USPS faces growing threat as postal workers steal millions
One of the biggest threats to the United State Postal Service is not the ever-growing cost of stamps, long lines at the post office or even delayed mail.In mid-December, federal prosecutors charged two postal workers with stealing more than $1 million in business checks. The two worked at postal facilities in Virginia and North Carolina., I.G. Tammy L.
The clerk was fired, prosecuted and found guilty, the report said. The clerk was given two years probation and ordered to pay $1,600. In St. Louis, a mail handler stole 55 out of 150 packages out of a truck. The mail handlers helped each other as lookouts while stolen items were stashed in their jackets and backpacks.Solutions are not as easy as they sound. Most facilities don’t provide lockers for workers. Plus, workers go in and out to get mail out of trucks. They need their jackets on cold days.This is a difficult problem to solve.
DAVE LIEBER is “The Watchdog” investigative columnist for The Dallas Morning News who fights for his readers and exposes bad practices in business and government. A judge in a national columnists contest called his winning entries "models of suspenseful storytelling and public service."
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