DALLAS -- A Dallas mail carrier has been charged with stealing hundreds of credit cards, checks and other items, NBC 5 reported.

Investigators said they recovered 1,500 pieces of stolen mail, and now they're trying to track down the victims.

Salvador Gonzalez, 33, is in jail charged with cocaine possession and soon he'll face federal charges for allegedly stealing mail on the job.

"Who can you trust now (if) you can't trust your mailman to deliver the mail?" Dallas resident Robert Blackwell said.

Blackwell's pain medication for shoulder surgery is in a pile of evidence Dallas County constables recovered from the personal truck of Gonzalez.

The mail carrier was pulled over Wednesday for speeding on his way to work.

"It was his bad luck and our good luck today," Dallas County Precinct Chief John L. Garrett said.

"The officer was concerned from the beginning because when she went through his billfold she found several credit cards in his billfold with different names on it," Garrett said.

Garrett said the officer then found postal bags full of opened and unopened mail. The pile included birthday and Christmas cards dating back to December 2005.

"They never made it to the birthday party," Garrett said. "We have several people that have signed checks to pay bills and they never made it."

Blackwell, a Vietnam veteran, said he kept calling the VA hospital wondering where his medicine was.

"I waited for months and I called and they said 'well we sent it to you' and I said 'no you didn't,' and they said 'oh well, we did,'" Blackwell said.

While the stolen mail impacted Blackwell's heath care, it may have impacted legal issues for others.

"This here could affect a lot of people living here," Garrett said. "They had gotten mail from different attorneys to be in court. I see some mail in there from Dallas County that we mailed out to different people."

Several pieces of mail belonging to Dallas city council member James Fantroy were also in the piles of stolen mail.

The constables said they will bag all the mail up Thursday and hand it over to the postal inspector to get it back to the residents.