Another postal worker caught stealing mail.

[musicyouneed]

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/postal-worker-admits-to-stealing-more-than-6000-greeting-cards-...

[reallynicestamps]

To put that into perspective -- USPS has 503,000 employees.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/320262/number-of-usps-employees/

It looks like USPS has dropped some 200,000 employees since 2004, although revenues seem stable.

There actually were a whole two employees fired for this in the story.

[bpl521_sell]

I was quite surprised they still have Saturday deliveries. I believe the UK still has as well.

[postit4me]

United States Postal Worker caught stealing I am not suggesting that CPC has not had this but in all facets of society you have bad employees. Why does it always seem like these boards just slam postal workers.  In Windsor Ontario a City Employee was just found guilty of defrauding the City of some $35,000.00 to be sentenced later this year.  I sure if I had the time I could find hundreds of bad employee cases public and non public employees.  

[femmefan1946]

One reason is that public service workers are paid from taxes, so it feels personal.

Another is that newspapers are owned by large corporations with an anti-union /anti-government/ anti-tax bias if not policy.

We've fired employees for theft from time to time, but did not bother to lay charges. Just told them their job was over. And why.

Which is what a lot of companies do, because it is expensive to follow through on the criminal trial.

And the standard for conviction is quite high. Very expensive. Fire 'em, change all the passwords first (one guy tried a 'denial of service attack' but we were ready for that) and don't give references.

Such cases don't make the newspapers.

[femmefan1946]

@bpl1521

they still have Saturday deliveries.

USPS would love to drop this but there is no political way to do it.

Keep in mind that while the US has large amounts of empty space, their population is mostly on the seaboards and relatively compact.

Canadian cities don't have an exurban/small town/ hinterland population between major cities.