April 30, 2017
- Grand Rapids postal worker injured in dog attack
PEN - California postal customers fighting back against mail theft – here’s what you can do – Mercury News
- APWU says May 14 is deadline for post office appeal
Grand Island Independent - Postal critique takes 3 days to cross town
Toledo Blade
April 29, 2017
- Colorado Postal Service Employee Pleads Guilty After Faking Cancer – Claimed Hundreds of Hours of Sick Leave – PEN
- Kansas Mail Carrier Sentenced For Stealing Mail
PEN - Richmond, VA postal service managers, supervisors ready to fight terminations – Richmond Free Press
- Florida postal worker convicted of dumping undelivered mail in the trash released from jail – Sun Sentinel
- Florida postal worker took cash from man who wanted drug parcels delivered on her route, feds say – Sun Sentinel
April 28, 2017
- Video: 2 Men Caught on Camera Stealing Mail Out of USPS Truck in LA Area
PEN - Video: Thieves Targeting Mailboxes In Colorado Mountain Communities
PEN - Former KC Postal Carrier Sentenced for Conspiracy to Distribute PCP Through the Mail – PEN
- Former Massachusetts Postmaster Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement
PEN - Congressman Latta Updates County Boards Of Elections On Ballot Mailing Issue
PEN - Video: Postal Service Has No Fix To Flaw That Lets Scammers Redirect Your Mail – MSN
- Postal Inspectors investigating mail thefts at the Pickerington, OH Post Office
WCMH TV Columbus - Keeping the carriers safe
Wellsville Daily Reporter - PRC Issues Report on USPS Performance
eCommerce Bytes - Workers’ Memorial Day April 28, 2017
OSHA - Video: Royal Mail Postman confiscates cheeky five-year-old’s water pistol after he and pals spray him – and Royal Mail have now BANNED him from the street – The Sun UK
April 27, 2017
- Former Treasurer of the National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 378 In Marion, IN Pleads Guilty To Embezzling Approximately $16,647 – PEN
- Buffalo Man Sentenced For Stealing Stamps
PEN - Total Eclipse of the Sun to be commemorated on a Forever Stamp
PEN - Video: Two Long Island Postal Employees Win $8.3 million In Lottery
PEN - A Kansas mail carrier who stole the letters and cards he was supposed to deliver will spend one year plus one day in federal prison for his crimes – Wichita Eagle
- NFL Draft To Impact Some Postal Operations In Philadelphia
CBS Philly - Florida: Ex-postal worker accused of taking cash for drug deliveries
WINK News
April 26, 2017
- Video: Postal truck catches fire in Boston
PEN - How To Keep ‘Public’ And ‘Service’ In Our Public Postal Service
Jim Hightower via Creators - Reports of dog attacks interrupt Connecticut mail service
Cape Cod Times - Video: The 25th annual Letter Carriers’ Stamp Out Hunger® Food Drive Is Saturday, May 13, 2017 – PEN
- Why Amazon Can’t Save the USPS
MailSmart Logistics - U.S. Postal Service shakeup in Richmond, VA continues
Richmond Free Press - Post Office Audit Confirms That South Bronx Mail Service is Awful
DNA Info - Virginia-Highland residents take problems with USPS mail delivery to the U.S. Senate – Atlanta Journal Constitution
- Postal customers fighting back against mail theft – here’s what you can do
Press Enterprise - Video: USPS – We ReDeliver For You! – Pilot program
PEN - Sprint Sales Bloom This Saturday
PEN
April 25, 2017
- APWU Receives Favorable Arbitration Ruling – Clerk Craft Gains 362 Administrative and Technical Jobs – PEN
- Workers Memorial Day is April 28
PEN - Children hospitalized in Indian Head crash involving van, mail carrier
SoMd News - Marijuana Delivery Via Drone Could Be Just Around the Corner
LA Weekly - Could Ads on Packages Subsidize Shipping Costs?
eCommerce Bytes - Pair charged in theft from post office
Wilson, NC Times - Idaho Sheriff’s Office Nabs Mail Theft Suspect
Coeur d’Alene Press - How intern solved killing of postal worker Gerald Jackson after 36yrs
Monsters & Critics - Booming online sales mean more dog bites for mail carriers
Journal News - OIG: Fuel Consumption and Cost Risk Mitigation
April 24, 2017
- OIG: Delivery and Customer Service Operations – Bronx, NY
- OIG: Thinking Inside and Outside the Box
- USPS Heroes’ Corner – Josue Ramirez, Waipahu, HI
PEN - Video: Delivering mail, saving lives aboard the J.W. Westcott Mail Boat
PEN - USPS offers pictorial postmark commemorating U.S. entry into World War I
Linns
April 24, 2017
- USPS Heroes’ Corner – Josue Ramirez, Waipahu, HI
PEN - Video: Delivering mail, saving lives aboard the J.W. Westcott Mail Boat
PEN - USPS offers pictorial postmark commemorating U.S. entry into World War I
Linns
April 23, 2017
- Video: Vegas thief steals mail; tries to steal bank account information
PEN - Franklinton, NC Postal Worker Charged with Sexual Exploitation of Minor – Spectrum News
- Reform law that hinders U.S. mail service
Rolando via the Billings Gazette - Connecticut homeowner wants answers after postal worker mistreats fragile package – Fox
- Postal Carrier Notices Water Pouring from 2nd Story of Waukesha, WI House – Waukesha Patch
April 22, 2017
- Video: Dayton tax returns bounce back after postal error
PEN - Louisville Brothers Charged In The Shooting Of A United States Postal Carrier
PEN - Pennsylvania Clerk Arrested For Stealing Cash, Gifts Cards From Mail
Newtown Patch - Man Wanted For Armed Assault Of Letter Carrier In Damascus, MD
Rockville Patch - Medford, OR residents complain about long passport lines
Medford Mail Tribune
April 21, 2017
- Former Alabama Letter Carrier Pleads Guilty to Accepting Bribe to Deliver Marijuana – PEN
- Video: Albuquerque neighbors say USPS mixing up mail
PEN - Postal Service Celebrating Latin American Cuisine Today with Dedication of Delicioso Forever Stamps – PEN
- Mail theft is “running rampant” in Santa Clarita Valley
The Signal - NJ Postal Worker Had Cocaine Delivered to New Jersey Homes
NBC NY - Simple And Straightforward Consumer Fix: Help USPS Improve Poor Mail Service – Presort
April 20, 2017
- Video: Oregon Letter Carrier Sees Smoke, Saves West Linn House
PEN - Video: Tulsa USPS Custodian Files Suit – Says ‘They Were Punishing Me For My Pregnancy’ – PEN
- Video: USPS collection box stolen in Phoenix, mailers urged to call Postal Inspection Service – PEN
- Florida postal worker arrested for bank robbery said he needed the money – Atlanta Journal Constitution
- Woman outraged after she says letter carrier pepper sprayed her dog: “It was the saddest thing” – Fox 6
- Is the US Postal Service Helping Deliver America’s Drug Epidemic?
Fox Business - Teen Accused Of Raping Postal Worker Waives Hearing
- OIG: Mail Volumes by Region: Location, Location, Location
- OIG Audit: Have Field Material Handling Projects Benefited the U.S. Postal Service?
April 19, 2017
- Video: Thieves Use USPS Master Key To Break Into Toluca Lake, CA Apartment Complex Twice – PEN
- Pennsylvania Window Clerk Pleads Guilty To Theft Of Postal Funds
PEN - Pennsylvania Postal Employee Charged With Leaving The Scene Of An Accident – Lehigh Valley Live
- Hawaii: Postal inspector hospitalized after opening suspicious package
Hawaii News Now - Video: How Postage Stamps Get Designed
PEN
April 18, 2017
- Postal worker’s busy day off included robbing a bank in Palm Beach County, feds say – Sun Sentinel
- Video: What Federal Agency Would You Like To Reform? What Federal Agency Would You Like To Eliminate? – PEN
- Family, Friends Raise Funds To Help Long Island Postal Worker Seriously Injured In Crash – CBS NY
- Illinois: USPS carrier says he suffered injuries from fall into manhole caused by faulty cover – Madison Record
- USPS Retail Facility Conditions Raise Safety Concerns
FEDweek - Why Stamp Collectors Hated a 1972 Stamp Designed Just for Them
Atlas Obscura - Seven Brooklyn residents have been indicted on various charges for their role in a scheme to deposit the same United States Postal Service money orders into multiple bank accounts – Brooklyn Reporter
- In Hell, Trying to Mail Out My Taxes in Houston
Houston Press - OIG Audit Asks: How Can the Postal Service Prevent Misuse of Purchase Cards?
- OIG: What’s up with Mail? How Mail Use is Changing Across the United States (PDF)
April 17, 2017
- Informed Delivery, a new feature from USPS, is now available to residential consumers in 31,000 ZIP Codes – PEN
- Tribute held for slain Wilkes-Barre postal worker
PA Homepage
April 16, 2017
- ‘Mail goes by us like 2 times before it gets here’: Rural Montana waits for Postal Service reform – Billings Gazette
April 15, 2017
- Videos: Is this video of a USPS employee kicking packages the real deal?
PEN - ‘Gyrocopter Guy’ Still Has a Message to Deliver
Politico - Postal workers plead for safety improvements on a ‘dangerous’ crosswalk at Tampa International Airport – ABC News Tampa Bay
- N. Indiana postal carrier accused of stealing painkillers
WNDU
April 14, 2017
- Video: Sharp Increase in Mail Theft at North Texas Collection Boxes
PEN - Video: New Jersey Letter Carrier Delivers ‘Heroic’ Moment
PEN - Video: Woman Learns That Once a Package Crosses the Border, Control Switches to The Foreign Post Office – PEN
- Pittsburgh postmaster sentenced to probation
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Why the Flats Sequencing System Should Be Scrapped
Dead Tree Edition
April 13, 2017
- Mailman Mike Accident Fund – For Carrier Hit By Speeding Car
PEN - Video: Sketch Released of Suspect in Armed Robbery of Fort Lauderdale Letter Carrier – PEN
- Former South Carolina APWU Secretary-Treasurer Sentenced For Embezzling Union Funds – PEN
- Postmaster Relief Employees (PMR) RIF Announced
PEN - LA Times: Law enforcement officials weigh in on mail thefts following rash of break-ins
April 12, 2017
- Colorado Mail Carrier Tayson Hidalgo Sentenced for Delay and Destruction of Mail – PEN
- Video: Postman Hit, Critically Injured by Car on Long Island
PEN - Video: Charlotte North Carolina residents upset with the Postal Service after mail delivery issues for years – PEN
- Video: Postal Service Truck Catches Fire In Oakland, CA – Some Mail Destroyed
PEN - Robert Panara, A Pioneer In The Field Of Deaf Studies, To Be Immortalized On Forever Stamp – PEN
- USPS agrees to $49 million settlement after having long ‘dawdled’ in payments to beneficiaries – Washington Post
- Postal Rate Fight Continues as Publishers Battle USPS “Stupidity Tax”
Publishing Executive
April 11, 2017
- Video: ‘Confident crook’ caught on video stealing package off Detroit front porch
PEN - Video: Too easy for thieves – USPS trying to replace flimsy cluster boxes
PEN - Video: Postal Service offers up to $10,000 reward for capture of Summerlin mail thief – PEN
- Video: California Residents Buy New Mailboxes After Theft, Vandalism – USPS Should Have Helped They Say – PEN
- Video: NY Postal Worker Caught On Video Allegedly Making Half-Hearted Attempt To Deliver Package – PEN
- Suspension Of Texas Carrier After Hitting Boss With Vehicle Isn’t Retaliation
Bloomberg BNA - Congressman Moolenaar learns about mail issues on ride along
Morning Sun
April 10, 2017
- Video: Frustrated customers denied access to mail after Richmond, VA post office closes abruptly – PEN
- APWU: Postal Reform Questions & Answers
PEN - NALC members crucial to achieving majority bipartisan co-sponsorship of House door delivery resolution – PEN
- Congress’ habit of raiding USPS coffers goes back almost 30 years
Linns - Goose dive-bombs Ohio letter carrier
Fox 8 Cleveland - OIG: Timeliness of Mail Processing at the Santa Clarita, CA, Processing and Distribution Center
- Angry driver allegedly assaults San Francisco mailman for double-parking
KRON TV - N.H. senator backs bill targeting drugs in mail
Portland Press Herald - Jeep crashes into Laurel County, KY post office
WKYT
April 09, 2017
- Postal Service Investigates NC Mail Carrier After He Charged Customers $25 Curbside Box Installation Fee – PEN
- Quincy, FL Apartment Complex Without Mail for Two Months
WTXL - Polish postal workers march to demand higher pay
Fox News
April 08, 2017
- Illinois Letter Carrier Punched By Attacker
PEN - Man suspected of stealing mail from postal trucks, residential boxes
LA Daily News - OIG: USPS not prepared for IT blackout
Federal Computer Week - SF Driver tries to flee after colliding with a U.S. Postal truck
SF Gate
April 07, 2017
- Massachusetts USPS Customer Service Supervisor Sentenced for Importing Anabolic Steroids – PEN
- Video: USPS won’t give reason for delay in Kansas centralized mailboxes
PEN - Two former Ohio U.S. Postal Service employees sentenced to prison for workers comp fraud – PEN
- U.S. Postal Service Releases Annual Dog Attack City Rankings
PEN - The Wailing Mailman’ – Retired letter carrier, jazz musician dies
PEN - Postal Service Announces New Celebration Corsage and Boutonniere Forever Stamps – PEN
- Bridgeport, PA postman pleads guilty to sexual assault
CT Post - Parolee exposes himself to Illinois letter carrier, police say
- Washington Blvd Closed After Postal Truck Hits Pole in Va. Square
ARL Now - Postal carrier being treated after he was bit by fox in Bristol, CT
Bristol Press - Touching WWI letters never seen before on display at Smithsonian
Fox News - Mail truck overturns in Sherman Oaks crash
LA Daily
April 07, 2017
- Two former Ohio U.S. Postal Service employees sentenced to prison for workers comp fraud – PEN
- U.S. Postal Service Releases Annual Dog Attack City Rankings
PEN - The Wailing Mailman’ – Retired letter carrier, jazz musician dies
PEN - Postal Service Announces New Celebration Corsage and Boutonniere Forever Stamps – PEN
- Bridgeport, PA postman pleads guilty to sexual assault
CT Post - Parolee exposes himself to Illinois letter carrier, police say
- Washington Blvd Closed After Postal Truck Hits Pole in Va. Square
ARL Now
April 06, 2017
- Final Payment for Retirees Regarding 1.6.b Global Settlement Remedy Agreement to be Distributed on April 21st – APWU News – PEN
- My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I
PEN - Oklahoma City Man To Serve 30 Months In Prison For Buying Over $41,000 Of Postage Stamps With Bogus Checks – PEN
- Photo: Bronx Carjacker That Shot A Postal Employee Is A Parolee Recently Arrested For Three Other Crimes – PEN
- NY Mailman Admits Stealing Money and Dumping Mail
PEN - Ensuring Postal Service Access for Rural Communities is Topic of Senator McCaskill Discussions – PEN
- 16 Crazy Mailboxes That Take Getting The Mail To A Whole New Level
Little Things - Meth found in package delivered to the wrong address
Valley News
April 05, 2017
- Video: Bronx Postal Worker Shot Attempting To Foil Carjacking Suspect’s Getaway – PEN – See more at NY Daily News
- Florida postal clerk accused of stealing checks, gift cards from mail in Jensen Beach – PEN
- Video: Kentucky family wants answers after postal workers allegedly kick and spray their dog – PEN
- Colorado Springs postal worker makes snowman after truck breaks down
KOAA - Postal IG Raises Concern about Insider Threats
FEDweek - Newegg to Offer ‘Deliver to Post Office’ Shipping to Canadian Customers
Yahoo - OIG: Response to Extreme Weather Events — Southern Area
- OIG: How can USPS improve the security of its mobile point to sale (mPOS) system?
April 04, 2017
- Former Charlotte-Area Mail Carrier Pleads Guilty To Mail Theft In Connection With Jamaican-based Lottery Fraud Scheme – PEN
- Video: Benton Harbor teen, 16, charged in letter carrier’s sexual assault
PEN - Video: Bold delivery – Florida postal worker caught tossing package, owner furious – PEN
- Video: Postal truck brings down North Carolina power lines, pole
PEN - Stealing mail, victims’ identities in Temecula, CA gets woman 13-year prison term – Press Enterprise
- Chicago man jailed after allegedly trying to scam Paxton post office
Ford County Record
April 03, 2017
- Criticism of the Postal Service is unfounded and unfair
Rolando via The Hill - PRC: “USPS financial concerns persist”
Post & Parcel - Motorist seeks damages of $1.5 million after accident with USPS employee
Louisiana Record - Pa. comedian plays April Fools prank on letter carrier
Penn Live - UPS to add Saturday delivery in 15 cities in April
UPI - OIG: Virtual Exhibit, Very Real Story
April 02, 2017
- UK: This might be the worst postal delivery of all time
MSN - ‘The cackle is leaving’: Longtime post office worker retires
Daily Astorian
April 01, 2017
- Video: Fort Lauderdale Letter Carrier Robbed At Gunpoint Of Master Keys
PEN - Postal Rate Commission Report Shows USPS Financial Concerns Persist Despite Improvements in Liquidity – PEN
- USPS celebrates the 200th anniversary of Mississippi statehood
PEN - Video: Switzerland’s National Postal Service Has High Hopes for Drones
PEN - Maine Letter Carrier Recues Man Pinned Under Car
PEN