Postal payroll checks lost in the mail

The Daily Inter Lake

Some Kalispell post office employees Friday learned that their paychecks were lost in the mail.

"We were all kind of panicky at first," said one employee who asked not to be identified.

The U.S. Postal Service, though, made sure employees were taken care of, issuing money orders for all or part of their checks.

Supervisors for the post office were off for the holiday on Friday and couldn't be contacted.

The checks were expected to arrive from Billings sometime between Wednesday and Friday. When they still weren't in on Friday, employees began thinking of rent payments and other obligations, the worker said.

Some of the checks arrived and some didn't, the employee said, adding, "I don't know how they got lost."