Mail carrier leaves mail on side of New Jersey road; quits job

October 04, 2018, 10:58 AM

wcb6092

This is wrong,the employee should have been charged.

"We do not anticipate any further action against this individual," Balfour said. "The Roxborough Station Post Office is going to deliver the mail."

https://www.foxnews.com/us/mai...ersey-road-quits-job

A U.S. Postal Service worker abandoned bins of mail on the side of a road in south New Jersey before quitting, authorities said – and an image of the dumped deliveries has gone viral.

The piles of trashed mail date back to Aug. 8, but were discovered on Sunday in Pennsauken, NJ.com reported.

The mail was sent out for delivery from the Roxborough Station Post Office in Philadelphia, Special Agent Scott Balfour of the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General told NJ.com.

The office was able to track down the employee who dumped the mail but learned the person resigned from their job on Sept. 8, Balfour said. The employee was not identified and a motive was not immediately known.

"We do not anticipate any further action against this individual," Balfour said. "The Roxborough Station Post Office is going to deliver the mail."

October 04, 2018, 11:09 AM

kz1000

Was it raining?

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-Bomber Harris

October 04, 2018, 11:19 AM

Loaded Round

Newman?

October 04, 2018, 11:30 AM

chellim1

quote:
"We do not anticipate any further action against this individual," Balfour said. "The Roxborough Station Post Office is going to deliver the mail."

"We do not anticipate any further action against this individual, since no one receives anything of importance in their mail anymore." Balfour said. "The Roxborough Station Post Office is going to deliver the mail anyway, when we get around to it, because all those piles of ads and other junk pay our bills."

"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible."
-- Justice Janice Rogers Brown

"The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth."
-rduckwor

October 04, 2018, 11:32 AM

PASig

October 04, 2018, 02:39 PM

Oat_Action_Man

quote:
Originally posted by kz1000:
Was it raining?

If that mail dated to August 8 and we're hearing about it now in October, it's a pile of paper sludge and some plastic windows, given the torrential rains that have occurred several times between now and then.

October 05, 2018, 09:54 AM

V-Tail

quote:
Originally posted by Oat_Action_Man:

If that mail dated to August 8 and we're hearing about it now in October, it's a pile of paper sludge and some plastic windows, given the torrential rains that have occurred several times between now and then.

Another possibility: the mail was retrieved from the roadside quickly, but we are just now hearing about it.

October 05, 2018, 12:54 PM

egregore

quote:
This is wrong,the employee should have been charged.

What would the crime be? The mail wasn't stolen or otherwise tampered with. What law was broken?

October 05, 2018, 05:00 PM

rscalzo

quote:
Originally posted by egregore:
quote:
This is wrong,the employee should have been charged.

What would the crime be? The mail wasn't stolen or otherwise tampered with. What law was broken?

This one..

(a) Whoever, being a Postal Service officer or employee, unlawfully secretes, destroys, detains, delays, or opens any letter, postal card, package, bag, or mail entrusted to him or which shall come into his possession, and which was intended to be conveyed by mail, or carried or delivered by any carrier or other employee of the Postal Service, or forwarded through or delivered from any post office or station thereof established by authority of the Postmaster General or the Postal Service, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
(b) Whoever, being a Postal Service officer or employee, improperly detains, delays, or destroys any newspaper, or permits any other person to detain, delay, or destroy the same, or opens, or permits any other person to open, any mail or package of newspapers not directed to the office where he is employed; or
Whoever, without authority, opens, or destroys any mail or package of newspapers not directed to him, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 778; May 24, 1949, ch. 139, § 37, 63 Stat. 95; Pub. L. 91–375, § 6(j)(16), Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 778; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(B), (G), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2146, 2147.)