Postal truck robbed at Montara post office

Thanks for making us aware of this story - this is terrible. Awful for the driver, awful for the community.

According to an employee at the Montara post office, the only thing taken was a set of keys which would have provided access to facilities and collection boxes. Everything that could have been affected has already been rekeyed.

No mail was taken. No money was taken.

Why on earth would someone risk arrest for robbery, aggravated assault, and several federal felony charges for keys? How could they hope to profit? Since the truck drives up from the south, the best they could do is hit stops to the north. Stops to the south would already be collected.

This is not only awful, but highly suspicious as well.

Interesting how the details are different in the various news stories on this.

Yesterday NBC11 reported that the driver was tied up in the back of his truck. The Chronicle and the San Mateo County Times report he was tied up in the back of the post office.

The Times makes no mention of the race of the robbers. Given Montara's racial makeup, the claims made in other papers about the robbers being black, that's an interesting omission.

What a risky move, to ambush the driver around 6PM. There's still quite a bit of traffic as people get home from work and check their mail. Two men laying in wait would stick out like a sore thumb. I'm surprised that no one witnessed this ambush.

Today the Chronicle reports "Postal Inspector Jeff Fitch would not say whether anything besides the keys had been stolen."

Keep a careful eye on your bank and credit card statements.

The Review covered it today (t plus 7 days):

http://hmbreview.com/articles/2005/02/09/news/local_news/story05.txt

Odd, there didn't seem to be any real new information over the NBC11, Chron, and SMC Times articles.