{"id":33194,"date":"2023-01-26T10:14:44","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T15:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=33194"},"modified":"2023-01-26T10:14:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T15:14:44","slug":"rep-calvert-reintroduces-bill-to-protect-americans-from-mail-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2023\/01\/26\/rep-calvert-reintroduces-bill-to-protect-americans-from-mail-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Calvert Reintroduces Bill to Protect Americans from Mail Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1\/24\/23 &#8211; Today, Congressman Ken Calvert (R-CA-41) reintroduced the Ensuring the Safety Our Mail Act, <b><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/calvert.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/calvert.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/ensuring-the-safety-our-mail-act.pdf\" data-entity-substitution=\"file\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"c1083216-1df6-4dd3-a661-5fa44a06f77a\">H.R. 446<\/a><\/strong><\/b>, which aims to protect Americans from the rise in mail theft by enhancing penalties for convicted mail thieves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAmericans continue to suffer from dramatic increases in mail theft here in the Inland Empire and around the country,\u201d said Rep. Calvert. \u201cIt\u2019s clear we must send a stronger message and have a more effective deterrent for would-be mail thieves. That\u2019s why I have introduced the Ensuring the Safety of Our Mail Act, which would double the jail time for anyone convicted of mail theft. I am committed to ensuring Americans can rely on the safe and secure delivery of their mail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On January 4, 2023, a Riverside County man was\u00a0<b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressenterprise.com\/2023\/01\/20\/riverside-county-man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-robbing-postal-service-mail-carriers\/\" data-extlink=\"\">arrested<\/a><\/strong><\/b>\u00a0on after he was allegedly involved in two robberies of USPS letter carriers. On December 5, 2022, two men were two men were\u00a0<b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressenterprise.com\/2022\/12\/06\/two-men-arrested-in-alleged-mail-theft-in-inland-empire\/\" data-extlink=\"\">arrested<\/a><\/strong><\/b>\u00a0in Chino Hills for stealing mail from Inland Empire residents. On August 17, 2022, two individuals in Rancho Mirage were\u00a0<b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.riversidesheriff.org\/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=3689&amp;ARC=5918\" data-extlink=\"\">arrested<\/a><\/strong><\/b>\u00a0for multiple mail theft incidents in the city.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Safety Our Mail Act will double the maximum jail sentence for anyone convicted of mail theft. In the past few years, Rep. Calvert\u2019s office has assisted hundreds of constituents with mail theft issues, including the theft of dozens of cluster boxes. Currently, the maximum jail sentence for anyone convicted of mail theft is five years under Section 1708 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code.\u00a0 The Ensuring the Safety Our Mail Act increases the maximum jail sentence to ten years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/usps-news495.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-32684\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/usps-news495-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/usps-news495-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/usps-news495-30x30.jpg 30w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1\/24\/23 &#8211; Today, Congressman Ken Calvert (R-CA-41) reintroduced the Ensuring the Safety Our Mail Act, H.R. 446, which aims to protect Americans from the rise in mail theft by enhancing penalties for convicted mail thieves. \u201cAmericans continue to suffer from dramatic increases in mail theft here in the Inland Empire and around the country,\u201d said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33194","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=33194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33195,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33194\/revisions\/33195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}