Why would people steal a bunch of mailboxes ?

[CarLuver]

Freind sent me a text telling me his culdesac row of mail boxes got stolen last night . Frame and everything else is still there so it was not run over

Why would people steal mailboxes? It’s Sunday so no mail being delivered . I assume it’s for the scrap metal ?

 

[KGMtech]

Maybe someone hit it and there was enough paint transfer that removing evidence was easier. Still a dumb move

 

[Trav]

Kids doing a "horror" nothing more. They should go back to filling paper lunch bags full of dog poo, lighting it and ringing the door bell at 11pm just to watch the guy out there stomping it it out in his slippers.

 

[Chris142]

My guess is that Tweekers stay up days and don't know what day of the week it is. Ours have been robbed on sunday mornings too

 

[GMBoy]

Kids doing a "horror" nothing more. They should go back to filling paper lunch bags full of dog poo, lighting it and ringing the door bell at 11pm just to watch the guy out there stomping it it out in his slippers.

Classic! Todays kids have no fun like we did.

 

[CarLuver]

My guess is that Tweekers stay up days and don't know what day of the week it is. Ours have been robbed on sunday mornings too

they stole around 12 mailboxes. not sure about druggies as his area is a housing development where the housed are 1.75 to 2.5 mil $ . the frame and everything is still there except the mailboxes .

 

[RoadDukie]

Being a USPS delivery receptacle, does that make this theft a federal offense?

 

[dishdude]

Being a USPS delivery receptacle, does that make this theft a federal offense?

YES!

 

[billt460]

Being a USPS delivery receptacle, does that make this theft a federal offense?

Technically yes. But how many people in the Federal prison population do you think are there for willful destruction and / or theft of a mailbox?

 

[hrv]

Besides kids they steal from the mailbox for identity information..

 

[D60]

Smashing pumpkins. And not the band, which sucked IMO. And I grew up in the era when I was supposed to like them -- the band that is.

We did literally smash pumpkins once. It was decidedly stupid, even while I was doing it. I guess I thought it would be more exciting. Hopefully I'm smarter now, but SWMBO says probably not.

 

[Chris142]

Being a USPS delivery receptacle, does that make this theft a federal offense?

Yes but they never go after them