Posted on 01/28/2011 1:21:53 PM PST by markomalley
A Long Island mail carrier is accused of pinching thousands of discount coupons intended for residents' mailboxes.
Police accuse 38-year-old Thomas Tang of Baldwin of stealing more than 7,000 J.C. Penny discount coupons he was supposed to deliver to the department store's customers.
Police say Tang then sold the coupons on eBay.
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That’s what you get from quasi-governmental employees.
And you’d be kwazy too if you let them get anywhere near running your health care!
Long islanders are very enterprising.
Isn’t that the gov’t sponsored innovation that Barrack (”WTF”) 0bama was talking about recently?
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Oo, ee, oo-ah-ah,
Ting, Tang,
Wallawalla bing bang.
He must be a witch doctor.
Seems to me those coupons are deliverable by private services anyway. Of course you’d never heard about them being stolen, but they would have been stolen anyway.
People still shop at J.C. Penney????
Hey, watch it there! I work for them and yes, quite a lot of people still shop there. Have you been to one lately? They are practically giving clothes away.
Nope, haven’t been there in a while. When I was, they had nothing I couldn’t get elsewhere for cheaper or with better quality for the same price. In addition, the stores were always stuck in the 70s (this was the 90s) and seemed to prefer brown, brown, brown for decor.
I think almost all of the Penneys in my local area folded some time again. I don’t miss them.
Who knew you could sell them?
Hey, no offense really.
I do work there and there are a lot of people who shop there.
Why else would this guy feel that stealing and selling those coupons would get him anything? Though the story doesn’t say how many he sold and how much he made from the sale.
Why would I buy a coupon to a place where I don’t shop?
People will buy anything on eBay. I sold a shattered and bent connecting rod from an engine once (honestly, with pictures and full disclosure) - I have no idea what the buyer thought he was going to do with a useless chunk of steel, but he paid $82.33 for it.
HaHaHa
That is really funny.
That guy is a rarity,a enterprising gubmint worker who believes in capitalism.
Sure, he engaged in criminality but in gubmint, criminality is relative.
I would trust that guy with my mail more than I trust anyone elected to congressman with the gubmint credit card.
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