Why Mail Theft Is on the Rise

Catherine Venis no longer drops letters in the mailbox near her home in Flushing, N.Y. Instead, she walks six blocks to a post office and deposits them there. She’s noticed mail like birthday cards increasingly don’t get to her, and says her neighbors say the same.

“A lot of people around here have had missing mail,” she says of her neighborhood in Queens, where Congresswoman Grace Meng recently pushed the U.S. Postal Service to launch an investigation into the rise of mail theft.