Overview
- The outdoor USPS collection box at 7353 W. Forest Home Ave. was pried open and mail was taken in the early hours of June 22, police said.
- Authorities asked anyone who dropped mail in that box between 3 p.m. Saturday and 2 a.m. Monday to closely watch bank and credit accounts and report suspicious activity.
- The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is assisting Greenfield police and the Postal Service installed a new collection box with stronger locks at the site, officials said.
- Law enforcement and postal police link the incident to a nationwide rise in mail theft that includes use of universal ‘‘arrow’’ keys to open multiple boxes and a recent six-figure Wauwatosa prosecution.
- Residents are urged not to mail checks, gift cards or cash, to report stolen mail to local police or the Postal Inspection Service at 877-876-2455, and to act quickly if personal information may be exposed.