TUCSON, AZ (Tucson News Now) -U.S. Postal Inspectors in Tucson are investigating a rash of mail thefts in a mid-town neighborhood. It’s happening near Oracle and Miracle Mile. “They’re pretty brazen to be doing that,” neighbor, Julie VanderWeken said.As Julie VanderWeken was coming home from the store, in broad daylight, she caught a man stealing mail near […]
APPLE VALLEY, Minn. (KMSP) – The U.S. Postal Service is now investigating several Planned Parenthood mailers that were defaced with threatening messages in the southeast metro. Several postal service customers received envelopes with the words “death” and “die” written on them. “I think what’s really disconcerting is I can’t quite tell where it originated from,” […]
OLDSMAR (FOX 13) – In broad daylight, there’s no sign of them. But, at dusk, they take flight. The Oldsmar Post Office is undergoing renovations, and with that, it’s given bats a way in. “Typically the bats will just find a place that’s comfortable,” said Mike Searle of the American Postal Workers Union. “It’s warm, […]
8/19/17 BUFFALO, N.Y. – The United States Postal Service prides itself on delivering the mail in the harshest of conditions. “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night” is supposed to slow a mail carrier, according to the agency’s unofficial motto. Yet, somehow, on a perfectly sunny Friday in Buffalo, the Postal Service […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Air conditioning problems at a post office on Sunbeam Road in Mandarin have customers and federal employees heated. A clerk, who asked not to be identified, told First Coast News the facility’s air conditioning has been out for two months and they recently learned repairs would take an additional eight weeks. Customers […]
ALBANY, Ore. – Dozens of postal carriers took a break from delivering mail to deliver a very special message Tuesday to a fellow mailman who is battling cancer. Longtime Albany mailman Mike Nessen, also known as Trapper, is battling pancreatic cancer. His friends and family said he doesn’t have much more time to live. Mail […]
8/15/17 El Paso, Texas — A KFOX14 viewer in East El Paso complained about long wait times at his post office. Tom asked, “Why does it take so long to get customer service as the Pebble Hills post office?” He said there’s always a long line to pick up packages, but only one attendant helping out […]
8/14/17 The former West Carrollton postal worker too injured to work but allegedly seen vacationing and riding amusement park rides reached a plea deal Monday with federal prosecutors. Laticha Schroyer’s trial on counts of theft and false statements related to federal workers’ compensation benefits was to begin Tuesday in Dayton’s U.S. District Court. Instead, Schroyer, […]
8/12/17 HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Federal charges and local charges are pending against a man accused of taking a postal carriers mail truck in a carjacking this afternoon and trying, unsuccessfully, to carjack two other people an hour earlier. Houston police said a woman was approached on South Post Oak by a man who pointed […]
TULSA, Okla. (KTUL) — Dive-bombing birds have interrupted mail service for weeks in a north Tulsa neighborhood. “My neighbor said we aren’t getting mail because of a falcon and I said, really?” said Janice Kuharski. When mail stopped coming to the neighborhood, neighbors didn’t know why. “We just want our mail back, we want our […]