The rise in USPS robberies: Postal workers targeted for keys

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An increasing number of USPS postal workers are being targeted by criminals on the hunt for master keys. In 2021, 132 universal "arrow keys" were snatched away from mail carriers. By 2023, that number had more than tripled to 418, according to numbers Scripps News obtained from the Postal Inspection Service after filing a public records request. Arrow keys have been stolen from USPS postal workers in 39 states and Washington, D.C.
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9 апр 2024

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@scrippsnews Месяц назад

What do YOU think?

@stephenrost31 29 дней назад

This might work. Have the locksmith remake the keys with a internal tracking device. Aside from that change the locks on Blue boxes.

@MrRedHotChiliMan 18 дней назад

Chip the key for traceability. Problem solved.

@willsalter8113 Месяц назад

As an carrier who works out of an office where we had a carrier attacked over arrow keys and who subsequently died from their injuries this subject is all to real.

@SierraP Месяц назад

So they basically died over an arrow key?

@ER.5 Месяц назад

I’m a letter carrier and a Christian. I tell you what, gang; I pray nonstop on the routes. I pray for the vehicles (ours and there’s) on the road, my colleagues, coworkers, all of the USPS and for strength, safety, and help when in need. I put in some darn good work. 👍 Thanks be to God. Don’t forget to pray. Be careful out there. 🇺🇸 Edit: P.S. It’s not just prayer, but it’s also thanks for many things AND prayers for the people. Every mailbox, every day.

@SierraP Месяц назад

Preach brother

@m.turpel4818 Месяц назад

It is a crime that DeJoy is still postmaster general.

@hopeliveshere1121 21 день назад

That right there is the real crime

@toddalley8802 Месяц назад

Keep a fake one handy

@MissyMuthaTruckiN 26 дней назад

this, ima throw um an old semi truck key 😂

@adamblack6867 Месяц назад

Should be 25 years in jail minimum .

@donc9751 Месяц назад

It would be interesting to find out how USPS Arrow Keys are turning up missing from within Post Offices. Each and every Arrow key is treated as an "accountable item". Meaning every day, these keys are typically locked up in a safe, or vault room thats locked. Every carrier must sign these keys in and out everytime they take one out on their route. You cant take them home and if not returned or taken home accidently you'll get a call from the supervisor or PM to bring them right back. More can be done. I've seen times when these rooms are left open while unattended during the time carriers are out on the street. So when they return they can hang up their key and replace their scanners on the chargers for them.

@willsalter8113 Месяц назад

It’s simple because most of the supervisors are leaving earlier and now and days you can simply walk in the cage and grab your arrow keys and gas card if necessary without signing for anything. The old days are gone and now carriers are allowed to move as they please. If you take keys home now nobody says anything just make sure you have them back by the morning. They’ll notice the truck keys are missing before they’ll notice the arrow keys are missing.

@donc9751 Месяц назад

@willsalter8113 I saw the same going on in a Post Office i worked as Xmas help at after I retired so you're right on the money! Supervisors, figures. They should be held responsible! Thanks for your comment!

@MrRedHotChiliMan 18 дней назад

@@willsalter8113you are exactly right because I’ve taken home twice accidentally.

@MikeS91712 13 дней назад

Maybe that's how its supposed to be, but an office I worked at for 20 years, keys were not locked up, not signed in or out. Subs would come in later in the day after the regular carriers left and take keys and not put them back. We had several keys come up missing and nobody cared...except the person on the route with the missing key. I took the vehicle key and the arrow key home with me for months so that I didn't have to spend 30 minutes the next morning looking for them.

@Amir_Nassir Месяц назад

Carriers should be allowed to carry a weapon

@rogueinvestor2375 28 дней назад

Even if they're allowed to, how many do you think would choose to carry one?

@MissyMuthaTruckiN 26 дней назад

me, 9mm in a holster and im a woman

@rebeccaaldrich3396 26 дней назад

Definitely!

@presage23 23 дня назад

Only problem I see with that is if they get the jump on you. You won't pull it out in time and that's both an arrow key and another gun on the streets. But I do agree that they should have some way to protect themselves.

@davidtran4760 Месяц назад

Why would you show what the key looks like. Keys can be made just by pictures .

@marcellachine5718 25 дней назад

Says someone who doesn't understand how keys are made, and work.

@RicardoLopez-is8nx 28 дней назад

They should carry a fake key that won't be able to open anything & give it to the robbers 😂

@cmearl2009 Месяц назад

I work in a bank in Fraud and older people are still using checks to pay bills.

@marcellachine5718 25 дней назад

Why not?

@whitney9810 24 дня назад

Most of them do because that's the system that they had.

@Username_87 29 дней назад

This is creepy. I feel so bad for all of those hard workers walking miles per day. Its only a matter of time when those mail carriers wont survive those assaults. This is insane.

@Illflyaway Месяц назад

This is beyond disturbing!!!

@deborahbaker4770 Месяц назад

I asked my Mailman what would he do he said……I’M GOING TO GIVE HIM EVERYTHING GO AHEAD TAKE IT ALL ‼️

@theguyshepassedupfortyrone4043 28 дней назад

Ok....I think I'll go ahead and get that P.O. box.

@redcronojm Месяц назад

This is more federal crimes, just replace the locks or install new mail boxes.

@lendawgs4167 Месяц назад

Replace the locks you don’t know what you’re talking about. In some zip codes it can be up to around 2,000 or more locks that the key can open up. And if they do change all those locks. The criminals will just go out and rob the new key. What got to be done is longer prison sentences.

@whitney9810 24 дня назад

@lendawgs4167, stop voting for war. Think about it for a minute. Stop voting to send people to other countries. Also vacationing in other countries. I don't know why nobody has figured this out yet. It's so obvious and I don't get how people are not seeing it for what it really is.

@crush9197 Месяц назад

The government needs to hire a personal security officer who is armed for the worker and they need a special button that can only be used when threatened that will alarm all officers near by.

@ajt8967 27 дней назад

Someone got ahold of one of my checks, rewrote it, and cashed it. If I do mail letters, I take them to the post office.

@maryfaye1327 Месяц назад

What in the world have America allowed to come into this country???????🥺🙄🤨🤔🤔🤔

@rebeccaaldrich3396 26 дней назад

That's right!

@user-rt7bd3ys8f 22 дня назад

Millions of checks lost on every state because of lost arrow keys

@heatherhopfinger3942 Месяц назад

that is why people need to approach their town counsel and say no more keys no more boxes we need a door with a hole you can put mail through

@MrRedHotChiliMan 18 дней назад

Yeah but you have different sized packages and usually those collection box units have several parcel lockers to leave packages in etc etc. otherwise it’s adding a ton more work to have to deliver all those packages to individual addresses. And Americans in general buy way to much stuff.

@MikeS91712 13 дней назад

Your town council has no control over what the Postal Service does.

@chriskobler3352 24 дня назад

way to go posting the image of the key.

@ronnieitaquab1008 24 дня назад

Why not change the system where people have to pick uo their mail for awhile

@currentphonograph7487 27 дней назад

Postal workers should carry guns. Standard Issue

@heatherhopfinger3942 Месяц назад

they need to like locks on corporate buildings get rid of the keys put a button pad with a code to each box why then no key

@user-pq1mq9en8s Месяц назад

They all are crooks

@johnmartin4650 Месяц назад

It’s the postal workers

@Hoy_phil 20 дней назад

We should be allowed to armed ourselves

@KitKat-hn5gd 25 дней назад

Why are they still using keys with all this technology we have for example Amazon drivers use barcode to open their box when they deliver boxes

@davidolvera1978 16 дней назад

Post office can change all the keys they want. Criminals are going to be criminals.

@TheSigmaElite1987 20 дней назад

What happened to postal police?.. What if we had officers patrolling the area when the carriers are dropping off mail in the area

@pjdava Месяц назад

Scripps News, This made me laugh so much! Thanks for sharing!

@rebeccaaldrich3396 26 дней назад

They could use electronic palm scanners.

@BitterPeachh 26 дней назад

Who is still writing checks? Stop writing checks and pay by withdrwal from your account.

@marcellachine5718 25 дней назад

Why,because you think so?

@BitterPeachh 23 дня назад

@@marcellachine5718 Nah... because I know so.

@marcellachine5718 23 дня назад

@@BitterPeachh so what you think you know dictates what someone should do?

@BitterPeachh 23 дня назад

@@marcellachine5718 Chile please nobody writes checks but them old folks. They do what I said, they won't have those problems.

@marcellachine5718 23 дня назад

@@BitterPeachh let's all bow down and do what you say.

@henreenguyen9767 26 дней назад

Postal inspectors don’t do 💩

@MuzicTunes-lk6np 29 дней назад

You send a check to a plumbing business to repair your toilet 🚻, they never repair it, but you notice your check that you send them was cashed anyway. You called them, they tell you that they never received your check (which was true), you just assume the plumbing company lied & scammed you out of your hard earned money without doing any repairs. In reality it was thieves who stole mail from the post office. 🤔

@VOAN 27 дней назад

Instead of check, sent money order. With money order, the receiver won't be able to cash the mo unless they had an ID on them that proof they are the receiver on the money order. Also money order unlike check won't have any of your bank information on there making it a more secured way to transfer money to any person you like.

@nicholaslandolina 28 дней назад

Creeps

@MissyMuthaTruckiN 26 дней назад

let letter carriers carry firearms

@MissyMuthaTruckiN 26 дней назад

and be properly trained for CC

@VOAN Месяц назад

The IRS and DMV really needs to get with the time and stopped sending checks and documents by mail as those could easily be steal by mail thieves. Instead use online money transfer such as direct deposit for funding and in terms of documents like check statement and billing docs use digital process such as fax or email. Time has change so these service also needs to change as well. When no important stuff are done by mail anymore, mail thieves will stopped their thieving ways as junk mails will be all that they got.

@homegrown6289 20 дней назад

Well the police shrugs it off as a simple petty crime when its a larceny, robbery, I dont know why the postal police are not getting involved, its not like they’re doing anything.