DENVER, CO — A former Pueblo mail carrier who had a dependence on opiates was sentenced Wednesday to serve five years on probation for stealing drugs from the mail and taking them while delivering mail.The judge said that a pre-sentence report prepared by a court officer determined that Mitch Buchanan depended on opiates as the result of having “a major depressive disorder” for years.
A postal customer on Buchanan’s delivery route called a postal manager on Feb. 23 and reported that Buchanan “could not stand on his feet,” states a court document signed by Buchanan and by a prosecutor. Buchanan, 30, worked from the Post Office’s Sunset Station.
The judge and Buchanan’s attorney, Assistant Federal Public Defender Matthew Belcher, said Buchanan had a history of overdosing and had been hospitalized once for a mental disorder. Read more
According to USPS records Buchanan was hired in 2014 as a City Carrier.
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Welcome to the new Post Office. “More with less” really is the way.
Good luck to anyone with 10 or more years to go. Glad to be getting out
before the elephant dung hits the wall.
Meet the new generation Carrier,the low paid CCA.