And He Got . . . License Plates, Wedding Gifts, Tax Returns, Checks To Politicians From Real Estate Firms, Money, Bills And Cancelled Checks, Pretty Funny Pictures Of Your Kids

Think of it as “Operation Lucky Mailbag”:

A postal carrier pocketed dozens of greeting cards he was supposed to deliver to get at the cash inside, postal inspectors said.

He was found with more than 130 pieces of other people’s mail in his car, according to a court complaint.

Michael Olivio was released on his own recognizance Thursday following his arrest the previous day, court records show. The exact charges against him were not listed in court records available early Saturday, and a spokesman for prosecutors did not immediately return a telephone call.

. . .

Postal authorities started getting complaints in June about greeting cards getting lost en route to residents of a Brooklyn ZIP code, U.S. Postal Inspection Service Special Agent Stephen Dolloff said in papers filed in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn.

He set up stings involving decoy cards in September and again this week. The latest one included cash — and a hidden electronic transmitter. The transmitter showed that Olivio kept the card after finishing his mail route Wednesday, Dolloff said.

Send What Kind Of Message — Not To Post Incriminating Stuff On YouTube?

Or that maybe we need to rethink what constitutes chivalry:

The victim of the videotaped subway slugging that enraged the city and stunned straphangers is a handsome 27-year-old from Brooklyn who didn’t fight back because he didn’t want to hit a girl.

“I’m trying to get over it. It happened a month ago,” said Rafael Cruz, a manager at a Midtown H&M whom The Post tracked down yesterday.

He said he is mulling whether to press charges against the gang of teenage girls that attacked him, and will decide in the next couple of days whether to go to cops.

“Teenagers are allowed to make mistakes, but you need to learn from your mistakes,” he said.

The East New York native said he’s a “nonviolent person” and was never tempted to punch back at the girl bullies.

“I have a great family. My mother taught me the difference between right and wrong,” he said.

One acquaintance told The Post, “He didn’t know what to do. He didn’t want to hit a girl.”

The attack, in which the teen thugs berate and taunt Cruz before pummeling him with their fists and hitting him with a soda bottle, was captured on video and posted on the video Web site YouTube.

. . .

He believes it all began when he stepped on someone’s foot.

“They were getting loud, and I was just trying to ignore it,” he recalled, adding that he wasn’t hurt in the flurry of fists.

Meanwhile, an MTA spokesman urged Cruz to go to the cops.

“I’m fairly certain if he files a complaint . . . the NYPD will make an arrest, and those people will be brought to justice,” Paul Fleuranges said.

“It’s the only way the Police Department can do anything about what happened and send a message to others that you will be punished.”

See also: “A” Train Beat Down Video.

Accent A-Ghoulish

But maybe in jail he can get the speech therapy he obviously needs:

A bouncer who studied sword fighting and ninjitsu, adopted a Japanese surname and urged himself to become a “monster in the most positive way” was convicted yesterday of two 2005 murders but acquitted of a third.

The bouncer, Stephen Sakai, 32, was surrounded by 16 court officers as the verdict was announced in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn. He rose, thrust his arms back to accept handcuffs and paced to the holding pens, the picture of discipline.

The split verdict, one juror said, apparently reflected acceptance of some of Mr. Sakai’s testimony, a wide-ranging account of conspiracy by police assassins who coveted his private security business. Though he was born Stephen Sanders in Queens and has no passport, Mr. Sakai testified in a thick, wavering accent, transposing L’s and R’s.

“It was laughable,” said the juror, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “I brought it up multiple times, and the rest of the jury really didn’t see it.”

The verdict closed the last chapter in the improbable history of the Sweet Cherry, a sleazy strip parlor that lasted a decade, in defiance of the authorities, on the docks of Sunset Park. The scene of various assaults and a documented in-house narcotics trade, the club closed last year after Mr. Sakai’s arrest.

. . .

Mr. Sakai’s bizarre performance on the witness stand captivated the courthouse. All week, lawyers and stenographers, clerks and officers argued: Was his accent real? Why wasn’t it shared by his mother when she spoke out from the gallery? How did he develop it without leaving the country? Plans to test him with a Japanese phrase or two were abandoned for lack of volunteers.

I’d Hate To See What Her Honor Student Would Do

“My dog will rip you apart”:

Tim, an 85-pound, 3-year-old German shepherd with a kindly demeanor, was taking his 7:30 pm constitutional near the corner of Clinton and DeKalb avenues with companion Nancy Peterson on Nov. 15 when a man walked by with what appeared to be a thick gold chain concealed under his jacket.

“And then I heard this woman behind me screaming and crying,” recalled Peterson, the president of the Fort Greene PUPS. “I don’t know how, but I knew he had stolen something from the woman.”

And then Peterson got mad.

“I thought, ‘How dare you do that to somebody in this neighborhood!'”

And so Peterson and Tim raced off after the apparent mugger, with Peterson screaming, “My dog will rip you apart!”

. . .

Afraid for his life, the young man dropped the item . . .

It Was You, Charlie

Two things — one, isn’t it “easy” to allow smuggled goods into the country if you set up a sting to do it? And two, when you think about it, the fact that an undercover customs agent can pose as a bribe-taking longshoremen’s union official and stay undercover sort of says something about the longshoremen’s union:

Federal officials announced the arrests yesterday of 10 people they said were members of an international smuggling gang that illegally shipped millions of dollars’ worth of counterfeit apparel into the New York region from factories in China, often in falsely labeled shipping containers.

The smuggling scheme, involving fake merchandise with a retail value of more than $200 million, was one of the largest smuggling operations ever discovered, the United States attorney’s office in Manhattan said.

The charges, revealed yesterday in a complaint issued in Federal District Court in Manhattan, followed a yearlong investigation in which an undercover customs agent posed as a longshoremen’s union official and took nearly $500,000 in bribes to let the illegal shipments pass through the Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal in New Jersey.

The undercover agent had nearly daily contact with the smugglers, who included Chinese manufacturers, a customs broker and a husband-and-wife team that owned a Brooklyn trucking company, officials said.

While officials declined to say how the investigation started, the complaint said that in August 2006, Michael Chu, 70, of Manhattan, approached the undercover agent and asked for his help in moving the illegal containers through the port. Mr. Chu paid the agent $100,000 in cash bribes to smuggle about 20 containers carrying fake consumer goods with a value of more than $24 million, the complaint said.

The apparent ease with which the containers — 40 feet long, 8 feet wide and 9 ½ feet high — were moved through the port with false bills of lading highlights frailties in the security system at the region’s ports, said Michael J. Garcia, the United States attorney in Manhattan.