Atlanta Area USPS Worker Dumped Mail Into Ditch, USPS Investigation Underway
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[quote]A United States Postal Service mail carrier is accused of dumping residents’ mail into a ditch along Longview Walk in DeKalb County, Channel 2 Action News reported.
Kellie Campbell, the homeowners association president for the Decatur subdivision, said she recorded the postal worker walking near a fence and dumping several bins of mail there.
“I sat there and recorded for about five minutes and he continued to just grab more mail and continued just to toss it over the fence,” she told Channel 2.
It’s estimated there may be thousands of letters scattered near the ditch, according to the news station.
“It’s just so uncalled for to take somebody’s personal mail and just discard it like that,” resident Theresa Williams told Channel 2.
Campbell said she called the U.S. Postal Service, which went to the location to investigate. It took five workers a few hours to give residents their mail.
“You have business statements, bank statements, very important mail that people are looking for and probably waiting for,” she said.
Officials did not release the name of the accused mail carrier, who works part time for the company, but said in a statement to Channel 2: “The Postal Service condemns, in the strongest possible sense, behavior that jeopardizes the security and sanctity of the U.S. Mail — or threatens to tarnish the reputation and high level of trust that the vast majority of our employees work so hard to uphold. We are investigating this matter.”[/quote]
[url=http://www.ajc.com/news/crime--law/postal-carrier-videotaped-dumping-mail-into-ditch/WKztfUsRA6Oux2xAlu5CeP/]Atlanta Journal Constitution[/url]
Jailtime, yo.
[QUOTE=usaokay;51235100]Pretty sure this is a federal offense.[/QUOTE]
It is, and the postal service is not known for taking prisoners during legal action. He's going to get fucked.
[QUOTE=usaokay;51235100]Pretty sure this is a federal offense.[/QUOTE]
[quote]
Whoever steals, takes, or abstracts, or by fraud or deception obtains, or attempts so to obtain, from or out of any mail, post office, or station thereof, letter box, mail receptacle, or any mail route or other authorized depository for mail matter, or from a letter or mail carrier, any letter, postal card, package, bag, or mail, or abstracts or removes from any such letter, package, bag, or mail, any article or thing contained therein, or secretes, embezzles, or [b]destroys any such letter, postal card, package, bag, or mail, or any article or thing contained therein[/b]; or
Whoever steals, takes, or abstracts, or by fraud or deception obtains any letter, postal card, package, bag, or mail, or any article or thing contained therein which has been left for collection upon or adjacent to a collection box or other authorized depository of mail matter; or
Whoever buys, receives, or conceals, or unlawfully has in his possession, any letter, postal card, package, bag, or mail, or any article or thing contained therein, which has been so stolen, taken, embezzled, or abstracted, as herein described, knowing the same to have been stolen, taken, embezzled, or abstracted—
[B]Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.[/B]
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 779; May 24, 1949, ch. 139, § 39, 63 Stat. 95; July 1, 1952, ch. 535, 66 Stat. 314; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(I), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)[/quote]
I wonder if it's 5 years per count.
[QUOTE=usaokay;51235100]Pretty sure this is a federal offense.[/QUOTE]One of the more serious ones in terms of sentencing afaik.
Does the USPS go after people who throw away mail they get not addressed to them on a daily basis? Even after leaving notes in their mailbox telling the USPS only X lives there? AND after putting a permanent note in the mailbox?
Asking for a friend, of course.
You had one job mailmail, one goddamn job.
[QUOTE=Smoot;51236194]Does the USPS go after people who throw away mail they get not addressed to them on a daily basis? Even after leaving notes in their mailbox telling the USPS only X lives there? AND after putting a permanent note in the mailbox?
Asking for a friend, of course.[/QUOTE]
Wouldn't think so? According to their records, it's been delivered.
Video of the suspect:
[video=youtube;zyElRB-JXgM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyElRB-JXgM[/video]
[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;51235143]One of the more serious ones in terms of sentencing afaik.[/QUOTE]
Yup. Not only is it a felony (he loses his right to vote, right to own firearms, and a few other rights), he also gets prosecuted in a federal court rather than a local or state-level court. They don't fuck around in Federal court.
He'll also get sent to federal rather than state prison. This happened in Georgia, so that might actually be better for him.
[QUOTE=Smoot;51236194]Does the USPS go after people who throw away mail they get not addressed to them on a daily basis? Even after leaving notes in their mailbox telling the USPS only X lives there? AND after putting a permanent note in the mailbox?
Asking for a friend, of course.[/QUOTE]
In practice no. Technically illegal, but afaik it's mostly just a tack on charge to hit people harder when they are doing something like committing mail fraud, or other related activities.
File a complaint with the postmaster. Don't just call the local post office. You should call the local post office and complain, maybe go in in person. Do it once, but get an incident number. If it's not resolved, then use that number when you go above them with the postmaster.
[QUOTE=usaokay;51235100]Pretty sure this is a federal offense.[/QUOTE]
I'm so fucking glad that it is too tbh
Messing with peoples mail is insanely scummy to do. Like no joke, it could cost someone millions of dollars, or possibly the loss of irreplaceable, priceless items there were handed down from relatives.
Like fuck, what if someone is unable to leave their home and they need to get medication from the pharmacy by mail. Woops, Ms. Peterson didn't get her medicine for her hip, now she's in so much pain that she fell down the stairs and died slowly and painfully. (I don't know how mail-order pills work so I'm just making an example that may not actually be realistic)
[QUOTE=J!NX;51237116]I'm so fucking glad that it is too tbh
Messing with peoples mail is insanely scummy to do. Like no joke, it could cost someone millions of dollars, or possibly the loss of irreplaceable, priceless items there were handed down from relatives.
Like fuck, what if someone is unable to leave their home and they need to get medication from the pharmacy by mail. Woops, Ms. Peterson didn't get her medicine for her hip, now she's in so much pain that she fell down the stairs and died slowly and painfully. (I don't know how mail-order pills work so I'm just making an example that may not actually be realistic)[/QUOTE]
"Whoops, this disabled person's insurance paperwork for a replacement wheelchair, which they desperately need since their existing chair is so worn out and out of adjustment that the wheel rubber is coming apart and the owner lives with chronic back pain, got tossed into the ditch. It's not like they have any problem at all getting to doctor's appointments to replace that paperwork."
I have a disabled friend in a shitty wheelchair in neighbouring South Carolina who spent almost a year longer than necessary in discomfort, but the holdup had nothing to do with the postal service. It was caused by the idiot doctor accidentally inserting a "not" into the sentence "a new chair is absolutely necessary and justified" in the insurance paperwork, and that invalidated the claim for six months. Interference with the mail would've done about the same thing, though. [sp]They have a sweet new chair now thanks to a local motor chair place.[/sp]
Considering how shit USPS is in my area and how they completely don't give a fuck about anyone's mail, I don't see this is a surprise. USPS is a terrible service in general. They have a great track record of constantly losing packages in my area and none of their managers give a flying fuck about it.
[QUOTE=Datsun;51243748]Considering how shit USPS is in my area and how they completely don't give a fuck about anyone's mail, I don't see this is a surprise. USPS is a terrible service in general. They have a great track record of constantly losing packages in my area and none of their managers give a flying fuck about it.[/QUOTE]
being a mailman myself, i always hate seeing people say this. don't look at the entire service as a scummy business because there's rotten apples in it, please.
[QUOTE=Zang-Pog;51243803]If you think you have it bad, imagine being a police officer[/QUOTE]
don't think i don't know that :v:
i know a police officer personally, it was one of the reasons he quit, actually.
[QUOTE=Recurracy;51243798]being a mailman myself, i always hate seeing people say this. don't look at the entire service as a scummy business because there's rotten apples in it, please.[/QUOTE]
With how many rotten apples the tree has given me and my family over the years, it's hard not to see the tree itself as the main problem.
[QUOTE=Datsun;51243842]With how many rotten apples the tree has given me and my family over the years, it's hard not to see the tree itself as the main problem.[/QUOTE]
you don't see me disagreeing that better screening should be a thing but honestly, some people develop issues like this over time so it's hard to filter this kind of shit out, it's not surprising to me that 'going postal' has its roots in the postal service
i dont know how stressful the job is over there in the us, but honestly the work itself hasn't been very stressful for me over here in the netherlands aside from a few crazies who decide to start shit but that can happen in any job
[editline]22nd October 2016[/editline]
in fact i just heard a couple of weeks ago that some prick was dumping the mail as well, he got fired and fined obviously, nobody saw this coming
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