US Postal Service Supervisor Pleads Guilty to $300,000 Mail Theft

A stolen U.S. Treasury check in the amount of $2,599 payable to another individual was also found inside Hayes’s home.

Mail boxes sit outside a United States Postal Service facility in Chicago on Aug. 13, 2020. Scott Olson/Getty Images

An employee at the United States Postal Service (USPS) pleaded guilty to stealing more than $300,000 in checks and other items such as gold and collectible currency from mail, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

Joivian Tjuana Hayes, 36, of Compton, who was a supervisor at the Costa Mesa Post Office in California, pleaded guilty on Friday, the DOJ said in a Feb. 7 statement.