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Yet another United States Postal Service employee is joining The Mail Carrier Hall Of Shame, after being accused of dumping hundreds of pieces of mail into a ditch — while a local filmed the whole thing.
The USPS is investigating after residents in Decatur, GA reported seeing a mail carrier throwing several bins of mail into the woods behind a subdivision, WSB-TV reports.
The subdivision's HOA president witnessed the dumping on Tuesday, and sent the news station video and photos of incident.
"I sat there and recorded for about five minutes. And he continued to just grab more mail and continued to just toss it over the fence," she told WSB-TV. "At one point he actually stopped and took a break like he was tired, and continued to toss the mail. He eventually drove off like it was normal."
The station tipped off USPS, and the agency dispatched investigators to the scene. Once there, it took five postal workers two hours to collect more than a dozen bins' worth of mail.
- https://consumerist.com/2016/10/20/video-shows-usps-worker-dumping-bins-of-mail-in-a-ditch/
https://web.archive.org/web/20161023092445/https://consumerist.com/2016/10/20/video-shows-usps-worker-dumping-bins-of-mail-in-a-ditch/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20161023092445/http://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/dekalb-county/thousands-of-pieces-of-mail-dumped-in-woods-usps-launches-investigation/458775917
(Score: 4, Informative) by stormreaver on Monday October 24 2016, @06:33PM
I shred it so the kids can use it as bedding for their guinea pigs.
I like to shred it, then return it in the prepaid envelopes. I also like to include some additional, random content from my shredder. It doesn't take long to get removed from the mailing lists that way.
(Score: 2) by Nuke on Monday October 24 2016, @10:07PM
I like to shred it, then return it in the prepaid envelopes. I also like to include some additional, random content ....
Why shred it? You can get more random stuff in their envelope if you don't. A lot of junk mail does not come with a pre-paid envelope. In that case I note their phone numbers (I keep a list) and enter that in the forms of other junk mail that I am returning with pre-paid envelopes. Just think of those marketing droids phoning each other up thinking they have found a sucker.
It particularly annoys me to get junk mail that nags me to recycle it if I am not interested. I stuff as much paper as possible into their return envelopes with a post-it that says as they as so keen on recycling, they can do it themselves.
It doesn't take long to get removed from the mailing lists that way.
I find it makes no difference; its fun though.
(Score: 2) by stormreaver on Tuesday October 25 2016, @11:37AM
Why shred it?
To prevent any other private information from inadvertently making its way to marketers. It's much harder for spammers to extract information from confetti than from full sheets of paper.
(Score: 2) by Nuke on Tuesday October 25 2016, @06:46PM
Usually the documents sent to you are generic, like blank forms, which I sometimes fill in with the names and phone numbers of other spammers and junk-mailers. If the junk mali is addressed to you personally, you can always tear off the bit with your name on it. In any case, any info already on the paperwork when you get it is already known to the people who sent it, obviously.