A U.S. Postal Service employee stashed nearly 50,000 pieces of undelivered mail in her California home, according to a criminal information filed against the worker.
Federal investigators charge that Sherry Watanabe hid “approximately 48,288 pieces of United States mail” in her apartment. The mail was intended for delivery to customers along Watanabe’s route in Placentia, an Orange County city.
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Watanabe, 48, was named in a one-count felony criminal information filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. In a plea agreement with prosecutors, Watanabe has admitted to the mail hoarding.
According to the plea agreement, Watanabe was hired as a mail carrier in June 2006, and she began collecting “large quantities of such mail” in her Placentia residence in 2011. While the undelivered mail was seized by law enforcement agents in late-2013, court filings do not indicate why more than two years passed before Watanabe was charged.
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She tried to use the excuse she did not want to go into overtime.
no not tax payer money stupid
hey kids-now you know why they call it the US Postal Circus…….run by unethical clowns! carrier should have gone to EAP and said the po mismanagement drove her and the 50,000 pc’s to drink! how come you never hear about UPS drivers hoarding parcels in their homes lol! this 1/4 we lost 1.6 Billion………..I bet next 1/4 it will be 2.4 Billion……..anyone want to raise me another 1/2 a Billion? hey a Billion here and a Billion there-what me worry? it is amazing to think that Pan American Airways shut down over 13 Million……and this place is still in business losing over $95 Billion since 2009-go figure. (no prefunding since 2009 and no taxpayer money…….so where is it going?)(they did get no interest loans from the US Treasury until they were cut off at 50 Billion-whose money is in the US Treasury…..that right kiddies,,,,,,,US Taxpayer money ja-zam-I think in football they call that an end around lol)