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<blockquote data-quote="Rarefish383" data-source="post: 4713318" data-attributes="member: 86785"><p>I retired 4 years ago, and was a shop steward for 25 or so of those years. One of the saddest things I had to deal with was &quot;Over Goods Clerks&quot; getting caught up by the temptation of free stuff. After LP busted this really nice clerk for theft, I asked what happened to &quot;Over Goods&quot;. This was before Diads and scanning. The mode of theft then was to print labels with your own address and just slap them over the original one. Or, in the case of Over Goods with no label, just slap it on and throw it back in the system. I was told that all items were assigned a number and a physical description, and was locked up in our OG cage for 2 weeks or a month, don&#039;t remember which. If it wasn&#039;t matched up, it went to Atlanta. The OG center there would put it in numerical order and let it sit for one year, after that they auctioned it off. Proceeds of the auctions went toward paying the claims. I&#039;m sure it&#039;s much more sophisticated now, and the probably have OG centers all over the place. But for those that think no one tries to find lost stuff. The Clerks in Metro DC tried very hard to get your stuff back to you.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Rarefish383, post: 4713318, member: 86785"] I retired 4 years ago, and was a shop steward for 25 or so of those years. One of the saddest things I had to deal with was "Over Goods Clerks" getting caught up by the temptation of free stuff. After LP busted this really nice clerk for theft, I asked what happened to "Over Goods". This was before Diads and scanning. The mode of theft then was to print labels with your own address and just slap them over the original one. Or, in the case of Over Goods with no label, just slap it on and throw it back in the system. I was told that all items were assigned a number and a physical description, and was locked up in our OG cage for 2 weeks or a month, don't remember which. If it wasn't matched up, it went to Atlanta. The OG center there would put it in numerical order and let it sit for one year, after that they auctioned it off. Proceeds of the auctions went toward paying the claims. I'm sure it's much more sophisticated now, and the probably have OG centers all over the place. But for those that think no one tries to find lost stuff. The Clerks in Metro DC tried very hard to get your stuff back to you. [/QUOTE]

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