8/13/18 – Nearly a decade since its rollout, the Flats Sequencing System (FSS) — the football-field sized sorting machines for flats mail — is still falling short of expectations. At its inception, stakeholders were optimistic FSS would improve productivity and reduce the U.S. Postal Service’s costs for handling flats mail. But, declines in flats mail […]
6/28/2018 Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Peter Rendina, Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS”), announced today the arrest of STEVEN CARSON and DEREK BROWN, both of whom were charged in a complaint with stealing mail from Postal Service […]
6/26/2018 BOSTON – A former Roslindale Post Office employee was arrested today and charged in federal court in Boston in connection with embezzling mail. Megan Hawes, 28, of Roslindale, was indicted on one count of theft of mail matter by a Postal Service employee. She appeared in federal court in Boston this afternoon and was […]
Postal Service Disability Retirement Application Process What the OIG Found The Postal Service is effective in processing retirement disability applications and submitting them to OPM in time to meet its informal timeliness goals; however, as of September 30, 2017, there were 1,195 employees who had been waiting over six months for an application decision […]
PROVIDENCE, RI – Four individuals pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Providence to federal tax charges arising out of an investigation into payments to vendors who performed maintenance on United States Postal Service vehicles in Rhode Island, announced United States Attorney Stephen G. Dambruch, Matthew Modafferi, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Postal […]
June 6, 2018 — The White House has announced the nomination of Michael Kubayanda of Ohio, to be a Commissioner of the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) for the remainder of a six-year term expiring November 22, 2020. Mr. Kubayanda serves as a board member and privacy officer for a digital health startup. Michael previously worked […]
9/29/2017 HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Ramona Long, age 57, a former U.S. Postal Service employee in Northern California, was sentenced on September 28, 2017, by United States District Court Judge Yvette Kane to 72 months’ imprisonment. Long previously entered pleas of guilty before Judge […]
The Cobleskill Police Department announced the arrest of Joel C. VanSteele, age 21, of Schoharie NY, on 05/17/2017 at 11:58 am on multiple felony and misdemeanor charges. After receiving multiple complaints of missing mail items, the Cobleskill Police Department began an investigation in cooperation with Special Agents of the US Postal Service Office of Inspector […]
3/29/17 LAFAYETTE, La. – Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced today that an Opelousas mail carrier pleaded guilty to stealing cell phones from mail. Tremayne Cluse, 24, of Arnaudville, La., pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Carol Whitehurst to one count of theft of mail by a postal service employee. The plea will […]
March 24, 2017 DALLAS – An indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Dallas this week, and unsealed today, charges eight individuals with offenses related to their participation in a health care fraud scheme, announced John Parker, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas. The defendants charged are: Jamshid Noryian, aka “James […]