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'Check Washing' Investigation After Mail Stolen Outside South Jersey Post Office 'Check Washing' Investigation After Mail Stolen Outside South Jersey Post Office
'Check Washing' Investigation After Mail Stolen Outside South Jersey Post Office Police in an Atlantic County town are investigating cases of what's called "check washing," authorities said. Hammonton Police and the U.S. Postal Inspectors are investigating financial crimes after mail and checks were removed from a mailbox outside the town's post office, the police department said in a Facebook post on Thursday, Feb. 29. The mailbox was tampered with over Presidents' Day weekend. "Check washing" is when thieves take letters from mailboxes and look for signed checks inside them. Thieves then change the amount of money that was written on a check and cash it. Hammonton po…

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by Chris Spiker