Mail theft in San Francisco caught on camera

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (KRON) — The USPS Workplace of Inspector Basic is investigating mail thefts in and round San Francisco.

One act was caught on digital camera.

“They jimmied open the mailboxes with some type of screwdriver,” one sufferer informed KRON4.

Colleen, who doesn’t need to share her final identify, says the mailboxes at her Russian Hill dwelling in San Francisco have been burglarized someday within the in a single day hours final week.

“Our neighbor had gone to go stroll their canine round 11 at evening and the mailboxes have been closed and within the morning they have been opened,” Colleen stated.

Dwelling surveillance video captured it all of the individual rummaging by one mailbox to the opposite.

Colleen posted a video on the Nextdoor app to alert neighbors and says this isn’t the primary time this sort of exercise has occurred.

“We had packages stolen out of our porch. It was simply an Amazon field that was left on the market they usually stole tenting gear that we purchased after which we had our storage damaged into late final yr and nothing was stolen as a result of he was caught within the act by my husband and two canine,” she stated.

On this case, Colleen says her neighbor’s mail was stolen, with no phrase on what mail they received away with. Colleen reported the theft to the USA Postal Service Workplace of Inspector Basic and San Francisco police.

Colleen says, “it appears like San Francisco has gotten somewhat bit uncontrolled currently and I simply need to see it get higher for my youngsters who dwell right here and for my neighbors.”

USPS Postal Inspector Matthew Norfleet says individuals ought to report mail thefts to postal inspectors as quickly as doable.

He says investigators are assigned to mail thefts in and across the metropolis.

“Mail thefts transfer round we imagine mail thefts comply with routes type of like mail carriers so we positively need that info in order that we will examine and reply and hopefully deliver these mail thieves to justice,” Norfleet informed KRON4.

Within the meantime, Norfleet provides the next recommendation to keep away from mail thefts:

• Don’t depart your mail within the mailbox for longer than wanted.
• Have your mail held if you happen to’re touring.
• Have packages delivered to a different handle.