11/22/17 HOUSTON – Even in the digital age, Americans send each other more than 150 billion pieces of mail every year. Hundreds of thousands of mail carriers deliver the goods. But Houston postal worker Loniquel Hoskins, stationed at the Oak Forest Post Office, is accused of keeping at least one parcel to herself — a […]
4/10/17 NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A postal worker was caught on surveillance video making an apparent half-hearted attempt to alert a Queens family about a package delivery.| The video shows the mail carrier pull up to Jamal Williams’s home in Rochdale, Queens and get out of his truck with what appears to be a slip […]
DETROIT (WXYZ) – A FedEx truck driver was carjacked Monday afternoon on Detroit’s west side, with the suspect taking off with more than 200 packages. It happened on Lindsay around 2:30 Monday afternoon. The suspect jumped inside the truck wearing a mask and flashing a gun. He demanded the 37-year-old driver, Dyami Tate, get out. […]
News 4’s Derrick Ward reports on the steps local postal workers are taking to protect themselves from thieves who often target them during the busy holiday delivery season, especially at night. Source: DC Postal Workers on Edge After Local Carrier Assaulted, Robbed | NBC4 Washington
October 22, 2015 Heber City, Utah — (KUTV) Nicole Robinson runs a photography studio in Heber. She sold a portable power supply online to a buyer in New York and shipped it using the United States Postal Service. “I went and actually bought a very sturdy box, extra packaging, since this is a heavy item, […]
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — Demonstrators gathered outside the National Postal Forum convention at Moscone Center in San Francisco Monday to protest a cut in Saturday mail service and a loss of jobs. The Postmaster General said he is optimistic about the future of the United States Postal Service and that his business is facing trying […]
U.S. Postal Service plans to suspend Saturday delivery to cut mounting debt drew opposition from Vermont’s congressional delegation at a rally in South Burlington on Sunday, The Associated Press reported. “You keep the economy going,” Sen. Bernie Sanders told the crowd, according to the Burlington Free Press. Sanders is the primary sponsor of a bill […]