{"id":733446,"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.com\/index\/733446","title":{"rendered":"Postal Worker Pleads Guilty To Stealing Netflix Discs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/05\/kittehnetflix-thumb-218x240-40664.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>Being a Netflix customer requires a certain amount of trust in the US Postal Service &#8212; that they&#8217;ll deliver your movie promptly and without stomping on it and that they&#8217;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<p>This all goes back to 2008, when Netflix security noticed an anomaly &#8212; 114 discs had not been delivered to the 77373 zip code in the town of Spring, Texas, on the outskirts of Houston.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation was opened and the postal worker&#8217;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<p>The 38-year-old now faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. <\/p>\n<p>Ya know, he probably wouldn&#8217;t have been so easily caught if he&#8217;d just watched and returned the discs. Just sayin&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/metropolitan\/7021506.html\" >Houston postal worker pilfered Netflix movies<\/a> [Houston Chronicle]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a Netflix customer requires a certain amount of trust in the US Postal Service &#8212; that they&#8217;ll deliver your movie promptly and without stomping on it and that they&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-34NM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}