Is serving time in federal prison and a criminal record worth some extra cash?
That’s something Postal Service employees must ask themselves as criminal organizations scale up efforts to recruit them to steal financial instruments from the mail. They promise quick, easy cash in exchange for checks, credit cards, debit cards, and other valuables.
What follows is a trail of destruction and, inevitably, weighty legal consequences for all involved.
That’s how this case in Alabama started and ended: A man recruited a USPS employee to steal hundreds of checks destined for business PO Boxes at a local post office.
On multiple occasions, she waded through envelopes containing high-dollar business checks and, throughout her shift, pocketed them while no one was looking.
She later surrendered stacks of checks to the co-conspirator, who would alter and sell them on a popular social media app with the help of others involved in the scheme
