A guide to mail-dumpings
Date updated: September 11, 2020 [Up]Material is free to copy, use, and modify.
Wrigleyville, Chicago Illinois, 2019.
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/11/12/wrigleyville-trash-dumping/
Man seen dumping, not in postal worker uniform but spotting near postal truck in survellance video.
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/11/12/wrigleyville-trash-dumping/
North College Hill, Ohio. WLWT video. Postal worker throws mail in dumpster behind school.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pmo0ohu864
New Rochelle, 2017.
https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/07/25/new-rochelle-mail-discarded/
Mail left in dumpster.
A theory as to why the mail was thrown away and a question as to whether it might have been undeliverable as addressed.
https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/07/25/new-rochelle-mail-discarded/
Bond Hill, Ohio, 2014.
https://www.wlwt.com/article/bond-hill-postal-worker-under-fire-accused-of-dumping-mail-in-dumpster/3545468#
Includes a video
https://www.wlwt.com/article/bond-hill-postal-worker-under-fire-accused-of-dumping-mail-in-dumpster/3545468#
Direct link to video
https://www.wlwt.com/article/raw-postal-worker-dumps-what-appears-to-be-mail-in-dumpster/3002505
Broward County, FL, 2017.
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fl-sb-postal-worker-mail-dumped-garbage-20170428-story.html
Sentenced to 87 days.
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fl-sb-postal-worker-mail-dumped-garbage-20170428-story.html
Petersburg, VA 2018.
https://www.wtvr.com/2018/03/27/mail-carrier-accused-of-dumping-tubs-of-mail/
Charged, fined, sentenced to probation.
Picture.
https://www.wtvr.com/2018/03/27/mail-carrier-accused-of-dumping-tubs-of-mail/
North Park, Chicago. Il. 2014.
https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20140527/north-park/mail-found-dumped-north-park-trash-inspector-general-investigating/
Delay or destruction is punishable by up to five years in prison. (See also http://www.justice.gov/usao/ri/news/2013/july2013/morelli.html)
https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20140527/north-park/mail-found-dumped-north-park-trash-inspector-general-investigating/