Attorney Preet Bharara detailed the myriad ways the criminals used the banking system to turn the checks into cash. The available data suggests that thefts at USPS collection boxes - at least the ones that are reported - are relatively uncommon.Īfter eight men were charged with bank fraud and mail theft in 2017 for allegedly pilfering mailboxes in the Bronx, then-U.S. President Donald Trump has claimed that the increased use of mail-in ballots will lead to fraud even though numerous studies and reports have found there’s no widespread evidence of voter fraud in the U.S. mail system at a time when the Postal Service is under intensifying scrutiny over its ability to move and safeguard mail-in ballots for the 2020 presidential election. The thefts raise fresh questions about the security of the U.S.
“That’s right do not, stop, don’t do it, halt, blockade, cease, discontinue, freeze, terminate, placing any mail you don’t want stolen from the big blue mailbox in front of the United States Post Office located in Peachtree City,” the police department posted on its Facebook page. And the situation got so bad in Peachtree City, Georgia, that police warned residents to stop dropping their mail at the main collection box. Roughly $200,000 in checks were stolen from a collection box outside a New Orleans post office that same month. The Boston area was hit by a rash of thefts at USPS boxes in February.
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