In a Colorado Best Buy parking lot last November, Adam Turner was handcuffed and placed in the back of a police car. The arrest in Lone Tree would mark the end of his career as a prolific mail thief.
Body worn camera video shows inside Turner’s truck police found stacks of credit cards and several counterfeit arrow keys — made from kitchen knives. Arrow keys are used by postal carriers to deliver mail to neighborhood cluster boxes, apartments and in some cases open blue postal boxes.
“This problem has become a recent problem, but it won’t be a forever problem. We will take care of it.,” Postal Inspector Melissa Atkin said.
Atkin points to their Project Safe Delivery initiative, which includes better tracking of those keys and an enormous and lengthy lift to move away from master keys altogether.
“Every single state in the country has upgraded security boxes and upgraded locks. Not every single box and every single lock has been upgraded but we have rolled out thousands of these boxes and locks even in Colorado we are continuing to work on that,” she said.
