Three Postal Workers Charged In 24 Million Dollar Stolen Check Scheme

A question I would like answered is how long the USPS employees worked for the USPS. Recent hires (last 5 years) have had a higher issue with complying with postal laws and regulations.

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Yep, a doctor's office at which I have been a patient just notified me that moving forward, they'll be charging a fee for using a credit card, but they clearly stated I can pay with cash or a check for no extra charge.

The check crimes happened before, apparently. Which is why he had $600,000 to post bail with.

Fees for credit cards is an old story here. Been around for a while now.

My dumpster service ($55/month) charges a usury $9.99 fee for any payment other than electronic check. My car insurance gives me a discount for EFT/ACH. We see where this is going. If you read the banking trade papers the number one issue with paper checks is security/fraud/liability. The actual handling of the instruments is secondary. This theft case proves the point. Last year my wife had a $900 paper check that was sent to her by First-Class Mail go "missing" and it never showed up. All of the other mail shown in Informed Delivery made it to the house. IMO the USPS has a serious theft problem that they don't want to publish or talk about.

And now in the same week another mail carrier in League, TX is arrested and charged with mail theft. What is going on people?

https://abc13.com/post/postal-worke...ay/19714938/

Are these kinds of crimes actually on the rise, or does it just seem that way because we hear about them so much more now? With the internet, social media, and 24-hour news, we have immediate access to reports from places we might never have heard about in the past. A crime that once might have received little or no attention outside the local community can now spread nationally—or even internationally—in a matter of hours.

I'm wondering how much of what we're seeing represents a genuine increase in these crimes and how much is simply a result of better access to information and greater public awareness. In other words, are there actually more of these crimes happening, or are we just much better at hearing about the ones that have always occurred?

Has to do with the quality of modern hires and the modern ability to process such thefts for gain, especially in the new era of Identity Theft.

There is a term, "cut a check" which comes from the days when machines were used to "write" checks and which literally cut the paper in the amount area or areas such that check washing count not readily occur. Then like now, checks provided a paper trail and evidence of crime. That was done away with by the banks who did not want to keep sending paper checks back to customers, only electron images. The paper check were destroyed (shredded) and thus all fingerprints on the check became unavailable. Recovering fingerprints from paper was one of many criminalist advancements make by the USPOD Postal Inspection Service. Understanding of explosives as well back when RPO cars (and their safes) were blown.

Like all crime, it is a continuously advancing game of cat and mouse coupled with criminal risk/reward calculations.

Matches the political push for less personal responsibility and a decline of certain folks' respect for other peoples' property.