Criminals across the country are increasingly targeting mail carriers.
Highlights
- Criminals across the country are increasingly targeting mail carriers.
- Between 2018 and 2021, robberies of mail carriers more than tripled.
- Robberies involving a gun more than quadrupled, according to U.S.
- Postal Inspection Service data.
- USPS says surge in letter carrier robberies fueled by economic impact of Covid crisis, growth in USPS parcel volume amid the rise of e-commerce, e-mailing of government checks related to pandemic aid programs.
- USPS received more than 299,000 mail theft complaints from March 2020 through February 2021, an increase of 184,500 compared to the same period the previous year.