A variety of health, vision and dental coverage is available to USPS employees during the Nov. 11-Dec. 9 open season period. USPS News Link – 11/01/19 – Open season, the annual period when Postal Service employees can change their health benefits or enroll in a new plan, begins Monday, Nov. 11. A variety of health, […]
HERMITAGE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Charles Ray was angry when he found out a check he wrote to pay his car insurance was stolen from his mailbox, altered, then cashed. On Saturday morning, he put the check in his mailbox outside his home on Highland View Drive. Hours later surveillance video shows an SUV pulling up […]
HAMMOND – DOJ 11/01/19 – James Caffey, age 29, of Merrillville, Indiana was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Theresa Springmann after being convicted during a 4-day trial in January 2019. He was convicted of conspiring to rob the United States Postal Service, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch. Caffey was sentenced to 90 months in prison, […]
Rheuport stole hydrocodone and money from mail assigned to her for delivery DOJ – 10/28/19 – Cassandra Rheuport, 30, from Rolfe, Iowa, pled guilty to theft of mail by a postal employee, on October 23, 2019, in United States District Court in Sioux City. Rheuport admitted that from about February 2018 through July 28, 2018, […]
LOS ANGELES – DOJ – 10/28/19 – A former United States Postal Service employee was sentenced today to 132 months in federal prison for participating in two armed robberies and one theft of USPS trucks carrying cash – incidents that caused nearly a quarter million dollars in losses and significant trauma to one of its victims […]
JOHNS CREEK, Ga. – Johns Creek has issued a warrant for the arrest of a postal worker for allegedly taking an amazon package from a residence. The incident was captured on home surveillance. The worker has been identified as Dalonda Johnson. Fox 5 Atlanta
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Research found last year that more than 30% of consumers started their holiday shopping before the end of October. This year, one in five shoppers said they were starting in October or earlier, according to a Facebook survey. Many of those packages left on doorsteps are susceptible to theft. Texas has a new law that targets porch pirates […]
GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. (CBS46) — Rain or shine, you can always count on the United States Postal Service to deliver your mail, but in the city of Duluth, that’s not always the case. April Rose said someone tampered with her son’s birthday card, taking $25 in cash and she has reason to believe the postal […]
Approximately 30 percent of employees’ falls involve ice, according to USPS data. USPS News Link – 10/25/19 – The Postal Service is launching an awareness campaign to help employees learn to avoid slips, trips and falls on the job. According to the most recent data available, more than 18,600 employees were victims of these accidents […]
KINGSTREE, S.C. (WCIV) — More than a dozen family members of a United States Postal Service worker murdered in September attended an emotional hearing at Williamsburg County Bond Court on Wednesday. A judge denied bond for the second suspect charged in Irene Pressley’s murder, and family members said Pressley and the suspect are actually related. They say Jerome Terrell […]