HENRICO COUNTY, Va. -- It was not the special delivery anyone had in mind. A truck carrying undeliverable bulk business mail lost much of its load Wednesday morning at the tail end of the morning rush hour.
Piles of paper, including what seemed to be mostly junk mail, littered Staples Mill Road off the Interstate 64 exit ramp just before 9 a.m. Many of the items were addressed to Mechanicsville homes.
I reached out to a spokesperson for the USPS, Philip Bogenberger, who said none of their vehicles was involved.
“It appears the incident involved a non-postal garbage truck that was carrying recyclable paper waste in the form of undeliverable marketing mail," he said.
Workers with VDOT collected the mess.
“To my knowledge, USPS employees were not involved in the recovery of the waste items,” Bogenberger added. “Each piece of mail is important to the Postal Service, and every class of mail has specific handling requirements. The Postal Service is authorized to discard undeliverable bulk business mail.”
This is a developing story, so anyone with more information can email newstips@wtvr.com to send a tip.
