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Deputies Warn Checks Are Being Stolen From Mailboxes
December 15, 2010
Several Escambia County businesses have had checks stolen from mailboxes and counterfeited, and deputies are warning residents and businesses alike to be careful.
Names have been changed on the stolen checks in an attempt to cash them at area banks, according to the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office.
Both businesses and individual citizens should take care to ensure that checks are not stolen by hand delivering them to the post office or giving them directly to a postal worker, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
Anyone with information on the stolen check fraud cases should call Crime Stoppers at (850) 433-STOP.
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7 Responses to “Deputies Warn Checks Are Being Stolen From Mailboxes”
post office boxes will help keep them in business since so many no pay bills online and us e-mail. glad I can help….
that’s why i have a pobox. people steal from mailboxes. i have been approasched by mailcarriers but i just can’tr trust people nowadays. times are hard.
Hubby writes the checks paying the bills, puts them in our mailbox about 1/2 hour before the mail person’s delivery time. We have a very long driveway from our house to our mailbox. He “keeps an eye” on the box until the mail is picked up….so far, no problems here…knock on wood!
PS: We never, ever leave anything in our mailbox overnight or for a prolonged period of time. If we are leaving the house, we take our outgoing mail to the closest post office and drop it in the drop box inside the lobby.
Sorry I meant now I have a P.O.Box
Well as a city girl I was unaware…..
I moved out here to the country to find out they steal everything in your mail
box that has a number on it or is a check and that it doesn’t do any good
to talk to the mail person or the post office or send a letter to the postal
general.
So now I have a mail box…..so now they walk in my home like they own it
when I’m not home…..
It’s very hard to stop thieves if they want something, especially if you
have authorities who don’t care…..
We have never used our street box for important mail. We have a p.o. box for all important correspondence, and all outgoing mail is put into the chute at the post office. Better safe than sorry.
this has been going on forever, i never put mail in the mailbox, i just take it out. i take all my bills to post office and put in mail there.