Fresno Mail Carrier Fired For Throwing Away Mail About Obamacare

[a kennedy]

FRESNO, Calif. (KMPH) -
A Fresno mail carrier has been fired for throwing away mail. The United States Postal Service says the mailman admitted he threw away letters about "Obamacare."

People who live at a Central Fresno apartment complex snapped pictures of the inside of the dumpster filled with mail about "Obamacare". Witnesses say the mail was dumped in the garbage by their mailman.

"He just kept glancing over his shoulder over and over again. It was like he knew what he was doing was wrong," said witness Jerry Dills.

Dills says he brought the mail that he found in the garbage to his local post office where he filed a formal complaint against the carrier.

KMPH spoke with a representative from the U.S. Postal Service who said he questioned the carrier and the carrier admitted to the throwing the mail into the garbage dumpster.

According to the U.S. Postal Service spokesperson, Gus Ruiz, the mail carrier said, "He was running late and wanted to get back to the post office on time."

Ruiz says the mail carrier, who was a temporary worker hired in August, was fire immediately.

Ruiz added the discarded mail would be delivered on Tuesday.

http://www.kmph.com/story/23632600/fresno-mail-carrier-fired-for-throwing-away-mail-about-obamacare

[spanone]

1. good. he should be arrested too.

[etherealtruth]

2. I would have to assume that a postal worker

... throwing any mail away is a fireable (sp) (prosecutable?) offense.

[Cirque du So-What]

3. Fresno, huh?

Some relative of RimJob's?

[A HERETIC I AM]

14. I was thinking something similar.

Are charter member of Free Republic

[spinbaby]

19. I'm always reminded of the Carol Burnett miniseries

Carol Burnett's Fresno miniseries in the 80s is still one of the funniest things I've ever seen on TV.

"You call these grapes? They taste like Fresno!"

[JI7]

4. "temporary worker hired in August"

is this something they are doing more of ?

[Cha]

17. Maybe for Post Office vacationers?

No idea.. but, it reminded me of a cafe I worked(I was cooking) at in the 90s and I found the dishwasher( a kid) had hidden a lot of the dirty dishes so he didn't have to wash them. I think he was in a "hurry" too.

[JeffHead]

5. Employment Death Panel in action.

Isn't messing around with the mail a felony?

[n2doc]

6. I gotta wonder how many of those letters were legit

It would be really ironic if they were "Obamascare" scams.

[randome]

7. It sucks to be a Conservative today.

I'm very happy about that.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]I'm always right. When I'm wrong I admit it.
So then I'm right about being wrong.[/center][/font][hr]

[BumRushDaShow]

8. Newman!

[PoliticAverse]

9. It just keeps coming and coming and coming...

[A HERETIC I AM]

15. "And then it's Publishers Clearing House day!"

Laughed my ass off the first time I saw that bit.

[SDjack]

10. He will soon need to consider getting some ObamaCare. nt

[Liberal_in_LA]

11. Dills is a hero for bringing incident to post office attention

[Cha]

18. That's right.. the one who saw all that and took pics of the discarded

Obamacare mail in the Dumpster. And, followed through.. A regular dectective..

[annm4peace]

12. People of Fresno need Obamacare

Fresno has a lot of poverty. It controlled by the neoconned, born again evangelical, b.s. people.

check out how The City of Fresno deal with those who are homeless.

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/10/09/18744608.php

The City of Fresno policy on getting rid of the homeless is evolving and becoming harsher by the day. They have now developed a policy that effectively prevents homeless people from having any more property than they can carry. If a homeless person leaves their shopping cart for ½ hour to eat at the Poverello House, they will probably return to find it and all of their property gone.


The City of Fresno, which recently destroyed most of the homeless encampments in downtown Fresno, has developed new tactics to attack the homeless. To read about the bulldozing of those encampments (earlier this year), see:

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/09/03/18742623.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/09/09/18742970.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/08/26/18742115.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/08/27/18742188.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/08/02/18740840.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/08/02/18740839.php

As the bulldozing of homeless encampments in downtown Fresno was taking place, the police department established a task force of four officers whose job is to focus on making sure the homeless do not re-establish any encampments. The task force would allow homeless people to sleep on the sidewalks at night, but at daybreak they would blast them out of bed with their PA systems. Homeless people could sleep at night, but could not establish anything permanent, like a tent or shelter.

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[Spider Jerusalem]

13. Interfering with the post is a federal offence

From Title 18, USC, Section 1701.
"Section 1701. Obstruction of mails generally
Whoever knowingly and willfully obstructs or retards the passage of the mail, or any carrier or conveyance carrying the mail, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.

[Cha]

16. OMG! Was he in a "hurry"(not good for a postman) or was it something

even more sinister?

[B Calm]

20. They did the right thing getting rid of him, but

how many do this and get away with it? My rural carrier pulled up to my mail box yesterday with his radio playing real loud and listening to the windbag of propaganda Limbaugh.

[dembotoz]

21. here is wisconsin there isn't any direct mail on obama care

fuck face walker turned down the money

[Kingofalldems]

22. Temp workers are called 'casuals' in the USPS

Basically hired from off the street with no benefits and low pay.