Postal Worker Arrested for Mail Theft
 

On Jan. 9, United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announced the filing of a criminal complaint and arrest of 25-year-old Miranda Delee Farleigh for theft of mail by a postal employee. Farleigh faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison if found guilty. According to court documents, Farleigh worked as an employee of

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Bit late with this report.
Story was covered, and with a lot more information, by the online paper 3/4 days ago.
Kudos to the charged persons parents for reporting their daughter to Lady Lake Postmaster.

Interesting. We lived in the Spanish Springs area and used the postal facility right next to TDS. We requested absentee ballots and they never made it to our mailbox, twice, for a total of 4 ballots. I tried to complain to the Sumter county election office on Powell road, but they didn't seem to care.

Watching this carefully and so is my insurance company that filled my claim for my watch that was mailed at Lady lake postal station.

We are extremely lucky in the United States to have the postal service run in general efficiently and with virtually no theft like in many other countries where it's impossible to actually receive a package. I applaud her parents. From the report obviously the postal police were not really involved investigating this and I am really ashamed to hear that nothing was done previously

We Too Had Trouble With Mail
 

I have not received 8 copies of People magazine in last 6 months. I don't know where they go but they never arrived through mail. My daughter also sent us gift cards on 12-14-2021 and never got them until 1-8-22. We called her and I asked her if she taped the envelope closed and she said "no". Also in envelope was a post card from Kentucky that she did not know who it was. Maybe this piece of mail was from the "crook" postal worker who looked for money then resealed envelope and put it aside?

Postal theft
 

Lock her up

The max is only 5 years! wow! A black woman in Texas got that for accidentally voting when she wasn't eligible.

You should check (if possible) and see if you voted last election (ie did someone use the absentee ballot).

How would one vote without being eligible to do so? Don't they ask for ID or at the least your name when you go to the polling precinct?

Same thing happened to us. We drove over 900 miles back to Langhorne Pennsylvania so we could cast our vote in person.

Definitely! And for the full 5 years! Will it be necessary for us to send our mail registered in the future?? An example needs to be made of this to discourage it from happening again

only secure way to send gift cards with a card in a priority envelope, might cost a bit more but it gets there. Thieves can feel the envelope and know what's inside, I have had gift cards go missing for years until I started sending Priority mail.

Guess you missed the Texas part........................

Now I know where my missing mail went....

Miranda Delee Farleigh MOTHER holds the contract for mail delivery with Lady Lake P I. After finding boxes of mail in her bedroom and vehicle.

Does anybody know if this Miranda post in flooring delivered mail to Valle Verde?
 

We think we had our passports stolen by someone at the Lady Lake post office.

The whole mail set up is very unprofessional. By the way, why is the mail delivery so slow in TV in general? If I mail it from my postal facility it takes weeks to get somewhere when it ordinarily should take days. Some things in TV are very hokey and amateurish and not up to real world standards and the postal system here is one of them.

According to the news article she admitted to being a heroin addict.

I used to do the gift cards in their envelopes throigh the mail ,never received them.
Now I drop their gift money in their Pay pale account ,etc..

Not directly related but we just had a bad experience at the Fruitland Park postal station on 466A. Dropped off a prepaid return and the female postal clerk gave me the bottom of the prepaid form to track the shipment. After checking with the supplier and no shipment having been received, took the prepaid tracking "receipt" to the window and asked them to check it. Clerk took the prepaid "receipt" into the back and came back and told me there was no record of the package being scanned. Lesson is, always get a post office receipt after seeing the clerk scan your item. Don't just drop your shipment with a prepaid return label and trust that it will be scanned. Somebody in the Fruitland Park post office is wearing a very nice bracelet... Her reply, "go file a complaint on the website".

Sure it was...
:1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

In our experience the people behind the counter in the old little post office were so nice and helpful it was just fantastic. We mentioned the problem with mail reaching other people we mailed to and mail we were expecting never showing up. They seemed very concerned and pointed us toward an authority higher up the food chain.

We decided to do our outgoing mailings at the main Post Office on Route 25. That stopped half the problem.

We mailed letters to ourselves that appeared to be Birthday Cards and never received them. This is very good news that they pinched this woman. It appears they cracked the case so to speak. Hope she gets the maximum penalty.

Good job Postal Supervisor.

Will never get prosecuted.
 

I worked for the Federal Bureau of Prisons and a person who was the assistant building manager stole thousands of dollars in office equipment, tools and other equipment. He' was arrested and was never given anything in the way of jail time. These people will get off the hook because those who investigate and prosecute don't care anything about what has been stolen from the taxpayer. The courts are a joke in these cases, if the case ever gets to court.

bad help is easy to find...especially when you lower the standards

Bummed!
 

Husband and I got to know Miranda when she worked for a few years at the Collier Postal Station. We are so saddened and disappointed that she is most unfortunately going to have her life ruined. :ohdear: We sincerely hope she gets the help she needs.