Beware of fake Highway Mail delivery men

HIGHWAY Mail readers are urged to remain vigilant as there are reports of men masquerading its delivery staff.

In an incident on Wednesday afternoon, a woman was sitting in her vehicle outside a home in Westville North, waiting to be let in, when she was a approached by three men.

She reversed out the driveway and drove around the block.When she returned the three men had disappeared.

She then entered the home with her child and, while she was in the waiting room, noticed the same three men had climbed over the wall and were making their way across the property.

She alerted the residents, the panic button was pushed and the police were contacted.

According to the home owner, Robin Joubert, who was not at home at the time of the incident, the police chased the three men and arrested two of them.

“I was later told that the men were impersonating Highway Mail roundsmen and were pressing the intercoms of residents in the area to deliver the paper. The company that actually delivers the Highway Mail had attempted to chase them from the area,” said Joubert.

The two men were charged with trespassing.

Lisa Ratzeburg, the distribution manager at Highway Printers, noted that the roundsmen contracted to the company did not ring doorbells, ask for money or food and simply placed the paper into the relevant postbox and moved onto the next house.

“The roundsmen are permanently employed by the outsourced distribution company and we are currently in the process of implementing an identification method in the coming few weeks. So should a Highway resident be uncertain they can ask one of the roundsmen to produce some form of identification,” said Ratzeburg.