The rise in USPS robberies: Postal workers targeted for keys
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- Опубликовано: 9 апр 2024
- 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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Chip the key for traceability. Problem solved.
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.
God bless you and your family. 😊 Jesus Christ Is Lord ❤
Preach brother
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.
So they basically died over an arrow key?
Keep a fake one handy
this, ima throw um an old semi truck key 😂
*You're right, heck that tactic even works in the O'vall office*
Should be 25 years in jail minimum .
It is a crime that DeJoy is still postmaster general.
That right there is the real crime
Amen 😂
@@hopeliveshere1121❤
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.
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.
@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!
@@willsalter8113you are exactly right because I’ve taken home twice accidentally.
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.
I work in a bank in Fraud and older people are still using checks to pay bills.
Why not?
Most of them do because that's the system that they had.
*And if you worked in a chucky cheeses, young people would be using tokens to purchase toys*
They should carry a fake key that won't be able to open anything & give it to the robbers 😂
Why would you show what the key looks like. Keys can be made just by pictures .
Says someone who doesn't understand how keys are made, and work.
Carriers should be allowed to carry a weapon
Even if they're allowed to, how many do you think would choose to carry one?
me, 9mm in a holster and im a woman
Definitely!
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.
@@presage23This is the exact reason mail carriers don't carry. They don't have the advantage
What in the world have America allowed to come into this country???????🥺🙄🤨🤔🤔🤔
That's right!
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.
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.
This is more federal crimes, just replace the locks or install new mail boxes.
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.
@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.
way to go posting the image of the key.
Why not change the system where people have to pick uo their mail for awhile
or go digital.
@@BlackGirlUnsolved *or both you dill dough's could get spayed or new tarred*
I asked my Mailman what would he do he said……I’M GOING TO GIVE HIM EVERYTHING GO AHEAD TAKE IT ALL ‼️
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
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.
Your town council has no control over what the Postal Service does.
This is beyond disturbing!!!
Ok....I think I'll go ahead and get that P.O. box.
They need to have Postal Police canvassing neighborhoods. While the workers are out delivering mail
Post office can change all the keys they want. Criminals are going to be criminals.
Millions of checks lost on every state because of lost arrow keys
this is why United States wants to go cashless
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
They all are crooks
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
That's still a problem too
Require customers to drop off mail directly at the post office. Remove all boxes from the streets
They are not selling they are copying and opening boxes
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.
It’s getting worse and worse by the day
What happened to postal police?.. What if we had officers patrolling the area when the carriers are dropping off mail in the area
It’s the postal workers
FBI as to investigate $3 millions Dollars check ,social security corruption
We should be allowed to armed ourselves
No conscious.
Postal workers should carry guns. Standard Issue
Who is still writing checks? Stop writing checks and pay by withdrwal from your account.
Why,because you think so?
@@marcellachine5718 Nah... because I know so.
@@BitterPeachh so what you think you know dictates what someone should do?
@@marcellachine5718 Chile please nobody writes checks but them old folks. They do what I said, they won't have those problems.
@@BitterPeachh let's all bow down and do what you say.
This is what we pay taxes to the police departments to do. There are not that many male carriers with arrow keys that the police department couldn't have someone waiting at the mailbox so that the person working for the postal service is safe. See, if the person wouldn't run up against the cop that has a gun and ask him for the arrow key.
3 million dollar irs check should be wired to taxpayer 😊
Anything coming out of washington don't expect justice what democrats soft crime Policy
And thats why the mail man should be able to carry, u know what i mean. Mail Mafia
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. 🤔
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.
They could use electronic palm scanners.
always one color
_Right. And we ALL know what that color is, but can't mention it, for we'd be cancelled or get our accounts suspended. Pathetic._
Creeps
Scripps News, This made me laugh so much! Thanks for sharing!
Postal inspectors don’t do 💩
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.
let letter carriers carry firearms
and be properly trained for CC
DeLaMarqidingdong looking fo his reparations check
Well, that will happen when you hire postal workers and ups drivers to gangstalk 👈
they are contracted there are no more trained postal workers just ones that are contracted if it was a postal worker this would not be happening
How in the world check is not safe then check is useless n risky.
a check with someone else's name does no good lol they'll ask for ID at the bank