INVER GROVE HEIGHTS, Minn. – A southeast metro police officer recovered hundreds of stolen pieces of mail during a traffic stop Thursday.
The Inver Grove Heights officer spotted a car with its headlights off in the 7800 block of Concord Boulevard around 12:15 p.m., police said. He stopped the vehicle in the 7700 block of Dowell Avenue and noticed “a huge amount of mail spread across the inside of the car,” police said.
The driver admitted to stealing mail from nearby mailboxes and was arrested. She is being held in the Dakota County Jail.
Police sorted the mail and found more than 500 stolen items, addressed to 161 people. The department called it a “Herculean task.”
The sorted mail will be redistributed by the United States Postal Service, police said.
What to do if your email is missing
In this case, police recovered the stolen mail and delivered it to the USPS for redistribution. But if your mail is lost or stolen, the Postal Service has a plan.
UPS recommends that you first track the status of your mail. If that is not successful, you can complete a help request form online. That form will go to your local post office and they will attempt to locate your missing items.
If these efforts are unsuccessful, you can submit a missing email search request online.
