At LoknStore we’re always on the lookout for Household & Business Self Storage stories from around the world and this one caught our eye! Over in Howell Detroit, U.S.A. a postal worker has been charged with embezzling mail after storing it in her storage unit. Tsk – tsk. Lok’nblog does not approve! The following report comes from Paul Egan of The Detriot News.
Authorities found thousands of pieces of undelivered mail in a storage unit after the former postal worker who rented the unit fell behind on paying the bill, according to court documents filed in federal court. Jill Mary Hull, who worked for the U.S. Postal Service in Howell from 2005 until August of 2008, was charged with embezzling mail. Hull told investigators “she could not do the job, but she needed the job,” Douglas Mills, a special agent with the postal service’s Office of Inspector General, said in an affidavit attached to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Detroit.
“Hull said she was unable to get the mail delivered on time, so she left what she could not deliver in her car and drove around with it,” the affidavit said. “She said after a couple of weeks of doing this, she realized that nobody seemed to notice that she did not deliver it.”
Hull, who told postal officials she resigned her job in August to go back to school, moved the undelivered mail to a storage unit in Fowlerville and told investigators she intended to keep paying rent on the unit “until the day I died.” However, employees of Fowlerville Mini Storage found the undelivered mail early in September when they were preparing to auction off the contents of the storage unit. Hull, who rented the unit in January 2006, had not paid the rental bill since November 2007, court documents allege. The unit contained about 1,000 first-class letters, more than 4,000 pieces of standard mail, and 236 parcels, among other undelivered items, all intended for addresses in Howell, court documents show. Embezzling mail is a five-year felony. There was no immediate word from the U.S. Attorney’s Office on when Hull would appear in court.
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