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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: 2) by mcgrew on Monday October 24 2016, @09:20PM
Actually, I use USPS a lot. Sure, email took over two decades ago, but I like my bills on paper. I stack them up until payday, when I have a physical reminder to pay each one. The bank statement, as well. And I NEED paper for my ISP bill, because I've never used that email address and that's the address they send password resets to. The electric company charges two bucks to pay online, so it's cheaper to write a check and drop it in the mail.
A long throw stapler came Saturday, a book is coming this Friday. Both by USPS.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Nuke on Monday October 24 2016, @10:21PM
email took over two decades ago, but I like my bills on paper
No, it did not take over; it supplemented.
In the UK, banks and utilities are constantly nagging customers like me to "go paperless". Yet they will not accept a new customer unless you show proof of identity in the form of paper statements and bills from other banks and utilities - but printing them from the internet "is not acceptable". They are hypocrites.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 24 2016, @11:41PM
> but printing them from the internet "is not acceptable".
In the US printouts have been acceptable for years. The last two times I moved cross-country the local banks and even the state driver's license office accepted print-outs.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Wednesday October 26 2016, @03:14PM
What I meant by "took over" is that nobody mails letters these days. Written correspondence these days is a text message or an email. As far as the "go paperless" I'm sure all big companies are trying to get their clients and customers to "go paperless" because if you do, their costs for paper, printing, and postage go down.
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(Score: 1) by charon on Tuesday October 25 2016, @11:51PM
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Wednesday October 26 2016, @03:25PM
The charge is for using a credit card, whether over the internet or if you show up at the Municipal Building and pay in person. The reason is credit card companies charge merchants between one and two dollars per transaction. Most merchants need this to retain customers. If you use your card to buy only a candy bar, the merchant actually loses money on that sale (good to remember if a merchant has screwed you over -- visit his shop daily and buy something with your card that costs less than a dollar).
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