Warning on mailing checks: ‘No guarantee it won’t be stolen’

"... The national leader of a postal law enforcement group is offering a dire warning regarding mailing checks.

Frank Albergo, national president of the Postal Police Officers Association, told NBC San Diego mail theft, fueled mostly by scammers wanting to get their hands on checks, is a growing problem.

“Walking your check into a post office is no guarantee that the check is not going to be stolen,” he said. ..."   
Source: www.al.com

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San Francisco and Oakland had most postal robberies in California in 2023, data shows

"... Data recently released to ABC7 News shows that San Francisco and Oakland had the greatest number of postal robberies in all of California in 2023. ..."   
Source: abc7news.com

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USPS may stop processing mail in Eugene and Medford

"The United States Postal Service (USPS) is considering moving mail processing for nearly all of Oregon to its new processing center near the Portland International Airport. ...The Eugene and Medford mail processing centers were slated for closure in 2015, but that plan was scrapped after Oregon’s entire Congressional delegation called on the USPS to keep them open. ...items would be first trucked to Portland, then trucked back. In the case of a letter or parcel mailed in Medford to a Medford address, they’d have to be trucked more than four hours each way to and from Portland. That could add up to an additional day to delivery time."   
Source: nwlaborpress.org

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