Typically, most people can trust their USPS driver to deliver their mail and be on their way. However, one family was left confused after finding their smashed Volkswagen Jetta due to a hit and run. 

USPS driver hits a Volkswagen Jetta and flees the scene 

A family in Northern California is dealing with the aftermath of an irresponsible hit-and-run. Their United States Postal Service mail carrier hit the car while it was parked on the street and fled the scene. 

The family didn’t realize a USPS driver was responsible at first. Brady Muir, of San Ramon, received a call from his son explaining that the back was all smashed. 

He immediately tried to get his kids to confess to being in some sort of accident. The kids stuck to their story about using it to get some food and then safely returning home. 

So Brady decided to check his security cameras. He saw the USPS truck rolling down the street as the driver ran up to it, hopped in, and hit the gas. As a result, it slammed into the Volkswagen Jetta so hard that it slid forward. 

Then the driver backed up, and left. Brady called his local post office to file a claim, but apparently got the run around. Months later, he called the postmaster general’s office in Sacramento.

They told him to get two repair estimates, but that wasn’t a good enough solution. He needed a car to get to work, and the accident bent the frame of the Jetta, making it a total loss. 

Brady was stuck paying for rental cars out of pocket because his insurance didn’t pay enough to replace the Jetta. 

A USPS spokesperson claimed that he never filed the correct standard form 95. But he did back in July. October rolled around and he still didn’t hear anything. USPS finally acknowledged that it received the form to review and will send him a check. 

As USPS apologized, it shared that the driver immediately quit that day, after the accident.