Wondering why you didn't get your GameFly disc?

Good morning, Philadelphia. Wondering where the video game you rented by mail ended up? There's a good chance Reginald Johnson of nearby Germantown has it.

How's that? Johnson is a former Postal Service officer, and he spent the better part of 2008 amassing a collection of 2,200 video games sent by the GameFly online rental service -- the Netflix of video games.

He certainly had a simple task before him: Like Netflix discs, GameFly games come packaged in very obvious, logo-festooned envelopes that are easy to spot and even easier to slip into a pocket during delivery processing. Shipments regularly go missing in the mail... and now you know why.

Johnson's haul was valued by prosecutors at a whopping $86,000, proving that stealing video games is a far more lucrative enterprise than stealing movie DVDs. (Johnson was apparently exchanging the games at GameStop for new game consoles; GameStop accepts used games as trade-ins for store credit.) His eventual bust involved a wild car chase, a crashed SUV, and a duffel bag full of contraband.

In any event, last week Johnson, who was eventually busted as part of a surveillance sting after GameFly complained to postal investigators of a high number of missing discs, was found guilty of the crimes. When he's sentenced in January, he faces up to 18 months in prison.

As Gizmodo notes, Johnson didn't break the disc record for postal workers stealing stuff: Earlier this year another postal carrier nabbed 3,200 Netflix DVDs. Although his haul was worth only $36,000, he's facing a far worse sentence of up to five years in jail. Maybe there's another lesson for aspiring criminals somewhere in there, too...