Across the country, communities have seen a rise postal crimes in recent years. One neighborhood in Northeast D.C. is not only dealing with stolen mail, but also mail that’s being burned.
Daniel Hartmann, Homeowners Association president for the Village at Dakota Crossing, told WTOP that residents found torched mail in piles on the ground on at least six occasions since late July. Hartmann said most of the mail is being dumped in a park outside the Fort Lincoln Drive development.
“It’s so violating,” he said. “You expect your mail to make it from point A to point B without any problem and it’s just such a shame that we’re having to deal with this.”
Hartmann said the mail theft from locked mailboxes in the development began in May, but the burning of mail only began in recent weeks.
