It's just been reported that 16 USPS workers has been sentenced for accepting bribes for delivering cocaine via mail: https://www.newsy.com/stories/usps-workers-sentenced-for-accepting-bribes-to-deliver-drugs/
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndga/p...accepting-bribes-deliver-cocaine-through-mail
The DOJ announced that 16 postal workers will serve time for accepting bribes to deliver cocaine on their mail routes.
More than a dozen U.S. Postal Service workers will serve time in federal prison for drug trafficking.
The Justice Department announced that 16 postal workers have now been sentenced for accepting bribes to deliver drugs on their mail routes. The operation was discovered in 2015.
According to the DOJ, drug traffickers offered amounts of money as low as $250 for trafficking packages of cocaine and marijuana.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndga/p...accepting-bribes-deliver-cocaine-through-mail
The last defendant of a group of 16 U.S. Postal Service letter carriers and clerks from across the Atlanta area was sentenced to federal prison for accepting bribes to deliver packages of cocaine – two kilograms or more at a time – in a wide-reaching undercover operation. The defendants were willing to make the deliveries for bribes as low as $250, and received sentences of between three and nine years in prison.
"U.S. Postal Service workers are typically valuable members of the community, entrusted to deliver the mail every day to our homes," said U.S. Attorney Byung J. "BJay" Pak. "This important operation identified and prosecuted 16 corrupt individuals who chose to abuse that trust and instead used their positions to bring what they thought were large amounts of dangerous drugs into those same communities for a quick payoff."
"Postal employees are paid to deliver mail, not drugs," said Imari R. Niles, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General, Capital Metro Area Field Office. "The vast majority of the Postal Service's 600,000 employees are hard-working, trustworthy individuals. When postal employees decide to risk their job, benefits, retirement, and freedom to get involved with drug trafficking, Special Agents of the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General will work with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, DeKalb County District Attorney's Office and the U.S. Attorney's Office to put them all in federal prison."