KY Postal Worker Gets Prison for Stashing of 44K Pieces of Mail

A former United States Postal Service employee has been sentenced to six months in prison followed by six months of house arrest for destroying, hiding and delaying the delivery of at least 44,900 pieces of mail.

U.S. Chief Judge Joseph H. McKinley also ordered 34-year-old William "Brent" Morse of Dawson Springs, KY, to pay $14,808.01 for losses suffered by residents, a local bank and two businesses which attempted to mail commercial circulars.

Morse, who was a postal worker for five years, admitted that between March 2011 and March 30, 2013, he destroyed at least 1,000 pieces of mail