01/20/2009: "EX POSTAL CARRIER PLEDS GUILTY"

Jill Mary Hull, a 31 year old former Howell letter carrier pleaded guilty in court Tuesday. She faces 6 months in prison, but could get off with probation for storing undelivered mail in a rented locker, and not delivering it.

Stating she was unable to deliver all of the mail, instead of asking for help, she decided to put it in a storage unit. Fowlerville Mini Storage found almost 10,000 items including 236 parcels back in September, when they were preparing to auction off the contents of the unit, after Hull failed to pay rental fees. The storage unit was rented by Hull in January 2006.

The US Postal Service guarantees that the mail; all 10,000 pieces of it will be delivered to its intended parties.

Moral of the story here; Don't aways believe that old saying the mail must go on. It can go in and in and in a local storage container if you are not careful.