A former Davenport letter carrier has admitted stealing gift cards from mail she was supposed to deliver.
Angela Kish, who worked for the U.S. Postal Service two years and nine months, is at least the 10th former area postal employee to agree to plead guilty in the past two years to charges of keeping or dumping mail they were supposed to deliver.
Specifically, Kish has agreed to plead guilty to opening the mail without authority, a charge that carries a maximum prison sentence of one year.
According to Kish's signed plea agreement:
She opened approximately three pieces of mail without authorization. One contained a greeting card and a $30 Sam's Club gift card. She was later seen on surveillance video using the gift card at a Wal-Mart in Haines City.
The post office's Office of Inspector General then placed a gift card in the mail, addressed to a nonexistent address on Kish's route. Kish took the $10 gift card out of that envelope and redeemed it at a Wal-Mart in Haines City. This transaction was watched by an agent for the inspector general and captured on the store's surveillance video.
When authorities questioned Kish, she admitted taking the gift cards. During the interview, she also had in her possession two more gift cards she admitted taking from the mail. But the gift card numbers didn't match the numbers on the cards sent under the name Kish gave.
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