A postal worker in Georgia is in trouble after dumping mail in a ditch instead of delivering it to its intended recipients, ABC reported Thursday.
Residents in one neighborhood outside Atlanta have not received their mail at times lately. One person recorded their mail carrier parked near a ditch and throwing the papers down before speeding off.
The United States Postal Service is now investigating the incidents, being forced to go down into the wooded ditch to retrieve the mail. The total mail recovered amounted to 20 full bins that never made it to their intended recipients.
One local resident who was upset commented on how often this may happen.
"How many other rogue post office guys do we have?" the man asked.
ABC's Steve Osunsami mentioned that such an incident has happened before, pointing to cases of mail carriers throwing their cargo into dumpsters in Fort Myers, Florida and in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Osunsami then described how the act of mail dumping is illegal.
"Mail dumping is a federal crime. The postmaster here tonight isn't telling us whether this letter carrier is being prosecuted or fired," Osunsami said.