Posted on 05/13/2010 7:06:58 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
, bills and even a college acceptance letter from 2007 were among 20,000 letters found inside the garage of a Philadelphia postal carrier.
When the mailman missed several days of work in April, postal officials went to his Port Richmond home and found tubs and tubs of undelivered and unopened mail.
The postal worker, who has yet to be identified, worked out of the Bustleton station in Northeast Philadelphia. The neighborhood most impacted is located near Castor Avenue and Benton Street.
One of those affected was desperate to receive a $900 check in December 2007. The letter just arrived on Thursday.
"I got mail today from 2007. Paychecks, things like that that I needed. Stuff from the Social Security Administration, I.R.S.," resident Kevin Carpenter said.
Carpenter asked the worker he knew as "Dave the mailman" to be on the lookout for the check.
"I asked Dave and Dave said he hadn't seen it, but as soon as he got it, he would call me," Carpenter explained.
Some of mail found in the postal carrier's home dated back to 1997.
One of the letters that was undelivered was a 2007 acceptance letter from West Chester University. The recipient, who received the letter on Thursday, is now a senior in college.
Investigators have yet to question the mailman because they have not been able to locate him.
However, delaying mail and stealing mail are both federal offenses.
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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.
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!
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.
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.
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