Postal worker resigns, boxes of mail found at the roadside

The courier, which is overflowing with a dozen cartons, was found Sunday on River Road in Pennsauken, New Jersey, said Tuesday Scott Balfour of the Office of the Inspector General of Postal Services.

The mail was dated for delivery August 8 from a post office in the Roxborough neighborhood in Philadelphia, Balfour said. Pennsauken is about 12 miles southeast of Roxborough, on the other side of the Delaware River.

A Facebook user identified as positive energy Bennett posted a picture of the mail on his account Sunday morning.

"If (you) are looking for your mail, it may be on a river road near 36th Street," he writes.

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Special agents of the Inspector General, who investigate suspicions of fault committed by postal workers, "determined that the employee responsible for throwing mail had resigned from the post office on September 8," said Balfour.

He added that the investigators had not determined why the mail had been mailed to South Jersey.

"We did not find any other mail regarding this incident," he added.

Balfour refused to appoint the former postal worker because no complaints were filed.

"I do not plan any other action for the moment," he said, adding that the mail was to be delivered by the workers at the Roxborough Post Office.

This incident follows news from Wisconsin that a postal worker admitted to stealing more than 6,000 greeting cards full of cash and checks in Wisconsin.

Last summer, in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, residents complained to the postal service about not receiving graduation, marriage, birthday and condolence cards. After taking money out of a greeting card test, the factor was stopped.

Ebony Lavonne Smith, 20, of Milwaukee, pleaded guilty to stealing or receiving stolen mail on September 12.