The United States Postal Service (USPS) announced plans to better protect USPS employees and prevent mail theft. USPS workers can be the target of crime as they have access to a variety of mailboxes and buildings. Due to ongoing safety threats, the USPS and the Postal Inspection Service are expanding their Project Safe Delivery crime prevention initiative to protect Postal employees and facilities, prevent mail and package theft and enforce the law against individuals who perpetrate crimes against Postal employees or engage in mail and package theft. 

The USPS is hardening blue collection boxes making access to their contents more difficult for criminals. These boxes are now being deployed in high security risk areas through the next fiscal year. The USPS will continue to evaluate replacing additional existing blue collection boxes with these enhanced boxes.