USPS repressing mail theft - Express these changes to your mail
The postal agency deploys more crime prevention measures.
We have put a lot of confidence in the American postal service (USPS) . Whether you send your monthly rent check or await the arrival of essential forms, the USPS is responsible for protecting sensitive financial documents daily. Recently, however, agency security has been questioned. Signing Mail flight have mounted, people everywhere in the United States speaking of stolen checks and financial fraud. In light, the USPS promises to suppress the flight of mail with new measures. Read the rest to discover the changes you need to expect accordingly.
Read this then: USPS makes more modifications to your mail, from June 13 .
Mail flight has become more widespread.
These are not only anecdotal reports: the flight of mail has worsened. In a May 12 Press release , the USPS confirmed that there had recently been an "increase in incidents for theft of mail at high volume containers, including blue collection boxes".
According to the agency, there were more than 38,500 mail flight reports from these mailboxes in the year 2022. But in the first half of the 2023 fiscal year, there have already been more than 25,000 reports .
And that's not all. The flights that target operators are also "increasing across the country," said the USPS. According to the agency, 412 USPS workers were stolen during work last year. And with 305 flights of carriers already reported in the first half of this year, "these incidents are more and more widespread," warned the postal service.
The USPS says it is raging on this question.
"As crime increases, threats against our civil servants," said the general post office Louis Dejoy said in a press release. “The men and women of the postal service work every day every day from our streets in our country to carry out our mission of delivery of mail and parcels to the American people. Each postal employee deserves to work safely and be free to targeting by criminals seeking to access the public's email. ""
In order to protect postal employees, as well as guarantee the continuous security of mail and the packages of people, postal service and postal inspection service (USPIS) expand their joint crime prevention initiative "Project Safe Living".
“We double our efforts to protect our postal employees and mail safety. We will last the targets - both physical and digital - to make them less desirable to thieves and work with our law enforcement partners to translate the perpetrators into court "the chief of the USPIS Gary Barksdale said in a press release.
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This will include major adjustments to the agency system.
As part of its SAFE SAFE, USPS and USPI delivery initiative, the new preventive measures have focused on three specific areas: to reduce the flights of letters of letters and theft of mail, to prevent the change of fraud D 'Address and defeat the counterfeit shipping costs. As part of the first, the agency will install 12,000 high security collection boxes nationwide and will replace 49,000 arrows with electronic locks.
The collection boxes in high security risk areas have already started to be replaced by new safer versions, "making access to their more difficult content for criminals," said the USPS. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
New electronic locks have also already been installed in certain cities in order to "make the keys arrow less precious", according to the agency. Criminals have stolen mail factors for their arrow keys to "steal the mail of secure mail recepts to commit financial crimes, in particular the modification of checks to commit check in the check," said postal service.
You should also expect changes in your mail.
The postal service also makes changes that could more significantly affect customers in the context of its enlarged protective measures.
To begin with, the agency now strives to strengthen its process of authentication of the change of address (COA) to prevent fraud. As part of these modifications, the USPS will no longer accept co -thirds submissions, and customers looking for a COA will now receive a validation letter sent to their old address as well as an activation letter to Their new address.
From May 31, the agency will start to offer CO address transactions in "improved" person in post offices and points of sale. "CO customers can verify their identity by presenting a form of identification approved to a retail employee," said the USPS.
In addition to the flight of mail and fraud based on the COA, the postal service also seeks to fight against an increase in counterfeit shipping costs. In 2022, more than 340,000 packages with counterfeit shipping costs and more than 7.7 million counterfeit stamps were discovered, according to the agency. This led to an estimated loss of $ 7.8 million for the postal service.
To repress this, the agency will now fully exercise "a new authority to take possession and eliminate the packages identified with counterfeit shipping costs". This means that if you use one of these shipping costs - even if by accident - your mail could be destroyed.
