Posted on 03/06/2015 6:14:01 AM PST by Citizen Zed
NORFOLK
The U.S. Postal Service says it believes a letter carrier threw mail in a Norfolk ravine not once but four times this year.
Shalita K. Corley, 31, of Chesapeake was indicted Wednesday on four counts of secreting and detaining mail. A warrant was issued for her arrest.
The indictment lists the dates on which Corley allegedly dumped the mail into an overgrown lot adjacent to the Lafayette River, near the intersection of Villa Circle and Rialto Place: Jan. 16, 23 and 30 and Feb. 3.
Lance Norrington, a spokesman for the Postal Service's Office of the Inspector General, declined to comment on the investigation. He stressed that all of the recovered mail has been delivered. Corley no longer works for the Postal Service, he said.
Malikul Abdullah of Villa Circle brought the dumped mail to light after the Feb. 3 incident. In an interview last month, Abdullah said he heard something tossed into the ravine across the street from his home and then saw a female letter carrier standing nearby. He said he found two trash bags in the ravine. They contained hundreds of pieces of mail - including tax information, bills, handwritten letters and magazines.
Abdullah and his wife, Lana Pressley, immediately took the two bags to the post office at 2655 Tidewater Drive.
Pressley said USPS employees pulled another five bags of mail from the ravine in the days after their initial report. She and a television news reporter later found a sixth bag in the 900 block of Villa Circle that appeared to have been opened, she said. It, too, was turned over to the Postal Service.
"It was unbelievable," Pressley said of all the mail recovered from the ravine. "It's so unreal to think a mail person would throw away the mail."
What does a shoe store and the post office have in common?
Yep!
I love good ole Amish names!
“Neither rain nor snow nor........”
“Damnit! This bag is heavy and The View is on.”
something to do with empty boxes???
Tirred and hangry I bet.
Just to add my two cents here in Hampton Roads...
I live in the country and we have dicey roads around here. My mail carrier is an A-A woman who has delivered in the driving rain, freezing cold, late at night during the holidays, has driven out to my house at the end of a 1/4 mile of dirt road and is one of the nicest people around....
One bad apple does not a whole pie make.....
Newman was the most accurate fictional character in all of TV history.
There is one at my local office and she is a great person all around.
Oh, you and I know...don’t even have to look.
I have a mail order business, and trust me, there are lots of “Shalitas” in the usps across the country. When you watch a tracking number cross the nation then all of a sudden..poof its gone.
Will this lazy Daughter of Obama be held to account for the financial distress and hardship she caused?
Will she be required to make restitution to those damaged by her actions?
Hell--Will she even be fired?
Have bundled up the found mail several times and turned it in to the post office with notes about where and when we found it - some is for another rod and the addresses are a mile away. Last time I added a statement to the note that we have pictures showing where we have found it and have record of the times we have turned it back to the post office. Mentioned that if it kept up, the pictures and the records would be turned over to the local news folks - they have a guy who loves to go after corruption of folks who are being paid to provide services.
Been 6 weeks and all has been good....
“Shouldn’t she be wearing the bucket?”
Yeah, I guess it’s easy to paint everyone with the same brush but it’s not always the case and probably should be avoided in life...
Unless you are talking about the O’bozo admin or libs dems in general! LOL
Absolutely.
I'm in rural central Virginia. Our little post office only has three routes, but they're long, and some of the roads and driveways are way out in the country and a mess during the winter. All of the carriers here are conservative Republicans and they work their butts off.
No he wasn’t. There are four different crafts in the Postal Service. A mail carrier would never be doing the job of a postal inspector or mail handler. Newman was an extremely funny character, but like all fictional characters things were exaggerated for comedic effect.
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