Postman in my area sacked for stealing mail.

paulofessex

Beat this then.....

A POSTMAN has pleaded guilty to stealing around 11,000 items of mail.
Asa Dilliway, 36, of Fellcroft, Pitsea, admitted snatching letters and parcels belonging to Royal Mail between December 2006 and October 2008.
In February, police recovered 58 bin sacks filled with mail, 76 Royal Mail red delivery bags, and a red postman’s bicycle during a raid on a house in Swanstead, Vange Basildon.

Source: Evening Echo

Also take a look at these other recent cases EVENING ECHO

If l recall the result of the above case was 200 hours community service

custardy

as i have said before,cases with theft of mail should carry a compulsory jail term
costs should also be pursued via the proceeds of crime act(is that it?) so if need their house or whatever should be sold

Grade_A_Reject

treepotato1 wrote: »

Well this is true. I have heard that they are under huge pressure now to get mail out and there aren't enough of them and they have to work unpaid overtime just to do the work they're allocated and they are only human after all.

If RM stopped delivering the annoying junk mail that must make up about 50% of their workload and just ends up going straight into the bin then they could focus on getting the "proper" post delivered which might attract more customers back.

custardy

Grade_A_Reject wrote: »

If RM stopped delivering the annoying junk mail that must make up about 50% of their workload and just ends up going straight into the bin then they could focus on getting the "proper" post delivered which might attract more customers back.

and where does the profit come from to support this?
look how much mail is competitor(DSA) mail
look at the regulated prices for postage inc DSA
then look at the growth of unaddressed mail
so what you propose would just increase the cuts in staff

cyberbob

Grade_A_Reject wrote: »

If RM stopped delivering the annoying junk mail that must make up about 50% of their workload and just ends up going straight into the bin then they could focus on getting the "proper" post delivered which might attract more customers back.

You can request for this not to be delivered

http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/content1?catId=400126&mediaId=500081

hermum

A few years ago around Xmas time I was out with the dogs early in the morning & by the "box" where the post gets delivered around the round there was a bag full of parcels & I assume letters. This was at the end of an estate with no houses overlooking it, ripe for thieves. I called RM & complained and was told that there was so much post they had to leave it like that. Hopefully there were no dishonest people driving past, as I'm pretty sure it would have been the postie blamed if it went walkabouts.

custardy

hermum wrote: »

A few years ago around Xmas time I was out with the dogs early in the morning & by the "box" where the post gets delivered around the round there was a bag full of parcels & I assume letters. This was at the end of an estate with no houses overlooking it, ripe for thieves. I called RM & complained and was told that there was so much post they had to leave it like that. Hopefully there were no dishonest people driving past, as I'm pretty sure it would have been the postie blamed if it went walkabouts.

ah the infamous RM 'secure bag drop'
less so in cities but a real issue out of town
though i have seen in London they often use HCT's(the trolleyes posties push) as back drops by chaining them to lamposts/fences!

SallyForth_2

waqasahmed wrote: »

To the person whos relatives send cash, sorry for the loss, but in future think about either sending cheques or postal orders next time. At least posties cant get their hands on the cash

In our family, we always put birthday cards inside a plain brown envelope and try and make them look as 'unlike' a birthday card as we can. That seems to stop them going astray.

Jacks_xxx

vickieh1981 wrote: »

I wonder if it is the same person. It was someone in the sorting office I thought as opposed to a delivery person. They told me he had 800 items in his house.

They hand delivered the cards to me and four others to take statements for court but the rest was resealed in a cellophane bag and put bag in the post so sounds like it might be what happened.

Well it's definitely the same general area so who knows?

Horrible thought: Maybe there's more than one?! :eek:

I'm so sorry about your little one's birthday cards. I think that's so rotten.