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Stealing mail is a federal crime, but it hasn't stopped thieves from repeatedly targeting the Seneca Springs neighborhood in Beaumont.

The U.S. Postal Service is replacing tens of thousands of antiquated keys used by postal carriers and installing thousands of high-security collection boxes to stop a surge in robberies and mail thefts, officials said Friday. The Postal Service is replacing 49,000 so-called arrow locks with electronic versions to make them less attractive to criminals who have been targeting them to steal mail from secure receptacles, and it is placing 12,000 hardened blue collection boxes in high-risk areas, according to the Postal Service and Postal Inspection Service. The announcement came days after the ...

Shot to death on his route, investigators believe over a package. and the crimewave perhaps worst in chicago. police there issuing an alert after a string of postal worker robberies, more than two dozen since the beginning of the year. >> mail carriers are very frightened, more so than ever because of the ongoing armed robberies. we've never seen like this, anything like this before. >> reporter: patrick gibbons is a usps mail handler in chicago and says the growing number of assaults is all he and his colleagues can talk about. >> the postal workers i work with, they love what they do they en...

Blue box being dumped several months ago near philly, and a suspect using a stolen key in an oakland apartment building >> it makes it easier to grab checks to wash it's just the perfect opportunity for crime. >> it gives you access to all the mailboxes within a certain zip code not only the blue collection boxes, but the cluster boxes that mail is delivered to as well. >> reporter: marlon basher is on the postal inspection service police force and a union rep in chicago. he believes crooks have simply realized mail carriers can be easy targets. >> in 2020, our agency grounded us. so we were n...

Locked mailbox on a carrier's route, so for criminals that means quick, easy access to your mail case in point, the blue box being dumped several months ago near philly, and the suspect using a stolen key in an oakland apartment building >> makes it easy to grab checks to wash and it's just the perfect opportunity for crime. it gives you access to all of the mailboxes within a certain zip code, not only the blue collection boxes, but the cluster boxes that mail is delivered to as well >> reporter: marlon barber is on the postal inspection service police force and a union rep in chicago. he bel...