A U.S. Postal Service custodian was charged with obstruction of mail after federal investigators discovered dozens of opened envelopes in his car and home.
According to charging documents filed in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, the post marks dated to 2005.
Coleman G. Hudson III, who has worked with the postal service since 1986, faces up to six months in jail.
The investigation began in May after a costumer complained that an Express Mail envelope sent to a Falls Church address has been opened and all the contents had been removed.
Investigators searched Hudson’s car and found 101 pieces of mail, none addressed to him. The recovered mail bore dates from 2005 to 2007. A search of his Falls Church home recovered another 28 pieces of mail, all with postmarks from 2008 and 2009.
