BANGOR, Maine — The trial is underway for a Burlington woman who is charged with sending threatening mail to Senator Susan Collins that she claims was merely a joke. Suzanne Muscara tried to send a letter to Susan Collins Bangor home that had white powder in it. She told FBI agents the white powder was […]
A Growing Workplace Danger By Industrial Relations Director Vance Zimmerman 11/15/17 In 2001, Anthrax-laden letters were sent through the mail sickening 22 Americans, including nine postal workers. Five died, including two APWU brothers – Joseph P. Curseen Jr. and Thomas L. Morris – at the Brentwood Mail Processing Center in Washington, D.C., that would later […]
May 7, 2015 A federal grand jury returned a federal indictment charging Drew D. Manns, 31, of Elyria, with using the United States Postal Service to make threats with a white powdery substance, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio. Manns sent Summit County Clerks and Prosecutor’s Office letters including a white […]
Fourteen envelopes dropped in the mailbox outside the post office had the word “anthrax” scrawled on them Marion County Fire Rescue worked in conjunction with the Marion County Sheriff’s Office on Saturday to handle a suspicious package threat. At 1:15 p.m. call-takers at the Marion County Public Safety Communications Center received an emergency call […]
(September 18, 2014) Boston – A Quincy woman was sentenced yesterday for sending multiple bomb, anthrax and other death threats through the U.S. mail, e-mail and Twitter. Linda Louise Culkin, 55, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge George A. O’Toole, Jr. to 51 months in prison, three years of supervised release and ordered to […]
This is an old editorial posted on PostalReporter.com several years ago but it is still relevant today as it pertains to Postal Clerks–and postal workers in general. In an article last year from the Federal Times, it stated that Postal work is the most dangerous among federal civilian jobs On June 29, 62-year-old letter carrier […]