Contract Postal Employee Pleads Guilty to Not Delivering or Destroying Mail
By Rick McCann
Blue RAM Media/Gulf Coast News
May 27, 2026
MOBILE, Ala. A Robertsdale man has entered into a plea agreement after being arrested previously on charges that he failed to deliver hundreds of pieces of mail, as part of hu=is job.
Timothy Chandler, 23 of Robertsdale was employed as a contract postal worker for the U.S. Postal Service but instead of delivering the mail to dozens of homes and businesses, he brought the mail home or destroyed it.
Originally, it was the Robertsdale police who had responded on November 29, 2025, to a complaint about a large amount of undelivered mail found in an apartment recently rented to him. It was enough to fill about eight post office bins, police said.
During the investigation, officers said that they found mail everywhere in the apartment. It was on the living room floor, under chair cushions, in the stove, on top of cabinets and inside of the refrigerator.
Officers even found more mail in trash bags along with 66 empty bins.
Chandler pleaded guilty to delay or destruction of the mail and a federal judge set sentencing for Aug. 31. Chandler faces a maximum of five years in prison, but prosecutors have agreed to recommend leniency.
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