WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – Delivery workers do not get a snow day when it comes to bad weather, and this week is challenging some of the toughest postal carriers. Tomas Ceballos spends about 15 minutes in the cold, hops into the truck, and onto the next. Father, son team up with local business to help […]
1/27/2021 MACON, Ga. – A Charleston, South Carolina, woman is facing a maximum eight years in prison for attacking a postal worker, said Peter D. Leary, the Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. Kelly Lynne McCormick, 33, of Charleston, formerly of Bonaire, Georgia, pleaded guilty to one count assault on a federal […]
1/27/2021 NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — Police are searching for a young man and woman whorobbed a mail carrier of his packages outside a Bronx building and threatened to slash him last week, officials said Wednesday. At approximately 11:45 a.m. on January 21, the duo approached an on-duty United States Postal Worker near 149 Street and Jackson […]
Postal Supervisor’s testimony credible in post office worker injury case The Occupational Safety and Review Commission upheld its directive on Friday that an administrative law judge must decide whether two mail carriers could prove that they were terminated as a result of filing injury claims. In Secretary of Labor v. U.S. Postal Service, the commission […]
1/19/2021 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Cisco Casaus-Alires, 20, of Albuquerque, made his initial appearance today in federal court where he was charged with robbery of mail, mail theft, bank fraud, and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, stemming from three armed robberies of USPS letter carriers in Albuquerque. Casaus-Alires will […]
SYRACUSE, NEW YORK – Daniel J. Trammell, age 58, of Syracuse, was sentenced yesterday to serve 30 months in prison for assaulting a United States Postal Service employee, announced Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon and Joseph Cronin, Postal Inspector in Charge of the Boston Division of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. As party of […]
Recent letter carrier deaths from COVID-19 Sadly, the NALC has been informed of two active and three retired letter carrier deaths due to COVID-19. Benedicto Fajardo passed away at the age of 55 on December 3, 2020. He began his career in 1998 and worked at the Deerfield, IL post office. Brother Fajardo was a […]
1/8/2021 – An Elk Grove Village man who pleaded guilty in federal court to attempted second-degree murder in the 2018 shooting of a postal worker was sentenced Friday to 16 years in prison. U.S. District Judge Matthew F. Kennelly sentenced Cameron Ruebusch, 26, during a 90-minute hearing held via video conference. Kennelly said he considered […]
1/8/2021 A New Hampshire man (letter carrier) who attended a Trump rally in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, then swept with a mob into the Capitol building, described drinking wine amid the melee and said he has no regrets Jason Riddle, of Keene, New Hampshire, says he is a military veteran and a proud supporter of President […]
1/1/2021 Prosecutors allege that a Midlothian man beat a postal carrier whom he accused of pepper-spraying his teenage stepson as the carrier tried to repel a dog. Lawrence Murillo, 35, is charged with aggravated battery and unlawful vehicular invasion following the incident in the southwest suburb Dec. 17, according to Cook County prosecutors and court […]