(October 31, 2014) SANTA CLARA (KPIX 5) – The U.S. Postal Service goes by the creed “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds,” but one KPIX 5 viewer said that’s not the case in Santa Clara. On the Circle Drive neighborhood […]
Despite protests and a court challenge, 10 communities across the country, including Winnipeg, Calgary and Ottawa, are making the switch from door-to-door mail delivery to community mailboxes starting Monday. More than 12,000 Winnipeggers were among the first Canadians on Monday to be part of Canada’s Post’s plan to phase out door-to-door mail delivery. The changeover […]
BONNERS FERRY, Idaho – It is a matter of life and death. A terminally ill Bonners Ferry infant needs specific medical supplies to survive but his mother claims the mail carrier won’t deliver them. Baby James Grady was born with more birth defects than you can count on your hands, as well as a genetic […]
GREENSBORO, NC — How many miles do USPS mail carriers and truck drivers cover in a year? 3.2 Billion! Over 212,000 vehicles are used to make deliveries! But before the mail can be shipped – it’s gotta be organized and that’s where this week’s Kids Want To Know question comes into play.
Press Release from the office of Congresswoman Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY) (September 24, 2014) Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY) wrote the Inspector General of the United States Postal Service calling for an audit of mail delivery at the Red Hook Post Office. The text of the letter is below. September 24, […]
There has been a lot of interest in the recent Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between NALC and USPS regarding “Holiday Carrier Assistants.” The agreement allows USPS to reemploy retirees as “Holiday Carrier Assistants” during the four week December period as operationally necessary. First of all, the agreement is not totally new. USPS and NALC signed […]
SOUTHWEST PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) –Police say a female postal worker was delivering mail when she was shot twice with a BB gun in Southwest Philadelphia. The 28-year-old victim was hit in the knee and back. She left the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania on Friday evening after being treated. “She’s walking up towards the house, […]
(Santa Fe, New Mexico) It was the kind of day at Santa Fe’s upscale Zocalo condominiums that gives new meaning to the term “going postal.” A debit card landed in the wrong mailbox, misplaced by a postal carrier. How did mail delivery get this bad? He (Mike Flores, operations manager of Postal Service in this […]
“The USPS left a package of mine right on the side of the road where anyone could just drive by and snatch it.”
ARLINGTON, Va. (WJLA) – Some Arlington residents say they’re having some serious mail problems: getting mail late, in some cases, getting pieces of mail that should have been delivered months ago. Talk to residents in the Douglas Park neighborhood, and they’ll tell you about a missing mail mystery that has them mostly mad. The postal […]