USPS employees accused of hoarding parcels, stealing veterans' medication
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[quote=LATimes]Federal authorities have charged dozens of Southern California postal workers and their associates with mail theft, embezzlement and an array of other crimes as part of a sweeping investigation into criminal activity at the U.S. Postal Service.[/quote]
[quote]In addition to mail theft and embezzlement by postal workers and contractors, some of the cases involve bank fraud and false statements; a few allege crimes by people who are not USPS employees.[/quote]
[quote]Postal carrier Sherry Naomi Watanabe, 48, was found to have more than 48,000 pieces of mail at her Sawtelle residence, the Justice Department said. That mail was supposed to have been delivered on her route in Placentia.
In another case, Nicole Elwood, 45, was charged with mail theft for allegedly stealing medications sent by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to veterans.[/quote]
48,000 pieces of mail :ohno:
jesus, the different agencies and services really have to scramble to fuck over our vets, huh?
Sad to hear that someone would steal a veterans medications, let alone stealing any medication/parcel of mail at all while working in the USPS. Lots of people already have to deal with the USPS losing or "losing" peoples mail.
fuck usps the day I was to receive my mail, the tracker said it was in my mailbox. I dont have a mailbox. so I called them and was on a wait list for over an hour to open investigation for my shit. I was promised a call in 2-3 days...waited, no call. A few days after that I get my shit back. They must have no use for my 2 vhs tapes.
Definitely makes me a little paranoid about the expensive DSLR camera I just sent off to someone today lol.
Oh man. These people are so utterly fucked six ways from Sunday that it's not even funny.
I'd piss off the IRS before even thinking of poking the enraged bear that is the USPIS. USPIS doesn't care about many things, but they have terrifying reach when it comes to anything even tangentially related to US mail. This is multiple felony territory that could easily see some of these people put in federal prison for decades.
[QUOTE=noh_mercy;50970223]fuck usps the day I was to receive my mail, the tracker said it was in my mailbox. I dont have a mailbox. so I called them and was on a wait list for over an hour to open investigation for my shit. I was promised a call in 2-3 days...waited, no call. A few days after that I get my shit back. They must have no use for my 2 vhs tapes.[/QUOTE]
Go above them to your regional postmaster. Post office takes this sort of stuff very seriously if you cry to right people. If you have incident numbers, they tend to get very upset when things aren't resolved, especially if there's a documented history of it.
i do have to say the post masters do take this seriously. the mailman misplaced a single letter the other day and our postmaster was scouring our entire neighborhood to find out what happened
[quote]Most of the defendants were charged in indictments that were returned by federal grand juries last week, officials said. Defendants charged as part of the sweep will be arraigned in the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, Santa Ana and Riverside, they said.[/quote]
Nice. Nothing like having a gloom outlook on your employment knowing that you're most-likely going to do time in federal prison.
[QUOTE=Pascall;50970305]Definitely makes me a little paranoid about the expensive DSLR camera I just sent off to someone today lol.[/QUOTE]
It's always worth it to just pay the extra $6 or so and get insurance on your packages. Can't tell you how many times my packages have "fallen off the truck" or were run over by said truck.
This is the type of shit that deserves jail time
Jesus. One must have absolutely no morality to even consider doing something as asinine as stealing other people's packages.
[QUOTE=J!NX;50971119]This is the type of shit that deserves jail time[/QUOTE]
Isn't America pretty hardcore with mail stuff? Like if you tamper or steal they treat you almost like a terrorist
[QUOTE=jiggu;50971902]Isn't America pretty hardcore with mail stuff? Like if you tamper or steal they treat you almost like a terrorist[/QUOTE]
opening other peoples mail is a federal crime so this guy is basically fucked
[editline]30th August 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=CunningHam;50971622]I just had 2,000 + dollars worth of electronics stolen from me from USPS, which would be tolerable had the same package not also contained priceless, irreplaceable family photos and polaroids of all of my now passed childhood pets.
They were picked up from my apartment and according to what info I have it never left the truck. But they also tell me I don't have a leg to stand on, so fuck me, and fuck Seattle USPS.[/QUOTE]
I'm so glad USPS here is actually pretty great
this shit is insanely nauseating.
Yeah most if not all 33 people are fucked. Federal courts aren't usually known for their light sentencing.
[QUOTE=jiggu;50971902]Isn't America pretty hardcore with mail stuff? Like if you tamper or steal they treat you almost like a terrorist[/QUOTE]
Oh it's worse. Much worse.
[url=https://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/raddocs/tipvandl.htm]Fine can be up to 250,000 USD, or 3 years in jail just for tampering with mail.[/url] Obviously it is rarely that high, but if they want to face fuck you because of priors, they have a substantial amount of leeway to do so. That's for [i]each[/i] offense by the way. So if they feel like real cunts on a given day in particular, well, say goodbye to the outside world, because you are not going anywhere anytime soon.
They make examples of people specifically to discourage tampering with mail. US Post office employees enjoy some of the most vindictive legal protection in the world, to the point where they don't even really have any legal requirement mandating that they follow traffic laws. They [i]do[/i] follow them per policy, but there isn't any legal requirement. Assaulting a post office employee on duty, particularly in any capacity that interferes with the delivery of mail, will not end well for you. God help you if you kill one. You're going to have a federal agency with a budget bordering on the infinite, the latest and greatest technical toys, and which has blanket interstate authority to use them, actively hunting you.
TL;DR: You'd have better odds against Batman than the USPIS if you do something that seriously pisses them off.
[QUOTE=CunningHam;50971622]I just had 2,000 + dollars worth of electronics stolen from me from USPS, which would be tolerable had the same package not also contained priceless, irreplaceable family photos and polaroids of all of my now passed childhood pets.
They were picked up from my apartment and according to what info I have it never left the truck. But they also tell me I don't have a leg to stand on, so fuck me, and fuck Seattle USPS.[/QUOTE]
Threaten them with court? Contacted the post master?
Makes me wonder where my TV Tuner card and a few other things I ordered online that mysteriously went missing at my local post office is. :/
[Quote]Postal carrier Sherry Naomi Watanabe, 48, was found to have more than 48,000 pieces of mail at her Sawtelle residence, the Justice Department said. That mail was supposed to have been delivered on her route in Placentia.[/quote] Holy shit some of those could possibly be some of my family or mines missing letters. The amount of sensitive items that never got to their destination is really blood boiling.
[QUOTE=Pascall;50970305]Definitely makes me a little paranoid about the expensive DSLR camera I just sent off to someone today lol.[/QUOTE]
It makes me glad that my shit arrived yesterday. One of them was a textbook I needed.
Now I've got just one last order to be paranoid about
I always wondered why people hated the American postal service and now I can see why.
The thought of someone taking your post just doesn't cross your mind here.
I once ordered a 20 euro usb datastick online that was 2 days late then normal.
I called the post office, and 1 week later i get a large package containing
1 crushed, broken datastick, the one i ordered.
1 personally written apology letter of a postman, explaining he dropped it while delivering to my door, it rolled on the street and a car ran over it, and how he was sorry he mishandled my package.
1 typed lette signed by the postmaster of my region (thats a post region of couple hundred thousand people...) explaining once again the problem, and that they bought the same datastick to replace it.
1 online ordering coupon from the site i bought the data stick on for 100 euros
1 new identical data stick.
I wish i still had those letters, these days people post that on facebook and shit...
I just wanna say there are good postmen around... perhaps none of them live in the US though.
[QUOTE=Blizzerd;50973040]perhaps none of them live in the US though.[/QUOTE]
They haven't fucked up my PC parts yet so there's at least one.
What a bunch of shitheads.
[QUOTE=gk99;50973350]They haven't fucked up my PC parts yet so there's at least one.[/QUOTE]
You get PC parts through USPS? Gross.
[QUOTE=Rocko's;50970166]Sad to hear that someone would steal a veterans medications, let alone stealing any medication/parcel of mail at all while working in the USPS. Lots of people already have to deal with the USPS losing or "losing" peoples mail.[/QUOTE]
My dad worked for a paralyzed former Coast Guardsmen that before he passed away, would have his medicine sent through the mail, and sometimes the tamper tape was messed with. My dad went as far as getting the FBI and the USPS Inspector General to look into it. I'm glad that at least something regarding the overall problem is being done. Even if it's too late for Jim, there are others being affected by the same scummy as fuck shit and it needs to end immediately.
the USPS "confiscated" a fucking DEA patch that was being sent to me just b/c it was a 1980s DEA patch.
lucky for me the seller sent me a replacement but what utter cocks.
[QUOTE=Pascall;50970305]Definitely makes me a little paranoid about the expensive DSLR camera I just sent off to someone today lol.[/QUOTE]
Always always insure expensive packages.
We didn't get mail here yesterday because two people at our USPS were fired :v:
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