{"id":19415,"date":"2017-05-10T22:24:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T03:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=19415"},"modified":"2017-05-10T22:24:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T03:24:30","slug":"video-postal-drop-boxes-targeted-by-thieves-for-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2017\/05\/10\/video-postal-drop-boxes-targeted-by-thieves-for-checks\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Postal drop boxes targeted by thieves for checks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/news3lv.com\/embed\/news\/local\/rip-off-alert-postal-drop-boxes-targeted-by-thieves-for-checks?external-id=ce36c61f91b345f4b524a35baa54cdaa\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dateline\">LAS VEGAS (KSNV News3LV) &#8211; <\/span>Thieves looking for private information such as checks and credit card applications are willing to do anything.<\/p>\n<p>That includes hitting those drop boxes that are supposed to be a trusted place for your mail.<\/p>\n<div class=\"component-ddb-1x1-v2 ddb-no-margin position-2\"><\/div>\n<p>For folks around central Ohio like Mary Szuter, they can no longer say the check is in the mail.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t use it ever anymore,&#8221;\u009d she said. &#8220;We noticed that some of the checks were not being cashed by our vendors but by other people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Szuter is one of a dozen victims so far this year who have had mail stolen from a drop box. She has had more than 10 checks taken since January, losing $2,000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Drug users need money, and quick money and the easiest way to do that without having to approach a person is having a piece of paper in front of you,&#8221;\u009d said Police Sgt. John Grubb. &#8220;You don&#8217;t know who you&#8217;re hurting, and it doesn&#8217;t matter to you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/news3lv.com\/news\/local\/rip-off-alert-postal-drop-boxes-targeted-by-thieves-for-checks\">News 3 Las Vegas<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19084\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Mail-Theft.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Mail-Theft.jpg 315w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Mail-Theft-300x265.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/>\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS (KSNV News3LV) &#8211; Thieves looking for private information such as checks and credit card applications are willing to do anything. That includes hitting those drop boxes that are supposed to be a trusted place for your mail. For folks around central Ohio like Mary Szuter, they can no longer say the check is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19415","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=19415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19416,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19415\/revisions\/19416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}