Newport postman stole valuables and dumped mail

[TrueBlueTerrier]

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A POSTMAN stole DVDs, computer games and a cheque from people on his round before dumping almost 150 letters and packages in a reen in Newport.

Kyle Chambers, 25, was found with the missing items in his bedroom after the Royal Mail launched an investigation into how the letters ended up ditched in Beach Road, St Bride’s.

Prosecutor Robert Wade told Abergavenny magistrates that the dumped mail was spotted on May 17, 2012, and reported to Royal Mail, who retrieved it.

The addresses were traced back to Chambers’ delivery round and should have been posted on May 12. In total, there were 148 items of mail which had been dumped.

An investigation team interviewed Chambers, of Nash Road, Newport, and arranged for a search to be carried out of the room he was renting at the time.

A £450 cheque meant for a person on Chambers’ round was found inside a Primark bag in his bedroom. A Vodafone SIM card, as well as two copies of the computer game Need for Speed: The Run, one of Fallout: New Vegas, and DVDs of War Horse and How to Train Your Dragon were also uncovered and traced back to Lovefilm accounts for people who had reported them undelivered.

Chambers, who had only started working for Royal Mail on March 12, denied criminal damage in relation to the dumped mail and theft of the items found in his bedroom.

He claimed that while on his round he drove his scooter into the back of a Hovis van and said he must have dropped the letters then for someone else to pick them up and dump them.

He told the court he did not steal the items found at his home but they were left over in the bottom of postal bags or he had been unable to deliver them and was going to return them all.

Magistrates found him guilty of both counts but adjourned sentencing until March 26 for a pre-sentence report to be prepared.

Chairman of the bench Viv Perry said: “We do not find the explanation you gave plausible – by any definition, you were dishonest and stole property belonging to others.”

[UnhappyGremlin]

I don't in any way condone any actions such as these, under any circumstances, it is wrong and 99.9999% I think would agree, there is no reason to steal, no matter how desparate you may be.

But, why is it when people do steal, they always leave the evidence of it in their houses to be found? Could they be more stupid?

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Newport postman thief spared jailed

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A POSTMAN who stole DVDs, games and a cheque from people on his round and dumped another 148 packages in a reen was spared jailed yesterday.

Kyle Chambers, 25, was found with the stolen goods in his bedroom just two months after starting work as a postman.

Prosecutor Robert Wade told Caerphilly Magistrates’ Court that an investigation was launched by Royal Mail after the packages were found ditched in a reen in Beach Road, St Bride’s, on May 17, 2012.

An investigation traced them to Chambers’ round and an investigation was launched. His bedsit was searched and investigators found a £450 cheque meant for someone on his round and a Vodafone SIM card.

They also found three computer games and two DVDs belonging to LOVEFiLM with the labels removed but the serial numbers were traced to the company.

Chambers, of Nash Road, Newport, denied theft and criminal damage but was found guilty after a trial on March 5.

Defending, Paul Lewis said this case was incompetence rather than criminality. He said Chambers had received little, if any, training and the job “overcame him”.

Mr Lewis said there was no attempt to cash the cheque, and said when Chambers had trouble delivering items he left them in his bedroom instead of returning them.

Chambers, now unemployed, was given a six-month jail sentence, suspended for 12 months, as well as a 12-month supervision order and 240 hours of unpaid work. He was also ordered to pay costs of £2,069.48.

[RedBagMan]

... and so the RM "threats" become weaker by the minute ...

[DB1100]

So he's unemployed now,how is he going to pay cost's?,maybe £1.00 a week out of his benefits.

[motch]

whats a reen ?

edited to add: it's ok I googled it.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

whats a reen ?

edited to add: it's ok I googled it.

A rhyne (Somerset), rhine/rhyne (Gloucestershire), or reen (South Wales) (all pronounced /ˈriːn/ "reen"; from Welsh rhewyn or rhewin "ditch") is a drainage ditch, or canal, used to turn areas of wetland at around sea level into useful pasture.

[Lounge Lizard]

I don't in any way condone any actions such as these, under any circumstances, it is wrong and 99.9999% I think would agree, there is no reason to steal, no matter how desparate you may be.

But, why is it when people do steal, they always leave the evidence of it in their houses to be found? Could they be more stupid?

"it is wrong and 99.9999% I think would agree" - no, such crooks account for more than one in a million, and there's more than about five dozen of them in Britain.

[UnhappyGremlin]

I don't in any way condone any actions such as these, under any circumstances, it is wrong and 99.9999% I think would agree, there is no reason to steal, no matter how desparate you may be.

But, why is it when people do steal, they always leave the evidence of it in their houses to be found? Could they be more stupid?

"it is wrong and 99.9999% I think would agree" - no, such crooks account for more than one in a million, and there's more than about five dozen of them in Britain.

It wasn't a literal comparison. I was juts highlighting the fact that the vast majority of postman do not do these crimes, it is an opportunistic/scumbag few.