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The United States Postal Service prides itself on its ability to deliver mail in a timely manner, but one of its employees landed in hot water after being unable to resist the need for speed before getting pulled over for racing a Ford Mustang at more than 100 MPH.
I can’t say I’m intimately familiar with the vans that most USPS workers rely on to deliver mail, but I have a hard time imagining most of those vehicles are packing some serious horsepower under the hood given the nature of a job that tends to revolve around making frequent stops in relatively populated areas.
However, it would appear at least some of those vehicles have the potential to reach some unexpectedly high speeds based on an incident involving a postal worker who may not have a job with the USPS for much longer.
According to ABC13, a police officer in Sandusky County, Ohio got a firsthand look at the capabilities of a USPS van courtesy of what unfolded on Route 20 outside the town of Freemont last month. According to a traffic report, the officer in question executed a stop on the van on April 21st when he clocked it going 105 MPH in a 60 MPH zone after it decided to take on a Ford Mustang it was able to overtake.
We were treated to body camera footage chronicling the traffic stop that saw the driver plead ignorance by saying “I didn’t realize I was going that fast” when the officer approached the mail van.
The outlet reports the employee was hit with “a verbal warning for racing” along with the $240 fine they received for going 45 MPH over the speed limit.
The USPS confirmed the incident is at the center of an investigation but declined to issue any in-depth comment concerning the matter.