From the 2011 NALC Postal Record: The Postal Service has a long history of using bikes for city delivery. The Postal Service estimated recently that the carriers on bikes in nearby Sun City, AZ, alone save 7,800 gallons of gasoline a year, which adds up to roughly $27,300 at today’s prices for gasoline.
Mr. Canjar, 39, quit his job last summer as a U.S. Postal Service mail handler to become a dairy farmer. “Everybody thought I was nuts,” Mr. Canjar said as he paused near a manure-storage tank on his 200-acre farm near the Elmhurst Reservoir. “Some people said I wouldn’t make it six months.” More than nine […]
BANNING, Calif. – Jackie Sebastian, 60, from San Jacinto was arrested by Department of Insurance detectives May 22, 2014. Sebastian, a Postal Service Mail Processing Clerk, is facing felony insurance fraud and grand theft charges for submitting 249 false claims for mileage reimbursements associated with an allegedly fraudulent workers’ compensation claim. “Some individuals are under […]
Here is a photo PostalReporter.com posted about 4 years ago. Houston,Texas, Drive-In Post Office , 1951 Granville W. Elder, acting postmaster of the Houston, Texas, Post Office, first experimented with a drive-in for customers in late 1947 to expedite the handling of Christmas mail. Set up in the Sam Houston Coliseum, the drive-in was used […]
With snail mail headed the way of landlines and newspapers, few give much thought to their mailboxes these days. In some neighborhoods, doorstep delivery is already extinct, replaced by clustered units in a central location. The move away from traditional mailboxes could be why residents who erect something other than a plain box get noticed. […]
Photo: Upgraded USPS jeep Post by Gearhead Diva.
Customers and Mailers alike believe that door-to-door delivery must be protected. pic.twitter.com/7tDQ69eYow — Postal Supervisors (@napshq) May 15, 2014
On April 28, 2014, South Plantation High School hosted their annual 2014 Eco Symposium in efforts to increase community awareness about alternative fuels. According to USPS: “Chief Sustainability Officer, Thomas Day was the keynote speaker at the 2014 Eco Symposium at South Plantation High School in Plantation, FL. We were “wowed” by the robot that […]
DENVER — A semi carrying U.S. mail rolled over near E. 56th Avenue and Quebec Street in Denver Monday. Nobody was hurt but it took postal workers awhile to collect the mail the fell out of the truck. Crews eventually pulled the truck upright and cleared the scene. Denver Police dispatch says the truck rolled […]