Postal Worker Rented Storage Unit To Hold All The Mail He Failed To Deliver

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A time-strapped United States Postal Service worker who was unable to complete deliveries on his Virginia route rented a $49-a-month storage unit into which he dumped about 5000 pieces of undelivered mail, according to a U.S. District Court filing. Jason Delacruz, who began working as a postal carrier in June 2018, has pleaded guilty to a charge of delaying the delivery of mail. The 38-year-old Delacruz, who resigned his USPS job last year, is scheduled for a February 12 sentencing on the felony count.

Delacruz’s scheme was disrupted when he was spotted "unloading mail into a public storage facility" in Virginia Beach. A witness “snapped several photographs of the postal employee and a picture of the license plate of the employee’s vehicle” and provided the images to postal officials.

Delacruz, who is free on a personal recognizance bond, faces a maximum of five years in prison for the mail stashing scheme. Imprisonment, however, seems unlikely for Delacruz based on similar criminal prosecutions.

A postal worker who hid nearly 50,000 pieces of undelivered mail in her California apartment was sentenced in 2017 to three years probation after pleading guilty to the same count as Delacruz. And a New York City mailman who failed to deliver about 40,000 pieces of mail (which agents found stashed in his car, Brooklyn home, and work locker) had the felony case against him dismissed by prosecutors in 2016.

http://thesmokinggun.com/buster/us-postal-service/mail-stashed-in-storage-unit-714036

[guillaumeb]

1. I once represented a letter carrier who "stored" mail.

After the process, he was a former letter carrier.

[mtngirl47]

2. So, the check really could be in the mail! n/t

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Back in 1989 or 90, my carrier in Boulder, CO was found to

not be delivering all of the mail, but stashing it in his back yard instead. I believe he simply didn't sort or deliver the third class stuff, which meant that actual letters and the like got through. It was the advertising fliers and the like he tossed in his back yard.

And he was a nice guy. Always cheerful, always a smile on his face. We called him "The hippy-dippy mailman".

I think he got away with not delivering the stuff for around a year, and was caught because some people complained about not getting expected ads from local stores.

I suspect this sort of thing happens more than we know. Most of the time it doesn't go on for long and they're caught.

[activistUSA]

4. a productive

government worker??