For years I answered over 50 calls into 1-800-ask-USPS. Sure some of the stories were sad; occasionally
mail and packages were stolen as well as packages of blank checks ordered).
These past 3 years
those calls have increased SO much, instead of 1 in 50, I'd guess about 30% of calls having to do with scams (not all from
the PO but refer to
The Postal Breach page). The Amount of Identitiy
Theft that have been occuring lately is ALARMING.
Triggers
to my Leave of Absence:
1. Receiving a call from Long Beach, CA about someone's check being washed, mailed from apt outgoing LOCKED mailbox
- in one of the same exact zip codes I, MYSELF reported to ALL Long Beach PO's PLUS postal inspection over TEN years ago.
Learned a gang robbed a carrier 5 years prior and the LOCKS were never replaced throughout the zip code. Ever!
2. Arguing with my wonderful boss about COMMON SENSE in the post office.
ie. Rule is DO NOT correct a case another made, EVEN if it is regarding an Express Mail (which gets a resolution within 24hrs,
NOT 2-3 days). This is just one of many examples of rules agents HAVE to follow (or get disciplined). I don't want to have a stroke or give my boss a heart attack!
3.
Hearing certain zip codes across America are having residents pick up their mail for over a year now because a thug(s) have
the "key to the city."
4. Realizing
after hearing repetitive complaints via 1-800 about people NOT getting items they've seen in Informed Delivery that they contained
a pattern (financial items, letters containing sensitive info, things affecting our NAT'L Security: missing ID's passports...).
<--- Maybe THAT is why so many passports have been ordered and while USPS have so many more addresses - some people are
paying for a po box to keep their things safe.
5.
Learning through Customers there is no insurance coverage on packages that show delivered to the correct (but compromised!)
address <--- CRAZY is delivering to those SAME addresses!
6. Getting inquiries about Hardship Deliveries. Elderly and Disabled customers living alone, unable to
get to their mailbox would call in and we would suggest getting a doctor's note to submit to their local PO... NOW they call
in when they live with others but their hardship excuse is, "The others don't get
home from school or work until AFTER the thieves rummage through our locked mailboxes down the street."
7. The CONTENTS OF THE CALLS after Postmaster Louis DeJoy came aboard is distinctly different.
WHILE ON SICK LEAVE I delved and discovered what I perceive as The Secret Plan August 2020: Announcement (evidently
found by thugs NOT SHARED TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC) about the access of master keys, leading for thugs to easily obtain, steal,
rob, offer to buy, copy on 3D printers, dispurse, sell on the internet, trace & saw the key on TV screen, shown full size
on TV news reports posted to youtube.