A former United States Postal Service (USPS) worker in Monroe, La. used his position to help meth dealers and is now headed straight to prison.

This is part of a recent nationwide pattern of USPS workers abusing their positions to commit felonious behavior.

Late last week, U.S. District Judge Terry A. Doughty sentenced Willie Shanderek Shavon Woodard, 23, to nine years in prison.

This is according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Louisiana.

In 2022, federal agents said they intercepted two suspicious packages that someone in California mailed to two residences in Monroe.

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“Search warrants were obtained for both packages, and agents recovered five one-pound packages in each parcel that was determined to be a total of 10 pounds of methamphetamine. One of the packages was addressed to a residence in Monroe, which was an abandoned house on Woodard’s mail route,” according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

“In August of 2023, USPIS agents intercepted another package destined for the same abandoned house in Monroe on Woodard’s mail route. A search warrant was obtained for the second package, and inside was approximately 2.2 pounds of marijuana. Agents removed the controlled substance and placed the package back into the normal mail stream to the address.”

That same month, agents said they saw Woodard meet one of his co-defendants and place the same package in the trunk of a vehicle driven by his co-defendant.

“Soon after, a traffic stop was conducted on the vehicle, and law enforcement officers found the package in the trunk of the vehicle, as well as a Glock 19 pistol under the driver’s seat. Woodard and his co-defendant were both subsequently arrested,” the DOJ said.

“Through their investigation, agents found numerous messages between Woodard and other co-defendants notifying them of the address where the suspicious package had been sent in Monroe. In addition, there were numerous messages from Woodard to his co-defendants wherein he provided addresses of houses on his mail route. Agents learned that several packages had been sent from the same address in California to those addresses in Monroe on numerous occasions.”

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Woodard was charged and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and admitted to his involvement in the conspiracy.

Last December, authorities charged yet another USPS employee, this one in New York, with theft, this time to the tune of more than $80,000.

The feds charged Emilio Chirico, 56, who served as station manager for the DeWitt, N.Y. Post Office, with wire fraud, misappropriation of postal funds, and false entries and reports.

“The indictment alleged that Chirico stole $81,553.94 in stamps from the post office and falsified postal records to conceal the theft of the stamps.

Other examples of USPS bad behavior include the following:

• A USPS worker in Georgia allegedly accepted bribesfrom a drug trafficker and hand-delivered cocaine and marijuana along his mail route, on taxpayer time. That employee later had to take disability leave and allegedly recruited his co-workers to take over for him.

• New Orleans resident Dazmon Dyer, a former USPS employee, pleaded guilty in federal court to delaying and stealing the U.S. mail. Dyer stole money and gift cards from First-Class mail.

• A Maryland woman used her position as a USPS clerk to obtain other people’s private information and then steal thousands of dollars.

Congress designed the USPS to operate as a self-sustaining entity that, like a business, would cover its operating costs primarily with revenues from selling certain products and services. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2007, however, the USPS’s expenses began exceeding its revenue.

As the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported in 2021, this has led to total net losses of $87 billion from FY 2007 through 2020, and $188 billion in total unfunded liabilities and debt.

The GAO recommends that Congress consider “fundamentally reexamining key aspects of postal service in the United States.”

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