
“If someone happened to walk down and see a mail carrier in the mailroom at 3:30 in the morning and thought it was suspicious, you don’t know how quickly that is going to escalate,” Hawley said. She said she’s grateful that no one walked in on the crime. Overnight when thefts are more likely to occur. We trust the USPS with packages and privileged mail delivery, and we have the highest expectations that Federal authorities will swiftly take corrective actions to prevent this from occurring again.”Īlicia Hawley, the Uptown resident and condominiumĪssociated president, said she wasn’t waiting for the government to take actionĪnd had Strong reprogram their locks to block the postal keys from working Postal Inspection Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). “I'm thankful for the information these buildings are providing to the Chicago Police Department, U.S. “It's incredibly troubling that either a Federal Postal employee is using their work key to steal from the public, or that a key got into the hands of a criminal,” Cappleman added. Three properties that had their mail stolen from someone with a USPS master The area, said in a statement that his office was notified of at least two or NBC 5’s Rob Stafford Investigates.Ĥ6 th Ward Alderman James Cappleman, who represents The West Loop area in Chicago is considered one of the hottest neighborhoods on the edges of downtown, but a recent rash of burglaries at several apartments has residents alarmed. Security system like he does in most residential buildings, but added an oldįashioned lock to give postal carriers access to old fashioned keys that Strong installed the condo buildings’ state of the art

“About one month ago it became a real problem where people were demanding us to fix their problem immediately,” said Strong, of Ashland Security Lock and Security Solutions.

Receiving calls about the postal thefts six months ago.
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Security professional Seth Strong said that he first started That night and just grab it instead of fish it out of every mailbox.” “Sheĭropped off the mail and left it there, and they were able to come in later “We’ve never had that happen before,” Hawley said. Hawley said the burglary was especially suspicious because, after reviewing footage from the building’s surveillance cameras, she saw a mail carrier dropped off a bag of mail the day before without putting it into individual mailboxes, which Hawley thought made it easier to steal. It tells me it was a coordinated effort.that it was planned, and they knew what they were doing.” “Three minutes, from start to finish,” said Hawley, the president of her condo association. Quick postal thieves got in and out of her condo building.

Uptown resident Alicia Hawley says she can’t believe how
