5/10/2018 WEYMOUTH — Roslindale residents wondering why they never received that birthday card, credit card bill or tax refund check in the mail may soon find some answers at a police impound lot in Weymouth.
The owner of Central Towing in South Weymouth, where police store impounded vehicles, said he found thousands of pieces of undelivered mail stacked in U.S. Postal Service bins in the back of an SUV Thursday, more than a month after towing it.
Bruce Hanson, owner of Central Towing, said the company towed the SUV on March 30 after Weymouth police stopped the driver on Park Avenue because the car was uninsured and had an expired registration.
Hanson said he sent a letter notifying the registered owner that Central Towing had the SUV on its lot, but he never heard back from anyone.
“The SUV looked like someone had been living in it because everything in the back was covered with blankets,” he said.
More than a month passed, so Hanson said he went back out to the SUV on Thursday afternoon to see if he could find more clues that would help him connect with the owner.
Hanson said he found several pay stubs from the U.S. Postal Service, a Postal Service employee placard and a stack of opened greeting cards.
“There were dozens of opened envelops, and they were all addressed to different people, mostly in Roslindale,” Hanson said. “That’s when I started to realize what was going on.”
Hanson looked in the back of the SUV and discovered dozens and dozens of bundles of unopened mail, along with several Amazon packages that had been ripped open. Hanson said he didn’t look closely at the mail, but noticed a November date on at least one envelope.
“Obviously the person didn’t deliver the mail, and instead it just kept piling up,” he said. “They probably figured that if they dumped it somewhere, someone would find out.”
Hanson said the name on the U.S. Postal Service pay stub did not match the name on the SUV’s expired registration.
Weymouth Police Capt. Richard Fuller said Thursday that when the officer stopped the SUV on March 30, the driver, Megan Hawes, 29, said it was her boyfriend’s vehicle. Shawn Francis, 41, of Weymouth was issued the citation and the SUV got towed, Fuller said.
Hanson on Thursday notified Weymouth Police Department and the investigative arm of the U.S. Postal Service, which sent two investigators to the tow yard several hours later. Hanson said the investigators looked in the SUV, left to go to Roslindale, and then returned late Thursday afternoon to retrieve all of the mail.
“It pretty much filled up the mail truck,” Hanson said.
The U.S. Postal Service did not respond to a request for comment.
When asked whether he’s ever seen anything like that situation before, Hanson said, “only on television.”
“We’ve had unusual things, but never a car full of mail,” he said.
smarter than a monkey, cheaper than a robot.
At least you’re getting OT, our plant closed 7 years ago and we are all fighting for OT. I worked Tour 1 for 20 years here, 12-20 hrs OT every week…..now NADA, stop complaining!
postal service decisions are made by clowns that sit in front of a computer looking at numbers with no idea whats going on.they have never worked a job at usps.for 10 years my plant has been told we are closing.approximatly 100 people have taken buyouts,retired or transferred because we were closing.here we are still open trying to run mail with a 60%drop in employees.overtime is completely out of hand.people dont come to work cause they are tired of working 6-7 days a weekbecause they only go by numbers we are over staffed.you could hire 20 people with the ot being made
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Hey Einstein……..
PSE’s don’t deliver mail, CCA’s do.
“Einstein you ain’t” is right!!!