-Police, Canada Post, not sure what may have been stolen-

OSOYOOS TIMES-April 2, 2008-

By Paul EverestrnOsoyoos Times

Roughly 20 mailboxes were broken into at the Canada Post office on 78th Avenue in Osoyoos sometime during the evening of March 25 or the early morning of March 26.
A customer who was checking the mail in the lobby of the building at about 8 a.m. on March 26 discovered the opened boxes and informed Canada Post employees who called the police.
The office's lobby houses more than 1,300 mailboxes and remains open to the public 24 hours a day, although the post office doesn't open for business until 8:30 a.m.
Doors on several of the opened boxes were visibly bent or broken from their hinges and mail and flyers could be seen on the floor of the lobby.
Post office staff members said several other boxes appeared to have been tampered with.
They also said a person living near the building had heard a ruckus outside around 3 a.m.
Members of the Osoyoos RCMP detachment's identification team were in the lobby before 9 a.m. dusting for fingerprints and photographing the opened boxes.
The office was closed to customers as police studied the scene until about 9:30 a.m.
RCMP spokesman Cpl. Dan Moskaluk said investigators had found evidence that some type of tool was used to gain entry to the boxes.
We've examined and photographed pry marks, he said.
Because customers have access to the boxes around the clock, Moskaluk said that it was hard to say what was taken, as opposed to what mail may have been removed by its rightful owners beforehand.
Post office staff said they were attempting to contact the customers whose boxes had been broken into to determine if anything had been stolen.
The lobby is not monitored by security cameras but there is a visible motion sensor in one corner.
On Jan. 10, a number of mailboxes on Cottonwood Drive, 89th Street and 62nd Avenue were broken into and police later warned the Osoyoos community against possible credit card and cheque thefts related to the break-ins.
The RCMP are asking anyone who may have witnessed anything suspicious at the post office on March 25 or 26 to call 495-7236.
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