The Real Deal: USPS Blue Boxes Targeted by Check Thieves ALBANY — It’s a scam that often happens in broad daylight, fraudsters using whatever they can to fish mail out of the USPS Blue Boxes. US Postal Inspectors have been catching up with many of the thieves by setting up stings and using surveillance video […]
GREENVILLE, SC (FOX Carolina) – For Stuart Young and his five year old Dachshund Darla, hanging out in their front yard is a typical day, but today was unlike any other. “The mail carrier had already gone to the next house and she forgot some piece of mail for us,” said Stuart Young who lives […]
Or How another competitor profits off of USPS The U.S. Postal Service has become an extension of Amazon and is courting other e-commerce giants July 30, 2015 – In cities such as San Francisco and New York, letter carriers have been showing up on people’s doorsteps as early as 3 a.m. bearing unusual cargo: milk, […]
HOUSTON -A homeowner says he is upset after a postal worker threw a package towards his front porch. Casey Stump said when the parcel wouldn’t fit in his mailbox, the letter carrier decided to lob it in the direction of his home on Bridgeland Lane in northwest Houston. Stump said he could not figure out […]
LITHONIA, Ga. —A Lithonia man is not happy after seeing how his neighborhood postal worker treated his delivery. Home surveillance video shows the postal worker tossing his package out the window of the delivery truck. “It could’ve been a fragile item. It could’ve been glass items, anything. They don’t know. That box was just tossed […]
NEWHALL, CA (CBS) – Package delivery can be tricky – sometimes a box can’t be left without a signature and those dropped at the front door could be damaged by weather. But now, the United States Postal Service may have a solution – bigger mailboxes. The Postal Service is testing larger, package-friendly mailboxes. Ron Ronaldi […]
Clark city officials consider removing mailboxes July 21, 2015 CLARK, Mo. – Clark city officials recently decided to have all mail deliveries go to P.O. Boxes at the city post office. But the issue is still on the table. An employee at Clark City Hall said the Board of Aldermen is looking into removing all […]
July 21, 2015 -FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) –There’s growing concern nationwide that mail delivery may no longer be safe. Mail delivery shouldn’t be stressful. But for one Fresno woman, it is. Susan Newman said, “A little black car pulled up got out of the passenger side walked up took the package and went away.” These two, […]
A Yosemite Post Office Helps California Hikers July 17, 2015 YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK (CBS13) — A small post office deep in the Yosemite takes in more than 100 packages a day, stacked from floor to ceiling. The sun came up three hours ago, but some Yosemite hikers have been waiting longer than that. “That five […]
News 3’s Velena Jones catches up with Raven Dibble, who says she was harassed by a post office worker while breastfeeding her baby. July 15, 2015 JANESVILLE—A spokesman for the U.S. Postal Service has apologized after a Janesville employee harassed a mother for breast-feeding her newborn while mailing packages. However, local moms have rallied and […]