October 14, 2015 THORNTON, Colo. – The United States Postal Service is giving new meaning to the term “late night delivery.” For a variety of reasons, several letter carriers were out delivering mail well past 10:00 Tuesday night. One carrier was spotted near the Thornton Post Office at East 88th Avenue and Washington Street at […]
The family of a mailman slain while on his route in Landover, Md., last year is expected to join postal carriers for a candlelight vigil in his memory this weekend. They’re planning to gather Sunday at Reed Street and Jutewood Avenue in Landover, where 26-year-old Tyson Jerome Barnette was fatally shot while delivering mail at […]
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Last night, our U.S. Postal Service mail arrived at 6:30 pm. A few nights earlier, it arrived after 8 pm. Several WSB readers have e-mailed mentioning the same thing, and wondering why they’re getting deliveries so much later than before. Today, we have the answer. Our inquiry to the regional media-relations rep was referred to […]
(September 7, 2014) In July 2014 the USPS Office of Inspector General (OIG) released an audit report on “City Letter Carriers Returning After 5.P.M.” in the Capital District.” Although the report addressed a growing problem of city carriers returning after 5 p.m. in USPS’ Capital District–it included the percentage of city letter carriers returning after […]
The following is a report from USPS Office of Inpector General (OIG) “Timely Processing of Mail at the Boston, MA, Processing and Distribution Center” This report presents the results of our self-initiated audit on the timely processing of mail at the Boston, MA, Processing and Distribution Center (P&DC) in the Greater Boston District in the […]
The recent decision by the U.S. Postal Service to have Chicago mail carriers start their shifts later in the morning is not going over too well with some local carriers and their union. Some mail carriers have expressed concerns about safety issues because, with the start time being moved from 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m., […]
— Some Long Island residents think the U.S. Postal Service’s motto needs to be revised. That’s because snow, rain and gloom of night have been getting in the way of their mail deliveries. And that’s not all: They say they’re not getting mail on perfect weather days either, CBS 2’s Carolyn Gusoff reported exclusively on […]
WASHINGTON (WJZ) — Rallying for safety. Hundreds of Maryland mail carriers descended on the Capitol, pushing for federal safer working conditions after a Maryland postal worker was gunned down while delivering mail after dark. Following Tyson Barnette’s murder on the clock, fellow employees want changes to work schedules to prevent a repeat of this tragedy. […]
Many in Rock Hill’s Barnette family will travel to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C. this weekend, but the trip is not for sightseeing. The family will take part in a march and rally on Monday, the Marthin Luther King Jr. holiday, because Tyson Barnette, 26, was gunned down outside the nation’s […]