Sat, Oct 17, 2009 | 23:43 BST
Ex-US Postal worker admits theft of 2,200 GameFly games
An ex-US Postal Service worker in Pennsylvania has admitted in federal court to five-fingering 2,200 rental games bound for customers of GameFly.
Reginald Johnson, 34, of Germantown, faces 12 to 18 months in prison with sentencing set for January 13.
The mail-processing clerk who loaded and unloaded tractor-trailers of mail stole approximately $86,000, worth of games between April and September 2008.
After being under surveillance, the feds showed up to get him at work, only for him to flee the scene in his vehicle, and he was only apprehended after wrecking his SUV and running on foot for a bit. During this time he dropped a duffel bag, which was found to be packed with 81 GameFly titles.
Further search of the vehicle found another bag containing 79 mailers from the game rental service.
Apparently, Johnson had been trading the games to GameStop and inside his vehicle the feds found receipts from the store along with five Nintendo Wii Sports, three Wii Fits, a Playstation console, and game controllers.
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13 comments
#1
jnms
17/10/09, 11:10 pm
lol \o/
#2
ShiroGamer
17/10/09, 11:54 pm
#3
Michael O'Connor
18/10/09, 12:40 am
Wow… just… wow…
You know, if he had made it a little *less* obvious than TWENTY TWO BLOODY THOUSAND… he might actually have gotten away with it. *rolls eyes*
#4
Uncontested
18/10/09, 12:46 am
Its funny because the main reason these games get stolen is dumb ass services like gamefly advertise their product on the envelope just tempting postal workers to steal them.. Heres a hint: Stop advertising on the freaking envelope for fucks sake. The only people who see the envelope are postal workers and the person receiving it.
You’d be amazed how common it is for these to be stolen.
#5
Michael O'Connor
18/10/09, 12:47 am
I’m gonna go work for the postal service!
#6
The_Deleted
18/10/09, 1:32 am
It’s not 22,000 ya numpty…
#7
Hunam
18/10/09, 1:43 am
@Uncontested
I guess maybe they thought it would be fine because they didn’t expect postal workers to be thieving cunts. Why people can’t just do their fucking jobs I don’t know.
/has a vendetta against postal services
#8
Uncontested
18/10/09, 2:11 am
It really is to much to ask when its a system as broken as the USPS. Brb losing money because we’re to dumb to realize adverts no one sees outside of the customer whos already paying are making us lose money. lol
#9
TastyAcidMilkk
18/10/09, 12:05 pm
i think some of the postal workers are right thieving fuckers, ive had stuff missing thru royal mail twice, xbox 360 wired pad and play and charge kit twice they failed to arrive, they were even sent special delivery too so youd think theyd get thier safer, 2nd time i got the empty amazon box in a royal mail plastic baggie thing saying the items were “damaged” rubbish ive worked at the same royal mail depot before plenty of em thier are right shifty barstards
#10
Jadeskye
18/10/09, 1:16 pm
@ acid, agreed, i’ve had shit, namely games, go missing through royal mail for years!
On one occasion i bought a game from play.com and got an envelope with the game box and no disc in it with the bundled up plastic that was covering the fucking box!
#11
Phoenixblight
18/10/09, 1:28 pm
Gamefly has them insured not saying its right because the guy made bank off of it obviously. But gamefly just gets the money from the Government because they insure them. Gamefly gets the game for35-40$ and the government pays them 60$. Gamefly would be making a profit.
#12
pracer
18/10/09, 2:17 pm
Same as the rest of you I have had stuff go missing, and yea Gamefly games get lost. Right now I have a game that was shipped same day as another gamer that has arrived, yet the missing game is four days late and counting. If someone took it, shame on them, the game I got is Fallout 3 the one they may have too is Xblades. Serves them right lol hope they enjoy it.
#13
reask
18/10/09, 11:14 pm
A bit silly really thinking he would get away with it.