Middle-aged woman uses a metal rod to casually rifle through apartment block's letter boxes and steal dozens of packages in brazen late-night theft

  • A woman was captured on camera rifling through apartment block's letter boxes 
  • She was filmed on CCTV footage last month at the residence in inner Melbourne 
  • A resident of the St Kilda Road building uploaded the CCTV vision to YouTube 

By Bryant Hevesi For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 23:38 EDT, 15 October 2018 | Updated: 23:51 EDT, 15 October 2018

A woman has been captured on camera rifling through mail boxes at an apartment complex.

She was seen on CCTV footage using a metal rod to pry open the boxes at a residence on St Kilda Road in inner Melbourne.  

A 20-minute clip of the woman at the letter boxes was uploaded to YouTube by resident Gary Buck, who said he had his mail stolen. 

A woman has been captured on camera rifling through letter boxes at a Melbourne apartment complex

A woman has been captured on camera rifling through letter boxes at a Melbourne apartment complex

Mr Buck publicly shared the vision, which was captured in the early hours of September 3, in the hope of alerting people to the prevalence of mail theft.  

'The video shows how easy it is - and if she's doing it, how many other people are?' Mr Buck told news.com.au. 

The causally-dressed woman was seen making her way from letter box to letter box, pulling out several items as she went along. 

At one point, the woman was captured sitting on the ground surrounded by piles of mail.  

The woman was at times seen in the CCTV footage kneeling and sitting on the ground as she made her way from letter box to letter box 

She later takes time to read through the mail.    

The building's body corporate is now considering removing the letter boxes from outside the building and placing them inside. 

'We have done a lot of things to try and improve security but no matter what you do, it's not going to stop people getting a couple of sticks and getting inside the mailboxes,' Mr Buck said.  

'I think it's important for people to think about what they are getting delivered. There's no reason to get bank statements delivered by mail anymore and it could leave you open to identity theft.' 

Mr Buck said the matter has been reported to police 'but they just said it happened all the time'. 

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Woman captured on CCTV rifling through mail boxes at a Melbourne apartment block

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