The incident occurred in May 2025 when a customer witnessed Mayers remove a crate full of mail and dump it into a dumpster at an apartment complex on the 5000 block of Coltfield Court in Virginia Beach.
Another person photographed the incident and reported it to the post office.
The USPS Office of the Inspector General launched an investigation. Other postal employees went to the dumpster and recovered about 230 pieces of mail, including checks, bank statements, nonprofit mailings and other correspondence. The mail was returned to the mail stream.
During an interview with investigators, Mayers admitted to dumping the mail. He said the mail was old and that after he urinated in an empty water bottle and placed it on top of the mail, he thought it was contaminated and needed to be thrown away. Federal documents state he did not inform management about the incident.
