Postal inspectors think the relay box theft may be linked to the robbery of a mail carrier on Folsom Street between Jarboe and Tompkins avenues on March 11. Relay boxes are usually green in color and used to store mail between carriers' routes.

邮政检查员认为，中继箱盗窃案可能与3月11日在Jarboe和Tompkins 大道之间的Folsom街上抢劫邮件相关。中继箱通常都是绿色的，用于存储邮件的。

The U.S. Postal Service said they don’t know what pieces of mail are missing or who they belong to, but the entire 94110 ZIP code has a population of around 70,000, according to the U.S. Census. Most of the Mission, Bernal Heights and College Hill are affected.  

The U.S. Postal Service表示，他们不知道丢失了哪些邮件或者这些邮件都是谁的。但根据美国人口普查，整个 94110 邮政编码的人口约为 70,000。Mission、Bernal Heights 和 College Hill 的大部分地区都受到了影响。  

Blue collection boxes—where you drop off outgoing mail—throughout the ZIP code have also been ransacked. Postal inspectors say it is very difficult to know which pieces of mail may have been taken from outgoing mailboxes.

邮政检查员说，整个邮政编码区的蓝色收集箱也被洗劫一空。很难知道哪些邮件可能从外发邮箱中被拿走了。

Mail thieves are often hunting for information that may be useful in identity theft and bank fraud, federal officials say.

联邦官员说，邮件盗贼经常在寻找可能对身份盗窃和银行欺诈有用的信息。

“They’re looking for banking information, credit card information. They're also looking for checks, personal identifiers that may or may not be useful for identity theft or a number of different reasons,” inspector Jeff Fitch previously told The Standard.

检查员Jeff Fitch在此前告诉The Standard：“盗贼正在寻找银行信息、信用卡信息。他们还寻找支票、个人标识符，这些标识符可能对身份盗窃有用，也可能没用，或出于多种不同的原因。”

Thousands of letters have been sent out to residents who may have been affected, urging them to report missing mail to the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.

成千上万的信件被寄给可能受到影响的居民，并且盗贼督促他们向美国邮政检查局报告邮件丢失。

“As most First Class Mail does not have tracking numbers, it is not possible for USPS to know what pieces of mail were stolen, which is why the letter to customers asks them to report anything missing from the mail that could provide a lead,” postal inspector Matthew Norfleet said.

邮政检查员Matthew Norfleet说“由于大多数First Class Mail都没有跟踪号码，因此USP不可能知道哪些邮件被盗了，这就是为什么盗贼要求受影响的居民报告邮件丢失，因为这可能会透露身份线索。”

“This is an active investigation by postal inspectors,” added Norfleet. “We are asking anyone with information to contact us, whether they saw anything unusual near a mailbox, or picked up anything on a video camera or know anyone who commits this kind of crime.”

Norfleet补充说“我们正在积极调查 ，并要求任何有相关信息的人与我们联系，无论他们是否在邮箱附近看到了任何不寻常的东西，或者在摄像机上看到了任何东西，或者认识任何犯下这种罪行的人。”

If you were expecting checks or credit cards in the mail and did not receive them and discovered that fraudulent activity has occurred, the postal inspection service says you should submit a mail theft complaint online here.

邮政检查服务机构说，如果你在邮件中希望收到支票或信用卡，但没有收到它们，却发现发生了欺诈，你应该在这里在线提交邮件盗窃投诉。

The postal inspection service says mail carrier robberies are rising across the Bay Area. The service was unable to provide The Standard any 2022 or 2023 data to support such claims, but data from 2019 to 2021 shows an increase in robbery cases nationally. Robbery cases rose from 94 in 2019 to 253 in 2021.

邮政检查服务机构表示，整个湾区的邮递员抢劫案的数量正在上升。但该机构无法提供2022年或2023年的任何数据来支持此类索赔。在2019年至2021年的数据显示，全国抢劫案件有所增加。抢劫案从2019年的94起上升到2021年的253起。

Reward money is available for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for mail crimes—up to $10,000 for mail theft and up to $50,000 for robbing a postal worker.

若提供的线索可逮捕并定罪邮件犯罪分子，则可获得奖金——与盗窃邮件相关可获1万美元奖励，与抢劫邮政工作人员相关可获5万美元奖励。