wake up Thursday morning to find their mail scattered about […]
The good old days of pulling a handle to open a big blue mailbox are long gone in a Bronx neighborhood, and residents aren’t happy about the sudden disapperance of the boxes in the middle of the busy mail season. Chronic mail theft from the box at West 236th Street and Henry Hudson Parkway led […]