{"id":12578,"date":"2015-10-05T09:38:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T14:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=12578"},"modified":"2015-10-05T09:38:32","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T14:38:32","slug":"video-postal-inspectors-never-leave-outgoing-checks-in-mailbox-to-be-picked-up-by-carrier-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/10\/05\/video-postal-inspectors-never-leave-outgoing-checks-in-mailbox-to-be-picked-up-by-carrier-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Postal inspectors: \u201cNever leave outgoing checks in mailbox to be picked up by carrier;\u201d here\u2019s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>MILWAUKEE &#8212; You might think the checks you put in a mailbox are secure &#8212; but U.S. postal inspectors say think again! They say outgoing mail in an unlocked box is an open invitation for thieves.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Businesses reported in a short period of time their bank accounts being compromised,&#8221; David Cunningham, U.S. postal inspector said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Investigators were able to track those reports to a certain area.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The suspects in this case intentionally targeted business checks. They would often go to commercial<br \/>\nbusiness parks where they would be able to find a number of different checks,&#8221; Cunningham said. <a href=\"http:\/\/fox6now.com\/2015\/10\/04\/postal-inspectors-never-leave-outgoing-checks-in-mailbox-to-be-picked-up-by-carrier-heres-why\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/iframe.js#ec=I5MmYweDrgmOf8BhbQeLW0SlZN2JYR2_&amp;pbid=f7575286f810429a979346d9a69caaef\"><\/script><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/do-not-leave-checks-in-box.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12580\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/do-not-leave-checks-in-box.jpg\" alt=\"do-not-leave-checks-in-box\" width=\"427\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/do-not-leave-checks-in-box.jpg 427w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/do-not-leave-checks-in-box-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MILWAUKEE &#8212; You might think the checks you put in a mailbox are secure &#8212; but U.S. postal inspectors say think again! They say outgoing mail in an unlocked box is an open invitation for thieves. &#8220;Businesses reported in a short period of time their bank accounts being compromised,&#8221; David Cunningham, U.S. postal inspector said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-theftandfraud","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12581,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12578\/revisions\/12581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}