{"id":248152,"date":"2026-07-21T01:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T01:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/248152\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T01:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T01:44:07","slug":"mail-stolen-from-blue-collection-boxes-at-5-pittsburgh-area-post-offices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/248152\/","title":{"rendered":"Mail stolen from blue collection boxes at 5 Pittsburgh-area post offices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH  \u2014 An investigation is underway after thefts from multiple Pittsburgh-area post office collection boxes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">A U.S. Postal Inspector spokesperson tells Channel 11 that there are reports of thefts from blue collection boxes at five area post offices: Russellton, Ingomar, Pleasant Hills, Brentwood and Dravosburg. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The thefts are said to have taken place in the overnight hours of Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Inspectors from the external crimes and mail theft teams are investigating. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Anyone who thinks their mail was stolen should make a report with their local police department and report it to postal inspectors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uspis.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.uspis.gov\/\">online<\/a> or by calling 1-877-876-2455. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 An investigation is underway after thefts from multiple Pittsburgh-area post office collection boxes. A U.S. Postal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[106038,24896,105872,106041,63510,106040,73,75,106037,74,43077,106039,106042],"class_list":["post-248152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-blue-collection-boxes-mail-theft","tag-brentwood","tag-dravosburg","tag-ingomar","tag-mail-theft","tag-mail-theft-at-post-office","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-mail-theft","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pleasant-hills","tag-post-office-mail-theft","tag-russellton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}