Postal employee faces five years in prison for stashing packages he couldn't 'make time' to deliver

A United States Postal Service employee is scheduled to be sentenced next month after pleading guilty to stashing thousands of parcels he could not “make time” to deliver.

Jason Delacruz, a postal worker in Chesapeake, Virginia, rented out a storage container and placed thousands of packages and letters in it over several months, according to CNN. Delacruz started driving his route in late 2018 and rented the storage unit in February. Police began investigating Delacruz after receiving a complaint in May that a mailman was storing packages in a unit.