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The Michael Berry Show

What Is The Post Office Hiding About Mail Theft?

The Michael Berry Show

KTRH

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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The Michael Berry show a story out of Houston where the postal service which is absolutely in

0:06.7

Shambles the the Postal Service in Houston refuses to release the files.

0:14.0

This is going on in your post office too.

0:16.0

For each case of mail theft at Houston area post officers by their employees.

0:21.6

You know your stuff arrives in the post box in the in your mailbox and

0:25.5

they steal it. The office of the Inspector General says there were

0:28.8

243 cases where a USPS employee has been found culpable of mail theft in the

0:38.0

southern region. Your things arrive in your mailbox and a postal employee steals it.

0:47.0

We're not talking about porch pirates.

0:50.0

We're talking about your mailman himself or the staff working there.

0:54.0

Classy, huh?

0:56.0

U.S. Postal Service not granting us any interviews this year.

0:59.0

We depend on making public records requests for getting you information.

1:02.0

It's how we learn the U.S. Postal Service Office making public records requests for getting you information.

1:02.8

It's how we learned the U.S. Postal Service Office of the Inspector General

1:06.3

has handled more than 240 cases in which a USPS employee stole mail

1:11.6

in the southern region.

1:13.0

Thirteen investigates requested the files for each one of those cases a month ago.

1:18.0

Today we were told by their public records team it could take another six months to get those files six months.

1:26.7

We also just had three requests for files relating to issues at three Houston area

1:30.7

USPS facilities flat out rejected.

1:34.0

The Postal Inspection Service claims giving us those files, among other reasons, could disclose

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