4/11/17 – A U.S. Postal Service truck caught fire Tuesday morning on I-580 in Oakland, some personal mail was destroyed. (KGO-TV ) Investigators say the fire started Tuesday morning in the engine area. ABC 7 News
CHARLOTTE, NC (FOX 46) – FOX 46 Charlotte is getting results for residents in Steele Creek’s Crossings neighborhood. People who said they’ve had enough with the Post Office after dealing with missing sensitive mail and packages getting crushed in their mailboxes. “It just seems like nobody cares! Nobody at the post office,” Crossings neighborhood resident Dave Willard said. Willard said he’s done with […]
ROCHESTER, NY — Robert Panara, an influential teacher, poet and pioneer in the field of deaf studies, was immortalized as the 16th inductee into the U.S. Postal Service’s Distinguished American stamp series on a Forever stamp today. The dedication ceremony took place at the theatre bearing his name at Rochester Institute of Technology’s (RIT) National Technical Institute for the Deaf […]
Sterling Mail Carrier Tayson Hidalgo Sentenced for Delay and Destruction of Mail DENVER – 4/11/17 – Tayson Adam Hidalgo, age 23, of Sterling, Colorado, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson to serve 2 years’ probation during which he is to spend 200 hours doing community service for delay or destruction […]
Driver to Be Charged After Postman Hit, Critically Injured by Car on Long Island 4/11/17- A postal worker loading his bag as he prepared to deliver mail on a Long Island street was struck by a car outside his truck, and one neighbor who rushed to his aid says his leg was severed in the […]
DETROIT (WJBK) – “I just couldn’t believe how incredibly confident the guy was just to pull up in my driveway like he lived there,” said a Detroit homeowner. “It was almost like it was his package.” And unfortunately it is now. That confident crook was caught on camera swiping a package a postal worker just dropped off. […]
California is seeing a big increase in mail thefts. It has been a particularly big problem in the East Bay. ABC7 News has discovered that Livermore residents have been buying new mailboxes when it’s really the post office’s responsibility. After thieves stole their mail and broke their cluster box at the end of January, Julie […]
LAS VEGAS (KSNV NEWS3LV) — A crook was caught on camera stealing mail from community mailboxes in Summerlin. Fed up neighbors hope surveillance video will help the United States Postal Inspection Service identify the suspect before he hits again. The suspect is in a white, full-size utility van. He is believed to be 35-40 years old, […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Again and again, cluster mailboxes prove to be hot spots for thieves. That’s because most of them around Albuquerque are old, outdated and flimsy in their construction, making it too easy to break in. Richard Adams, who lives in a gated community near Paseo del Norte and Ventura, is among the many […]
NEW YORK (CBS New York) — 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 for a package. […]