Author Topic: Mailman held 28K letters because of knees (Read 1703 times)

SonnenKinder · « **on:** January 29, 2010, 06:55:09 PM »

SASKATOON, Saskatchewan, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- A Canadian mailman in Saskatchewan received a six-month conditional sentence for stashing up to 28,000 letters in his garage because of sore knees.

David Mah, 33, pleaded guilty in July to the charge of mail theft and was sentenced in Saskatoon Monday to the country's largest-ever mail theft, the Saskatoon StarPhoenix reported.

The discovery was made when Mah moved out of his rented house in 2008. When the landlord opened the locked garage, he found it full of bags and boxes of as many as 28,000 pieces of mail sent between 2001 and 2008.

Mah worked as a casual, or fill-in, letter carrier before being hired full-time during that period, the court heard.

He told the court he withheld mail on days when his knees hurt too much to walk.

Among the items postal inspectors found were credit cards, drivers licenses and tax returns, the newspaper said.

Canada Post initially said it would attempt to deliver the letters after sending them to British Columbia to be cleaned. However, because many were covered with mold and some were beginning to rot, they were deemed too hazardous to handle and destroyed, the newspaper said.

Mah's conditional sentence also included an order to perform 100 hours of community service, the judge said.

Author Topic: Mailman held 28K letters because of knees (Read 1703 times)

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