6/26/17 EAST ST. LOUIS, IL – A decomposed body pulled from a lake in the Frank Holten State Recreation Area has been identified as missing postal worker, Melanie Tally. The 49-year-old was discovered around 11:45 am. Sunday. She was last seen on April 23 when she left her job at the United States Post Office […]
MARSHALL, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) – Return to sender: The message the postmaster in Marshall is giving residents at a mobile home park after an unwanted neighbor moved into the mail room. Residents asked for help so they called the I-Team and Newschannel 3 Investigative Reporter Walter Smith-Randolph reported with their story. A dispute between the […]
CHICAGO — A U.S. Postal Service mail carrier is in jail after authorities discovered he was allegedly delivering a lot more than letters and magazines on his Chicago route. Christopher Baxter was formally charged Saturday with one felony count of manufacturing or delivering cannabis. A Cook County judge ordered Baxter held on $100,000 bail and […]
A contractor for the U.S. Postal Service pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to stealing mail containing medications for veterans, according to a news report. The contractor, Bronson Cobble, signed a plea agreement and admitted to stealing 33 packages sent to Veterans Affairs patients and stealing the medications inside the packages, reported WJHL. On Wednesday, […]
TAMPA, Fla. – Tampa police responded Wednesday afternoon to a Tampa USPS mail truck that was burglarized in the Riverside Heights neighborhood. “As we were backing out of the driveway we noticed that there was police cruisers over there,” said resident Scott Allen. Neighbors tell ABC Action News, their mailman usually parks at the corner […]
6/22/17 BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Scam artists have figured out how to use the United States Postal Service to steal your identity. The scammers are redirecting people’s mail to rip off personal information. The mail stopped coming to Frank and Rebecca Ronquillo’s house. Then, they received a letter from the Postal Service saying it received […]
6/20/17 ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) — Everyone is okay after a car crashes into a McDonald’s on Kishwaukee Street. Now a mom and baby have an unexpected hero to thank for helping them right after the accident. What started as US postal worker Vince Brown’s normal lunch break ended in an act of heroism. Brown says […]
6/19/17 – A Littleton, Massachusetts, family is outraged after they say their mailman swore repeatedly and got rough with their mail. The family said they’ve been complaining about their mail carrier for years, but it wasn’t until the U.S. Postal Service saw video from the family’s new security camera that they took action. Why mail […]
EVERETT — Investigators might never know why a south Seattle man without any criminal history and a good job took part in a terrifying home invasion robbery in the Silver Lake area. Two intruders forced their way into a woman’s house March 29. They kicked in locked bedroom and bathroom doors to get to the […]
MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa — The Iowa State Patrol has identified the USPS worker who was killed as 34-year-old Amy Sanders of Grinnell, IA. The crash report says Sanders was driving in her postal vehicle westbound on Church Street and continued through a yellow light. The second vehicle, a Grand Caravan driven by 60-year-old Debra Meister of […]