But, but, Ben doesn't want to hang out there and is looking for electronic traps to ID the lowlife. I guess nobody else on that route has the right surveillance stuff either.
I'm amazed that the local postal enforcement people wouldn't jump all over this kind of investigation... with the full force of the Federal Gooberment and all its surveillanceware. That would be a great felony case to solve.
I mean, jeeze, the first thing I'd do if I had the investigatory power would be to check with all the banks regarding unusual check cashing activity. I mean, jeeze, after all: thing one: follow the money.
The time window kind of bothers me, since at least around here, the mailman comes at a more or less regular time on his daily route, so this thief must know more or less when people pick up their mail and has to get there in between those times.
So he must be doing it during the day, possibly by bicycle, and is possibly one of the deliverees on that route.
Surely somebody must be able to spot him on his "rounds." Ain't nobody out there got a pair of binocs?
Is the mail typically left in the boxes overnight?
I know in rural areas out here, you'll find a bunch of mailboxes out by the main road so the mailman doesn't have to drive 5 miles per mailbox, so it sounds like a pretty inefficient system out there.
Of course, out here, if something like this were going on, "there would be a rifle behind every fencepost."
But all in all, I think the only equipment needed in this case is a telephone.
Terry, 230RN