Several checks have been stolen and “washed” from mailboxes in Menlo Park according to residents and officials.
When Menlo Park resident Eric Tashman put a sizable check to the Internal Revenue Service in a mail collection box near the Bohannon Drive U.S. Post Office branch, he did not expect his bank to ask him a few weeks later if he wrote a check to a trainer in San Jose. His bank canceled the check before it was cashed.
Tashman is one of several in recent weeks who have reported mailing a check through USPS only to have it attempt to be deposited to a different recipient…