The Finesse of the Year Award must go out to Dushuan Henderson-Spruce out of Chicago, Illinois.
Mr. Henderson-Spruce submitted a U.S. Postal Service (“USPS”) change of address form to change USPS’s corporate mailing address from a warehouse in Atlanta, to the address of his one-bedroom apartment in the North Side of Chicago.
Surprisingly, this worked…
Henderson-Spruce started receiving USPS’s corporate mail—including multiple paychecks and corporate American Express cards.
Henderson-Spruce finessed USPS’s corporate mail for nearly three months.
Prosecutors say Henderson-Spruce deposited over $58,000 in checks improperly forwarded to his address through the scheme.
According to the Chicago Tribune, Henderson-Spruce messed up just a little bit:
Henderson-Spruce did not identify himself on the one-page form. At first, the initials ‘HS’ were written on the signature line, but the initials were then scratched out and replaced with ‘UPS,’ according to the charges.
Mail carriers say that Henderson-Spruce was receiving a ton of mail and sometimes they delivered the loads and loads of mail to him directly.
Now, Henderson-Spruce is looking at five years for mail theft and another maximum of 20 years for mail fraud.
Real talk though: these prosecutors should just be trying to put the employee away that changed Henderson-Spruce’s address in Roger Park, Chicago, to the address of the corporate Headquarters of the mail of the entire United States, based off one little random request.
Hate the game, not the player.