Fifteen posties taken to court for dishonesty

[TrueBlueTerrier]

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Fifteen postmen and women in the Black Country and Staffordshire have been found guilty of fraud, theft and hoarding packages in less than two years.

All of the workers are no longer employed by Royal Mail after either resigning or being sacked.

All 15 went through the courts and given punishments including jail terms, community orders and fines. The information was revealed under the Freedom of Information Act.

Marie Teasdale, informations rights officer at Royal Mail, today said the vast majority of workers were honest. She said: “Royal Mail Group operates a zero-tolerance approach across the business to dishonesty. While the overwhelming majority of all letters posted arrive safely at the correct destination, we remain very vigilant to any risk to the operation.

“In 2011-12, Royal Mail Group employed nearly 159,000 people in the United Kingdom, and it remains the case that the huge majority are scrupulously honest and take great care over the mail entrusted to them by our customers.”

So far this financial year, two posties have been given community orders – one for theft of post and another for intentionally delaying packages. Another was cautioned for fraud and one more punished with a fine or conditional discharge – Royal Mail did not specify which – for offences relating to their duties.

The strongest sentence was for father-of-two Craig Richards, aged 34, from New Invention, Willenhall, who was jailed for 18 months for stealing cash and gifts from thousands of letters and packages he should have delivered.

Richards, who had worked for Royal Mail for eight-and-a-half years, set up an ebay account to sell DVDs he had stolen from post he was supposed to deliver. He also gave stolen hair straighteners, fake eyelashes and earrings to his girlfriend, saying they were gifts. He was sentenced to an 18-month jail term in November.

In the previous financial year, four posties were punished including one community order, one jail term and two suspended sentences. Another five workers faced the courts for intentionally delaying packages, two received community orders and there were three suspended sentences. A final staff member appeared for criminal damage and was handed either a fine or conditional discharge, but Royal Mail did not record which.

Internal investigations were launched after posties on rounds triggered bosses’ suspicions.

Royal Mail said it could not reveal the cost of monitoring its employees but methods mentioned in court cases included the use of CCTV cameras, test packages and tracking devices placed in letters.

[maisymoo04]

Don't people ever learn why f@@@ join up o yes to steal ?.......

[DGP1]

The amount of posties that steal is very low when you compare it with the banking industry..........or politicians

[DirtyHarry]

There is a long streak of dishonesty that runs right through this country.
Just look at Westminster, how many of those MPs would you trust enough to buy a used car from?
Then there's the Bankers, still allowed to rob every one of us blind, and still call themselves 'law abiding.'
We should root out dishonesty, yes.....But, let's start at the top and work our way down.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

There is a long streak of dishonesty that runs right through this country.
Just look at Westminster, how many of those MPs would you trust enough to buy a used car from?
Then there's the Bankers, still allowed to rob every one of us blind, and still call themselves 'law abiding.'
We should root out dishonesty, yes.....But, let's start at the top and work our way down.

[DB1100]

The amount of posties that steal is very low when you compare it with the banking industry..........or politicians

Very true and we are on nothing like their pay and conditions,in fact I would say hand on heart there are more thieving police than postie's.

[DirtyHarry]

There is a long streak of dishonesty that runs right through this country.
Just look at Westminster, how many of those MPs would you trust enough to buy a used car from?
Then there's the Bankers, still allowed to rob every one of us blind, and still call themselves 'law abiding.'
We should root out dishonesty, yes.....But, let's start at the top and work our way down.

Blimey, if true that's shocking, TBT.
And to think we have young Men & Women willing to lay down their lives, on the say-so of that shower.

[Lincox]

Royal Mail Group operates a zero tolerance policy across the business for dishonesty.

OH YEAH?

Oh No Miss Greene, It was not me that refused that nice honest postman his overtime pay, when he genuinely worked over his hours last week. Nor was it me that told that new person on the 3 month fixed term contract that I would not renew his contract if he refused to complete his walk even if it did take him over his hours.

[DGP1]

There is a long streak of dishonesty that runs right through this country.
Just look at Westminster, how many of those MPs would you trust enough to buy a used car from?
Then there's the Bankers, still allowed to rob every one of us blind, and still call themselves 'law abiding.'
We should root out dishonesty, yes.....But, let's start at the top and work our way down.

Blimey, if true that's shocking, TBT.
And to think we have young Men & Women willing to lay down their lives, on the say-so of that shower.

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[Wessex]

Hmmm

I'm not convinced , I reckon our shower of ****s in Parliament are probably far worse than that , maybe they haven't yet been caught out ...yet

[pants123]

I've never trusted a politician ,, there all corrupt, thieving lying criminals, where the law seems to allow them to commit crime but not do the time for it, never voted never will.... there worse then animals..

[Tman]

And they're more than happy that you talk like that as it means they can be in power for so much longer.
No wonder the middle classes and the middle class politicians laugh at the self-defeating working Joes....

[parcelboy]

Of course "RoyalMail"has a zero tolerance to dishonesy.Its only a shame there Managers invstigate themselves.........!!.Maybe one day an e.xternal body will be tasked with t his job to address the balance . Somehow cant see that headline "Dishonest Managers"given jail terms ,Community orders.Probably paid out to resign.Heaven forbid these people oocommit criminal acts.