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Related: About this forumMystery USPS Clerk Stole Pagan Woman’s Books Out Of The Mail, Replaced Them With A Hymnal
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/09/16/mystery-usps-clerk-stole-pagan-womans-books-out-of-the-mail-replaced-them-with-a-hymnal/When a Pagan woman shipped some boxes of her books from Arizona to North Carolina, she got a nasty surprise upon their arrival. Several of her books on Pagan topics had been removed from one box and a hymnal substituted.
Giovanna Sforza had been staying with her mother in Chandler, Arizona. When it came time to return to her home in North Carolina a year later, she ran into a problem. She had acquired more stuff than she could pack (like many Pagans). The solution to her problem, a postal clerk told her, was to pack her books in boxes sold for that specific purpose and mail them home via Media Mail. She took the advice, packed the books, insured them and sent them on their way. She then drove cross-country to her home.
When she went to her local post office to pick up her boxes, something was terribly wrong. Several boxes had been severely damaged. Sforza told The Wild Hunt:
Six of the eight boxes of books were damaged badly. They had been ripped open along entire sides of the box and the contents obviously had been exposed and put back in the boxes and taped back together by the post office. When I received some of the boxes, there were still entire sides wide open.
Giovanna Sforza had been staying with her mother in Chandler, Arizona. When it came time to return to her home in North Carolina a year later, she ran into a problem. She had acquired more stuff than she could pack (like many Pagans). The solution to her problem, a postal clerk told her, was to pack her books in boxes sold for that specific purpose and mail them home via Media Mail. She took the advice, packed the books, insured them and sent them on their way. She then drove cross-country to her home.
When she went to her local post office to pick up her boxes, something was terribly wrong. Several boxes had been severely damaged. Sforza told The Wild Hunt:
Six of the eight boxes of books were damaged badly. They had been ripped open along entire sides of the box and the contents obviously had been exposed and put back in the boxes and taped back together by the post office. When I received some of the boxes, there were still entire sides wide open.
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Mystery USPS Clerk Stole Pagan Woman’s Books Out Of The Mail, Replaced Them With A Hymnal (Original Post)
AtheistCrusader
Sep 2015
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niyad
(113,776 posts)1. someone needs to lose his/her job!
randys1
(16,286 posts)2. HOpefully they can find the person who did this and imprison them
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)3. This is outrageous
Since when did the USPS start censoring the mail of ordinary Americans?
I hope she can sue, or put in a claim for full replacement of her books. Whoever did this has no business working for the Post Office.
louis-t
(23,309 posts)5. Not the USPS doing it.
Just one fundy who can't control him/her self.
Ilsa
(61,710 posts)4. Article states there could be a $5,000 fine
If they determine who did this.
I'm glad she's filing criminal charges. My guess is ghat the 20 books could be worth $400-600 dollars, more if old, hard to replace editions.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)6. Clerk committed federal felony, ought to go to jail.
And being a good christian, ought to 'fess up and become a martyr and a good christian solider.
rug
(82,333 posts)7. I wonder which verision of In the Sweet Bye and Bye is in the hymnal.
bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)8. Very, very, VERY illegal
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