 A letter carrier based in La Porte, Indiana, has resigned after postal investigators interviewed him about thousands of pieces of mail found in Michigan.Kristopher Block, 40, of La Porte, was charged with felony official misconduct and misdemeanor theft, according to the La Porte County Prosecuting Attorney's Office. Authorities dug up the frozen mail bundles and transported them to the LaPorte Post Office. Kristopher Block, 39, of LaPorte, was charged Tuesday in LaPorte Circuit Court with a felony for official misconduct and a misdemeanor for theft, according to online court documents. According to court records, for about six months in late 2016 to early 2017, a lot of mail never made it to its destination. Postal Service began when a deputy with the Berrien County Sheriff’s Office in Michigan found multiple tubs of standard, undelivered mail in a ravine in February 2017. Postal Service Office of Inspector General interviewed Block and then he decided to resign, said Jeff Arney, a USPS OIG spokesman.Arney said Block had a primary route in La Porte, but also would assist with at least four other routes, as well. Hamilton County court battle: With no chance to contest, Noblesville parking tickets unconstitutional, lawsuit claims 
 
 Block told police that he took home mail he couldn’t deliver before the end of his shift and paid a friend of his $50 per bundle to burn it in Michigan, court documents said. Court documents said that after being questioned by police, he went to the post of office to turn in about 6,000 pieces of mail that he did not deliver and was keeping in his home. Court documents say Block told investigators that the first time he gave up mail to be destroyed, he was far behind delivering his route in a timely manner. WSBT 22 spoke to an official from the U.S.
– Neither snow nor rain can keep most mail carriers from their duties, but a too-taxing workload apparently derailed ex-Indiana mailman Kristopher Block. He's now charged with misdemeanor theft and felony "official misconduct" after allegedly not delivering 17,000 pieces of mail, the Indianapolis Star reports. What the former La Porte mail carrier is accused of doing with the backlogged mail: hoarding 6,000 pieces of it in his home, as well as paying an accomplice $50 per bundle to dispose of about 11,000 pieces of mail by burning it in Michigan. The still-unnamed helper, however, reportedly instead dumped the mail in a Michigan ravine, where it was found in February 2017. The USPS traced the mail back to Block, and he's said to have feigned ignorance when first approached about it. But court documents note that once some of the recovered mail was shown to him, Block said: "Looks like I'm going to jail." He then admitted he'd fallen behind on his shifts and started taking undelivered mail home. One La Porte resident tells WSBT 22 it was a "crapshoot" on whether he'd get his mail or not during the six-month period in question—late 2016 to the time of Block's resignation in February 2017—and that he finally just got a PO Box. A statement from a USPS Office of Inspector General spokesman notes that "the vast majority of US Postal Service personnel are ... hardworking public servants dedicated to moving mail to its proper destination who would never consider engaging in any form of criminal behavior." Meanwhile, a La Porte post office rep says they're trying to figure out which customers would have been affected, per WLS.