MENLO PARK, Calif. (KGO) — Customers in Menlo Park were shocked at what they found on the counters at the local post office — social security numbers and other personal information on a pad of scratch paper. It’s a story you’ll only see on ABC7 News.
A postal service spokesperson tells us this could have been a careless example of recycling things that should have been shredded.
But they are launching an investigating to see if this breach was widespread among other post offices, or just isolated to this one. But I can tell you this — the scratch pads with the personal information were not just found one day, but on two separate occasions. So this was not just a one-time mistake.
Jan, who does not want her last name used, was shocked when she looked at the pad of scratch paper on the post office counter. It included photocopies of personal information from customers and post office employees.
USPS investigating personal information breach in Menlo Park
Scott get a new job…it happens everywhere. block it out, do your job and collect your paycheck…the entire reason you are there anyway. The job is what it is. I’ve been in hell for 27 years but it pays the bills and my family has a pretty good life because of it.
we used to have a fig tree in our lobby,
can’t find it now.
We have been told at one time we may have to bring toilet paper, too because District wouldn’t approve the expenditure. At that time I suggested pay toilets to help raise revenue. Then we could have bathroom supervisors who would time you, put an MSP label in the stall and issue discipline if you took too long or didn’t leave an acceptable amount according to whatever manual would be written to cover that problem. Some of my buddies after laughing about it cautioned me not to let management hear it because that is just the kind of retarded suggestion they might listen to.
As far as leaving personal information in the lobby, that woman should be glad she isn’t back in the work area! Our OIC is as vicious a gossip and rumor spreader as anybody. The city carriers in my office are more of a “family” if you will, and we keep our private lives separate. Even those we dislike on the job are left alone off the clock. However, and sadly, the clerks and rurals are famous for spreading rumors, ratting each other out and snitching out those they don’t like. We have a rule of thumb – do not discuss anything personal with a rural carrier or clerk that you don’t want the whole office to know. By the time they’re done with it, it becomes usually very fictional and incredibly mean spirited.
Just shows you that adulthood is not merely an arbitrary number. I see more “adults” acting like pissy little 14 year olds than mature people any more. Pathetic.
goot job Adolf
Another PO ran out of soap in the
bathrooms, disdusting.
This is what happens when the Postmaster refuses to provide essential equipment to their employees. In some stations, it is rumored that you have to bring in your own toilet paper. What a place to work for….
Investigation is a waste of time. When it’s found out it was, surprise, something done by mgmt., nothing will be done to them anyway.
Never is.