USPS hoarder uncovered

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Anyone in the Philly area lost a knife to USPS? You may recover it yet. The following article appeared in the newspaper today:

PHILADELPHIA: A postal carrier has admitted he stored more than 12,000 pieces of undelivered mail in his garage. 42 yr old David Blauser pleaded guilty on Thursday to a single count of wilfully obstructing the passage of mail. He was sentenced to three years' probation, community service and a $500 fine.

He began stashing the mail in 1997 and added to it whenever he couldnt keep up.
 
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Unbelievable. That's a nothing sentence, IMO. For every piece of mail he stole he should be fined at least $50.
 
This happens once in a while. It's generally overloaded carriers dumping third rate bulk mail that no one wants or misses anyway. When wanted and expected mail or packages are not delivered, the post office gets complaints and puts a stop to it. Nobody complains about not getting junk mail.

I very much doubt that there are missing knives in that trove. Long outdated grocery ads are more likely, especially in light of the mild sentence.
 
A foot-carrier in the city I work in dumped advertising fliers in dumpsters for years before he was caught and fired. He didn't throw away people's letters and packages though. A mailman would have to be stupid to do that.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
The court may have gone easy on him if USPS fired him for it and he could have lost his pension.
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I'm not sure about the Union the USPS is in, but in the Teamsters, they can't touch the pension once a person is fully vested.
They can however deduct money from the pension if they are ordered to reimburse, especially in the case of theft and or deception.

A guy I worked with was faking a back injury and got caught moving his own furniture. He was trying to retire on a disability, but was forced to take an early retirement (non disabling) and reimburse all the expenses paid for time loss and medical bills.
It ended up costing him close to 40,000 dollars. Served him right. Everyone knew what he was doing
 
USPS employees can belong to a number of different unions, but there are Federal laws determining when a pension is forfeit, which is not automatically done when someone is fired.

We had a clerk who stole from funds on her window service job -- impossible to avoid getting caught. Federal charge, Federal prison, lost her pension.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
USPS employees can belong to a number of different unions, but there are Federal laws determining when a pension is forfeit, which is not automatically done when someone is fired.

We had a clerk who stole from funds on her window service job -- impossible to avoid getting caught. Federal charge, Federal prison, lost her pension.
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Its amazing what people will try to get away with.
I'm all for them losing everything when they get caught stealing.

A freight company my dad use to work for, was having firearms disappear. It went on for a long time. This was in the days before security cameras and searches were used.
It ended up being a guy that had worked for the company for years, One of the other workers went to his house to visit, and on his way down the hall to use the bathroom, he noticed stacks of guns still in the boxes in a bedroom. Its been years ago and I can't remember exactly what the punishment was, but he did go to prison. Rightfully so...
 
jill jackson said:
A foot-carrier in the city I work in dumped advertising fliers in dumpsters for years before he was caught and fired. He didn't throw away people's letters and packages though. A mailman would have to be stupid to do that.
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I'd give my mailman a tip if he'd do that for me. It'd save me having to sort through so much junk mail everyday.
 
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