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The storefront of Postal Xpress, the shipping and mailing service business located at 4380 67th Drive, Union Grove, is pictured Tuesday morning.
She claimed to be shipping photographs wrapped in a bubble mailer to Florida, and was asking for an overnight shipment which was going to cost her $130.
Labrie asked a few more questions and found out what she was really mailing was $7,000 cash. She had been told by a scammer over the phone that her grandson was in jail and she needed to bail him out.
Labrie alerted her to the scam and helped stop it from continuing, but the issues didn’t stop there.
On Oct. 20, another customer came into the store with a bubble mailer and was claiming to be sending photographs. Next, it was documents.
“She said it was just documents. She couldn’t really verbalize who it was for or why,” Labrie said. He did not wish to identify either of the victims.
He gave both customers the famous Clint Eastwood stare, the look where he squints and lifts his lip up, “to let them know this was serious,” he said, laughing.
Labrie found that once again the customer was sending cash, specifically $8,000, to California to supposedly pay for someone’s medical bills. Her “grandson” was allegedly in a car crash and caused a supposed injury to someone else.
The day prior, someone had come to the woman’s door and asked for cash on the spot. She gave the individual $10,000 — a loss she most likely can’t ever get back.