CHICAGO (WLS) — Chicago police are searching for a vehicle stolen from a Northwest Side neighborhood that witnesses described as a U.S. Postal Service truck. The suspected auto theft occurred Sunday afternoon in Belmont Heights near the 3400-block of North Overhill Avenue, Chicago police said. Residents, who asked to remain unidentified, said they saw their […]
DENVER (CBS4) – A pattern mail thief was stopped in her tracks last month when she saw a wanted poster with her picture on it. After being repeatedly ripped off by the thief, a Denver landlord tried a new tactic to put a stop to the thefts. A woman appears to be breaking into mailboxes at […]
ROUND ROCK, Texas (KXAN) — A hacker from Houston used the United States Postal Service as a tool to successfully infiltrate a Round Rock couple’s bank account and steal their personal information. Vicki Tran said she was alerted to suspicious activity when she didn’t receive her mail for several days. When she brought this to […]
St. Louis, MO – DOJ – 10/04/19 – Dywane Upchurch, 39, of St. Louis, MO, pleaded guilty to felony charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm and assaulting a Postal employee while committing robbery. Upchurch appeared in federal court today before United States District Judge Catherine D. Perry who accepted his plea […]
DOJ – 10/03/19 – United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Pukwana, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Theft of Mail by Postal Service Employee. Kayla Ottmo, age 35, was indicted on July 9, 2019. She appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Veronica L. Duffy on October 3, 2019, […]
Alexandria, VA – In response to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-MA, introducing the Public Servants Protection and Fairness Act, H.R. 4540, that would provide relief to civil servants financially punished by the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP), NARFE National President Ken Thomas issued the following statement: “The Windfall Elimination Provision has unfairly penalized […]
Alexandria, Va. – In response to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announcing today that the average Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program premiums for America’s active and retired federal workers will increase by an average 4.0 percent in 2020 – with the share paid by federal civil servants increasing by an average of 5.6 percent […]
WASHINGTON, DC – OPM – 10/02/19 – The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced today that for plan year 2020, the average total premiums for current non-Postal employees and retirees enrolled in plans under the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program will increase 4.0 percent. This year’s increase, while higher than last year’s historically low increase, is […]
DOJ – 10/01/19 – Jackson, Miss. – Virginia Perkins, 49, of Lake, Mississippi, was sentenced yesterday by Senior U.S. District Judge David Bramlette III to two years probation for delay or destruction of U.S. mail by a postal employee, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Christopher Cave with the U.S. Postal […]
WASHINGTON — The United States Postal Service is increasing the safety and security of its collection box procedures through a modification of the long-standing Aviation Mail Security Rule, which was established in August 1996 and called for all packages weighing 16 ounces to be presented in person to a postal clerk or a letter carrier. […]