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Mailmen Gone Wild: Driven to Larceny by the Granholm-Cherry Economy

By Nick, Section News
Posted on Tue May 12, 2009 at 06:55:25 AM EST
Tags: Newman, Larceny, GM, Warren, Detroit, call center, MEGA (all tags)

It is almost like the punch line to a really rotten joke.

Me: Michigan's economy is bad.

You: How bad is it?

Me: It is SOOOO bad that mailmen have to steal stamps just to pay their mortgage. Oh!

*Ba-Dam-CHING*

That certainly isn't funny and, alas, neither is it a joke. Michigan's economy is making global headlines again this morning thanks to Macomb County Postman John Auito. The man is in hot water for swiping nearly $20,000 worth of stamps from his boss, the United States Postal Service, selling them at fifteen percent discount and pocketing the cash. The Chicago Tribune, CNN and everyone else under the sun report this morning:

Auito told agents that he began taking stamps in September because he feared foreclosure.

That, my friends, is a stunt even Newman and Kramer wouldn't try to pull off, but here in the Granholm-Cherry economy folks are being driven to the absurd. Things aren't going to look any prettier if General Motors picks up her bankrupt headquarters and pulls a Comerica bank on the region, abandoning the Ren Cen for greener pastures.

And as much as Mayor Fouts in Warren would like to see his home town become destination office space for the automaker, the odds that they leave the state entirely seem every bit as plausible. Still, Fouts is giving it the old college try.

Read on...

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