{"id":924433,"date":"2026-07-10T01:28:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T01:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/924433\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T01:28:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T01:28:17","slug":"australia-post-worker-charged-over-alleged-mail-tampering-in-perths-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/924433\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia Post worker charged over alleged mail tampering in Perth’s south"},"content":{"rendered":"

A postal worker has been charged with mail tampering after Australia Post reported the suspected theft of packages from a sorting facility in Perth’s south to federal police.<\/p>\n

Australian Federal Police (AFP) reviewed CCTV footage and linked the loss of packages to the 57-year-old man’s shift patterns before laying charges.<\/p>\n

It is alleged the mail sorter removed and tampered with packages during his overnight shifts on June 2 and 3.<\/p>\n

AFP officers searched the man’s Armadale home and car and seized $34,000 in cash.<\/p>\n

The man is due to face court today charged with two counts of tampering with mail receptacles.<\/p>\n

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The man allegedly removed and tampered with packages from mail bags. (Supplied: Australia Post – file photo)<\/p>\n

Each count carries a maximum penalty of five years in jail.<\/p>\n

AFP Detective Acting Inspector David Blockley said the agency took the allegations seriously.<\/p>\n

“The AFP works closely with businesses to ensure trusted insiders suspected of abusing their position are brought to justice to ensure public confidence in the Australian postal system,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Tampering with the Australian postal system is a serious offence which carries substantial penalties.”<\/p>\n

The AFP said investigations were continuing into further suspected stolen and tampered packages. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A postal worker has been charged with mail tampering after Australia Post reported the suspected theft of packages…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":924434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[30310,373001,4740,99171,112683,372999,50,44248,44247,8631,372998,373000,8632],"class_list":["post-924433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-afp","tag-armadale-postal-worker","tag-australia","tag-australia-post","tag-australian-federal-police","tag-mail-tampering","tag-news","tag-news-perth","tag-news-wa","tag-perth-news","tag-postal-worker","tag-postal-worker-stealing-packages","tag-wa-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116893091730759550","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/924434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}