November 4, 2015 SCRANTON, PA – When you mail a letter or a card, you expect it to arrive at its destination without any trouble. For some people in Scranton, that hasn’t been the case. A postal service employee who was charged last month with stealing cash right out of greeting cards pleaded guilty Wednesday […]
November 4, 2015 POSEY CO., IN (WFIE) – A Posey County postal carrier is in hot water. 23-year-old Lucas Kost is accused of snatching packages instead of delivering them. Police say he stole prescription medications from the mail. He is charged with theft and possession of a controlled substance. Police say they know of at […]
USPS to handle more than half a billion packages this season – 10.5 percent volume increase WASHINGTON — The Postal Service expects to deliver a total of approximately 15.5 billion cards, letters, flats, and packages during the 2015 holiday season. In addition, they are projecting approximately 600 million packages will be delivered between Thanksgiving and […]
About two years ago, Avilla Erby, 60, told his son Jeremiah that his bucket list dream was to visit China and walk along the Great Wall. Jeremiah recalled that it was the first time he could remember has father saying that he wanted something. Avilla is the “sort of person who never wants anything,” said […]
November 4, 2015 Ashton Luck, 29, of South Roxana, Illinois, pled guilty to one count of workers compensation fraud and five additional counts of making false statements, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.’ As part of the plea, Luck admitted that while she worked for the U.S. […]
OSHA proposes $46,600 in penalties for USPS exposing mail carrier to excessive heat – October 27, 2015 APWU: USPS, Staples Produce a Mound of Documents November 2, 2015 Video: Postal Worker who hit woman says he was stressed out about workload – October 27, 2015 Question: Should USPS hire Postal Supervisors off the street? NALC, […]
Randall Paul Haynes fit a lot into his life. He was the Windsor school district’s first music director. He brewed award-winning India pale ale (and a beer he named Lawnmower). He sang competitively in Europe. He umpired the first Sonoma County Crushers baseball game. He booted the mascot from that game. He delivered mail throughout […]
October 27, 2015 The driver at our house managed to avoid the 10+ acres of surrounding land and hit the power pole right beside her truck while backing up to turn around. She almost knocked it over, but at least she was kind enough to ensure her truck was okay before leaving without telling me. […]
A Jacksonville, Florida postal customer shares with PostalReporter.com the treatment she received from Postal Supervisor while picking up an express mail package at the post office. * I tried calling the Post Office to see where my Express mail was and found out they changed the phone number to two Jacksonville, Florida Post Offices without […]
On October 30, 2015 at approximately 4:10pm, Troopers from the Maryland State Police McHenry Barracks responded to Old Frostburg Rd at Beall School Rd in Frostburg, MD for a motor vehicle collision. Investigation revealed a 1994 Chevrolet United States Postal Service mail delivery truck, operated by Ame Gomez (age 46 of Ellerslie, MD), was traveling […]