9-18-18 – Federal postal inspectors promised a stepped-up effort to secure the U.S. Postal Service’s iconic blue collection mailboxes after someone targeted four of them in the Rochester area in a destructive rash of break-ins.
“We urge folks who may have used those mailboxes to be vigilant,” warned Postal Inspector Raymond Williams on Tuesday.
The Monroe County Sheriff’s office reports that between Friday September 7th and Saturday September 8th, two of the mailboxes outside the post office on Pittsford Palmyra road in Pittsford were hit by someone who tried to pry them open. A statement from the Sheriff’s Office reports the boxes were “significantly damaged” and one of them was successfully opened and all the mail in it was stolen. That same night, the statement reports an “unknown suspect” also tried to get into two mailboxes in the driveway of the post office on Jefferson Road in Henrietta. While those boxes ended up with “pry marks” on them, neither box was opened and no mail was stolen.
“I am starting to wonder a lot now lately,” exclaimed postal customer Ron Smith of Henrietta who found it hard to believe such a crude crime could go unnoticed. “People, cars, going in and out, you would think, if somebody’s breaking in, it would be pretty obvious pretty fast.” More at WHEC
