TALLAHASSEE, FL (WTXL) -- A Tallahassee family captured a United States Postal Service worker tossing a package in front of their home on their surveillance cameras Thursday afternoon.
The family has asked to remain anonymous, but WTXL spoke to the mother and her two children.
"I looked out and I thought, 'Oh, my goodness. Somebody just hit the house,'" the mother said.
Her son had been watching it all unfold from the window. The package was for him.
"She got out the car, and then she threw the package and she drove away," the son said.
"It was his toy drone for Christmas," his mother said, "and it was his second one, because we had to return the first one."
As the video shows, the postal worker drove onto their lawn on Adiron Way and threw the package 15 feet from the door.
Three surveillance cameras are mounted facing the front of the home. The mother said the woman who delivered the package isn't their regular mail carrier -- and that some of the family's mail has been sent to other houses.
"[With] the mishandling of the mail and her being careless, it just makes me think it wasn't the first time," the mother said.
The USPS provided WTXL with the following statement in response to the incident:
"The Postal Service condemns, in the strongest possible sense, behavior that jeopardizes the security and sanctity of the U.S. Mail or threatens to tarnish the reputation and high level of trust that the vast majority of our employees work so hard to uphold. We have already begun investigating this incident and are working with this specific customer to ensure the issue is resolved to their satisfaction. It is the responsibility of all USPS employees to protect all mail, money and equipment entrusted to their care each day."
"I probably would like her to be terminated, because I'm sure I'm not the first person that she's treated packages like this," the mother said.
As for the drone -- somehow, it wasn't damaged.
"It was padded in the package, so it is okay, and it's working, but it's really a good thing I didn't have something breakable," the mother said.
The postal worker has not been identified, and there's no word about whether or not she has been disciplined.
