Letter carrier also stole USPS property
January 23, 2015 – Baltimore, Maryland – U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Jeffrey L. Shipley, age 48, of Millersville, Maryland today to 20 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for stealing and destroying mail while employed as a postal employee. Judge Hollander also entered an order that Shipley pay $19,358.75 in restitution.
The sentence was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein; and Special Agent in Charge Paul Bowman of the U.S. Postal Service, Office of Inspector General.
According to his plea agreement, Shipley worked as a postal service carrier beginning in 1993. From about 2005 to March 10, 2014, Shipley stole and embezzled mail. Shipley was a letter carrier at the Brooklyn Carrier Annex from 1994 to January 2007, at the Parkville Branch until August 2007, and at the Catonsville Carrier Annex from August 4, 2007 to 2014.
Shipley embezzled mail that he was entrusted to deliver on his assigned route, and stole mail directly from the Catonsville Carrier Annex that was not part of his assigned route. Shipley also took Postal Service property, including stools, mail bags, signs and a mirror, valued at over $500.
Agents executed a search warrant at Shipley’s residence on March 10, 2014 and at a storage facility that he rented in Glen Burnie on April 18, 2014. Agents seized 20,413 pieces of mail, including gift cards and credit cards. Agents also seized 55 gift cards and 15 credit cards which were located separately from the stolen and embezzled mail, along with prescription bottles of medicine, checks, passports, a U.S. citizenship and immigration card, jewelry, clothes, books, a Nook, sunglasses and other items.
The total loss resulting from the scheme is over $10,000 and involved over 250 victims.
United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein praised the U.S. Postal Service – OIG for its work in the investigation and thanked Assistant U.S. Attorney Judson T. Mihok, who prosecuted the case.
Typical carrier….
Maybe he needed extra pay to get a new roof on his trailer?
TSP, i am impressed with your post
Amazingly stupid fellow! Glad they finally caught him and put him away!
And is sick leave was outstanding.
Idiot.
Throw the book at him.
We as city carriers certainly don’t need scum like this wearing our uniform. That there are thieves in the USPS from craft and management is unavoidable, given the size of the organization. But somehow public servant employees get more press attention than private industry unless that private company is involved in crime of huge proportions.
Many people will no doubt ask when managers will get theirs for malfeasance along with craft people, and realistically it’s very hard to pin anybody down when policies that are wrong are so widespread by orders of higher ups. The USPS, being a government entity, like all other government agencies, has perfected the paperwork tidal wave method, making layers of useless documentation that are almost impossible to penetrate for wrong doing, and then proving ill intent is another matter entirely.
But the kind of crime this idiot committed is inexcusable. Readers not in the USPS may lump us all into that kind of category, since we are always hearing stories of not delivering mail, stealing it and other crap. That is not fair, of course, but we all do it. If you’re a city carrier and pulling this kind of shit, stop it. Now. Get the fuck out of our way and go elsewhere to be dishonest and crooked. You are douche bags, all thieves, and are an embarrassment to the human race.
Have to feel for a fellow dumb enough to think he could get away with this ! Appears his best score on the tests would have been dexterity ?
during Shipleys sentencing the judge scolded him for violating trust by stealing the mail but on a side note praised him for his efforts to return daily by 5 pm.