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Can a Form Be Too Simple?

Court documents say someone filed a form and Deshaun Henderson-Spruce — who says he did nothing wrong — started getting mail. Lots of mail: letters meant for a major corporate executive, checks for large amounts of money, and several American Express cards. The mail, according to an application for a warrant to search Henderson-Spruce’s apartment, was addressed to package carrier UPS, but the form claimed Big Brown had changed its address from its headquarters building in Atlanta, Ga., to a “tiny” apartment in Chicago, Ill. And that’s all it took. The form was first signed “HS” — which was then scratched out — and then signed “UPS”. More than two months later, UPS realized something was up and alerted the postal inspectors. Eventually, Henderson-Spruce, 24, was charged with mail theft and mail fraud. The same day Henderson-Spruce’s apartment was searched, bank investigators contacted postal inspectors to report upwards of $58,000 worth of checks made payable to UPS had been deposited to an account in Henderson-Spruce’s name. (AC/Chicago Tribune, NPR) ...And you thought your UPS package took an odd route.