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Queens’ mail theft problem reached a new low this morning.

 

Officers from the 112th Precinct stopped three men whom they caught red-handed stealing a blue U.S. Postal Service mailbox from a Forest Hills street corner early on May 11.

 

According to police, the theft occurred at about 3:10 a.m. at the corner of Yellowstone Boulevard and 67th Road.

 

Members of the precinct spotted a 30-year-old man working in concert with two unidentified males to move a USPS mailbox into the rear of a gray 2004 Honda Odyssey. The officers approached, and two of the suspects fled the scene on foot.

 

The officers took the 30-year-old man into custody; law enforcement sources did not have immediate information on his role in the attempted theft. Charges against him are pending at this time.

 

The NYPD Patrol Borough Queens North shared the news on Twitter on May 11, posting an astonishing picture of the mailbox — still in the back of the culprits’ minivan in the 112th Precinct’s Forest Hills parking lot.

 

Cops across Queens have been battling mail theft for many months — although most bandits have taken to using makeshift devices to fish mail out of the boxes rather than stealing entire mailboxes.

 

Last week, the 112th Precinct arrested two individuals who allegedly stole mail out of a U.S. Postal Service box in the area of 63rd Drive and Booth Street in Rego Park.

 

The USPS, at the request of local lawmakers, has begun installing security devices on the mailboxes to prevent further thefts.

 

Following Friday’s bust, 112th Precinct Community Council Heidi Harrison Chain took to Facebook and publicly thanked Deputy Inspector Robert Ramos, the precinct’s commanding officer, “for assigning the extra officers” during the midnight tours to help combat mail theft.

 

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A Queens mailman was caught making special deliveries — of marijuana by the pound, police said Thursday.

 

U.S. Postal Service worker Christopher Aiken, 57, was arrested Thursday taking a 10-pound parcel of pot to a pair of buyers in Rosedale, cops said.

 

The postal service got an anonymous tip about a "drug issue" at the Rosedale Post Office, where Aiken works, and authorities soon identified a package they believe had drugs inside.

 

Cops and federal officers tracked the bundle and Aiken, who took it on his route Thursday morning, police said.

 

A BMW pulled up behind Aiken's mail truck at 148th Ave. and 249th St. at 11 a.m., and the postman placed the cannabis container into the luxury car's trunk, cops said.

 

After two men in the BMW handed Aiken cash, and a team of NYPD officers and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the USPS inspector general's office swooped in and arrested all three, cops said.

 

Aiken, the BMW's driver, Keron Mavour, 30, of Brooklyn, and his passenger, Lennon Gray, 30, of Queens face felony marijuana possession charges.