In re the Claim of Sands

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed May 29, 1996, which, inter alia, ruled that claimant was disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits because he was suspended from his employment without pay due to misconduct.

Claimant, employed as a postal worker, was assigned the task of sorting undeliverable mail. Although he had been repeatedly admonished not to open or read any of this mail, postal inspectors videotaped claimant on four occasions opening and reading certain pieces of mail, some of which he placed among his personal possessions.…