Law enforcement officials have made over 600 arrests in a crackdown on mail theft and postal carrier robberies. The Postal Service is replacing universal keys with electronic locks and deploying high-security blue boxes to prevent theft. Measures have led to a reduction in fraudulent address changes and counterfeit postage. The penalty for interfering with the mail can be up to 25 years in prison.
Letter carriers are on edge after nearly 500 of them were robbed last year. Criminals increasingly targeted the mail to commit financial crimes like altering checks to obtain money.
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With mail theft and postal carrier robberies up, law enforcement officials have made more than 600 arrests since May in a crackdown launched to address crime that includes carriers being