A New York City mailman has been arrested after authorities found 130 greeting cards in his car. The cards were addressed to other people, unfortunately for the mailman.
Michael Olivio was released on his own recognizance Thursday following his arrest the previous day, court records show. The exact charges against him were not listed in court records available early Saturday, and a spokesman for prosecutors did not immediately return a telephone call.
Olivio said he was "not allowed to talk," and his lawyer, Michelle Gelernt, declined to comment.
Postal authorities started getting complaints in June about greeting cards getting lost en route to residents of a Brooklyn ZIP code, U.S. Postal Inspection Service Special Agent Stephen Dolloff said in papers filed in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn.
He set up stings involving decoy cards in September and again this week. The latest one included cash — and a hidden electronic transmitter. The transmitter showed that Olivio kept the card after finishing his mail route Wednesday, Dolloff said.
Authorities say that Olivio confessed to taking as many as 35 cards per day and had been stealing since February. There is no information on how much money was taken. It's never a good idea to send cash, anyway. This story emphasizes that point rather nicely.
I heard he also had Seinfeld tapes in home. …Newman.