Mail Taken From Cluster Boxes on Aldrich Avenue in the Wedge

Several tenants of a building on the 2500 block of Aldrich Avenue South in the Wedge reported mail missing from a bank of cluster boxes over the same week, according to reports to police. No arrest has been announced.

When a whole bank is hit

Cluster-box theft tends to affect many households at once and can sweep up checks, cards and documents useful for identity theft, making it more than a nuisance.

As always, the location is the block only and no unconvicted person is named.

What to do

Residents are urged to collect mail promptly, switch to electronic statements where possible, and report missing mail to the Postal Inspection Service as well as to the 5th Precinct or 311 for the 2500 block of Aldrich Avenue South.

Mail theft is rarely about the letters — it is about the account numbers inside them.