USPS Taking Enforcement Measures to Protect Mail Carriers and Battle Theft

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Nearly 500 postal carriers were robbed last year, according to the Associated Press, and this has the National Association of Letter Carriers incensed. Following complaints, the United States Postal Service intends to take a number of steps to prevent theft, including changing to electronic locks and placing hardened blue boxes in high-risk areas. 

“We’re doubling down on our efforts to protect our postal employees and the security of the mail. We are hardening targets — both physical and digital — to make them less desirable to thieves and working with our law enforcement partners to bring perpetrators to justice,” Postal Inspection Service Chief Gary Barksdale said Friday in a statement.

Other changes have to do with internal processes for authentication of address changes and other issues of that nature so that impersonators have less ability to divert mail, and USPS is also taking on counterfeit postage.