Stamps Stolen Off Parcel

How many of us have had a parcel arrive to find that some of the stamps have been removed.
This is a cover from a parcel that I received from France in 2005
At least two of the stamps had been removed.(they were probably loose and easy to remove.
Before I opened the parcel I took it to the local post office who would have received the initial delivery of the item.
I showed them the parcel and said I did not think it was ok for persons to remove stamps from parcels addressed to me.
The post office said that they sub contract out the parcel delivery and it could have been the sub-contractor.
Years later the sub-contractor lost his contract and was charged with interfering with the mail.
they found thousands of letters and parcels at his house.
He was obviously checking the letters and parcels for valuables and money.
This has happened quite a few times now in Victoria with sub-contractors and post persons stealing mail.
Has this removal of stamps happened to others?
Regards
Horamakhet

Anyone who dampers with the mail should receive the
ultimate punishment.

Where I live and I suppose in most new developments across
Canada I don't have door to door delivery from a Canada Post
mailman sorry letter carrier.
Instead we have super mail boxes located throughout the sub divisions
and these are stocked by contract workers who are not unionized
regular employees of CP.
In the last few years there have been a few reports concerning theft
or cases of non delivery where they just dump the mail somewhere.
In every case it was one of these contact workers.
Now I'm not saying that they're all a bunch of thieves but this didn't happen years ago when all the mail was delivered by
regular CP letter carriers.
Personally, a month doesn't go by without me finding someone elses mail in my box or a neighbour bringing me mail mail from their box.
Plus some mail has gone missing including a $2000 cheque from my credit union.
Luckily they cancelled it in time but I drove downtown and picked up the reissued one.
I put in a complaint to Canada Post and checked with them a couple of times but that was just a waste of time.


The mail used to be sacred in Canada.

Letters or parcels addressed to anybody at my house never get to see the stamps because they damage stamps when opening the letters. I have become very good at cutting the stamp from the envelope but if a good cover is at risk I will open the letter in front of my family member.

Post Office employee theft cases are quite common here in the US, too. Here's one from yesterday's news:

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/a...heft_charge/

I find it especially interesting when the letter carrier suggests that : "...he saw no harm in doing [the theft] at the time because the customers could not be located, but now realizes it was "a mistake, of course."

And add to this his lawyer's claim: "The man's defense attorney said notice of the criminal charge may have been lost in the mail."