All year,13 Investigates has asked USPS for interviews about viewer concerns about internal mail theft and what the government agency is doing to ensure your mail is safe.
USPS wouldn’t respond to all of our questions, and we wanted to know just how many employees are mismanaging your mail so our investigative team started sending federal records requests for those details.
USPS’ Office of Inspector General is tasked with investigating when employees break the law.
13 Investigates found from January 2023 through June 2024, the USPS OIG has made 602 arrests nationwide for mail theft. USPS OIG says “most of our mail theft cases involve employee arrests.”
Now, after obtaining hundreds of pages of internal investigative files over the past five years, we’re learning where tens of thousands of pieces of mismanaged mail in the Houston area ended up.