Brooklyn postal worker hoards 17,000 pieces of mail

[applecruncher]

The man, Aleksey Germash, 53, has been with the U.S. Postal Service for 16 years, before his bosses received a tip about a parked car with 20 bags of undelivered mail, close to the Dyker Heights, Brooklyn post office to which was recently assigned. The U.S.P.S. called in Germash for questioning.

Asked about the car, the post office veteran confirmed that the vehicle in question was his own Nissan Pathfinder and the mailbags inside it were packages and letters that he was meant to have delivered, NBC reported.

Germash allegedly told investigators that he was simply “overwhelmed by the amount of mail he had to deliver, but made sure to deliver the important mail,” while the rest stayed in his car, apartment and work locker.
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[Sunny]

Wow.

 

[MarkinPhx]

Newman would approve of this.

 

[Robusta]

Wow.

There is no excuse for this. However that is the primary reason I retired as early as I could. When I started carrying a full route was 8 to 900 possible deliveries, and 4 to 6 miles long. The Post Office I worked at had 56 routes. When I retired in 2012, there were 49 routes, I had 1400 possible deliveries and was walking a little better than 8 miles a day.

In my office this guy would have called the boss, and I would have been told to go take 2 hours off the slug,after I had finished my route.

 

[applecruncher]

Newman would approve of this. View attachment 51319

Yeah, I thought of Newman! There was an episode about him hiding mail in a UHaul storage locker (I think).

 

[HipGnosis]

There is no excuse for this. However that is the primary reason I retired as early as I could. When I started carrying a full route was 8 to 900 possible deliveries, and 4 to 6 miles long. The Post Office I worked at had 56 routes. When I retired in 2012, there were 49 routes, I had 1400 possible deliveries and was walking a little better than 8 miles a day.

In my office this guy would have called the boss, and I would have been told to go take 2 hours off the slug,after I had finished my route.

Please translate "take 2 hours off the slug".

 

[needshave]

I wish my postman would do that. I have so much junk mail it's ridiculous.

 

[applecruncher]

He took it upon himself to determine what the "important" mail was.

 

[Robusta]

Please translate "take 2 hours off the slug".

Meaning I would be required to relieve him of a two hour portion of his route.

Everybody gets backed up and overwhelmed some days, a slug is some one who makes a habit of dumping on his co workers.

 

[jujube]

We had a postman here maybe 30 years ago who was throwing mail into his garage at the end of the day. He'd get to a certain point and decide that was that for the day.

UPS and FedEx drivers get burned out, too. One day, I saw the UPS truck parked in front of my office. A half hour later, it was still there, door open and all. After another half hour, I went looking for the driver, checking with the other businesses in our little complex. Nobody had seen him. I was concerned that something had happened to him.

So I called UPS and reported the truck. In no time, another truck pulled up and dropped off a driver. I went out to talk to him and he said that sometimes a driver goes AWOL from the strain. I guess he had just walked "off the job". They do work those guys pretty hard.

 

[applecruncher]

@MarkinPhx

Here ya go:

 

[MarkinPhx]

@MarkinPhx

Here ya go:

Thanks ! I got it wrong.

 

[RadishRose]

I think all these 2-day delivery promises are taking their toll.

 

[Mizzkitt]

Ridiculous .....did he go through every piece of mail to determine what was important or not? Betcha he did!!!

You have to wonder how many grandmas and grandpas sent Birthday Money which somehow he deemed unimportant.

 

[WhatInThe]

Makes you wonder how many workers do this and don't get caught.

It also takes away from those carriers that do a good and honest job day in and day out for which I am grateful.

 

[Don M.]

This is nothing new. There have been many cases, over the years, where mailmen have tossed way large amounts of mail....Google "mailman throwing mail away".

 

[WhatInThe]

This is nothing new. There have been many cases, over the years, where mailmen have tossed way large amounts of mail....Google "mailman throwing mail away".

That's the thing, not only does it happen imagine how much is never noticed or caught. It seems I see one of these undelivered/dumped mail stories every year.

Postal workers/industry is not the only industry where employees blow off or disregard there actual job. This is why customer service is such a big issue.

 

[applecruncher]

Ridiculous .....did he go through every piece of mail to determine what was important or not? Betcha he did!!!

You have to wonder how many grandmas and grandpas sent Birthday Money which somehow he deemed unimportant.

When my nephew was little he used to love getting "real" mail with a stamp on it. I used to send him things even though we're in the same city.

 

[DGM]

Thirty some years ago they began clearing land for a new Best Buy store. They uncovered a BUNCH of buried mail. Management and Postal Inspectors laid it all out and found the majority of it went to a huge apartment complex that a new substitute had been delivering. That afternoon the apartment complex had about thirty carriers, Postal Inspectors and managers filling apartment mail boxes with mail which had literally been buried. I always tried to imagine the shock of the patrons when they checked their overflowing mail boxes that evening.