My Eleanor (finally thought I got it, and it's gone)

Then by your reasoning theft is an expected circumstance?

We can play these games all day, but in the end you didn't buy insurance - the one thing that would have made you whole.

Don’t give up on the USPS, but it’s time for this thread to take a break.

And I would assume he did #1 before posting here on OF.

USPS recently busted a theft operation involving some postal workers; they were part of the 'mob'. It included some people at a distro center in the NoVa area. My company has had an issue the last couple of years with random checks getting pulled from our accounts. The checks look exactly like our real ones, and they bear my signature. We have maintained for well over a year that a USPS employee or contractor likely stole a check from out outgoing mail. Our bank would not pursue it, as each check was for $8-9k, so it wasn't worth their time. It majorly screwed up our operation though, as each time we needed to open new accounts, get new checks printed, cancel and set up new bank transfer accounts on various gov't systems, etc.

So when we saw the news of the bust a couple weeks ago we definitely cheered. All that being said, we could not blame USPS for the actions of some planted employees. Most companies wind up with some bad employees at some point in time. And it's not exactly easy to go through the USPS hiring process, as it's the whole gov't agency process.