Credit card mail theft on the rise in Singapore

Yahoo! Singapore News, 31 Jul 2011
More credit and debit cards sent through the mail are getting stolen while on their way to the target recipients, according to retail bankers.
Speaking to The Sunday Times anonymously, one banker said he has observed a 20 percent increase of such cases this year compared with last year.
Another banker noticed that card mail thefts started to increase sharply last year as well.
From the start of this year alone, one bank officer estimated that some 200 bank cards have been stolen in the mail. Full story