Postal service: Worker stole $20,000 in stamps for mortgage

[Pikarya]

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Story Highlights

• Michigan postal worker admits stealing $20,000 in stamps, USPS says
• He was trying to sell them to online to help pay his mortgage, service says
• Arrest warrant has been issued for John Auito, 42, of Macomb, Michigan

(CNN) -- Postal authorities say a Michigan postal worker has admitted to stealing some $20,000 worth of first-class stamps since September and trying to sell them to online auction-site customers to help pay his mortgage.

An arrest warrant has been issued for John Auito, 42, of Macomb, Michigan. Auito, a postal employee since 2003, resigned after investigators confronted him on April 30.

He has made arrangements to turn himself in, authorities said.

Deputy Special Agent-in-Charge Breck Nowlin of the USPS Office of the Inspector General told CNN that Auito has admitted to stealing stamps that were being shipped to retail stores, and he said he used the money from selling them to make delinquent mortgage payments.

Nowlin said Auito was contacting customers of the online auction site eBay, and offering to sell them stolen stamps at below-retail prices.

A call from CNN to a listing in Macomb, Michigan, for John Auito was not answered.

My god, what a moron.

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[yayaok]

im more curious as to who the girl in your avatar/sig is

[Dench]

im more curious as to who the girl in your avatar/sig is

^

Really though, do you think this person really thought they would not get caught? I just saw this article a few minutes ago myself and I was /facepalm without even knowing it.

[Sol-Blackguy]

im more curious as to who the girl in your avatar/sig is

^

Really though, do you think this person really thought they would not get caught? I just saw this article a few minutes ago myself and I was /facepalm without even knowing it.

I approve of these 2 posts. It's almost as if they were doing it for some kind of fame.

[deshende]

What's with that person's thumb nail? I can't tell if it's blackened from an injury or if that's a little elephant painted on it.

[Kajii]

tryin' to get that stamp money baby

[Kiro]

Another good idea screwed up by an idiot.

[Kyten]

lol..

[Shuvo]

lol aren't stamps considered legal tender? He could have paid the mortgage directly with the stamps =x

[Pikarya]

lol aren't stamps considered legal tender? He could have paid the mortgage directly with the stamps =x

Only the asshole granny at checkout paying with dimes and pennies would do that.

[MrW]

Should've sold them to the corner bodega at a discount. Just like food stamps. In all seriousness though, the guy's got to live I guess. Just was pretty stupid about it lol.

[Tirrock]

A couple of guys at my post office got forced to retire after they ripped open a few hundred envelopes containing $1 each. I'm not sure how they didn't get thrown in jail.