Security Camera Catches USPS Worker Who Has Had It
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DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - Not everyone loves their job, but it's rarely so obvious.
A postal worker caught on video dropping and tossing packages has a North Dallas neighborhood upset.
"I was annoyed," said Cathy Roach.
Roach said her regular mailman leaves boxes on a chair near her door.
"No one's ever left it out on the sidewalk," she said.
When she found a box sitting in front of her home Tuesday, visible to anyone passing by, her husband checked their surveillance camera.
"He said, 'You're not gonna believe this!" remembered Roach.
The video showed a postal worker, who's been filling in, dropping a package with an antique glass lemonade pitcher inside.
"Her attitude was really the worst thing, just the look on her face when she tossed it," said Roach.
Her husband posted the video on the community website, NextDoor, prompting neighbors to check their cameras too.
Wednesday, they found video of the same postal worker tossing a package several feet toward someone's door.
Neighbors claim they've found broken items in their packages and blame the worker for leaving rows of mailboxes wide open.
A CBS11 crew spotted the worker making deliveries nearby, but she sped away, when approached.
The US Postal Service issued this statement:
Postal employees take great pride in their work delivering for the American public. The Postal Service invests in training all employees to ensure the proper handling of all packages entrusted to us. If we discover an incident of a package being thrown or mishandled, we immediately investigate and take appropriate steps to remedy the situation with the customer and to prevent future incidents by the carrier or clerk involved.
A thrown or mishandled package is unacceptable and does not reflect our commitment to our customers and the careful efforts of the thousands of professional, dedicated carriers and clerks in our workforce.
Roach says she doesn't want to see the woman fired. "I think she should really be talked to and re-trained," she said.
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