Video: Porch Poaching Is Popular This Year

Video: Porch Poaching Is Popular This Year

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — Next time you buy something online, ask yourself this question. Who will make sure the package is secure if it arrives at your house and no one is home? Security camera footage catches a crime as it happens. At 3:05 a postal carrier delivers a package. About 42 minutes later a […]

Video: MA USPS clerk admits to stealing about $10K in gift cards, cash

Video: MA USPS clerk admits to stealing about $10K in gift cards, cash

(MyFoxBoston.com) — A worker at the Clinton Post Office was arrested Monday and charged with stealing mail. Duane Anderson, Jr. of Lancaster, a 22-year-old part time desk clerk, was arrested at the post office after investigators set up a sting. This all started when people in Clinton realized their mail was missing or ending up at the wrong address and […]

Video: Colorado Neighbors On Alert After Woman Caught On Camera Breaking Into Mailbox

Video: Colorado Neighbors On Alert After Woman Caught On Camera Breaking Into Mailbox

LAKEWOOD, Colo. (CBS4)– A Lakewood neighborhood has banded together to deter mail thieves. Their actions come after home security cameras captured a woman digging through one homeowner’s mailbox. The homeowner, who asked CBS4 not to use his name, said the surveillance video shows an unknown woman prowling around the home. She eventually makes her way […]

Video: “Contents were missing:” USPS carrier accused of stealing thousands of first-class mail

Video: “Contents were missing:” USPS carrier accused of stealing thousands of first-class mail

WAUKESHA, WI – Thousands of pieces of mail go missing in and around Waukesha. Federal investigators are put on the case and that mail has turned up…inside a postal workers’ house and personal car. FOX6 News is told the theft included both standard mail and first-class letter mail. Authorities are now trying to put a […]

South Carolina APWU Secretary-Treasurer Indicted On One Count Of Embezzlement Of $41,823

South Carolina APWU Secretary-Treasurer Indicted On One Count Of Embezzlement Of $41,823

On September 1, 2015, in the United States District Court of South Carolina, Sharon Holmes, former Secretary-Treasurer of American Postal Workers Union (APWU) Local 807 (located in Columbia, S.C.), was indicted on one count of embezzlement in the amount of $41,823, in violation of 29 U.S.C. 501(c); one count of falsification of union  records, in […]

Video: Postal inspectors: “Never leave outgoing checks in mailbox to be picked up by carrier;” here’s why

Video: Postal inspectors: “Never leave outgoing checks in mailbox to be picked up by carrier;” here’s why

MILWAUKEE — You might think the checks you put in a mailbox are secure — but U.S. postal inspectors say think again! They say outgoing mail in an unlocked box is an open invitation for thieves. “Businesses reported in a short period of time their bank accounts being compromised,” David Cunningham, U.S. postal inspector said. […]

Employee charged with alleged theft from Grafton, MA Post Office

Employee charged with alleged theft from Grafton, MA Post Office

Grafton – Police Chief Normand A. Crepeau Jr. released this statement this evening: On Tuesday, September 15, 2015, officers from Grafton Police Department, working with Special Agents from the United States Postal Service – Office of the Inspector General, participated in a joint investigation into the reported theft of United States mail by a postal […]

Video: Your Mail, Your Money or Your Life?

Video: Your Mail, Your Money or Your Life?

[reposted by request] Will you lose your mail, your bank account or your life? If you live in an apartment or condo building in or near West Hollywood where a thief has a U.S. Postal Service key to the front door, you should be worrying about all of those possibilities. More