13 Investigates: Is mail being stolen inside a major Houston USPS facility?
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- Опубликовано: 25 апр 2024
- One woman thought sending her IRS check via certified mail was safe. But, she said it was fraudulently cashed, and three months later, her tracking shows it's still at a Houston mail distribution center.
You can't run mail facilities like a fast food restaurant. They need to be staffed by professionals with ethics and dedication.
Nobody wants to work at the post office.
Your idea sounds fine, but it CONTRADICTS higher priorities.
The ONLY way this problem will be solved is if we hire more diverse postal employees; preferably folx who are citizens of other countries or who need second chances after a lifetime of developing lengthy criminal histories.
Best internet comment ever!
Ethics and dedication aren't cheap 😂😂
The Oakforest station is corrupt. I had multiple debit cards, and expensive shoes come up missing. The staff is unhelpful and will dismiss your concerns. I filed a complaint, and my shoes appeared on my front porch a week later.
Are you serious 🤷 that's mess up bad.
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Dysfunctional and corrupt since the 1970s .
Local criminal behavior
Every package I get from the USPS shows evidence of tampering.
Every damn one.
Sorry to hear that. The world has changed for the worst, just evil these days.
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Perhaps we should pester the postmaster? Maybe contact the Attorney General?
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@@Eman-vp5wkkidding, right?
Postal workers, like public school teachers, are overwhelming of one political party.....D.C. doesn't investigate their own patrons
Yes mail is being stolen from inside of Houston Facility. My sister in law had sent me a gift card. The envelope was opened and the card was taken. They put the original envelope and birthday card into another envelope and said the original envelope was damaged by a machine.
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Same happened to me but they resealed the original envelope. 🤨
My girlfriend down the hall from me son sends her a gift card from HEB every month! BUT she has not received some of them so her son now brings them to her even though he lives over an hour away!! We are Seniors in need and this is how the post office does business??!! Stealing from the elderly!!!!
@@pattibelcher2659 That's terrible. It's become so common I know people that never send gift cards through regular mail anymore. They even tried to break into a package my sister sent but there was nothing valuable in it. They didn't even try to tape it back and gave it to me all torn open. I reported it to the Postal Inspector.
@@pattibelcher2659 Tell him to FedEx the envelope. Cheaper than driving
All they have to do, is see which postal employee has the shinny new cars, and big scream TVs.
Not if they’re smart
I've experienced twice, most recently 4/9/24 and earlier this year, USPS failure to do the job they're paid to do, deliver my mail in a secure manner. The first time, usps informed me (sms) that a pkg was delivered to my door. I was watching for the delivery as the postal person said they had no pkg for me. USPS denied my claim 3 times, insisting "it was delivered." Again, a pkg remained for local delivery from 4/9/24, "In transit to next facility, arriving late". USPS has thieves within their operations!
I continually get mail delivered to me from an address over a mile away. A completely different number on a completely different street in a different zip code. The postal employees are clueless or don't care.
Perhaps the reason being, is you will never see them not running their mouth on their cell phones. Especially the female postal workers.
@@ARod-br2uitrue I’m in NC & they stay chit chatting on the phone messing up mail
@@ARod-br2ui You are so correct. One of the mail ladies is always on her phone w/the speaker turned up so loud. I'll be sitting in my home office & I can hear the on-going conversation when she pulls up to my mailbox.
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They need to do background check on all employees 😊
Horrible service here in Alief, Houston TX. Same thing happened to me, dog ashes were taken. I hope the thief was surprised when they opened that box only to find ashes. Still shows a month later that it's in Houston waiting to be delivered
This has been going on for a very long time in Houston. Several years ago I had 2 checks stolen, washed and cashed in Louisiana. Both dropped off together at the same post office. I should have made a formal.complaint.
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Let's be careful here, as the USPS has a VERY DIVERSE workforce.
Just don’t even send checks in the mail anymore. People are dusty
Because they subcontract out temporary help. If it was a good paying job with a future....
This part...all these negative comments and they don't even know most of our thefts are by contract workers
My Post Office is the Copperas Cove Texas post office. Every package I get from my Post Office shows evidence of tampering.
Mine as well
@@matthewstrickland5788 Perhaps we should pester the postmaster? Maybe contact the Attorney General?
@@matthewstrickland5788 Perhaps we should pester the postmaster? Maybe contact the Attorney General?
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Banks are lazy too, that cheque should never have passed. No one warts to take responsibility any more.
DeJoy needs to be prosecuted.
DeJoy the largest stock owner in UPS, and a Trump appointee, will greatly benefit from the failure of USPS. The goal is to shut down postal services, and have UPS take over. The Fox is in charge of the hen house.
Dejoy is destroying the post office.
Started renting a UPS box over 15 years ago and haven't looked back
Do away with the 204B program, acting supervisors.
Hire trained qualified management from outside. Too many unqualified employees are put in management/supervisors positions .
Go back to the old ways with uniforms. Intense code of ethic/confidentiality classes, along with weekly stand-up talks on safety.
Please investigate the one at 4020 Broadway in SE Houston. We kept a PO box there for awhile, then found someone else's medicine in our box along with a notice that they were holding packages for us. We turned in the medicine to the female at the counter, who took it, but was unable to find our packages. Someone else who kept a box there sent relatives in Mexico a computer that never got there. Another person renting a box there said the medicine she got thru the mail was stolen more than once. Also witnessed an older lady being told she'd have to wait until one of the employees got back from break if she wanted service. They don't open on time either, often because they're too busy socializing with each other, so if you need to go to that one be prepared to wait...and wait...and wait...
Another time I went to pick up my packages, the girl behind the counter brought them, slammed them on the counter, broke one item in the process. I do crafts & order most supplies online so I did have a lot of packages that day, something she clearly resented when she said "it must be nice" as I took them off the counter. OK - none of those things were from Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny. I paid for each item from wages I earned from working. Even if they had been gifts or whatever, it's nothing to do with any postal worker, most of whom make more money than I do anyway. There really are people who feel entitled to everyone else's stuff, regardless of the fact that it doesn't belong to them, will cause hardship to whoever it's stolen from, or that other people have needs too.
Infants feel entitled to be the center of the world when they're hungry or soiled, but most people outgrow this. Not those employed (can't say working) at this location.
15% to the big guy.
Reminds me of the Eric Andre skit of him opening mail.
Random guy: "Is that someone's birthday card?"
Eric: "YEAH 5 dollars for me"
The postal union is just too strong to be able to terminate employees.
Thievery has become socially acceptable, so call social media has made it so. People bragging on social media about their stolen merchandise. Resale sites have made it easy to profit from stolen goods. There was a time a thieve has 3 choices to sell stolen goods, an individual, a pawn shop or a middle man which could be a police operation. Today just put it on line, wait for a buyer.
The post office is a joke I had a certified and the inspectors don’t investigated nothing I been trying to get answered from them they ignor me may be you can get them they pitiful the postal inspectors general please a joke no body want to do any thing so good luck with that group
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Of course, it happens. I had an excoworker many years ago who went to work for the postal office, and she told me employees would open letters looking for credit cards, but she claimed she didn't.
Check all carrier agents first
Check office agents
Check all distribution center
And most of all check all cameras in the facility
The crook will be caught
Someone from the post office in Slidell, Louisiana. It was a gift card for my sister’s birthday. It was used at the store that I bought it at and the store wouldn’t let me see the video of the woman who used it at the jewelry counter!!!!
News needs to keep pressing this cause the North Houston one keeps packages foreverrr . I knew it wAs sketchy
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I had this happen a local post office in Beaumont, Ca about 4 years ago. A lot of mail stolen. The post office was very unhelpful. It appeared to be an inside job.
Our Christmas gifts and gift cards did not make it to us. The tracking numbers showed as being in transit and never left the Houston post office. The wife filed a complaint and 3 weeks later we received an envelope with the original envelope in it ripped open and someone else's gift card in it. Will never return to Texas
The postal service is full of employees with sticky fingers.
I have had my medication stolen in the mail, coming from veterans hospital pharmacy!
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I sent two packages to my son in Florida from indiana for Christmas and one had a hole in it so they could see what was in it. They actually put a couple pieces of candy in it. My son was wondering why I did that I didn’t
South Florida miss you Kevin
Tears in our beloved post office .Any more cameras to protect our mail The post office need to pay for every cent..
So sad that had happened to her
Camaras on boxes fixes foxes '''😂
I have a package that disappeared while in transit from CA. They are claiming that there is a backlog of mail that they are working through but I am pretty sure that it was either thrown away because they didn't want to deliver it or it was stolen.
Certified mail is not completely trackable. It just confirms acceptance and delivery. Nothing is in between, meaning the theft could have happened somewhere else!
They have too many affirmative action and DEI hire.
Same thing happened to 2 of my packages. Mailed at post Office and no more scans. Mailed Apr. 9. My friend has 5 missing from the same day.
Yes, this happens and something needs to be done about it
So even when you certify mail its still stolen. Wow!
Yes. I reported to OIG in 2020 when my mail went missing. It's happening nationwide!
It’s not just Houston, been going on for years-we quit sending money or checks in cards, photo cd disks, anything of value years ago because anything of value would mysteriously disappear, would be “damaged”, or “got caught in the machines”. I once lost a signed sports photo between Phillie and NY my dad sent to me. Priority or overnight is just as bad-just disappears.
I barely see any office people working where are they ??
I find this amazing because I can't even get change at a bank without getting the 3rd degree 🤔🤔🤔🤔
Doing a background check on employees probably wouldn't help either. If they see something they want,they gonna take it regardless.Ppl these days are getting ruthless.😔😔😠
Random searches of personnel as they enter/ leave the facility.
*STOP & SEARCH*
IRS had that at processing centers yrs ago, iirc
Oh wow, my dad would always tell me that he thinks the mail people open his mail and I would tell him that I didn't think so. I thought he was paranoid. Smh
A freind of mine sent a card with a 20 init during xmas going to his paper boy for a tip just recently he got it card letter and 20 back with a note from usps he should send cash in mail ...anit this a illegal opening of his mail by post office?he has never had a probelm before this happened up in michigan....
Same thing is happening in Philadelphia but it’s people in the Mail boxes
Amen I never got a response about my certified letter
Need to have employees take lie detector tests.
Look who the government is giving their best jobs.
That is what we get.
Yeah USPS is not what it used to be
Yep, the post office Raleigh station Mphs Tn need to be investigated and I been saying it for yrs but, when you call the 800#, they send the complaint to the same station the complaints are on and the mngr just keep saying nothing will be fine bcz there are no cameras in the bank
These people are going to end up being replaced by AI because of this sort of thing. Really sad. USPS employs thousands of carriers and only a small fraction of them are doing this. I really hope they catch them and really make a huge example out of them.
Yes, yes it is
This type of behavior has been going on since the 90's, that I can recall I became a would be victim, It was time for my license renewal to be mailed to me, per DPS they kept telling me it was mailed 3 weeks before my birthday, I requested another copy that I could come and pickup, About two weeks later I received a phone call from a PAWN SHOP telling me my payroll check was returned, I started asking them so many questions, because first and foremost I get direct deposit and the Company they told me was not the company I worked for, I finally told the guy you got scammed not me. But I believe USPS sold my TDL to someone in their big scheme and I still ride around with the Police report that I had to go and make of stolen license. just in case their computers are down and this episode come back up.
It is good to see these issues brought forward, thank you for reporting them. Just a reminder to all of you out there - NOT All USPS Employees are Bad, thank you.
As for government employees- they are not all bad either. Some of us work very hard everyday to keep the mail moving for Americans.
Yep
As a former USPS employee oftentimes the automated machine will tear up mail or rip it if it’s a jam/malfunction. It’s up to employees to pick up mail and send it to the appropriate department that handles damaged mail. Employees are so overwhelmed by work, poor management, lazy staff and corruption to where it’s easy to turn a blind eye.
Yes
I saw a carrier scan my certified mail on my camera yet never got out the vehicle to deliver it to me
I filed complaint and nothing was done
However a carrier brought a bundle of mail to me dated months back and on some had a note “No Longer” yet, I was home daily
And I still don’t get debit cards and anything bank or card related was open
I rented a P.O. Box at the same post offc and when is go check the box the mail would still be open inside the PO Box
So definitely an inside job
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Via USPS first class, I mailed my daughter a food item that she hasn't seen in her area. Cost me over $5. It's been over a month now and it's still not arrived. I suspect that postal worker enjoyed herself some bacon jerky. 🤔😋
Oh, you're the one who sent that. Yes, thanks. We enjoyed it in the back of the offices. You get hungry when you're rifling through mail, looking for cash sent in birthday envelopes.
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Makes you wonder if Fed-Ex would be safer??
Who is working at post office???
How do you think cartels gets data ! 📊 😮
IRS Check? What IRS Checks?They only send out TAX RETURNS IF u pay Taxes.
Should have transferred the money through routing number
They throw mail away to make their numbers.
Same thing with military mail service.
Yea the USPS is a disaster of an organization! Since September 2023 I have had nearly 5 packages severely damaged after being delivered to me through the USPS resulting in them having to be exchanged with the merchant costing me thousands of $$$! As of today the USPS has yet to respond with adequate sufficiency with regard to the whereabouts of another package of mine that they lost enroute to the merchant I was sending it too after horrific damage upon USPS delivery to me. I've submitted service request, MRC requests, & my package was insured; yet still to this very day 04/27/2024 they have no answer about the whereabouts of my package!
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Yes thay stealing
Yes. Of course it is.
Why I either make calls to pay bills or use money orders
When they hire usual suspects and expect different results
Won’t send checks rather get scammed online lol
Time for DeJoy to be removed as Postmaster . Trump appointed him which is another one of Tump's horrible decisions.
Much TDS?....Sounds like 24/7, babe.
My problems with mail delivery predates Trump by years
@@willbass2869 , your problem may have started before Trump, however, problems escalated after DeJoy's appointment. It is now the country's problem, not just local or regional. DeJoy needs to be removed immediately.
Of course….. alllllll over the country….. duuuuhhhh
You are crazy to put a check in the mail
Duh
Oh yes not even sercfide mail isn't safe please start pay your bills online never trust the post office again 😊
All~ lies, they do not have help! ¥
The postal service must go private, it’s the only way to go.
Maybe it because the stopped those 500 dollars some idiot stopped.
I have a question? What are we gonna do when Christians comes this year 🤷
Society is falling, will be like Mad Max!
look at the who is working there.... just LOOK AT THEM ....
Who is them ?
Follow da money
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Usual supects work there. If you know, you know.
this is not common, I have an e-com. business and this is an inside joke to us. we ship all over the world and there is just some places where our tracking will stop and it wont move from there , its like it fell in a hole. for me its Shreveport .....tracking shows its arriving but it never leaves. Hotel California style. anyway hasn't happened in awhile now but it's happened enough in the last 6-8 years we have a joke about it. the usps needs to be investigated and get better security bc I believe someone just knows how to get around the internal security devices and protocols. someone is making a killing on line selling the stuff they pilfer out of all us working class.
Let me guess?
Yes