[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 100 (Monday, June 13, 2022)]
[House]
[Pages H5470-H5471]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      MAIL THEFT AND POSTAL POLICE

  (Ms. PORTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)

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  Ms. PORTER. Madam Speaker, over 300,000 mail carriers serve our 
communities, delivering for us 7 days a week. Unfortunately, these 
dedicated public servants have increasingly become targets for 
criminals.
  Criminals will steal a carrier's mailbox key and then use that stolen 
key to steal mail and packages. Between 2018 and 2021, robberies of 
mail carriers more than tripled, and robberies involving a gun 
quadrupled.
  Until 2020, postal police officers patrolled our neighborhoods to 
protect letter carriers and deter mail theft, but in August 2020, right 
before the Presidential election, the Trump administration ordered the 
postal police to stop patrols and limited them to guarding post 
offices.
  This policy needs to change immediately. Our mail carriers are at 
risk, and they deserve the protection of the law enforcement officers 
employed by the post office.

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