The United States Postal Service has seen a rash of "mailbox fishing," the practice of thieves filching letters out of mailboxes, finding checks and then altering and cashing them. Getty Images ...

The slots on mailboxes all over Brooklyn Heights were found to be coated with a sticky substance used by thieves to steal mail. Photo: Mary Frost, Brooklyn Eagle Mail fishing is rampant ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The NYPD on Staten Island recently issued this warning: Mailbox fishing is “on the rise.” A post by the 121st Precinct on X, formerly known as Twitter, Sunday offered ...

Mailbox fishing, check washing and forgery — the money that is going missing for some residents is starting to add up in Massachusetts. Elaine Hecker said she is always very careful about paying ...

WARWICK, R.I. (WPRI) — Warwick police are warning residents about an increase in reported check fraud stemming from “mailbox fishing.” Mailbox fishing, according to police, is when people ...

R.I. (WJAR) — Big blue mailboxes have been around for a long ... with USPS for 25 years and said Mercer was likely a victim of "fishing." “They were dropping stuff down to fish, they would ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Local law enforcement is reminding residents to avoid certain mailing habits as mailbox fishing is on the rise across the country, with some incidents taking place in ...

WILBRAHAM, Mass. (WWLP) – Local law enforcement is reminding residents to avoid certain mailing habits as mailbox fishing is on the rise across the country, with some incidents taking place in ...

Police departments across eastern Massachusetts are warning residents about mailbox fishing, the process of stealing mail from residential mailboxes or even from the blue postal service collection ...

It originally involved stolen mailbox keys but now it has reverted to a simple tactic of fishing mail out of the boxes with a string and sticky substance. “When you can think about what you can ...