YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – A mail truck caught fire after a crash along its route on Youngstown’s west side Wednesday evening. It happened just before 6 p.m. on Canfield Road by the intersection with Arden Boulevard, near Mill Creek Park. Police and witnesses said the mail truck rear-ended a pickup truck. Investigators believe the pickup’s […]
Federal News Radio – 7/20/17 – Postal Service taking a ‘hands off’ approach to future union political action Don’t look for Postal Service letter carriers out on the campaign trail in 2018. The Postal Service will no longer permit leave without pay for union political activities, after it recommended a “hands off” approach to the […]
Senator discusses need to strengthen postal service with Postmaster General Wednesday, July 19, 2017 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill discussed the status of efforts to strengthen and reform the United States Postal Service (USPS) during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing today with the Postmaster General. McCaskill serves as the Committee’s top-ranking […]
7/18/17 – GovExec reports – As an independent, self-funded federal agency, the U.S. Postal Service is considered for appropriations purposes “off budget.” The House blueprint would change that, bringing the mailing agency back on budget for the first time since 1989. In a 2009 report, the USPS inspector general said administrations in the 1970s and […]
United States Postal Service officials say thieves broke into four mail trucks over the past two months in San Jose. The post office is offering a $10,000 reward with information that might help them catch the person or persons responsible for the thefts. The most recent incident occurred last week in the Willow Glen neighborhood. […]
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) – The arrival of the hottest weeks of the year means it’s time to raise a tall glass of something cold to the men and women who must work outside in those conditions. People like mail carriers and line workers with no choice but to grin and bear it. “The dogs […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – 7/18/17 – Channel 9 reported last week about people in one Charlotte neighborhood getting mail late or not at all, including bills and medicines. The United States Postal Service didn’t deny problems in that neighborhood, Winding Creek in northeast Charlotte. Officials said it’s reworking staff and routes. After that report aired, viewers […]
7/18/17 – Video captured in Rochester shows someone stealing mail from a porch. The video was taken in the South Wedge neighborhood. A man riding a bicycle and carrying several bags stops and appears to look around. He then walks up on the porch and puts a mail package into a garbage bag and rides […]
7/18/17 – Elliot Gruber, the chief development and external affairs officer for the Jewish Social Service Agency, has been named director of the National Postal Museum, effective Sept. 5. Gruber has more than 30 years’ experience in the nonprofit sector. As chief development and external affairs officer for the Jewish Social Service Agency since January, […]
PEN – 7/18/17 – In 2016, Ohio ranked # 3 in dog bites and attacks throughout the U.S. We are reaching out to you on behalf of Dogbitesohio.com and hope to get dog bite prevention and action kits out to all of those that deliver mail in Ohio. A free Ohio Dog Bite and Attack […]