Brooklyn mailman dumped 17,000 letters so he could focus on ‘important’ ones
By Andrew Keshner
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
A Brooklyn postal worker got sent to the dead letter office Thursday for his failure to deliver the mail.
Postman Aleksey Germash dumped upwards of 17,000 pieces of mail instead of bringing them to the right addresses, authorities said Thursday.
Among the mail trove found in Germash's Nissan Pathfinder, his apartment and his work locker was a letter from 2005, according to Brooklyn federal prosecutors.
Germash, who has over 16 years on the job and no criminal record, was most recently assigned to the Dyker Heights Post Office.
Postal Service investigators discovered the missing missives when they got information on a Pathfinder containing multiple blue mail bags that were stuffed to the brim.
When investigators got to Germash's car, they found more than 20 post office bags, containing 10,000 letters. There were about 6,000 pieces in his Brooklyn apartment and another 1,000 in his locker, authorities said.
Court papers said Germash, 53, told investigators "he was overwhelmed by the amount of mail that he had to deliver and made sure to deliver the important mail."
http://beta.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/mailman-dumped-17k-letters-focus-important-article-1.3944407He worked at the Post office for
16 years and held on to
17,000 pieces of mail before they figured out there was a problem. Why does the government have to be so incompetent at EVERYTHING?
