A man in Northern California has been dealing with the fallout of a hit-and-run crash since for months after a mail carrier hit his parked car and took off.
Apparently since the kids weren’t fessing up, Muir checked the house’s Ring cameras. And that’s when he saw it; a mail truck slowly rolled down the street with no driver. The mail carrier ran up and hopped in the truck, but as soon as he hopped in, it appeared that he hit the gas, slamming into the back of Muir Jetta hard enough that it actually moved the sedan forward a few feet.
Rather than get out to survey the damage or tell Muir what happened, the mailman backed up and drove off. Muir immediately called his local post office to file a claim over the accident but got months of the run around from USPS.
So Muir contacted the postmaster general’s office in Sacramento. They instructed him to take the Jetta to get two estimates for repairs “…and then we’ll get back to you.” Again, silence. He followed up and was then told that it would take them “six, nine months for us to get going on it.” That wasn’t going to work for Muir as he needed his car to get to work. Things got a bit worse after the car was inspected. While the damage appeared superficial, the impact actually bent the Jetta’s frame, resulting in a total loss. Worse yet, he was paying out of pocket for things like a rental car and his insurance deductible and he still hadn’t heard from the post office. When his insurance didn’t pay out enough to replace the car, he had to go with an older model. This was too much insult to add to his injury, so Muir reached out to his local ABC affiliate. USPS gave the news station the runaround as well
