A since-fired employee of the Moscow Post Office who confessed in writing to stealing from the mail used a stolen gift card at a Scranton bar and Dunmore grocery store, Moscow Borough Police said in charging documents.
Police are now asking anyone who believes their mail may have been stolen at that post office on North Main Street in the borough to contact Cpl. Martin Cieless at 570-842-2061.
Cieless recently charged postal employee Robert E. Gouldsbury, 57, 313 Dewey St., Throop, for stealing and using a $125 Mastercard prepaid gift card that a man named Frank Williams tried to mail to his parents in Florida. Williams told police his parents never received the gift card, that he’s had issues with missing mail in the past and that he’d heard similar complaints from others all involving the Moscow Post Office, Cieless wrote in an affidavit of probable cause.
Williams put an addressed envelope containing the gift card in a U.S. Postal Service mailbox on Dec. 22. Mastercard later confirmed that the card was used at two locations in the days after Williams mailed it: The V-Spot Bar in Scranton and the Price Chopper Market 32 supermarket on the O’Neill Highway in Dunmore.