A woman who worked as a mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service was jailed on a drug charge after police said she was found with hundreds of stolen packages in New Braunfels two days before Christmas.

Lana Krupka (Guadalupe County Jail)

Police were called to a neighborhood in New Braunfels at 4:30 a.m. Sunday after receiving reports of a person tampering with mailboxes.

When they arrived, they found 42-year-old Lana Krupka in her Jeep Wrangler full of packages, envelopes and other mail, police said.

The addresses on the packages showed they had been taken from two subdivisions in New Braunfels: Caprock and Legend Pond, police said.

Krupka was jailed on a drug possession charge for methamphetamine she had on her person, police said. She remained in the Guadalupe County Jail on Thursday in lieu of $15,000 bail.

A public information officer for the Postal Service said Krupka had worked as a rural carrier associate for four years before her arrest but was in a "non-duty" status.

"This type of alleged behavior within the Postal Service is not tolerated and the overwhelming majority of Postal Service employees, which serve the public, are honest, hardworking, and trustworthy individuals who would never consider engaging in any type of criminal behavior," a statement from the Postal Service said.

Police got in touch with the Postal Service's Office of Inspector General, whose investigators were looking into the case. They could file federal charges of mail theft, police said.

The inspector general's office did not reply to a request for comment as its employees were furloughed during the government shutdown, an auto-reply email said.

All packages and mail were released from evidence by Sunday evening and were on their way to their rightful owners, police said.