On a cold Saturday morning in late January, Mason discovered hundreds of pieces of mail in the alley outside his building near Leland Avenue and Sheridan Road.
“There was a significant number of W-2s, checks…a lot of financial stuff,” Mason said. “I walked up and down the alley and the backyard and picked up about 250 pieces of mail.”
That was seven weeks ago.
Mason then returned it to the post office in hopes it will finally be delivered.
“I made the list and saw that it was – I could pick out an area on the map,” he said. “So, it was certainly like one route.”
But it’s still not clear how the mail ended up there or who was responsible.
“The regular letter carrier was on vacation,” said Elise Foster, president of the local office of National Association for Letter Carriers. “They have not found out how the mail got there.”
A spokesman for the USPS declined to comment. The federal agency’s Office of Inspector General investigates allegations of mail dumping.
