{"id":65133,"date":"2025-12-09T02:25:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T02:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/65133\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T02:25:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T02:25:06","slug":"bed-stuy-man-finds-nearly-a-dozen-opened-cards-addressed-to-strangers-in-his-mailbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/65133\/","title":{"rendered":"Bed-Stuy man finds nearly a dozen opened cards addressed to strangers in his mailbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Walls is warning his fellow Bed-Stuy neighbors about potential mail theft in their neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>He tells News 12 he discovered 10 opened cards in his mailbox last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMultiple different cards letters, that were all opened like they\u2019ve been searched and money taken out,&#8221; said Walls.<\/p>\n<p>Walls says he hasn&#8217;t opened his mailbox in nearly two months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have auto pay and usually already know the mail that is going to come in,&#8221; said Walls.<\/p>\n<p>Each card was addressed to a different stranger in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll personal, nothing from a bank or from a utility bill, so I can assume why the culprit would want to target these,&#8221; said Walls.<\/p>\n<p>He says the only people who have access to his mailbox is him, the landlord and USPS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou need a key to access any of these individual mailboxes and the only person who has the master key I would assume is USPS,&#8221; said Walls.<\/p>\n<p>Walls says he&#8217;s filed a complaint with USPS. News 12 reached out to see if they are investigating the matter and has not heard back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charles Walls is warning his fellow Bed-Stuy neighbors about potential mail theft in their neighborhood. He tells News&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[4986,98,100,99,8160,33999,33998,9,24,63,8161],"class_list":{"0":"post-65133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-bed-stuy","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","11":"tag-brooklyn-news","12":"tag-mail","13":"tag-mail-stolen","14":"tag-mailboxes","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-usps"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}