The traditional blue drop-off box at your local post office may soon be changing. Earlier this year, the U.S. Postal Service announced it was installing 10,000 new high-security blue collection ...

The U.S. Postal Service is cracking down on mail theft this holiday season and beyond by installing 12,000 advanced security blue collection boxes in high-risk areas around the country.

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Tens of thousands of high-security blue collection boxes and electronic locking mechanisms have been installed in “high postal crime areas” in every state, USPS said in a statement. This ...

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A U.S. Postal Service customer drops mail in a blue collection box at the Carrollton post office in New Orleans on Feb. 4, 2022. STAFF PHOTO BY DAVID GRUNFELD ...

USPS uses a network of nearly 140,000 blue collection boxes nationwide, and the theft of one of the boxes is rare, said Williams. “It’s not a frequent occurrence,” she said.

Mail theft, including stealing from blue collection boxes, is a federal crime punishable by up to five years in federal prison where inmates serve around 99% of the sentence, unlike state charges.