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A former US mailman pleaded guilty to stealing nearly 100 sports trading cards worth tens of thousands of dollars.

Paul Robinson, 26, of Richmond, Mo., copped to the crime in federal court Thursday, according to a press release.

What an unfortunate, but not altogether surprising, development. Things like this have probably been going on for some time now. I have visions of the Seinfeld "Junk Mail" episode.

I've recently had my first couple of experiences, both incoming and outgoing, with mail not arriving at its destination. Luckily the cards in my situations were minor cards, and easily substituted or replaced. I've also learned how to file "missing mail" reports, but nothing has come of those yet.

Hopefully the USPS can get their house cleaned up and find a way to protect the integrity of the mail service and the things we send through it.

Full article from the NY Post:

https://nypost.com/2022/03/04/postal-worker-paul-robinson-admits-to-lifting-40k-worth-of-sports-cards-from-mail/amp/

I heard about that yesterday. Luckily, between that and the mail truck going into the river, (which actually, I got regular piece of mail from that truck,) Nothing of extreme importance was harmed. 

Weird definition of "minor cards" if you are talking about a few hundred card costing tens of thousands of dollars. Talking about potentially 100s of dollars per card....

But this happening is not altogether unsurprising. I've had quite a few packages not show up despite the Package Delivered message. That's cost me a pretty penny seeing USPS and eBay will not reimburse in these instances.

Maybe they used tcdb pricing? 

Muscle was talking about his experiences being minor cards not the slimeball that stole the mail worth thousands .

Exactly. Thanks for the assist @Pinkpony1967

That's what I get for reading and responding with my phone while waiting in line at the grocery store... I'll read better next time  

The average price of the stolen cards was $426 per card. People this stupid deserve to get caught and should be required to register on a stupid criminal registry. I find it shocking that people would send valuable cards through the USPS and/or not have tracking/signature required. Not that signature required or tracking guarantees delivery. My signature required FedEx delivery from SGC arrived and I walked outside to meet the FedEx lady and sign but she asked my last name, handed me my box and said have a good day. I replied "I have to sign for this box, right?" she said "No, I just need to see the person."

I remember back years ago when a package was signature required a person had to physically sign for the package. 

So anything is possible with the OP on the missing mail. 

Idea One Somebody at Post office doesn't like him and threw them in the trash.

Idea two maybe somebody took them.

Idea three: Maybe if they are PWE with no tracking perhaps they did arrive to the destination. But we will not know since there is no tracking

Idea 4. They was lost in mail or delivered to wrong address.

And Idea #5 is Space Aliens needed artifacts from the planet earth to take back to the home world and thought these were them.

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