Postal worker resigns and throws hundreds of letters on the side of the road

A dozen bins filled with mail were discovered abandoned Sunday at the edge of a New Jersey highway. The mail was reportedly sent by a US postal service that resigned in early September.

In the United States, Scott Balfour, special agent of the US Postal Service, told the Courier-Post that the mail was dated August 8th and was leaving the Post Office at Rosborough Station in Philadelphia. A photo of Facebook shared by Kewnoneal Bennett shows hundreds of pieces of rejected mail.

Thousands of mail pieces from the US Postal Service were found scrapped on a New Jersey road. The post office works to deliver the mail. Courtesy of Kewnoneal Bennett

"If you [‘re] look for your mail, maybe on the river route through the 36th station … "Bennett subtitled the photo.

Balfour said that the employee who had abandoned the mail had resigned from the postal service on September 8th. "We are not planning any further action against this individual," Balfour told the newspaper. "The post office at Roxborough Station will deliver the mail."

The officials did not identify the worker nor gave reasons for his actions.

The New Jersey incident was not the only case where a postal worker threw mail. On Monday, a postal worker from Long View, North Carolina, was filmed unloading more than 150 pieces of mail in a dumpster at a local recreation center.

A video broadcast by officials showed the mail truck going to the dumpster where the mail had been mailed. The agents recovered the mail, including bank statements and birthday cards, from the dumpster, WSCO-TV reported.

"This is disturbing because I am a victim of the loss of my mail several times," said Sgt. Scott Pitts of the Long View Police Service informed the position. "I could only imagine what people are feeling. We take it very seriously and the postal service takes it very seriously. "

The postal service stated that he was trying to deliver the mail found in the dumpster. The US Postal Service and the police were working together on the case, according to WSOC-TV.

Delaying or destroying the mail or newspaper is contrary to federal law. Postal workers "illegally hiding, destroying, withholding, delaying or opening any letter, postcard, package, bag or mail entrusted to them" may be fined or sentenced to five years' imprisonment. maximum, or both. Doing so with a newspaper that does not address this person may be fined or sentenced to imprisonment for up to one year, or both.