13 Investigates uncovers USPS workers found culpable of stealing mail

ABC13 Investigates problems with mail theft at the post office and how government documents show in some cases, it's an inside job.

[@kelisbraun5041]

That’s a federal offense but the fact they were federal employees , they should be punished the worse.

[@eagletwatcher]

But they won't be. They are rarely prosecuted. How many FBI agents have been prosecuted for LYING to the courts to spy on people? None. Even after they were caught

[@eliyang]

Usps is not a Federal agency.

[@bartleydalfonso2853]

@user-vx4gn6qc2b You are wrong. As a retired USPS employee (24 years) I can tell you that yes USPS are federal employees, pursuant to Title 5 United States Code; Title 39 U.S.C.; and Title 39 Code of Federal Regulations. What is your source?

[@johngraham2470]

@@bartleydalfonso2853 pursuant to Title 5 United States Code; Title 39 U.S.C.; and Title 39 Code of Federal Regulations. They can loot. They can be lazy, irresponsible and don`t care attitude.

[@marih3286]

We aren't concerned anout the 600,000 USPS Employees. We're only concerned about the Thieves and their Managers who minimize the severity of the situation. There should be a minimum jail sentence for these thieves!

[@bpxl53yewz29]

I had a check stolen and the evidence showed it had to be an employee. The check was dropped off AT a post office counter and when what I received was the opened envelope in one of the USPS plastic bags, sealed, stating the item had been damaged, and thus the encasing. So the only people who handled the envelope were postal workers.

[@bbellefson]

Our local PO has had HUNDREDS of complaints over 20+ years with missing mail, opened mail w/items missing, openly hostile counter service, deliveries dumped in yard, etc. NOTHING is ever done. Same people -- same old same old. It's quite unbelievable.

[@WaveGod813]

Charge them and send them to prison

[@rogerrosen2323]

some have been sent

[@johngraham2470]

Prison is not new for them. They just came from there only.

[@deniseellenburg649]

The USPS hasn't turned a profit in decades, is no longer a necessity thanks to the implementation of electronic communication and delivery carriers such as FedEx and UPS and now appear to be engaged in criminal behavior. They have loosened their standards for hiring and now employ people known to use drugs, have questionable character and unethical standards so it comes as no surprise to learn employees are stealing from customers. The problem goes all the way to the top. The same culture of corruption saturating Federal Government is also present in the USPS. You do not employ substandard people and get stellar results ... Duh. A bloated, benefit saturated pension program combined with above noted problems makes the billions yearly in bailouts from taxpayers a STUPID ACT! No private business could continue to operate with these factors so why does the failing USPS continue getting a free ride? I suppose I could ask the same question about the millions of illegals my tax dollars are supporting right now too... 😢

[@fcoram72]

I usually drop off my mail out of my zip code. My local Houston USPS near me is NOT trustworthy. The employees don't look happy to be there and they see their duties with apathy.

[@tlcooper2.0]

I'm in Maryland and I do the SAME thing.

[@greg673]

We went through this in NJ 2 years ago. They stole a check and altered it to 35K. They seem to have fixed the theft problem here, but other problems still exist. I thought the DEI hiring would solve this and the other problems 😂

[@jimmieclark4638]

I ve had mail opened too You just cannot trust anyone anymore.

[@benjaminsorenson]

And yet they are part of a union which makes it near impossible to impossible to fire employees that rightfully need to be fired.

[@michaelcesco2970]

I​@@tlcooper2.0

[@fallonnugent7951]

Corruption starts at the top of the ladder

[@ElCap1van]

All to privatize the post office

[@12HappyDonuts]

@@ElCap1vanit was considered. The problem was everyone wanted the NYC market but no one wanted states like Iowa.

[@user-gc1dl5ji9i]

Filing a complaint with USPS is like spitting into the wind...

[@thomasnorcom8011]

In 2010 I was on a Federal Grand jury in Houston. We indicted several postal workers for stealing mail. It's not a new problem. It's just gotten worse.

[@davidb2206]

Were they DEI or 13%, just like Africa and Haiti?

[@user-dw5gt6dz4x]

Amen to that

[@user-dw5gt6dz4x]

​@@davidb2206copy from the cave man, and cave woman of European

[@deadsetondreams1988]

@@ItsAWonder-jz1nd Wow what jerks, that's so freaking petty! A few years ago I ordered scrubs, I had just been hired to start working at a Veterinary Hospital. I was working my 2 weeks at my previous job and got a message that they were delivered around noon. I worked right next to my house at the time and ran home to check on it as soon as I went on break. By the time I got home to check it had been maybe 10 minutes after I got the delivered notification. I didn't see it though so I figured someone else brought it inside already. When I got home it was nowhere to be found. Also, it wasn't at any of our neighbor's places, unless they brought it into their own house. I checked everyone's porches already. My grandma told me we got a knock on the door and that my package was there sometime after 9:30pm even though they marked it as delivered at noon...The only thing I could think of was that whoever took it found out what it was and figured they couldn't sell it or use it themselves.

[@FracturedReality777]

​@@deadsetondreams1988USPS marks packages as delivered when they are not. They then deliver it later. This is done to meet their performance metrics.

[@yourguidetorights3909]

Having retired from the PO many years ago it doesn't surprise me that they got no response from Postal management.

[@deadsetondreams1988]

Exactly, where I live you can't even call to ask the post office questions, the phone literally just rings and rings forever until you personally hang up when you're sick of waiting.

[@taylorstanke6141]

I filed a complaint with the inspector general in Austin 2 years ago due to check theft from USPS. Over $150,000 has been stolen from our account and our customers. Nothing has been done

[@ToboeKey309]

Whoever u need to pay go in person or if the company u need to pay to pay online not fuckin hard stop sending checks that's your fault for losing 150k 🤦‍♂️ I havnt ordered a new check book in years n I havnt used the check book I have in my drawer in years

[@gmf8171]

They also helped steal the 2020 US Presidential election. The APWU openly endorsed the Biden/Harris ticket and then went out and participated in peddling fake ballots to the tune of millions

[@maryannknox7158]

Wow

[@jgjg3848]

@@ToboeKey309 That's not how businesses work. Adults know that.

[@mistiblu246]

Same thing here in Colorado Springs. Called multiple times to complain my daughters bday card with $700 gift card never arrived. Nothing was done.

[@waleyefish9026]

They did lower the bar for hiring at USPS. I gave up with them when I mailed some documents Priority mail. When I traced it, the mail never left the local PO. Whoever took it thought checks inside, but they were wrong again.

[@22lyric]

*Need better hiring requirements!*

[@lashurediscussion4970]

I was told although the post office have always had a problem with employee thefts, it’s gotten out hand due to the changes in hiring requirements.

[@12HappyDonuts]

You have better benefits at Starbucks without having to freeze your ass off.

[@kitsonk717]

It is happening to me right now. USPS Consumer Affairs in DC, directed me to my date office and I have called them every day for a week and literally no one has answered the phone and it says the vm is FULL. I know someone is stealing my mail. They don't let up. Twice in one week! Horrible

[@eagletwatcher]

Call you your elect congress person in DC. You can find them in Google. They also have a local office. You're wasting time trying to get any response from the USPS.

[@gawainethefirst]

Here an attorney.

[@Locke99GS]

"As of 2022, there are approximately 1250 Postal Inspectors, who are authorised to carry weapons, make arrests, execute federal search warrants, and serve subpoenas." - Wikipedia So, we have a fair amount of armed USPS licensed law enforcement officers working for the Inspector General. What do all those officers actually do, if they're not dealing with this?

[@kbrown5218]

1250? To cover every post office in this country. Seems a little low considering the IRS armed agents. Postal Inspectors even find drugs & employees involved.

[@Eztliz]

I expect a lot of them waste their time looking for drugs.

[@PssszztYo]

Pretending to be DEA agents

[@wdukes50]

​@@PssszztYosup bitch they have more authority then the DEA ya dumbass mark

[@voiceofreason5653]

Well, if they work in Tucson, Arizona they are too busy conspiring with management in the Tucson Mail Processing Plant to cover up management’s misconduct, by refusing to investigate employee claims of battery and threats by management against employees. I know this first-hand because it happened to me. 22.5 months out of work. It took finally getting an arbitration date, never made it to arbitration, to get my job back, full back pay, including overtime. Which they have refused to honor the agreement they made that I have been fighting for nearly a year. They had no case and they knew it; and they also, with the help of the postal inspectors who refused to investigate my complaint the plant manager committed battery on me moments before she fired me allowed it to happen. You cannot fire an employee without due process, but not being paid nor having access to my job for 22.5 had the same effect whatever they wanted to call it. The way the script was to play out, I was supposed to beg them for my job back. I used a different script, one that had me not allowing the plant manager to batter me, destroy evidence, and have the postal inspectors right in the middle of it refusing to investigate my claim, while conspiring with management to cover it up without a fight. I am still fighting this; and management is trying to fire me again. This time, I get my 1,200.00 a week while they play this game. In the meantime, I have plenty of time to work on my EEOC case from before I was fired that got me fired, file National Labor Relations Board charges for unfair labor practices and whatever else I need to work on to fight the USPS. They picked the wrong person to make their victim. I had and have one simple goal, go to work and do my job to the best of my ability, and go time. Their goal, was to keep fucking with me because I refused to work in unsafe conditions; and had no problems fighting for my rights when they tried bullying me. When the entirety of an employee's problem are with management, not co-workers, not attendance, and not job performance related, the USPS should know it management, not the employee who is the problem. USPS management does not care about your mail. They only care about protecting management; and by protecting management they are protecting themselves. If you think USPS management cares about what they consider your problem, you'd be wrong. They only care about protecting themselves at all costs.

[@jseehowitsbeen3177]

My dad is 61 and a rural mail carrier in another state and he works really hard, but he definitely knows that the management of many post offices, including his, is not good, and sometimes the people that make it through and get employed as carriers aren’t the best.

[@shanna155]

I've noticed alot of our local offices have got on the woke wagon and now have gone to sh!t

[@jerfy2001]

This is the most gently worded comment ever, lol. Management within the post office is dog shit, and the new employees we hire are too. No one gets let go in their first 90 days, even when they're absolutely horrible.

[@jasonmichaelshipp2978]

Maybe look into the fact that USPS new hires no longer go through interview, drug screen, and/or backround check.

[@iB_pOpN]

Just the drug screen, still do interview and background check

[@antifaslayer]

Put them in federal prison for no less than 20 years

[@FilthFartHole]

In a cell, and on a bedbug infested mattress!

[@nicoles8176]

I'm an account payable for a food company in Houston. Monthly we have checks stolen, name change and deposited via Mobil deposit. These checks are from $12,000 to$135,000 check.

[@taylorstanke6141]

Beverage company in austin here-and same!

[@rogerrosen2323]

THERE WAS A EMPLOYEE IN INDIANA who had 2 collegues non workers in illinois he stole 2 million and messed up many businesses and other carriers videos of busting cluster boxes open maybe they are cashing them electronivcally and bypassing the bank how else they were obviously altered

[@lokokrz.gaming]

​@taylorstanke6141 what the beverage?

[@marypauli8434]

DeJoy needs to resign, immediately.

[@BoaConstrictor126]

Amen. USPS functioned just fine before he ran it. DeJoy is purposely trying to undermine the USPS in hopes to privatize it and make it to where only the wealthy can afford to send mail. That’s his goal

[@frankrodriguez6856]

Congress needs to step in. If priority packages are not delivered within the given USPS delivery time period , then the sender should receive a full refund. Presently there is no incentive for the Post Office to get the job done. They don’t care if it gets there or not or if it’s delivered on time. They already got paid and they won’t guarantee the customer the package will be delivered within the given delivery time frame.

[@elrobo3568]

I filed a theft report when a check was stolen from my mailbox, the USPO said" you don't really put mail in your mailbox do you"? They nevr followed up on the theft even though fake checks were made with my check numbers totaling over $12,000.

[@carefulconsumer8682]

THANK YOU FOR REPORTING THIS! Houston post offices are a disaster. I have two packages that have been stuck in the North Houston "Hub" for two weeks and just now slowly moved forward. Mailed the day after MLK day and who knows when they will arrive!

[@okiesailor5417]

We had mail getting stolen from our street side mailbox in OKC. After we reported this to USPS, our mail carrier was determined to be the thief and we never saw him again and the USPS would not give us an update on the investigation.

[@wandamhughes5030]

Last Graduation 2023 I mailed a gift to a friend's niece. My friend also, mail a gift to another niece, both to Ft Worth. Both were deposited inside the Main Post Office on Hadley in Houston, Tx into the drop box. Neither gifts were received. Please help us All.😢

[@csmlouis]

Postal police/enforcement is a joke now. Actually, anything federal not related to that guy is barely enforced now.

[@pdl9199]

Why would a postal worker rip open an envelope, steal the check and then put the ripped empty envelope back in the box? Wouldn’t it make more sense that they would throw away the empty envelope? Doesn’t make sense.

[@Idideverythingrightandtheyindi]

Because my coworker ain’t sh*t!!! During Christmas time some of our customers will leave their regular carriers a tip in a card in their mailbox. My coworkers will open your card, steal your tip and then bring back the card and leave an empty card at your case🤬

[@charlieann456]

Maybe they don't want the open envelope (with the customers name and address on it) in their possession, just in case the postal employee gets searched.

[@daughterofsekhmet81]

Criminals are rarely smart.

[@kweaver1965]

BECAUSE THEY ARE UNEDUCATED IDIOTS!! They don't have to take the postal exams anymore and they hire thieves.

[@johnleos1687]

That's how the criminal mind works 😲

[@oldreprobate2748]

Thank you Louis DeJoy.

[@novembercherry4]

Even though I live in Vegas… I work at LAS and dropped an envelope at the mail box at E6 (yep, there’s a USPS box in the terminal) because I thought it would be safer. They were 2 gift cards. Never made it to its destination. So irritated by that.

[@deadsetondreams1988]

We're also in NV and we didn't have too many issues before until the last few months it went to heck. I already commented on this video about it but we had a postal worker fraudulently sign for a check. We were extremely lucky they ridiculously put it in our mailbox and didn't even check that we were all home waiting for it. We always hide anything sensitive in letters so they can't see what's inside the envelope at least. I'm so sorry that happened to you!! A long time ago we lived in Mexico, NY (which actually exists and I'm not kidding but it's by Texas, NY lol) but our grandma tried to send us money one year but they sent it to the actual Mexico and we never got it. From then on she signed USA in giant letters on the envelopes and then we actually started getting our mail from her after that. I swear they emphasize having the proper zip code listed and then they don't even look at the thing sometimes.

[@wpeters4361]

Federal employees face no accountability, no consequences. Very rare for a government employee to ever be fired. They'll move them around, but that seems to be it.

[@Handle4570]

My nephew works for the Post Office and he says they hire a bunch of people from Somalia and they do nothing and the management does nothing about them doing nothing

[@davidb2206]

Somalians don't belong in our society.

[@BoaConstrictor126]

Yep. That’s the consequence of diversity quotas. The post office functioned much better when the majority of its employees were white

[@NOTIME4THIS]

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO INTEGRITY? Did it die along with morality? This is a sad symptom of how sick our society has become.

[@Hatbox948]

Affirmative action.

[@davidb2206]

11 MILLION third world foreigners under Biden and Democrats. That is, experienced criminal GANGS.

[@abes3925]

Post office Management killed that a long time. Everything at the post office is “cover your ass”.

[@soniaTX4387]

It seems Americans like crime. They keep voting in local, state, and federal people who oppose any punishment for criminals. And so crime escalates daily.

[@ruthlewis6678]

There was a time when the very last people anyone wanted to get crossways with were the Postal Inspectors. They have gone soft too?

[@coryp4200]

Keep in mind there’s bad people in every profession not all carriers are bad

[@audiemae9693]

Ty! I'm a carrier out of another state and have been with USPS for 27 yrs and I've seen and heard a lot. We work hard but the system is broken and out of touch with reality

[@mariebussinger6565]

Its the criminals inside...the test for a job used to be difficult.

[@eagletwatcher]

The entire USPS has been a corrupt problem for at least a decade. I have had 27 packages lost or stolen by them. They were insured and I've NEVER received a single cent for them.

[@davidb2206]

Even ONE is not acceptable for the postal system in the United States.

[@coryp4200]

@@davidb2206 wait till you find out about police..

[@sandraromero5899]

You all need to PLEASE do a news in investigation at the Summerlin, Nevada USPS and other Las Vegas post offices. I'm certain it's an inside job as well as neighborhood lock box key thefts. We have even had mail deliverer's held up at gun point while out delivering mail. On my Nextdoor app., evert week I'm seeing posts of people's mail disappearing. I myself have had 2 letters never show up at their destination and I hardly ever use USPS.....maybe 4 times per year. People report their lost mail and nothing is ever done; they never hear back from USPS. This is a national issue, not just in a couple of specific post offices. Something needs to be done or USPS is going to be a thing of the past if people are unable to trust it.

[@user-lp1jw9bo5y]

My mother also had her mail stolen by the workers out of her local post office what you must do is US write a letter to the postmaster and describe all of the events with dates and times and usually they'll find a dirty carpet in their dirty house this is the direct result of DEI programs in America

[@BoaConstrictor126]

Exactly. The post office functioned just fine when the majority of employees were white

[@user-eq4sp6hn2x]

I mailed a padded mailer to my kids on the east coast from the west coast. it contained several hundred assorted gift cards for their Christmas gifts. the package was delivered two weeks late but it was shredded and the cards were gone. someone at our local post office had a very nice holiday indeed.

[@TonyaBowers-bt5xl]

Thank you for looking into this it's happening in a lot of post offices

[@Hatbox948]

Our post office in Fort Mill, SC is the worst. They have a very poor rating. Getting packages there is a crap shoot. If you go in person, expect to wait in line at least 45 minutes. Postal employees there have also been accused of stealing mail.

[@jaymontange8260]

They will not acknowledge anything. If it reflects poorly upon the USPS they won’t make a public acknowledgment so they won’t look bad. Every time.! In my honorable opinion.! They have a lot of young people now in the postal inspectors group.

[@johnleos1687]

East Los Angeles California 🇺🇸. I found mail that had been dumped by our local mail carrier into an alley! There was so much mail sitting in the alley it must have been from multiple days! 😲 I took some of the mail to our local post office but was told "They would & could not pick up discarded mail from alley"! 😡 and were "Unable to investigate how our neighborhood mail was being dumped into the alley"! 🤨🇺🇸. At lunch time our local wings place is packed with postal workers in uniform having beers with their lunches!

[@bonniebaer7607]

First off… did you actually witness a mail carrier dumping the mail in the alley? There are people out there that steal mail and then dump it wherever. Also, I find it hard to believe that mailmen are meeting up and having beers while they are working. Either it is after their shift or you are sadly mistaken about what they’re ordering.

[@johnleos1687]

@@bonniebaer7607 The fact that the Post Office refused to go pick up the dumped mail from the alley or even investigate how it got there is the problem! 🤨

[@davidb2206]

Take photos and give copies to the local news media. 2) Report it to the nearest police station. 3) Go over the local postal heads and report it to the IG's office.

[@abes3925]

It’s because dumped mail is considered a crime scene and you picking up the mail is you tampering with the crime scene therefore there’s nothing they can do.

[@johnleos1687]

@@abes3925 According to that logic;. If I witness a robbery and see the criminal dump the stolen goods, if I pick up some of the dumped items and take them to the police, THEY CAN'T INVESTIGATE? 😂😆🤣 I would expect the Post Office to retrieve the dumped mail from the alley at the very least! 🇺🇸. I delivered some to my neighbors and told them where I found it in case they wanted to sort it themselves! Neither rain or snow my a$$! 😡

[@houseofbae2405]

Yessss.. mail are missing.. or delivered somewhere else.. USPS employees are lying to the bone when you ask what happened to your mail...

[@artofthereal]

I know USPS had disappeared numerous important government letters to me... it was a pain to get them resent. They (apparently) stole a battery charger I ordered too. I didn't realize it was this bad though.

[@keilagonzalez4017]

This is happening everywhere, my sister got a package empty twice . That's was send out from Puerto Rico to Topeka, KS . 😢 And none of the post office have done anything about it. Money waste , time waste. Very sad this is getting out of control.

[@janicetribbiani7535]

I had a Christmas package redirected after my sister incorrectly addressed it to me at a previous address. When tracking it, the system said it was picked up by an individual at a post office in Houston. It wasn't me and there's no one that could have picked it up on my behalf.

[@abes3925]

So it was picked up at your pervious address? Did you submit a new forwarding address when you moved? If not then it would be returned to sender.

[@desertflowerz89]

My bf and are both waiting for packages that were marked no access although we live in an apartment complex with open area cluster boxes. We filed claims today. Haven’t seen the postal carrier in days.

[@mylamberfeeties875]

I make sure to get insurance on my packages the post office does not want to pay me so they MAKE SURE my packages are delivered

[@robertschaaf7192]

they don’t pay the insured item. dont waste your time and money

[@user-px9nx9pc7k]

I have never had an easy time collecting on any insured package. Most often, they have worked around paying out.

[@eagletwatcher]

😂😂😂😂 no! Don't waste your money like I did. Insurance is just another scam the USPS uses to steal your money. They won't pay you a cent!

[@mooonie6634]

forget the ins, it takes an act of congress to get a pay out, I was a window clerk for many years, trust me. Certified is a better way of accountability. They require PROOF of how much your item costs! Who saves receipts on everything?

[@deadsetondreams1988]

Someone paid extra to have their package arrive to us "to get signed for." The postal worker fraudulently signed for the package and pretended like they gave it to us. We were at least fortunate that they put it in our mailbox but we called to complain. When we were told that that has been happening A LOT lately with them fraudulently signing for all kinds of legal paperwork, even if they are delivering it to the wrong place or to the wrong person. Whether you pay extra or not doesn't stop them from tampering with your mail sadly.

[@ocsrc]

We need to double the number of postal workers and we need to not use mailboxes any more. Too much theft is happening. We need to go to the post office and puck up our mail. We are EXACTLY LIKE AFRICAN COUNTRIES THAT ARE COMPLETELY LAWLESS we used to send people to prison for 20 years for stealing mail. Bow there is no penalty

[@terrislotta7177]

Never received a WHEELCHAIR I ordered on line, dropped off mail at post office and a gift card was in one of them and the recipient never received. There is internal thievery.

[@user-od5sh1ck5g]

That’s really awful that you can’t even trust your post office, my god what is going on!

[@frankroper3274]

I use to get mail and some would be opened on the end enough to peek in. The biggest joke at the USPS is when you fill out a lost item form...they never find it unless it is like you win the lottery day!

[@rogerchavez460]

Yes me too it is happening more often now.

[@Tbcycoji]

23 years ago , i had the ' brilliant ' idea to send $250 dlls to a friend in need , wrapped with two paper sheets in a white envelope. She never received it. I called C.S and told me the letter instead going to texas , ended up in Saint Louis Missouri. Lost track of it. Was told not to send cash And , insure anything i consider valuable.

[@KidIkarus]

I have a package mailed from CA to Austin, shipped the 9th was supposed to arrive by the 15th, tracking just stopped on the 18th after arriving at the Austin distribution center and being sent to San Antonio and back the same day for some reason, now it’s just sitting with no update since the 18th. Filed a missing mail report on the 25th and still no word yet, no correspondence, no nothing zip nada. But they’re raising shipping rates now.

[@abes3925]

Did it require a signature? Was the address you wrote correct? Also sometimes the packages aren’t scanned or accidentally gets send through out going.

[@eagletwatcher]

If people don't start filing complaints with their US congress people, NOTHING WILL EVER BE DONE!

[@aaronhumphrey2009]

The problems that some postal inspectors refuse to do their jobs. I had a case of an individual trespassing onto my property and stealing mail out of the mailbox ,over and over. I told the Postal inspectors what was going on ; the inspector said that even with video, the thief's name and address GIVEN TO THEM ,they WOULD NOT DO ANYTHING about the mail thefts !!

[@torontocookie]

My daughter had parcels DELIVERED then the female carrier takes it back & puts it back in her vehicle and drives away. My daughter even took pictures of the woman doing this! When my daughter contacted the company, she was told the post office reported it lost!!! This was not the first time! My daughter did not want to report it to the local post office because the female delivery person also is the local postmaster!!! How convenient for that person! What should my daughter do now? Who does she report her to? My daughter & family live out in the country & has a lot of expensive items-household & personal items mailed to her thro’ USPS on a regular basis.

[@julias.4980]

File a Police report!

[@rogerrosen2323]

yes and to risk their job on a small item not worth much strange girl in tennesee stole a check wasnt much employeee

[@jKLa]

She needs to report this to law enforcement including the video asap!!! Come on, use some common sense for a change.

[@DottyGreenee]

This has happened to me many times over the years in Atlanta. I didn’t and don’t know what to do or who to call.

[@hnybee1251]

This is a complete disaster. Most of us own small businesses and are affected by this thief ring. The people of Cypress are loosing money medication information documents etc. and very little is being done about it. I don't know the process but when the master key was stolen they should have replaced the locks. I understand that may be costly but we the people pay for it. The lack of efforts with the local post master is horrendous.

[@JKillingITinFL]

Kevin Ozebek is a great reporter. He did great here in Miami at WSVN

[@freddyhollingsworth5945]

Little Rock postal sorting facility stole my $50 dash cam, tracking proved it never left the post office, but yet they never admitted liability.

[@javaskull88]

Now the Postal Workers will punish that poor woman for speaking out. I bet more mail will go missing.

[@ricknelson947]

Remember not too long ago, that the Postal Inspectors actually did their jobs. They seem to be too busy collecting paychecks and other federal workers benefits.

[@bentelbow2922]

This past Christmas just about every christmas card I received had had the ends of the envelope rubbed against something like sandpaper to wear it down to the point that the carrier could access anything placed inside of the card itself. Makes it look like it wasnt cut, but worn down from "handling".

[@dianabinkowski3927]

And they wonder why more and more people use automatic payments instead of mailing checks for bills. I don't send checks anymore for anything.

[@melissasplitt158]

There is a way to fix the key 🔑 issue. Change the locking boxes to a code for the mailman. So, for the regular customers, they will still have keys, but the mailman has a code they type on the box. The post office should have these codes changed once a week. This should keep criminals at bay for a time being. The best ones to put in are the fingerprints. They will leave the postmaster alone if that was put on these boxes. Yes monthly the costumer will have to eat the cost but frankly they all ready are by the theft.

[@charlieann456]

Right now, the carriers are being targeted for the keys. Imagine how much more dangerous for the carriers if the carriers had a code that the bad guys want?

[@johnkingery403]

That would cost a fortune. USPS already operates in the red.

[@robertrootes]

Does this surprise anyone?

[@yeah_right88]

These statistics are extremely under reported. I had issues with missing mail in my business and they refused to investigate. So it must be the worst of the worst that get investigated, and the others are left off the reports.

[@artrielaskew2817]

I wish they would look into Spring Lake NC Post Office. I’ve submitted a complaint about the postal worker delivering open empty packages. And it always happens around Christmas for the last 3 years!

[@1waythatstherightway]

Yes, this is a huge problem, I’ve experienced this twice.

[@sawhite27]

Seen it first hand from two local post offices.

[@donaldgodwin3419]

As a former USPS postal employee, the biggest problem was the drop in qualified employees, they dropped the tests down to a level to where minimum IQ’s would pass,so you end up with with crap. And once you got in the same went for promotion. You have 40 applicants , none meet the requirements for promotion instead of going outside, they drop the standards and it becomes a domino effect ,end result total incompetence at best. Answer, privatization,period

[@partypeeps172]

I think if they promoted you to career based on performance and not seniority, that would help.

[@chrisgrace1489]

In October I Sent my niece a birthday card with $20.00 she never got it her birthday is in November I'm just glad I didn't send a check someone at po definitely stole it so heads up folks

[@deadsetondreams1988]

We personally never send cash in cards, they are prime targets for thieves. If we do send cash it is wrapped in a letter so they don't suspect it. Also always tape the envelopes and mark around the stamps with pen. Trust me people steal everything unfortunately, but cards are usual targets for them because people usually send cards with cash, checks, or gift cards inside. Luckily, it wasn't more money at least! I hope that doesn't happen to you again.

[@CB-vt3mx]

it just doesn't matter if the "majority" of USPS employees are not thieves. If only 1% of employees in any given USPS office are thieves...but Lord help them if they want to fire these employees...

[@linedanzer4302]

They've been stealing mail from the inside for eons. Where are the Postal Inspectors in all of this?

[@chelseydm2837]

Crazy! I’m from MA but if I would to get a delivery that was based in Texas, should I be worried? Because one location where this is commonplace would affect the whole nation I’m going to assume. Insane!

[@mangohaeppchen3447]

When I lived in Brooklyn, I had eight packages stolen. For one of them, the mail carrier marked it “Delivered” and just kept it in the truck. I called the local post office before his route ended and they made him come back and give it to me. I’m sure he was fired.

[@pamelaposton3507]

🤨 RIDICULOUS....YOU CAN'T EVEN MAIL NOTHING ANYMORE🤨

[@Logansmith823]

Surprise surprise…I hope they all go to jail

[@Luke2128]

It's happening in Virginia as well. Our distribution center is absolutely the worst. My SIL sent my daughter a box of pictures that has fallen into a black hole....this was weeks ago! I stood in line with two elderly women who had not received mail for MONTHS! The USPS needs to out of government control because they screw everything up. We had the worst carrier for months- wrecking our packages, shoving parcels in the mailbox that clearly was not going to fit...but he shoved them in there and it took us 20 minutes to get it out. When I went to complain something very enlightening was revealed. I told the postal worker what was happening, she asked us our location, we told her and she said, "I know who your carrier is and I'm sorry. He is a problem employee but unfortunately for you and us, he will not be terminated because WE ARE UNION! There you have it, folks - the truth. Unions had their usefulness generations ago, but that is not true today.

[@mdduet]

Correct. In most companies the "vast majority" of the total employees would not consider engaging in any criminal behavior. It only takes a small percentage of a 600,000 employee workforce to become corrupt to cause their customers to lose faith in the services provided. Especially when the service they provide carries checks, credit/debit cards, Federal/State tax info, personal accounts info, needed medicines and the list goes on. Remember when a Grandparent could trust USPS with a child's birthday card containing cash to reach them. No one in their mind does that now. Just a cards envelope size is enough for a worker to "remove for inspection".

[@carolewarren9374]

I had a $75 credit card I earned that never showed up and I called and they sent a replacement and that one never showed up either. I figured it had to be within USPS

[@coffeegator6033]

My credit card was taken somewhere between my post office and my mail box a couple months back. They tried buying $500+ worth of nike at a local store. I reported it to the police complete with a time of day that the person was in the store so they could easily go to the store and see for themselves on security footage but I'm sure the boys down at the lab are still working on it.

[@sue8237]

I had a gift card stolen from a birthday card that I mailed and the guy was on video using the card at the store and identified. I was not the only person he did this to. HE WASN'T EVEN PROSECUTED OR FIRED!!! They let him quit without consequence.

[@deadsetondreams1988]

While that is extremely annoying, the only positive is actually the quitting thing. Because, apparently if you get fired you can file for unemployment, but if you quit I don't think you can. That's what I was told at least but I've never looked it up to confirm that or not. If it is true I'm hoping that's why they let him quit, and hopefully it wasn't because they didn't care. He's sitting at home not collecting any unemployment and not getting any good references from the job because they are telling the new jobs that he's a thief.

[@sue8237]

@@deadsetondreams1988 I see your point; however, I believe unemployment eligibility rests on not being fired for good cause. Plus the guy then has a blemish on his work record. They also did NOT mark his file for non-rehiring! And, of course, he paid back none of the people he stole from. I wanted to see him with a record. That should have put him in a position for unlikely rehire anywhere and eliminated eligibility for unemployment, too. Anyway, that's my sad tale. Thanks for making your point, though.

[@markthompson7503]

I ship all over the country and for whatever reason the TEXAS USPS's lose or delays the most packages by far. Tracking always dies in Texas.

[@tonyking3125]

Huh, good job 13, keep on this.

[@deadsetondreams1988]

I'm not in Texas, but literally the other week we had someone send mail that was supposed to be signed by us! The delivery driver fraudulently signed for the mail. So incredibly stupid especially since we requested proof of delivery, so we even have a photo of the falsified signature! When we put in a complaint we were told that that has been happening A LOT with them signing for people's packages: legal packages, divorce papers, you name it. They could easily sign that it was delivered and take it themselves. We were INCREDIBLY lucky that they at least put it in our mailbox but we were searching for it everywhere at first. It was delivered earlier than we were told it was supposed to arrive but luckily we were waiting at home for it. It was supposed to be delivered into one of our hands but they didn't even ring or knock either. They were LUCKY they at least put it in the mailbox and didn't take it because they would have been done! And luckily no one steals from the mailboxes here either, so far.

[@coastalhillbilly3419]

Now we know why USPS losses 5 billion per year, they should hire UPS management as consultants

[@armageddonready4071]

Time to “update” the Wi-Fi and install hidden cameras at the most sketchy areas, which seem to be the major hubs.

[@PeopleoverInstitutions]

They need to investigate Kannapolis, NC as well. Complaints for years on end. Entire neighborhoods not recieving mail

[@oll1998]

"Can" be an inside job? I thought it was a foregone conclusion. Compare today's post office workers to yesterday's. This current batch is trash. No professionalism, and at least with the post master hear, poor leadership.

[@bentelbow2922]

BUT, according to ABC13 Houston, nothing like this could have possibly happened to effect any elections.

[@robertyoung2819]

Yep... Back in 1990... The Doctors at West Palm Beach hospital... Had asked me... If I could pick-up my prescriptions... Because they had issues with having prescriptions making it through the Miami sort facility...

[@amythomas9965]

This is why internal investigations should not be allowed. They need to be accountable to an outside agency, so they will ACTUALLY be held accountable.

[@patmcbride9853]

Give them at least 10 years in Club Fed.

[@trailwindz7833]

I used to work for USPS back in the day.. Employees got arrested for stealing food stamps, credit cards, registered mail.

[@Lovesapuzzle]

Employees that stole were prosecuted and went to jail back then and now. With the internet, we are just hearing more about the problem.

[@patty6375]

During covid EVERY package I sent to my daughter was 'damaged' and missing the contents. It was ALL through one particular post office. Multiple times.😢

[@CatWhiskering]

My employer makes us go through a mail-order prescription company. During the pandemic they hired a bunch of what I can only assume are felons to deliver mail, and prescriptions would either never arrive or the packages would be ripped open. The regional USPS inspectors did nothing, ignored reports. What worked was telling the mail-order pharmacy about the thefts, writing to my state reps, and writing to the federal USPS consumer advocate in D.C. That finally stopped the nonsense.

[@franksnyder1357]

Wait a minute Mr. Postman.

[@doreanabland1296]

Evidently you haven’t seen the story involving the Charlotte North Carolina postal issue…millions stolen by postal employees! Sign up for the email service, you’ll know daily what is supposed to arrive. I always contact anyone that I’m sending something important and ask them to inform me when they receive it.

[@firebrand420]

Two years in a row (2022 & 2023) we paid for vehicle registration online. Both years, Informed Delivery scanned the envelopes as being scheduled for arriving in our mailbox but the mail never showed up. The employee at our local distribution center claimed that it "could take up to 10 days after being scanned" for it to ACTUALLY be delivered. We get all other mail on the day it's scanned, but I am supposed to believe that our vehicle registration sticker is going to take TEN DAYS to move from our local post office to my address only five miles away?

[@highpwr]

@firebrand420 We had the same thing happen to us last year. USPS showed "out for delivery" but it never arrived. The DMV wanted us to pay again for second time to get a replacement registration and stickers. I had to fight with them for a week over it and they would not replace them unless I filed police and department of revenue reports saying they were stolen. I can only hope the thief that took them gets a traffic stop and thrown in jail for the stolen tags.

[@StopWhining491]

Same thing's happening in Atlanta.

[@joekev27]

Same thing is happening to the mail in chicago. We have had 3 checks stolen from the mail and the cops told us its an inside job and not much they can do about it.