I woulda put this in General Gaming

[QuePsiXI]

But I don't know which games he stole.
2,200 GameFly games stolen by mailman - GameSpot News Blog - Gaming News and Videos

Philadelphia-area GameFly subscribers asking why their games keep going missing in the mail may have an answer. Local news site Philly.com is reporting that a former US Postal Service worker pleaded guilty to stealing more than 2,200 games from the Netflix-like, mail-based rental service.

Given the value of the mail theft, Reginald Johnson, 34 (not pictured), now faces 12 to 18 months in a federal prison. According to prosecutors, a surveillance operation found that the former mail handler stole $86,000 worth of games from April to September 2008. The operation, which used test mailings, was prompted by increasing reports of GameFly games going missing beginning in late 2007.

When the surveillance operation ended on September 5, 2008, federal agents moved in to arrest Johnson, who attempted to flee in his SUV before crashing it. Authorities recovered 160 GameFly envelopes from the vehicle, along with three Wii Fits, five "Nintendo Wii Sports" [sic], and an unspecified PlayStation console. Also inside the van were numerous receipts indicating that Johnson had been trading in games to local GameStop locations in exchange for consoles, according to his plea agreement.

The Philadelphia arrest hits GameFly closer to home than one might think. In 2007, the Los Angeles-based company opened a distribution center in Pennsylvania's second city, Pittsburgh, to improve service to the East Coast.

The thefts also aren't GameFly's only problem with the United States Postal Service. In April, the company filed a complaint with the Postal Regulatory Commission alleging that the USPS gives preferential treatment to Blockbuster and movie-by-mail service Netflix.

I remember reading a thread where someone was talking about using the "game got lost in the mail" trick. Well, you've almost been one-upped, sans the fact that dude got caught and will likely spend some time with a rapist or a murderer. Hope he remembers some of his cheat codes.

[Alishe]

That's nothing, I stole 4,400 game fly games in half that time.

[Militant]

Except, I could be mistaken, but i thought federal prison is not that bad? I mean, I'm pretty sure it is not exactly "rape you in the ass prison". Murderer's, rapists, sex offenders, etc usually go to county or state prison. Fed. prison is for tax fraud, and more "white collar" crimes, is it not? So if that is the case, he'll do a year or so at a shitty country club. Either way, this guy was pretty ballsy in thinking he wouldn't get caught. I mean, you really think gamefly is going to let that many games go unaccounted for and not have some sort of investigation?

[Sqwunk]

http://www.the-reel-mccoy.com/movies...stupididea.jpg

"We get caught laundering money, we're not going to white color resort prison. No, no, no. We're going to Federal pound me in the ass prison"

[Boyiee]

If this happened with 1-10 games over years, no one woulda noticed. But 2200, was/is he retarded?

As far as prisons go, I don't know anyone that works in any federal ones, but I do know 2 guards at a non-fed prison and they say it's garunteed assrape typically on the first night.

[SephYuyX]

Unless you beat someones ass to show that you aint no fish. Hear me?

[Boyiee]

Pretty sure it still happens.

[Mistress Stowastiq]

Maybe if they had more private packaging it might cut back on the non-customer related thefts. I always found it annoying to use those envelopes they provided.

I don't understand the "preference" for blockbuster mail or what that exactly means.

[Nightplague]

Games are /srs bsnis/!

Seriously though 2.2k games and he thought nobody would start making connections as to how they went missing?

By all means, pound some sense in his ass.

[antihero]

people buy games?

[Pikarya]

people buy games?

This. I'm confused.

[Shenrien]

people buy games?

news to me.

[QuePsiXI]

Obviously, people rent and/or steal rented games.

Or trade in stolen rented games for consoles.

[Khamsin]

If I went to pound me in the ass prison, I'd threaten to sue for sexual assault if they raped me. That would keep me safe.

[Nightplague]

So the new terms are federal prison and pound-me-in-the-ass prison?

[Haiko]

So the new terms are federal prison and pound-me-in-the-ass prison?

nothing new about that..