Last October, Dushaun Spruce allegedly filed a request to shift mail delivery from 55 Glenlake Parkway NE in Atlanta to Spruce’s apartment at 6750 North Ashland Ave. in Chicago.

But the Glenlake Parkway address isn’t Spruce’s former address. It’s the corporate headquarters of corporate delivery titan United Parcel Service.

So what happened? We’d like to say this peculiar diversion of mail was immediately flagged by astute U.S. Postal Service employees.

We’d like to say the local mail carrier grew wary when piles of mail addressed to UPS started showing up at Spruce’s apartment.

We’d like to say that letters to UPS’ CEO and other execs, business checks and other sensitive documents didn’t land outside Spruce’s door, in a tub graciously provided by the Postal Service.

But apparently none of that’s the case, according to an affidavit from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.

This went on for three months, reports the Tribune’s Jason Meisner. It wasn’t until Spruce allegedly deposited nearly $60,000 in checks into his bank account in January that postal officials alerted UPS to the alleged scam, court papers say. Spruce hasn’t been charged and denies wrongdoing.

Maybe the thought was that UPS wouldn’t miss a few thousand checks or business documents. Maybe a perpetrator counted on the change-of-address request being processed by the U.S. Postal Service, as are thousands of others, without a second glance.

We hope the postal service earns redemption. Because for now, it looks like some postal workers are mailing it in.

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