{"id":25272,"date":"2019-01-05T11:44:11","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T16:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=25272"},"modified":"2019-01-05T11:44:11","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T16:44:11","slug":"more-reports-of-austin-thief-using-master-key-to-steal-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2019\/01\/05\/more-reports-of-austin-thief-using-master-key-to-steal-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"More reports of Austin thief using master key to steal mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 1px solid #e6e6e6;\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kvue.com\/embeds\/video\/8385146\/iframe\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>AUSTIN \u2014 Unusual mail thefts in Austin are affecting more than just one community.<\/p>\n<p>After\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kvue.com\/news\/local\/southwest-austin-neighborhood-questions-if-mail-theft-is-inside-job-\/625914531\">KVUE first reported<\/a>\u00a0that someone appeared on security camera using a master key to break into the cluster mailboxes in the Lewis Mountain Ranch neighborhood in Southwest Austin, we received dozens of reports of additional mail thefts in nearby Circle C North.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe asked, \u2018Hey, what\u2019s going on with the mail?\u2019 And that&#8217;s when the mailman said someone has a master key,\u201d Lisa Casey, a Circle C North homeowner, said.<\/p>\n<p>Casey said her mail was stolen the week she was out of town after he mother passed away, right before Christmas. Now, she\u2019s stopped her mail delivery entirely because she doesn\u2019t trust the cluster box to be safe knowing someone still has a key to break in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe post [office] people just keep telling us to check your mail every day. Well, that&#8217;s not going to solve it,\u201d Casey said. More at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kvue.com\/article\/news\/local\/more-reports-of-austin-thief-using-master-key-to-steal-mail\/269-626098701\">KVUE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20084\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Cluster-Box-Mail-Theft-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Cluster-Box-Mail-Theft-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Cluster-Box-Mail-Theft-119x89.jpg 119w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Cluster-Box-Mail-Theft.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN \u2014 Unusual mail thefts in Austin are affecting more than just one community. After\u00a0KVUE first reported\u00a0that someone appeared on security camera using a master key to break into the cluster mailboxes in the Lewis Mountain Ranch neighborhood in Southwest Austin, we received dozens of reports of additional mail thefts in nearby Circle C North. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25272","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\/25272","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=25272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25273,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25272\/revisions\/25273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}