NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Denton County Elections Administrator Frank Phillips said Monday his county is seeing an unusually large number of people surrendering their mail-in ballot at their polling location so they can vote in-person instead, and are also hand-delivering their mail ballots to his office. Tarrant County Elections Administrator Heider Garcia said the county is […]
BETHESDA, Md. (FOX 5 DC) – Concerns about the mail have been high for many months now since reports that the U.S. Postal Service was scaling back in overtime and was also removing sorting equipment. Mail collection boxes are also an issue with some within the District and parts of Maryland, found to be overflowing. […]
GILROY, Calif. – A South Bay woman believes she was fired from her job with the postal service because her family member died of COVID-19. “I really enjoy it, you know. I had a lot of fun… you know meeting new people and learning about the system,” said Ria Silva, who goes by the name, […]
8/9/2020 Three men have been arrested in connection with the murder of a Mississippi Highway Patrol officer while he was moonlighting as a postal worker. Lt. Troy Morris, 58, was working his second job for the USPS and driving a postal truck early Friday morning when he called highway patrol and the Jefferson County Sheriff’s […]
8/9/2020 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – For the first time in 20 years, a post office in New Mexico could soon be renamed. Congresswoman Deb Haaland (D-New Mexico) introduced a bill to rename it after an Albuquerque letter carrier who was murdered on the job in 2019. “The death of Jose Hernandez was so devastating. It was devastating […]
LOS ANGELES – The United States Postal Service is advising local jurisdictions that their voters should send in mail-in ballots no later than 15 days before Election Day. “We recommend that jurisdictions immediately communicate and advise voters to request ballots at the earliest point allowable but no later than 15 days prior to election date,” […]
LEHI — Residents say they warned for years about the dangerous location of a mailbox where a mailman was hit by a suspected impaired driver on Tuesday. “It could have been any one of us,” said Ashley Budd, who lives nearby and witnessed the crash. “It’s traumatic to try and get our mail at this point.” […]
5/25/20 WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Inspection Service said they offering up to $50,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspect(s) who recently shot USPS mail carriers with paintball guns around the District. The suspect(s), who has not been identified, are described as being an African American male in his twenties, […]
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — The United States Postal Service and even some landlords are warning residents about an increase in mail theft especially with stimulus and unemployment checks as well as tax refunds circulating the mail system. Porch pirates wearing N95 masks grabbed a package in Oakland on April 29 at 4:50 p.m., just 20 […]
As Samantha Bee and other late-night hosts have pointed out, President Trump’s New York jet flyover demonstration in celebration of essential workers this week may not have been the best way to support them. On her at-home edition of Full Frontal — filmed in front of a greenscreened forest background and hilariously titled Little Show in the Big Woods — Bee addressed […]