The check might be in the mail, but the mail is in the woods.
A man is accused of dumping three pallets worth of 32,000 pieces of mail enroute to a U.S. Postal Service facility.
The driver for a postal contractor dumped off the mail in a wooded area. He told investigators that he was having some personal issues and had been drinking that night. He said he was planning on coming back and delivering the pallets another time.
The man was charged with “desertion of mails.”
Deptford man charged with dumping mail [Courier Post]
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Key words here: “postal contractor.” An entity like the post office is doing themselves a disservice trusting contractors to do the work of postal employees.
At one point I was a contractor for a federal agency and, although we went through the same training as federal employees, we were paid less, had fewer benefits, and we treated differently. It gave us a different level of engagement in the job and I definitely saw corners cut by contractors that the regular employees wouldn’t dream of cutting.
Hiring contractors may seem to save money for the government (and private sector), but I believe that an honest look at the actual costs (time, mistakes, etc) will prove that it’s not nearly as inexpensive as people think: it’s just cheap.
Oh, yeah. You never hear of Postal employees doing this kind of stuff…
Do you? I have never heard of a postal employee leaving pallets of mail in the woods because he was drunk, but I’m willing to hear your side of it.
Postal employees are more prone to hoarding mail in their sheds, I guess.
Newman!
Two words: Newman.
Because ‘this kind of stuff’ means ‘exactly this scenario’, right?
It happens ALL THE TIME. Google “postal carrier undelivered mail”.
But that would be a problem with the business practices of your contracting company. A contracting company is like any other corporation – if you don’t like the way it’s being run, you can try to change the policy or quit. You can’t lump all companies together based on your personal experiences with one.
Tell me about it. Any full time employee would have been smart enough to at least burn/bury the pile so he wouldn’t get caught. Silly contractor just doesn’t know how its done.
On a serious note though, Most contractors actually get paid MORE than full time employees. Companies pay for this premium specifically because they are easier to fire/ no benefits. The rule of thumb that I remember from when I was considering some contracting is the contract hourly rate should be the average full time annual salary divided by 1000. So a $100K full time salary, should equate to a $100/hr as a contract position.
So I don’t know about your contract positions but it sounds like you got screwed or were really a temp not a contractor.
All our contractors make a lot more then our actual employees, just they don’t get benefits. Most are contractors because their spouse provides good benefits so being a contractor allows them more flexibility and pays better.
i understand that its probably a felony since its the the USPS but “desertion of mails” sounds like the title to a lesbian porno, not a felony charge. just sayin.
He confessed to mail abandonment, but I guess they couldn’t prove he was driving while intoxicated.
Desertion of mails. You learn something new all the time!
I learned that the plural of mail is mails… I had no idea.
Check is in the mail. Mail is in the woods.
But Groove is in the Heart, so it’s all good.
Is that his defense, that he’s not vicious or malicious, just lovely & delicious?
I couldn’t dance for another, just so you know.
Dee-liteful.
Tin roof…..rusted.
You guys have me all bopping to imaginary song in my office. Thanks!
Iron-clad evidence we need to abolish the postal service!
/snark
It’s so dreamy, oh mailman free me
So you can’t see the mail, no not at all
In another dimension, with voyeuristic intention
Well-secluded, in the trees
With a bit of a mind flip,
I’ll let the mail slip.
And nothing will ever be the same.
I love you!
I was walkin’ through the trees justa feelin the breeze
When a mailmain guy gave his bag a heave
It shooka me up it took me by surprise
Presorted mail should be organized!
He glared at me and I felt a change
Mail meant nothing never would again
+1000
Oh, that rawks! Kudos to you.
I hope it was all junk mail.
He was caught when Officer Obie found his name on an envelope at the bottom of the half a ton of mail.
So glad I’m not the only one who was thinking that Thanksgiving must have come early this year.
Reminds me of the postal carrier who stole thousands of mail in MN. LOL
http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/dpp/news/minnesota/postal-worker-sentenced-stealing-mail-univ-minnesota-feb-10-2010
Haw haw. Reminds me of the time when I lived in New York City – every afternoon the mailman would stop off in an apartment building across the street (E. 89th) for a little kissyface with his honeybunch. He’d be in there for about an hour. One day I watched him come flying out of the lobby and up the street and she was right behind him swinging his mailbag like a weapon trying to mash him. The mail was flying all over the place. After about 20 feet she stopped and heaved the mailbag after him and went back into the building. He spend the next half hour picking up the scattered mail from the sidewalk, gutter and street. I don’t know what he did or said to piss her off, but I sure hope some of that mail wasn’t mine!
SO that’s where my package went!
This is why when it absolutely, positively has to be there – you email it.
Just like bush and cheney……… couldn’t do the job hired for.
The check might be in the mail, but the mail is in the woods.
And the cat’s in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man on the moon
Had this occurred in the US, we never would have had the mail delivered.