I guess if they arrested them one at a time it wouldn’t make news and they couldn’t ask for an increase in their budget.
It took a month to show up and half the stuff was missing. Pilfering from the mail is SOP south of the border. They bring these values with them when they come north.
Even if you report to USPS about stolen mail, they do nothing.
Dead Kennedys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jHQqcky_Aw
48 pieces of Ma? No!
Of those who were caught, it makes you wonder how many weren’t.
Send gift cards online. No charge with Amazon. The recipient will never not get it.
Probably stockpiling it in someone’s storage unit. Collecting checks, just not delivering mail.
I have to send packages UPS or FED EX to my daughter in Chicago to her husbands work address.
The USPS around here is infamous for marking mail “delivered” when it never was. You track your package and see “delivered” as the latest entry, only there’s nothing on your porch or in your mailbox. The employees steal it. And, my mail ends up in my neighbor’s mailbox 12” away half the the time. The lazy garbage mailman can’t be bothered to sort the mail, so he just dumps it all in their mailbox.
I had an issue with my mail, and I went directly to the head of my local mail delivery office; showed them the torn corners of my mail - and it was always because there appeared to be a credit card inside the envelope - but it was only an ID card - to join some group.
After I showed up in person with my damaged mail - the USPS was not happy .. but I didn’t care. Handling mail is a scared trust and when the employees are trying to take advantage of that trust .. it’s time to take the snooped-in mail directly to their boss and tell him - STOP PILFERING MY MAIL.
And .. it did stop. I still do not know who it was .. but we recently got a new mailman .. and there’s no sign of mail snooping anymore.
Don’t leave it to phone calls .. you don’t know who you’re getting on the phone. It’s better to do it in person because if you’re a Senior - there is a law against any type of abuse toward seniors - It’s called ELDER ABUSE - and it’s punishable by a $1,000 fine and jail time for certain offences. When they see you are a Senior - most of the time they will go out of their way to resolve the situation. And .. if they don’t take you seriously .. go to a boss higher up. I’ve even written to the top person in a company .. and when you do - you get results.
Also, if you get mail addressed to some person you don’t know - but it shows your current address .. here’s what you do. Write a letter to the company who sent you the mail and demand this person’s name/with your address BE REMOVED FROM THEIR MAILING LIST. Then, you remind them of the “Elder Abuse” law and the $1,000 fine and jail time. I’ve had people fix it so fast their head was spinning.
Being a Senior does not mean people are allowed to walk all over you.
My tenant’s rent check took 12 days last month to go about 12 miles, verified by post mark. I guess they walked it from the mail box to my po box which by the way is in the mail sorting facility for this are.
One more reason the USPS is likely to go belly up; or,failing that, should go belly up.
The mail carrier sometimes... all too often, will stuff my mailbox with an extra portion of the junk mail. The kind that is loose and always has some fall to the ground when you take out the mail.