Mailbox Tampering 2018

Public Safety

Thieves Go Once More Into the Darien Post Office Drop-Off Boxes

By David Gurliacci | December 27, 2018

If you mailed an envelope late last Monday, Dec. 17 in the drive-up drop-off box, it may have been stolen: After a Post Office employee arrived there at about 1:15 a.m., she saw a suspicious car and person — then a check of the outdoor mailboxes revealed a sticky, glue-like substance on the opening. “A check of the mailboxes revealed a sticky, gluelike substance on the opening,” police said in an announcement about the incident. “This is consistent with the practice of ‘fishing’ in the mailboxes using a device covered in glue to retrieve mail from the depository.” Mailbox thieves visit drop-off boxes and other United States Postal Service mailboxes in search of checks to fraudulently cash.

Public Safety

Another Case of Mail Theft from Late October / Early November Reported to Police

By David Gurliacci | December 22, 2018

Another possible case of possible tampering with a Darien Post Office mail drop-off box has been reported to police. The victim told police that a check for $334.83 was fraudulently cashed. The matter was reported to Darien police on Dec. 15, about six weeks after police arrested a man and two teens accused of tampering with a mail drop-off box at Darien Post Office, and Post Office boxes in Old Greenwich and Cos Cob. Here’s what police said the woman told them:

She mailed a payment from a mailbox at the Post Office at 30 Corbin Dr. in early November.