Officers saw a gray GMC vehicle with Virginia plates driven by Stephen Booker, 28, pull up to the blue boxes in the post office parking lot.
and nationwide, a trend that authorities are in turn trying to quash. As of May 13, there had been 25,000 instances of high-volume mail theft in fiscal 2023, along with 305 robberies of U.S. Postal Service mail carriers.
One such incident was the gunpoint robbery of a mail carrier in the D.C. suburb of Olney, Maryland, on April 26. The U.S. Postal Inspection Service announced Tuesday a reward of up to $50,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction in that case. Nationally, the USPS is rolling out 12,000 new, hardened blue boxes along with 49,000 electronic locks to replace the arrow keys that open those boxes, in the hopes of stemming the rise of mail theft.
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