Brooklyn Postal Worker Pulls A Newman

Life imitates Seinfeld, once again. In a Newman-esque operation, a Brooklyn postal worker was caught with 537 pieces of mail in the trunk of his car. The Dyker Heights Post Office employee, 26-year-old Peter Ramsdal, was pulled over while driving to the Catskills on April 21st. Police discovered he had a suspended registration, and, upon impounding his car they found the hoarded mail—which then led to contacting federal postal inspectors.

One of the local officers told the Post, "We found three large bags of mail, unopened and opened, time-sensitive mail, priority mail. He said he had taken it. We don't know where he was going." Ramsdal, who filled in for letter carriers when they were off, admitted that he purposely delayed the mail, though it's unknown why he did this. (Perhaps because when you control the mail, you control... information?). Currently he's under investigation.

Some locals in Dyker Heights told the paper about their mail problems, one said, "Last year, I swear, for a month I didn't get any mail. I called the post office to complain, and they said I have to talk to the carrier."

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By Jen Carlson in News on May 7, 2010 10:55 AM

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robingee

When you control the mail... you control... information.

just saying

Looks like the Dyker Hgts post office is also well known for its excessively long lines and the usual delay of 15 minutes after opening time before the window clerks start transacting business. Who is the manager there?

http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2009/12/you-thought-sheepshead-bays-post-office-was-bad/

robingee

Yeah the DH PO is S-L-O-W.

EastRiver

Each May between 2004 and 2007 there was one day (usually right before Memorial Day) when I would get a batch of lost mail from the previous year including Christmas cards and old magazines. I figured it fell off a conveyor belt somewhere and the USPS would find it each May during Spring cleaning. Maybe it was in this guy's trunk.

silver

I bet $5 there a kilo of drugs in one of those priority mail boxes.

silver

I bet $5 there a kilo of drugs in one of those priority mail boxes. Priority and First Class mail can't be opened by the post office without a warrant (unlike Parcel Post and Media Mail).