The United States Postal Service Tennessee District confirms the Ocoee Post Office was destroyed by a tornado Tuesday night. The USPS says until further notice Ocoee customers should use the Benton Post Office located on Main Street. Rural letter carriers will attempt delivery to customers on the route. The Gatlinburg Post Office will reopen today […]
CHICAGO (WLS) –Ambulances rushed 13 employees at a River North post office to the hospital with heat-related illness Saturday morning, according to the Chicago Fire Department According to witnesses, temperatures inside the facility at Ohio and Dearborn were near 100 degrees and they said it has been that way since the middle of the week. […]
LAREDO, TEXAS (KGNS) – Post office workers find a package they won’t soon be delivering. Federal agents including K-9 officers were called to a local postal service facility to conduct a drug search and this is what they found. Nearly 63 pounds of heroin wrapped in several bundles were found in a box disguised as […]
KINGSTON >> Two of the four people charged in a December robbery of the Rifton Post Office have pleaded guilty in Ulster County Court, according to the county District Attorney’s Office. Gary A. Salmon Jr., 22, of Newburgh, and Shareef J. Goddard, 31, of Hyde Park, pleaded guilty Thursday before Judge Donald A. Williams to […]
GARLAND (CBS11) – Many tornado victims have not picked up their mail or provided a forwarding address to USPS causing bins to pile up at the South Garland branch. “I think, some people, maybe due to shock, or just not knowing what to do, have not even picked up their mail,” said mail carrier Tony […]
Located on Floreana Island in the Galapagos, Post Office Bay has been acting as a sort of passive post station since the 1700s, using nothing but a barrel and the camaraderie of sailers and travelers. The site was established by whalers in the 18th century. As whaling ships headed out from England and the United […]
Cainiao, Alibaba Group’s logistics affiliate, has agreed to work with the United States Postal Service to speed delivery of merchandise ordered by U.S. consumers on Alibaba’s international online shopping platforms. Under a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) announced today, Cainiao and the United States’ national mail carrier agreed to collaborate on the development of enhanced shipping […]
MUHLENBERG TWP., Pa. – Police have arrested a Reading man for allegedly robbing a woman at knife-point at a stamp kiosk. It happened at 6:22 p.m. Tuesday inside the Gus Yatron Post Office on North 13th Street in Muhlenberg Township. “The robber came in and demanded money, thinking that she was at the ATM, when […]
USPS Is Falling Down On Job, Residents of NY Town Say HARTSDALE, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — Some Westchester County residents are the latest to say that mail service has gone from predictable to sporadic, and that the Post Office is falling down on some of its basic duties. As CBS2’s Lou Young reported, the mail is […]
February 6, 2015 – PITTSBURGH – A Pittsburgh resident has been sentenced in federal court to 35 months imprisonment, followed by three years supervised release, and restitution in the amount of $569 on his conviction of robbing a U.S. Post Office, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today. United States District Judge Mark R. […]