UPS spokesman Steve Gaut would not say what Tesney's job duties had been before his firing was finalized Monday.
Police said Tesney had gotten that final notice in the mail.
Court records showed a Birmingham business sued Tesney and UPS in 2010 claiming he had wrongly picked up a $4,000 radiator for shipment either intentionally or by mistake. The lawsuit went on for years before a judge ruled in favor of Tesney and the shipping company exactly one year ago — Sept. 23, 2013