Postal Worker Who Dumped Mail Is No Longer Making Deliveries: Report

DECATUR, GA — A U.S. Postal Service worker has been relieved of his delivery duties after he was caught on film last week dumping thousands of letters into a ditch, according to media reports. The letters had been sent to residents in Longview Walk, a Decatur subdivision.

A Postal Service spokesman told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the part-time worker is no longer delivering mail, but the USPS did not release the worker's name or other information. The Postal Service is investigating the incident.

An Atlanta TV station alerted the Postal Service to the incident last week after the president of the subdivision's homeowners association filmed the worker in the act and notified the station.

"I sat there and recorded for about five minutes. And he continued to just grab more mail and continued to just toss it over the fence," Kellie Campbell, the association president, told WSB-TV Channel 2.

The Postal Service sent inspectors to the scene to pick up all the mail, which took several hours and filled more than a dozen bins, according to Channel 2.

All of the recovered mail was delivered to Longview Walk residents by Saturday, the USPS spokesman told AJC.com, with the exception of mail that had advertising materials.

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