Teh One Who Knocks
11-16-2011, 01:00 AM
BY HILDA MUÑOZ - The Hartford Courant
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EASTFORD, Conn.— The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is investigating how piles of mail ended up in the Natchaug State Forest over the weekend.
"It does not appear to be an employee issue at this time," said Maureen P. Marion, a USPS spokeswoman.
She said hikers found mail and contacted the park ranger, who recommended calling the postal service.
"The good citizen hikers bundled the mail and contacted their home post office to begin that effort," Marion said.
Chaplin resident Janeen Rose said she and her friends found a pile of mail in the woods while horseback riding in the forest on Sunday afternoon.
Rose said she called the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection to report the discovery and waited for a park ranger to show up. When 15 minutes went by and no ranger showed, Rose said she called him.
The ranger, she said, responded with surprise.
"He said, 'What do you mean? This isn't you?" Rose said. The ranger was with a woman and a man who had flagged him down and handed him a garbage bag full of mail that they had found in the woods. The ranger assumed he had found Rose.
Once he realized there was a second pile of mail in the woods, the ranger drove over to Rose and her friends to collect it.
Rose said there were about 150 pieces of mail, including bills and bank statements, addressed to numerous people. Most of the mail was from Mansfield, some was from Chaplin and Hampton, she said.
"Really, it was the weirdest thing to think that someone's stealing mail down there," Rose said.
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EASTFORD, Conn.— The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is investigating how piles of mail ended up in the Natchaug State Forest over the weekend.
"It does not appear to be an employee issue at this time," said Maureen P. Marion, a USPS spokeswoman.
She said hikers found mail and contacted the park ranger, who recommended calling the postal service.
"The good citizen hikers bundled the mail and contacted their home post office to begin that effort," Marion said.
Chaplin resident Janeen Rose said she and her friends found a pile of mail in the woods while horseback riding in the forest on Sunday afternoon.
Rose said she called the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection to report the discovery and waited for a park ranger to show up. When 15 minutes went by and no ranger showed, Rose said she called him.
The ranger, she said, responded with surprise.
"He said, 'What do you mean? This isn't you?" Rose said. The ranger was with a woman and a man who had flagged him down and handed him a garbage bag full of mail that they had found in the woods. The ranger assumed he had found Rose.
Once he realized there was a second pile of mail in the woods, the ranger drove over to Rose and her friends to collect it.
Rose said there were about 150 pieces of mail, including bills and bank statements, addressed to numerous people. Most of the mail was from Mansfield, some was from Chaplin and Hampton, she said.
"Really, it was the weirdest thing to think that someone's stealing mail down there," Rose said.