Delivery overdue: Feds charge ex-carrier after mail from ’90s is found in Michigan shed

Check was in the mail in Mich. - a long time ago

ALGONAC, Mich. — First-class mail from the early 1990s has been recovered from a shed behind a home in Algonac in St. Clair County. Postal agents said it was stashed there by a former postal worker, Earl Hicks, who was overwhelmed by his route years ago. He now lives in Cape Coral, Fla. Federal prosecutors in Detroit charged the 66-year-old Hicks with stealing mail Monday. Investigators were alerted to the old mail by his sister, who was clearing out a shed behind a home in Algonac where Hicks once lived.

There were 544 first-class pieces, including some checks, and nearly 3,000 pieces of advertising. Hicks told agents that he was a mail carrier in Oak Park and Detroit before taking a clerk’s position. He said he didn’t open the mail.

A message seeking comment was left for Hicks.