Altman said she put the $100 check in an outdoor blue mailbox in Hyde Park and assumed it would arrive safely. "We found out in January that a local check we had written never arrived," Hamilton County resident Ann Altman said. In addition to Norwood, postal workers have been robbed at gunpoint in Columbus, Cleveland and many other cities across the country, according to news reports. In some cases, a huge increase of reported mail thefts follows the robbery of a postal worker's mailbox key. Postal Service reported that complaints about mail theft increased 161% from March 2020 through February 2021. The WCPO 9 I-Team has spent weeks investigating local mail theft, how thieves are getting easy access to the mail, and what you can do to protect yourself from becoming a victim.Ī May 2021 report by the Office of Inspector General for the U.S. "Try to avoid all blue mailboxes inside Hamilton County," Burke warned. "At this time, our victims are at a loss of over $200,000."īurke and Sheriff Charmaine McGuffey urged people to go inside post offices to mail checks, gift cards and other potentially valuable items. Ryan Burke said in a video posted Tuesday on the Sheriff's Office's Facebook page. "We are currently investigating over 40 cases throughout the county of mail theft from these mailboxes," Det.
Hamilton County Sheriff's Office detectives believe thieves are using Pierani's stolen post office key to unlock large blue mailboxes around the county and steal mail. 19 when a masked man wearing a hoodie pointed a gun at his head and demanded Pierani's master mailbox key. CINCINNATI - Norwood postal worker Ryan Pierani said he was eating lunch in his marked post office delivery vehicle Jan.
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