Posted on 08/29/2016 9:51:35 AM PDT by simpson96
A U.S. Postal Service employee stashed nearly 50,000 pieces of undelivered mail in her California home, according to a criminal information filed against the worker.
Federal investigators charge that Sherry Watanabe hid "approximately 48,288 pieces of United States mail" in her apartment. The mail was intended for delivery to customers along Watanabe’s route in Placentia, an Orange County city.
Watanabe, 48, was named in a one-count felony criminal information filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. In a plea agreement with prosecutors, Watanabe has admitted to the mail hoarding.
According to the plea agreement, Watanabe was hired as a mail carrier in June 2006, and she began collecting “large quantities of such mail” in her Placentia residence in 2011. While the undelivered mail was seized by law enforcement agents in late-2013, court filings do not indicate why more than two years passed before Watanabe was charged.
Though Watanabe faces a statutory maximum of three years in custody, prosecutors have agreed to recommend that a term of imprisonment not exceed “the low end of the applicable Sentencing Guidelines range.”
In similar previous prosecutions, mail carriers have claimed that the volume on their routes was so onerous that they opted to hide the mail instead of delivering it.
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Waiting for the Newman pic!
and no one on the route noticed anything?
I don’t know what amazes me more:
That Watanabe was kept 50,000 pieces of mail in her apartment.
That postal customers didn’t complain or if they did, it didn’t result in Watanabe getting caught earlier.
Or that, there has been such a history of postal workers doing this that they’ve developed a well-known defense of the volume on their routes beingso onerous that they opted to hide the mail instead of delivering it.
I think there was a post about this earlier today.
Seems like the punishment doesn’t fit the crime. What about the harm and hardship caused by her to those on her route.
Maybe she delivered First Class and stashed the rest.
Many would consider that a favor.
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Now works for Clinton’s IT team.
That's it?
Why would she want all that Junk mail??????
Yup.
Welcome to the United States.
Our postwoman leaves the mailbox doors down.
You can drive down the road after she delivers and every other box is either fully or partially down. And most are warped out of shape where they have been hit by cars because of this.
So THAT’S where my $2,500 Obamacare Check went.
All this time I was blaming our Dear Leader.
you should complain about that- that is not what she is supposed to do
Reminds me of our USPS carrier...*Drunken Al*.
We were at the end of his route, and the first house on the street. A couple of times a month, Al would put ALL the mail for our street in our mailbox ....and just skip the delivery. When I walked the dogs around the block, I’d drop the mail to folks. It was a local joke. Everyone covered for Al, b/c he was going through a rough divorce.
Small town stuff.
I think after enough complaints they finally promoted her. :)
I live in a rural area of NW Florida.
I guess I just take it for granted that we get great service. I don’t think I have ever had a piece of mail lost.
What I never understood about these stories is why they did not toss the mail in their trash.
No one is checking your trash. Imagine how long it would go on if they thought this through.
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