An Aurora company that offers same day shipping has paid nearly $2 million to settle allegations that it failed to pay adequate postage costs to the U.S. Postal Service.
The settlement resolves a long-running investigation of the company AtLast, which was created in 2003 and later purchased by Newgistics Inc., according to a news release by Jeffrey Dorschner, a spokesman for Acting U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer.
Investigators determined the company under-reported the size and weight of packages it shipped through the postal service and consequently paid less than it should have.
“The U.S. Postal Inspection Service did a fantastic job investigating this case,” Troyer said in a written statement. “Never a great idea to try to trick those guys.”
AtLast and Newgistics did not admit liability.
