Illegal Narcotics

Keeping America’s postal system secure — 2023 stats

• 4,728 arrests. 4,103 convictions. Primarily prohibited mail, mail theft, and assaults and robberies of employees.
• More than $600,000 in misappropriated or stolen mail transport equipment recovered.
• 1,804 suspicious mail incidents investigated.
• 2,001 arrests for illegal narcotics.
• 6,721 responses to reports of violent criminal activity, including 576 credible threats and assaults against postal employees. 450 arrests. 306 convictions.
• 1,566 assets seized, worth more than $402 million.
• Six investigations into the use of mail in the sexual exploitation of children. Three arrests. Five convictions. To date, more than 20,000 child sexual abuse victims identified.
• More than 1 million items, including 378 terabytes of data, examined by forensic scientists and specialists in the Postal Inspection Service’s Forensic Laboratory Services. 2,262 suspects identified.