Dozens of bank cards allegedly stolen in the mail by a postal worker have charted a bizarre spending spree which police allege was part of a $1.4 million fraud.

Mauro Paul Coluzzi, 56, is accused of swiping bank cards mailed to Edgecliff, Woollahra and Double Bay in Sydney's eastern suburbs and supplying them to two separate organised crime syndicates.

Police allege he stole the cards of 62 people, which were used to commit an estimated $1.4 million in fraud.

More than $100,000 of that spending has been laid bare in the court documents containing the allegations against Coluzzi, who was arrested last month after a nine-month investigation.

According to police, the Rockdale resident was restrained in spending his alleged ill-gotten gains on more than $10,000 worth of Apple electronics,

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