Illegal Narcotics

Keeping America’s postal system secure — 2022 stats

• 4,291 arrests. 3,947 convictions. Primarily prohibited mail, mail theft, and assaults and robberies of employees.
• More than $1 million in misappropriated or stolen mail transport equipment recovered.
• 1,804 suspicious mail incidents investigated.
• 2,110 arrests for illegal narcotics cases.
• 6,946 responses to reports of violent crime activity, including 581 credible threats and assaults against postal employees. 232 arrests. 155 convictions.
• 1,566 assets seized worth more than $402 million.
• Investigated the use of mail in the sexual exploitation of children. Six investigations. Three arrests. Five convictions. To date, more than 20,000 child sexual abuse victims identified.
• More than 900,000 items, including 474 terabytes of data, examined by forensic scientists and specialists in the Postal Inspection Service’s Forensic Laboratory Services. 1,780 suspects identified.