Channel 9’s Kenneth Craig learned that authorities were alerted after someone saw mail piling up at Christine Rovelto’s home.

Federal investigators said the mail carrier was hoarding people’s mail at her home for nearly a year instead of delivering it.

They said mail was piling up on her outside porch so high that strangers could see it from the distant roadway. That’s what prompted one of them to contact authorities.

When investigators interviewed Rovelto, she told them that she started bringing the items to her home beginning in May because of the volume of the mail on her route. She said there was just too much for her to deliver. Read more