Originally published January 22 2004
Postal employee steals enough mail to host a giant weiner roast
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
The news from the US Postal Service never ceases to amaze and entertain.
In this gem, a postal worker stole 26,000 direct marketing mail pieces
over a period of several years. But it didn't come to light until his
house caught fire and firefighters had to wade through piles of junk
mail in order to put out the fire. This hilarious incident brings up
all sorts of questions, like: why didn't the postal worker throw away
the junk mail like everybody else does? If he was stealing this mail to
get ideas for his own direct mail business, why was he still working at
the post office years later? How many postal workers did it take to
count the 26,000 pieces of hoarded mail? And did the USPS finish
delivering those pieces, or did they toss them?
Joke: How many
postal workers does it take to sort 26,000 pieces of direct mail?
Answer: Only one, because all the mail goes to his own house.
A longtime Postal Service employee has been charged with stealing
thousands of pieces of junk mail--all in a bizarre effort to garner
ideas for a direct mail business he ran on the side, authorities said
Thursday.
The thefts were discovered last November when a fire broke out at the
Downers Grove home of the postal employee, Gordon Richardson Jr.,
officials said.
Firefighters had to remove piles of junk mail from the home in order
to reach the blaze, said David Colen, a spokesman for the U.S. Postal
Inspection Service in Chicago.
The thefts drew no suspicion since he was not stealing greeting cards
or other first-class letters that people expected to receive, Colen
said.
Another neighbor, Sharon Smith, lived across the street from
Richardson for 15 years.
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