PITTSBURGH —The postal worker parked his personal vehicle and walked around the area delivering mail. When he returned, he saw what had happened.
Mail was stolen from a letter carrier’s vehicle that had its rear windshield and a side window broken Wednesday afternoon in the Hill District.
The carrier’s personal car was parked on Miller Street and had a postal placard on it when it was vandalized.
“It appears that most of the mail was still in the vehicle, so if the subjects were looking for something in particular, that’s what we’re working to determine. But it does not appear that most of the mail was taken,” postal inspector Bruce Hammerle said.
The car was parked in the block of Miller between Centre Avenue and Foreside Place.
“The letter carrier was on foot. He would park his vehicle and then deliver in the nearby vicinity,” Hammerle said. “He was delivering his route, and when he returned to his car, he realized that it had been broken into.”
Personal vehicles are used to deliver mail in many parts of the country, Hammerle said.
Mail stolen from Pittsburgh letter carrier’s vehicle
He most likely will realize too late Mgmt. isn’t a friend of his. I guarantee if his insurance denies liability the service will follow suit, and state its his responsibility to ascertain if he’s covered by his personal insurance in such cases.
Further, his rates will increase and then the seriousness begins in this nightmare.
If he was aware of the NALC contract, he is not REQUIRED to offer his own vehicle for mail delivery. Now he may find out his insurance may not cover him since it was used as a mail truck. Letter carriers are NOT REQUIRED to provide a mail vehicle; the postal service is if carrier does not wishes to offer his vehicle.