With a push from South Bay residents after several incidents, a bipartisan bill called the Mail Theft Act was introduced, aimed to develop cross coordination to combat mail theft.
With a push from South Bay residents after several incidents, a bipartisan bill called the Mail Theft Act was introduced.Members of a South Bay community say they've been repeatedly hit by mail theft thieves and are desperate for solutions.
Law enforcement says that thieves often times get those master keys from postal workers who have been robbed.Thieves targeting Bay Area mail carriers to steal keys, police say The neighbors say that USPS has changed the locks to the cluster box but the break-ins with a key keep repeating. So they went to their local city Councilmember, Domingo Candelas, and eventually got the attention of Congressman Jimmy Panetta.
On top of that, Panetta and the neighbors have pointed to electronic locking mechanisms on cluster mailboxes.Panetta said he's also been part of legislation to appropriate funds to the USPS for that.
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