20K Pieces Of Mail Found In Mailman's Philly Home

CBS 3 ^ | 5/13/2010 | CBS 3

[Pelham]

He won’t get a pension. The postal inspectors at best will let him resign without any benefits in lieu of going to jail. The ACLU has exactly zero input in this process.

[Cowgirl]

I live in a small town in Alaska. A Russian immigrant was tried just this week for stealing mail and cashing thousands of dollars worth of checks. So what happens, he walks, of course. The judge suspended a 4 year sentence and put him on parole for a couple years. He should have been deported!

[50mm]

The postal unions argue with postal managers over contractual issues, not over crime. What this letter carrier did is criminal and he can go to jail for it. He isn’t protected when he steals mail from the mail stream.

The postal unions protect incompetent and willfully negligent workers from being fired. Whether my postal carrier was stashing my mail in his house or throwing it in the dumpster, the result was the same - I didn't get my mail half the time. All my immediate neighbors had the same problem and had also complained. When I got my P.O. Box, I got all my mail. My mail carrier still kept his job, even though his boss told me he had wanted to fire him for years.

The mail carrier in this article would still have his job if he hadn't been caught with the evidence. After all, he'd been stashing mail since at least 1997, according to the article.

[50mm]

That's great that you have a good mail carrier.

Incompetents and crooks can be found in any line of work.

Incompetents and crooks are easier to fire when unions aren't involved. That's why I buy non-union, if at all possible. I don't have a choice when it comes to mail delivery.