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If you are going to check your mailbox and find it empty, you may have sent you anything - or it could be something else. In recent months, residents of the country's states have beenComplain about delivery delays of the American postal service (USPS). In response, the agency has confirmed that "continuous personnel problems" could sometimes leave customers without mail. The USPS has also long warned Americans that problems such as blocked mailboxes, loose dogs, dangerous conditions, overflowing mailboxes and travel obstructions can force carriers to transportersjump deliveries for some residents. But now the postal service alerts people to another problem that could put their mail at the risk of disappearing - after it was delivered. Read the rest to discover what the USPS warns all Americans must do to ensure the safety of their mail.

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The postal service deals with correspondence and personal information of millions of people in the United States in order to do so efficiently and safely, the agency and its employees work to keep the public informed of the appropriate protocol.

In March, a USPS worker went to Tiktok toUnshole people not to send letters With certain items such as coins, cards, keys and jewelry, because they tend to be torn by the machines that the agency uses and end up destroying the mail of others. And last month, the USPS published a press release on the "serious threat" that animal attacks areBe on carriers Around the country. According to the agency, more than 5,400 postal employees were attacked by dogs in the United States only in 2021.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

Now the USPS issues a new alert to try to protect customers from a major threat.

The flight of mail has become a sufficient concern for the postal agency that they have now alerting Americans.Damien Kriebel, a postal inspector for the USPS in Tampa, Florida, told the local WTSP of CBS-Affiliate on July 25 that the owners should take precautions to avoid being stolen their mail. According to Kriebel, the number one means to ensure the safety of your mailthieves is to regularly empty your mailbox.

"The key is not to leave your mail in your unattended mailbox," he said. "You would not leave your car unlocked with important documents in the front seat, and you should not leave documents seated in a unlock box."

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On July 21, a couple in Tampa caught someone who hides in the mailboxes in their neighborhood on their domestic surveillance camera, according to WTSP. "It is a black van and she approaches our mailbox and someone leans out of the truck and opens the mailbox, the farm and lights up", owner of the houseGary Ashbaugh said to the media. "They went to the next house because his video shows them to open his mailbox."

The problem is hardly limited to Florida. In April, a man from New Yorkpleaded guilty of work As part of a group that stole more than $ 550,000 in checks in mailboxes in several counties in New Jersey and Connecticut, by NJ.com. This month, County Police in Luzerne, Pennsylvania, warned residents that someone in the region wasFly mail in the mail mailboxes, reported local affiliated with the NBC.

"The one who does it is to take mail from the mailboxes in search of checks and when they find checks, they whiten them by signing them on a false account and placing them by electronic means," said The SGT.Scott Rozitski Police from the canton of Wright, said the News Outlet. "They use a kind of liquid and what it does is removed from the regular ink of checks but not to check ink. The verification ink is always intact. The written ink is removed and once 'They dry, they can write on the checks. "

It's not just anecdotal either. An audit report of the USPS Office of Inspector General (OIG) revealed that from March 2020 to February 2021, the USPS Inspection Service (USPSIS) received almost300,000 complaints concerning mail flight, which was an amazing increase of 161% compared to the amount of complaints during the same period a year earlier.

"Mail flight is a growing problem. It isepidemic proportions at the moment"President of the Association of Postal Police OfficersFrank Albergo said WBTV affiliated to CBS in Charlotte, in North Carolina. According to Albergo, one of the main problems is that USPS police forces are not used properly, now decreasing to a third of what strength was in 2019.