"First of all, the post office will never call you," said Saucedo, "We'll notify you by mail, but we will never call you.  In addition, we would never ask you for such personal information, especially something as personal and secure as your social security number.  What these impostors are doing is a crime.  They are using this personal information to use these birth dates ad social security numbers to apply for credit and purchase items under these people's names."

This is highly illegal and is considered identity theft.  If anyone receives a phone call from someone claiming to be from the post office attempting to get your personal information, simply hang up on them.

Saucedo says they will have South American accents and may sound Cuban or Puerto Rican.

"After they get information from these people, they convince them it's a very valuable package that was lost in the mail and pressure them to pay COD Cash On Delivery)," added Saucedo, "The problem with this is that once you pay for any COD package, we cannot give you your money back, so if you did not order anything COD, do not come to the post office and pay for ANY package COD."

These people have a fake number that could be a 1-800 number and if you ask them who they are they will give you a fake name.  They are very persistent and try to convince you that in order to get you this very valuable package, they have to verify that it is truly you by getting your personal information. 

Be very cautious of any activity such as this and heed the Postmaster's warning.