A Florida postal worker has been accused of dumping more than 1,000 pieces of mail in a wooded lot in Orlando, including over 400 pieces of political mail and at least one election ballot.
Ottis Nicole McCoy Jr., who was employed by a private contractor to deliver mail for the U.S. Postal Service, has been charged with stealing and discarding mail in violation of federal law, according to a criminal complaint filed on Oct. 25 in the Middle District of Florida.
An affidavit attached to the complaint indicates that a manager at Cummings Contract Delivery Service Corp., the company that had hired McCoy as a part-time employee to deliver U.S. mail to a postal route in the Alafaya Woods area of Orlando, became suspicious when McCoy finished his route earlier than expected despite having a “very large” quantity of mail to deliver….