It was all lying in the gutter outside my house; about 60 items from various addresses in the neighbourhood. I assume it had been stolen. The only envelopes opened were those that promised the possibility of cheques or other financial information e.g. bank statements, super statements. All the phone and electricity bills were untouched.
So I’ve just done the dutiful thing and taken the whole pile to the local police station. The constable didn’t seem too thrilled with my offering.
It’s probably different in Australia but in the U.S. the postal service has a serious investigative arm. Here I would have brought it to the post office.
I would have taken a big step away, and not touched that hot load of shit. I’d have simply made a phone call – probably to the post office, if I could find a phone number to call.
To be sure, it’s hard to call the post office. They only have ONE published phone number, nationwide, that gets you to some centralized customer service line. You can’t just call your local post office. I wonder how long it would take, from the time of a call to the central customer service, until they get an investigator on scene.
I can call my local post office substation. Their number is listed. And I don’t live in Bumfuck U.S.A. I live in a metro area.
Me, too. Not just the closest one where I can send a package, but the processing center that’s 2 miles away instead of 2 blocks, where the relevant manager is, that one has a local number to call.
Absolutely THIS^ To me it would be like finding some illegal drugs someone dropped, there is no way in hell I would even want to risk having a pile of stolen mail on me on the way to the police station. I wouldn’t even want my name associated with this incident with the local po po, if in the future I am ever investigated.
Yea I might be paranoid but I’d be afraid the cops would try to pin the mail theft on me, I’d not touch it and simply call the post office.
I’d never touch it!! There might be fingerprints… Call the P.O,cops and the FBI… Here mail theft is a Federal Offense…
This seems ridiculously excessive for a pile of stolen mail. I’d bring it to a post office or police station and be on my way.
Funny thing about generalizations, they are usually wrong.
I can call my local post office and the post offices of 27 other towns that are listed in the phone book.