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Police have warning about putting mail in big blue drop boxes

By Lauren Pozen, WSB-TV
By Lauren Pozen, WSB-TV

PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. — Police in Peachtree City say thieves are stealing from the big blue mailboxes outside the post office.

Investigators told Channel 2's Lauren Pozen that the theft happened over the weekend outside the post office along Highway 74 South.

Courtney Thomason said she's out $200 and business after thieves broke into the mailbox.

“You would think that it being a mailbox for the post office that they should not be able to get into it as easily as they make it seem,” Thomason said. “People probably won’t purchase from me again because of something like this.”

Thomason told Pozen she does online selling.

“I just come in and drop off the packages, but I was late getting all my errands done, so I dropped them off after-hours to the mailbox,” Thomason said.

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A week later, Thomason said she got a notification that none of the packages were mailed out.

“I came up here and they were like, ‘Yeah, we had some break-ins,’” Thomason said.

Pozen checked with Peachtree City police, who said this isn't the first time thieves have targeted that particular post office's outside mailbox.

The department is now warning people to not use it and walk their mail inside instead.

Despite the warning, Pozen found several drivers Wednesday afternoon who were still dropping mail in the boxes.

One customer told Pozen she thinks thieves are not only stealing but inconveniencing people.

“They are bold and that’s wrong. Really, people use this for convenience,” customer Ann Ballera said.

Mail theft isn't something police departments typically track, but Pozen made some calls to several surrounding police agencies.

Gwinnett County police said they've had a recent case just like this one.

Pozen is still waiting on a response from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service about the thefts.

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