It's hard to find good childcare in this city, and it's even worse if you've got a boss who won't let you be flexible with your schedule. Enter one one Queens postal worker who got desperate at the expense of his deliverees—he (allegedly) tossed 759 pieces of mail on Fridays so he could pick up his daughter. In all fairness, has anyone at the post office ever cracked the 50 percent barrier?
Timothy Valentin, 27, had been racking up complaints from residents along his Woodside route all summer, and he reported that he was unable to deliver 86 pieces of mail in July because of a bunch of blocked mailboxes. But last month an inspector with the US Postal Service Office looked into it a little further, and found a trash bin full of hundreds of pieces of undelivered mail.
Valentin told inspectors he had to leave early on Fridays to get his daughter from the sitter, and that he'd asked his boss to alter his schedule but was told no. “It's unfortunate that I did this," he told the Daily News. "It's embarrassing." He was released on $50,000 bond yesterday.
