Flintshire postman hid more than 1,000 parcels in his garage

[TrueBlueTerrier]

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Wayne Jevons from Hawarden admitted deliberately delaying the delivery of 1,154 postal packets destined for Deeside, Chester and Neston

A postman who hid more than 1,000 parcels in a garage over 13 months because he was given “too many” items to deliver must pay more than £2,000.

Wayne Jevons, 32, of Wirral View in Hawarden, pleaded guilty to deliberately delaying the delivery of 1,154 postal packets destined for Deeside, Chester and Neston between May 9, 2012 and June 25, 2013.

He was fined £525 and ordered to pay costs of £1,642 and a victim surcharge of £52.

At the time of the offence Mr Jevons was studying at college to become a mechanic and to support himself he was working for Royal Mail on a casual basis through an agency.

His solicitor Richard Thomas told Chester Magistrates court today that Mr Jevons had let the packets build up in a garage on Mainwaring Drive in Saltney because juggling college work with his job with Royal Mail became “too much” for him.

Mr Thomas said: “He was so desperate for money that he began taking on too many rounds and it became too much and he found he could not deliver all the packets because he had no time.

“Sometimes he would pick the mail up at 2pm and still be delivering at 10pm.”

He explained that Mr Jevons did not inform Royal Mail he could not deliver the items or return them to someone that could because he wanted to maintain his employment.

Mr Thomas also said that Mr Jevons was too “embarrassed” to admit that he could not keep up with the deliveries.

Mr Thomas stressed that at no time did Mr Jevons steal the contents of parcels and they were all found in the same condition as when posted.

The defendant’s deceit was uncovered when Royal Mail conducted an internal investigation into him and a search of the garage was carried out.

Mr Thomas said that over the last four years the defendant had been working hard to turn his life around after spending time in prison for motoring offences and after being convicted of false representation at Flintshire Magistrates Court in May 2009.

Mr Thomas explained that Mr Jevons now lived with his partner and child and has a full-time job repairing windscreens.

“He has restructured his life considerably,” he said “The defendant is a hard-working, family man.”

[bustedflush]

How big's his garage? He couldn't squeeze an extra 1000 Scum papers in there, could he?

[Lounge Lizard]

"working for Royal Mail on a casual basis through an agency" agency again

[theshrew]

Did it say he had been in PRISON.
Where's the checks.
Thought you couldn't have a prison record!!!!

[Indy]

Hard to know what to think about this....

The guy had been in prison yet RM still gave him a job which is good most companies wouldn't have touched him with a barge pole. Before anyone gets upset this person wasn't a murderer or career criminal. He made some bad choices. If we don't give people a chance what happens.... they can't get a job, spend there days on the dole and find that crime pays better than the £50/week dole. Will it be your house that gets burgled next?
He was studying to better himself and wanting to turn his life around.
He was out delivering till 10pm not sat with his feel up watching TV at 2:18
None of the parcels had been opened or tampered with despite this guy needing money.

It is of course COMPLETELY wrong to do what he did but I can't help but feel that RM has some culpability in this. How could they possibly have not noticed what was going on for over a year? How many customers would have spoken to the Delivery Office in the 13 months that this was going on for about getting there mail at 10pm? So why was it not investigated for so long? How was he allowed to take on extra duties? Doesn't it speak volumes that the guy didn't feel able to speak to his manager/DIM about having problems.

Its my experience that managers/DIM's don't give a flying toss as long as the work goes out and nothing comes back. I've had experience of being aggressively shouted at by the DIM when I cut off. Was told my job was on the line performance issues. Would get a formal interview etc despite there CLEARLY begin too much work. What would that be like to an agency person who desperately needed the job and would I assume have been working on a day to day basis?

For the record..... I don't know this guy and have no connection to him. I have also never been to prison or been arrested.

[wannabeek]

Yeah, I agree with you. And so did the magistrate, it seems. Total punishment handed down for this crime was a fine of just over £2,000. Comparatively just a slap on the wrist really.