{"id":578988,"date":"2010-05-25T15:38:42","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T19:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10007041"},"modified":"2010-05-25T15:39:34","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T19:39:34","slug":"postal-worker-pleads-guilty-to-stealing-netflix-discs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/578988","title":{"rendered":"Postal Worker Pleads Guilty To Stealing Netflix Discs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Being a Netflix customer requires a certain amount of trust in the US Postal Service — that they’ll deliver your movie promptly and without stomping on it and that they’ll return it in the same condition. But a former postal worker in Texas violated that trust, and has admitted to swiping Netflix discs before they got to their intended destinations.<\/p>\n

This all goes back to 2008, when Netflix security noticed an anomaly — 114 discs had not been delivered to the 77373 zip code in the town of Spring, Texas, on the outskirts of Houston.<\/p>\n

An investigation was opened and the postal worker’s bosses kept a keen eye on him until he was eventually spotted taking a Netflix disc straight from a mail bag and placing it in his personal backpack.<\/p>\n

The 38-year-old now faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. <\/p>\n

Ya know, he probably wouldn’t have been so easily caught if he’d just watched and returned the discs. Just sayin’.<\/p>\n

Houston postal worker pilfered Netflix movies<\/a> [Houston Chronicle]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Being a Netflix customer requires a certain amount of trust in the US Postal Service — that they’ll deliver your movie promptly and without stomping on it and that they’ll return it in the same condition. But a former postal worker in Texas violated that trust, and has admitted to swiping Netflix discs before they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}