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A U.S. Postal Service supervisor based in California pleaded guilty Friday to stealing checks, collectible currency and other items from the U.S. mail, which cost the post office over $304,000 in ...
A recent report by the U.S. Postal Service’s inspector general found that internal mail theft is attributed to having no nationwide policy restricting personal belongings on the workroom floor ...
Joivian Tjuana Hayes, who was a supervisor at the Costa Mesa Post Office, has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $300,000 worth of checks and valuables, according to the U.S. attorney's office.
The United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), or the Postal Inspectors, is the federal law enforcement arm of the United States Postal Service.It supports and protects the U.S. Postal Service, its employees, infrastructure, and customers by enforcing the laws that defend the United States' mail system from illegal or dangerous use.
Since the pandemic, mail theft has boomed. There was an 87% increase in reports of high-volume theft from mailboxes between 2019 and 2022, according to the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. A report ...
Mail fraud was first defined in the United States in 1872. 18 U.S.C. § 1341 provides: Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, or to sell, dispose of, loan, exchange, alter, give away, distribute, supply, or furnish or procure for unlawful use ...
In the past five months, both letter carrier robberies and complaints about mail theft have dropped, while arrests are up, according to the Postal Service. But a 2023 inspector general’s report ...
The Postal Power also includes the power to designate certain materials as non-mailable, and to pass statutes criminalizing abuses of the postal system (such as mail fraud and armed robbery of post offices). [8]