'Anybody's mail can be tampered with': Retired CPD officer upset about neighborhood postal thefts

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'They have access to apartment building mailboxes and they have that master key.'

Turns out, the thieves stole residents' mail and a postal master key--which can be used to access locked mailboxes all over the zip code.Investigators say these are the men who robbed a mail carrier at gunpoint this month in broad daylight, just down the street from Marvin Bonds' house.

He said both men walked by his porch near 99th and Calumet minutes before the robbery. One of them even asked him for directions to a basketball court. The man walked away and minutes later, Bonds got a call from his mail carrier Ron. "Ron called me on my cell phone, asked me to come out. He'd just been robbed," Bonds said. Sources with knowledge of the investigation now tell CBS 2 the men stole mail and a postal master key, much to the frustration of Bonds, a retired police officer.

"It's a threat. Anybody's mail can be tampered with. They have access to apartment building mailboxes and they have that master key," Bonds said.

 

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