BROCKTON, MA – Mail carrier Levy Joao had just stopped at his Bartlett Street home in Brockton for a quick lunch when a dozen gunshots tore through his neighborhood. “I just stopped for five minutes to grab lunch, you know?” Joao, 25, of Brockton said. “I heard seven or six. Boom, boom boom. When I […]
DETROIT (WXYZ) – A Detroit mother is thanking the people who saved her daughter’s life.Deanna Craddock’s daughter Whitney, a young postal worker, was outside her mail truck when she was hit by an impaired driver and pinned underneath the two vehicles. “I was just saying a prayer on the side of the bed for God […]
January 27, 2015 – WORCESTER, Mass. (WHDH) – Standing waist deep in snow Jason Avant was clearing a path so his mailman can reach him, a task he knows firsthand is important. “I deliver mail in West Boylston,” he said. And today, he has the time to do it. “Got the snow day off,” he […]
BURBANK (CBSLA.com) — Burbank Police are on the hunt for two male suspects they say committed a home invasion robbery after posing as mail carriers. Police say the robbery was reported just after 4:15 p.m. Saturday in the 1300 block of Paseo Redondo. Authorities said the two male suspect knocked on the front door of […]
NORTH MIAMI, Fla. (WSVN) — A female mail carrier was robbed by two men early Thursday afternoon. The U.S. Postal Service said the carrier was unlocking a community mailbox at an apartment complex at 1050 N.E. 127th Court in North Miami when two men approached her and took her keys, along with the master key. […]
One person was hurt Friday about noon in a head-on collision involving a United States Postal Service vehicle. A gray Ford F-250 struck a mail truck on Pirelli Drive in the Floyd County Industrial Park. The mail carrier was pinned under the mail truck, according to police scanner traffic. While the front of the F-250 […]
Memphis, TN – On Monday, August 23, 2010, United States District Court Judge Bernice B. Donald sentenced Michael Julian Smith, also known as Michael Walls, age 24, of Memphis, Tennessee, to 25 years incarceration in federal prison with no parole, announced Edward L. Stanton, III, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee. Smith […]
This Seattle Times police blog article presents two controversial issues: Seattle police say they sometimes pose as mail carriers. How do mail carriers feel about being put at risk this way? Does the Postal Service know about this police practice and approve its use? In some undercover operations, officers pose as utility workers, mail carriers […]