HAMMOND –Tanisha Banks of Merrillville, Indiana was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Theresa Springmann after being convicted during a 4-day trial in January 2019. She was convicted of conspiring to rob the United States Postal Service, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch. Banks was sentenced to 90 months in prison, 2 years of supervised release and […]
October 17, 2019 St. Louis, MO –Arielle Steed, 27, of St. Louis, MO, pleaded guilty to one felony charge of aiding and abetting the robbery of a United States Postal employee. Steed appeared in federal court today before United States District Judge Catherine D. Perry who accepted her plea and set her sentencing date for […]
USPS moving forward with Oak Creek facility, but not as Milwaukee replacement A U.S. magistrate judge has dismissed a lawsuit seeking to evict the U.S. Postal Service from its downtown Milwaukee location. Separately, USPS is moving forward with plans for a 425,000-square-foot facility in Oak Creek. That project, however, is a replacement for the current […]
October 9, 2019 PG&E is turning off power to some 800,000 customers in 34 counties to reduce the risk of wildfire amid dry, windy conditions. Many of our postal facilities will also be affected. If and when power is lost, select post offices in these affected areas will not be able to accept credit or […]
October 8, 2019 An Aurora woman has been charged with lying to police about an attempted robbery that didn’t happen in May at a La Fox Post Office. Moore, a postal worker, is charged with making a false police report about an attempted armed robbery at the post office at 1N279 La Fox Road. At […]
October 4, 2019 St. Louis, MO –Dywane Upchurch, 39, of St. Louis, MO, pleaded guilty to felony charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm and assaulting a Postal employee while committing robbery. Upchurch appeared in federal court today before United States District Judge Catherine D. Perry who accepted his plea and set […]
HOUSTON — In the middle of the widespread flooding, a post office building collapsed in north Houston Thursday morning. The U.S. Postal Service mail distribution center collapsed without warning. It happened around 10:30 a.m. at the facility in the 4600 block of Aldine Bender. The building was occupied but everyone made it out. Three people […]
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — The holiday season means it’s peak mailing season and as a result, post offices are in full swing. One post office on the Upper West Side, however, isn’t accepting any packages, putting deliveries in jeopardy. Paper signs posted all over the Park West post office on Columbus Avenue warned customers their […]
SARASOTA, Fla. – The bomb squad was called in after suspicious packages caused a big scare in a Sarasota post office. Sarasota police say a citizen walked into the post office around 2:30 p.m. on Saturday afternoon and noticed multiple suspicious looking packages left in the lobby. “Our trained personnel have looked at the […]
A rat fell through the ceiling onto a customer’s shoulder earlier this year, they say. Another one scampered across the counter. Mail has been delivered late, the offices are dingy, and a bat swooped through in the middle of the day. Members of the union that represents some 400 U.S. Postal Service workers in […]