USPS mail carrier who stole checks to fund trips to Aruba—and bragged about it on Instagram—sentenced to 5 years in prison
  • 1 points muddy_cat

    I never get how dumb these criminals are - do a crime they probably would have gotten away with - but have such big egos they have to brad on social media.

    Yes, no one will then have you arrested.

    lol

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  • 5 points morbob

    USPS is a good job, bye bye good job.

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  • 13 points dirtybird971

    Mary Ann!! Mag-damit I told you not to do that!!

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  • 17 points zenon10

    how did they cash checks that weren't in their name?

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    4 points jokleman77

    You can write “pay to the order of” on checks.

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    3 points redditor100101011101

    It still needs to be endorsed by the person the check is written to

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    2 points jokleman77

    If the bank does their due diligence

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  • 37 points AlcoholPrep

    I'd like to see justice on the person (very likely a USPS worker) who stole two checks of mine from the mail. Joke was on him -- he couldn't wash the gel pen ink I use. But since he didn't process them, the Postal Inspectors could do nothing for me about it. Since then I've mailed everything at a post office, figuring that the mailbox was the weakest link.

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    -17 points yetzt

    why didn't you mail another check, lower amount, just to catch them?

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    10 points AlcoholPrep

    And let them wash the check and rewrite it to drain my account? No thank you.

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    4 points shoulda-known-better

    You can flag checks as fraud immediately after sending them.... So when it's tried to be cashed they will get caught

    Source have done it and caught a family member

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    -8 points yetzt

    Sounds like a justified concern.

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