Mail robbery is the robbery of mail while it is in the possession, custody, or control of the delivering authority, typically a national postal operator, and can involve the theft of money or valuable goods carried in the post. Highwaymen robbed British mail coaches from the eighteenth century onward despite the death penalty for the offense, and mail robbery surged again in the United States immediately after the First World War, prompting the Department of the Navy to place armed Marines aboard mail trains. The two most significant twentieth century cases both occurred in the early 1960s: the 1963 Great Train Robbery in the United Kingdom took 2.6 million pounds from a traveling post office train, and a 1962 holdup of a United States mail truck in Massachusetts took 1.5 million dollars; mail robbery had become far less common by the end of that decade.
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Offense GradeSerious or Indictable Offense 1 Connections
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Source Mail robbery (Wikipedia)
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Wikipedia, Mail robbery, History section
In the USA, the period immediately following the First World War witnessed a large number of mail robberies.
Associated With: Robbery, Wikipedia, Mail robbery, lead section
Mail robbery is the robbery of mail usually when it is in the possession, custody, or control, of the delivering authority, which in most countries is the postal operator and can involve the theft of money or luxury goods.
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