ONLY ON FOX: Bank statements, utility bills, and personal letters, just some of hundreds of pieces of mail dumped into a trash can by a postal worker as witnessed by two Carson neighbors on Wednesday.
The pair confronted the female postal worker and asking her why she was throwing the mail into the can. According to their account, the woman turned the tables on the pair, claiming that they were harassing a federal worker and that their actions could be against the law.
The postal worker then claimed, according to the pair, that she had in fact lost her key in the trash can and she was looking for it. The men helped for a few minutes, but say the woman gave up and walked away without taking the mail with her. When they asked her why, she didn’t answer.
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Post Office Investigating Mail Dumped Into Trash Cans
I used to check UBBM mail for good mail at a large facility and would find 40-100+ pieces a day. I would take over an hour to check thoroughly but management finally put people on it who would just go around and collect the tubs of mail and just dump it in the recycling container barely checking it at all. I used to find collection mail all the time ( the mail you put in your mailbox for the carrier to take). If the carrier put your letters in the wrong tub (UBBM) and a clerk doesn’t verify it your mail will get trashed and you’ll never know what happened. That’s why I tell people NEVER put your outgoing mail in the box for the carrier to take. Drop it off at the post office to avoid this.
What the customer should have done was called the postal inspectors office and let them handle the situation. So that they could properly investigate the low life carrier. No, instead he wanted to make a spectacle of the situation. Every company has to properly handle misconduct from their employees or the legal consequence could be costly and the low life gets to keep their job. Putting everything in the media is not always the best solution.
There are no longer checks and balances on even ubbm before it goes into the can at their cases! Much less allowing a clerk to properly check each piece of mail per USPS’ own handbooks & manuals. Boxholders, therefore are surely dumped into dumsters as well to “keep” the numbers up & MNGT. off their case. The customer is the looser as well as the rest of the good employees.
I worked for the Post Office for 37 years and the response from the post masters does not surprised me one bit.