5/23/17 RICHMOND, VA (WWBT) – Qualifying for hardship mail delivery should be as easy as mailing a letter when you’re disabled, but it was not for Josh Wilson. For months, he tried to get an inaccessible mailbox moved to the back porch of his apartment. Nothing happened until Josh called 12 On Your Side. We […]
USPS Response to Forbes article by Steve Pociask 12/9/2016 Steve Pociask of the American Consumer Institute wants to open up your mailbox. Alarmed? You should be. Using the same flawed arguments that have been put forth by some private delivery company executives, Pociask proposes giving other delivery companies access to your mailbox. What he doesn’t […]
SAN ANTONIO — Seven months after a mailman accidentally destroyed her family’s mailbox, Jeannette Guerra-Moya is still waiting for the United States Postal Service to buy her a new one. Guerra-Moya filed a complaint at the nearest post office. She said that an employee told her that she would have to file a claim with […]
4/25/16 ARVADA, Colo. (CBS4) – A man has been charged in connection with a Postal Service mailbox that was destroyed by a pipe bomb in Arvada last week. According to the arrest affidavit, John Henry Bowman, 45, admitted to blowing up a mailbox located in a parking lot on the 9500 block of Ralston Road […]
After waiting for hours, angry post office customers called You Ask. We Investigate. Many of them have made multiple visits and waited hours to get medication and other important mail. Dozens of people stood in line to get new mail box keys and pick up mail Monday morning at the Tenaya and Smoke Ranch post […]
The mail moment lives. Forty-one percent of Americans still look forward to checking their mailbox each day, according to a Gallup poll published April 2. People 65 and older are more likely than anyone else to enjoy checking the mail, although more than a third of adults ages 18-49 also feel this way, the survey […]
December 8, 2014 – GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — A Gwinnett County resident says his mail carrier knocked his mailbox to the ground and kept going. The first thing Marvin Vinson noticed when he returned home from visiting relatives at Thanksgiving was his downed mailbox. There was no note on the door, no phone message. “You […]
Danville, VA– One Danville woman said she’s devastated because she believes someone opened her mail. Wilma Gwynn said she got a birthday card from her son in the mail a few weeks ago. According to her, the envelope had been torn open and then taped back together when she got it out of her mailbox. […]
FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga — How often do you have to send a check in the mail and put the check in your mailbox for the mail carrier to pick up? This story may make you think about doing it again. Investigators with the Forsyth County Sheriff Office broke up a massive fraud ring that was […]
A company is selling a replica of a mailbox and mailbag to teach kids about the postal service. According to the description: