Many regard Steve Padgett as a hero:
It should come as no surprise that the U.S. Postal Service did not receive a single complaint from Padgett's customers about missing mail during the years he withheld pizza circulars, oil change discount notices and Chinese menus.
But when someone noticed bins of mail stacking up, the authorities were alerted, and Mailman Steve was charged with delaying and destroying U.S. mail. The Postal Service notified hundreds of residents, but only one responded. That customer, Kenna Reinhardt, wrote not to condemn Padgett but to honor him.
"Mr. Padgett did not mean harm to any person, rather he overcompensated by doing his job better than anyone," Reinhardt said in the letter, which was entered into the record by U.S. Atty. Josh Howard.
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Padgett built up good will on his Apex route by handing out treats to dogs, making sure packages were left on dry porches and introducing himself to customers. Children called him "Mailman Steve."
The U.S. Postal Service never received a complaint about the missing mail and didn't know anything was amiss until it heard from a utility worker who noticed the excess mail at Padgett's house in Raleigh. Postal inspectors went to the home this spring and discovered the third-class mail piled in his garage and buried in his yard. Padgett, a Vietnam veteran, resigned immediately.
Postal authorities don't think any letters, bills or other type of first-class or second-class mail were among the hundreds of thousands of fliers at Padgett's home, some dating back to 1999.
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