{"id":22410,"date":"2018-01-30T17:36:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T22:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=22410"},"modified":"2018-01-30T17:36:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T22:36:01","slug":"video-tampa-bay-reports-mail-theft-is-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2018\/01\/30\/video-tampa-bay-reports-mail-theft-is-on-the-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Tampa Bay Reports Mail Theft Is On The Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jTlVx8g266k\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 A crime trend of thieves stealing mail from post offices has finally hit the Tampa Bay Area.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of St. Pete residents are now on high alert after mail was stolen from a collection box outside the post office on 34th and MLK in St. Pete.<\/p>\n<p>Postal inspectors say it happened on January 20 or 21 and thieves were most &#8220;likely&#8221; looking for checks for &#8220;check washing&#8221; that is, changing information on the checks so they could cash them. Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abcactionnews.com\/news\/local-news\/reports-of-mail-theft-on-the-rise-in-tampa-bay-area\">ABC Action News Tampa Bay<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22411\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Tampa-Bay-Mail-Theft-Rising.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Tampa-Bay-Mail-Theft-Rising.jpg 384w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Tampa-Bay-Mail-Theft-Rising-300x177.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 A crime trend of thieves stealing mail from post offices has finally hit the Tampa Bay Area. Hundreds of St. Pete residents are now on high alert after mail was stolen from a collection box outside the post office on 34th and MLK in St. Pete. Postal inspectors say it happened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,72,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-theftandfraud","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22410","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=22410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22412,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22410\/revisions\/22412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}