Two former U.S. Postal Service clerks in New York were charged on Sept. 25, 2026, in a scheme to take gift cards out of the mail. Prosecutors say Pian Pian Wong-Tam, 59, took at least 200 of them, worth $25 to $500 each, from mail she handled at the White Plains processing center. William Wong, 57, a former mail clerk at the Millwood post office, is accused of sharing in the cards. Both are charged with conspiracy to steal and unlawfully possess mail and with access device fraud, counts brought by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, and Wong-Tam also faces a count of theft of mail by a Postal Service employee. Both are presumed innocent unless proven guilty.
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What prosecutors say happened
According to the Justice Department’s announcement, Wong-Tam was a mail processing clerk at the White Plains Processing and Distribution Center until July 24, 2026. From April 2025 to that date, prosecutors say, she used her position to take gift cards and other items from mail she was responsible for processing. The release says she shared the stolen gift cards with Wong, and that the two used them at businesses in several states…