ALEXANDRIA, La. – United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Cottonport woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to stealing more than $6,000 from the Effie Post Office.
Chelsa Dobison, 26, of Cottonport, La., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Dee D. Drell to one count of issuing fraudulent money orders. According to the guilty plea, Dobison was an employee of the Post Office in Effie, La. From January 2016 to April 2016, she issued $6,631.55 in money orders to herself without prepaying for them. This caused a financial loss to the Post Office. She resigned her position in April of 2016.
Dobison faces five years in prison, three years supervised release, restitution and a $250,000 fine. A sentencing date of January 26, 2017 was set.
The U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General investigated the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Mary J. Mudrick is prosecuting the case.
Most likely she was a PSE (Casual) of which the APWU was happy to give management in their contract in 2011 and was imposed on the other unions by arbitrators.This has not been good for the Postal Service with the thefts,mail dumping and high turnover.The two remaining unions,the NPMHU and NALC who do not have new contracts settled should hold out for a reduction in casual employees and more career for their own good and the good of the USPS.
Our model was warm and with a paulse
Post Office is horrible now at hiring the right people these days!
You will be caught. What an arrogant loser.
Don’t be silly, I’m stealing from the Post Office a lot more than that without ever need to touching the money.
I chalk this up to another diversity winner from the po mismanagement’s politically correct liberal doxie program…….the place has been on a downward trajectory for the last 15-20 years. like they say…..liberalism is a mental disorder without a cure! move along…nothing to see here.
I believe she was a PSE. You only get what you pay for. If you don’t pay a live able wage a lot of employees resort to stealing
This is the exact problem. This lady is in trouble that extends throughout the remainder of her life. I hold her semi-harmless because she should never have put in this situation. Highly likely a postal career wasn’t in the cards until the USPS started changing their hiring policy. All the changes were to no progress before or after. Many of the persons hired never touched their hands on large sums of money, needless to say its not your money. So the honorable employees leave whats not theirs alone. Others are put into spots they don’t qualify for and when dishonesty prevails through lack of quality in hiring the employer should shoulder some of the responsible.
Sir, there is a lot of truth in what you are saying. I used to work with a
lady who choose to shop lift at a food store. She had many bosses, and 1
had her reapply for her job. When she left out the fact she had been
caught shop lifting. She was fired by the Postal Inspector for false statements. My Postmaster didn’t care what she did, and would have
rehired her. The problem seems to be the low standard, at least, as
much, as the criminal behavior. The management is not held to what is
legal, and right. So why is the help going to be any better?.