The Postal Service is testing redesigned uniforms with a focus on evaluating the performance, functionality and safety features of various winter gear. Approximately 2,000 employees are participating in cold-weather apparel tests in Boston, Houston, Milwaukee and Pittsburgh. USPS hopes to test warm-weather apparel in other cities in the spring. “Uniforms are a marker of personal, […]
ATLANTA, GA – William Wilkins and Michael Fairnot-Woods have been sentenced to 18 years and 15 years in federal prison, respectively, for their roles in an armed robbery spree that targeted U.S. Postal Service letters carriers in Decatur and Lithonia, Georgia. The robberies were part of a scheme to steal a rival drug dealer’s marijuana […]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) – A Hanover woman has admitted in federal court that she opened mail and stole cash and gift cards while working for the U.S. Postal Service. Stacie Ann Stevens, 41, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court on Thursday to a charge of destruction of mail, according to U.S. Attorney Peter Smith. The […]
USPS LLV completely destroyed in Walnut Creek, California According to witnesses, the uninjured letter carrier was able to remove mail from burning vehicle and continue with his route. The vehicle reportedly malfunctioned when letter carrier started engine. via PHOTO: U.S. Postal Service Truck Burns in Walnut Creek —claycord CLAYCORD.com
Going Postal: Post Office Worker Sues Colleagues, Claims Defamation of Character A Bolingbrook, Illinois postal worker (also a former NALC steward) has filed a lawsuit claiming four USPS management officials “disparaged him with libelous comparisons to violent people.” Christopher A. Johnson, a city letter carrier since 2007, filed his defamation of character lawsuit on February […]
U.S. Postal Inspection Service: Prosecution against suspects in beating of Springfield mail carrier to be pursued at state level SPRINGFIELD — The U.S. Postal Inspection Service will not pursue federal charges against two suspects who allegedly assaulted a mail carrier last month in the Forest Park neighborhood. “They are going to be prosecuted at the […]
Colorado letter carrier saves life of postal customer January 31, 2015 – Postal worker William Searuggs sprang into action when he found his long-time customer bleeding and barely conscious inside his own home. Searuggs has been delivering mail for the United States Postal service for 15 years, five of those years on his current route […]
Letter carrier attacked in Springfield, Massachusetts – Postal Inspectors, police still searching for suspects January 23, 2015 – Springfield, MASS – Inspection Service has joined city detectives as they investigate the beating of a mail carrier Wednesday evening in the Forest Park neighborhood. Police said the mail carrier was attacked by at least two males […]
1/9/2015 – Osceola woman ejected from mail truck in two-car crash on S.R. 120 Osceola, IN – – Starla Minder, 55, was driving a Grumman LLV, the small box truck commonly used by the U.S Postal Service, west on S.R. 120 near C.R. 17 at 5:18 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 8, when she swerved off the […]
Mail carrier Dennis Schultz, who retired Jan. 2 after nearly 41 years with the Postal Service, was lauded by his colleagues and family for going “above and beyond” for the downtown Bel Air customers he has served since 1981, but Schultz just sees it as providing good customer service. “He gives customer service beyond what […]