Video: Mail truck catches fire along route in Youngstown, Ohio

Video: Mail truck catches fire along route in Youngstown, Ohio

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 […]

Video: Mailman Timm Kopp: The Post Office Union Has Always Been Involved In Politics But 2016 Was Different

Video: Mailman Timm Kopp: The Post Office Union Has Always Been Involved In Politics But 2016 Was Different

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 […]

McCaskill: We’ve Got to Get Postal Reform Across the Finish Line

McCaskill: We’ve Got to Get Postal Reform Across the Finish Line

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 […]

GOP Budget Proposes To Bring USPS Back On Federal Budget – First Time Since 1989

GOP Budget Proposes To Bring USPS Back On Federal Budget – First Time Since 1989

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 […]

Video: San Jose Thieves Break Into Four Mail Trucks

Video: San Jose Thieves Break Into Four Mail Trucks

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. […]

Video: Charlotte neighbors say mail problems even more widespread

Video: Charlotte neighbors say mail problems even more widespread

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 […]

Elliot Gruber Named Director of the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum

Elliot Gruber Named Director of the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum

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, […]