WINTHROP (WGME) — Wearing protective suits, postal inspectors removed boxes of damaged letters and packages from inside a burned out post office in Winthrop. Fire destroyed the building on Tuesday. As mail began moving once again Wednesday in Winthrop, postal inspectors got their first look inside the now burned post office. They found hundreds of […]
2/23/17 – The U.S. Postal Service is pleased to execute a four year renewal to extend the Air Cargo Network (ACN) contract with FedEx through September 29, 2024. The competitively awarded contract began October 1, 2013, and provides domestic air transportation for Priority Mail and Priority Mail Express. This contract modification aligns capacity with Postal […]
</iframe MARYVILLE (WATE) – Victoria Alexander says her dog “Bumper” is fine now, but Tuesday the two-year-old boxer struggled to breathe after he was sprayed in the face by a postal worker with what she believes was bear spray. Victoria Alexander said she let her dog out inside her fence. When the postal worker walked […]
CHANTILLY, Va. – We all depend on mail service and it is really important at this time of year with important tax forms on the way. But for one family in Virginia, the mail was simply lost for January and part of February. Not only are they missing tax forms, but medical reimbursement checks as well. In Paul […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Gary Wayne Collins, 53, of Forest, City, N.C., appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Dennis Howell on Tuesday, February 21, 2017, and pleaded guilty to detaining and delaying U.S. mail in Cleveland and Rutherford Counties, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Paul L. Bowman, Area Special […]
2/22/17 – A day after a large fire destroyed the Winthrop post office, residents and businesspeople who relied on its services stopped by the post office in neighboring Manchester to see if their mail made it through the fire. The U.S. Postal Service announced Tuesday it would be sending all mail addressed to Winthrop post office boxes […]
ROCHESTER, N.Y.—Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Bobby Bullard, Jr., 35, of Rochester, NY, was arrested and charged in a criminal complaint with theft by a government employee. The charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000. Assistant U.S. Attorney Craig R. Gestring, who […]
FORT MYERS – Keep your eyes to the sky because one more shipping giant is setting its sights on delivery by drone. UPS on Monday tested new drone delivery technology in Florida. Fort Myers is home to a large service center for UPS customers, and ABC7 wanted to know how residents feel about the new […]
Madison, Wis. – John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Belinda Chizek, 47, Prentice, Wis., was sentenced February 14 by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to two years of probation and fined $3,000 for felony mail theft of $500. Chizek pleaded guilty to this charge on December […]
2/21/17 – Fire destroyed the post office in downtown Winthrop Tuesday morning, drawing dozens of firefighters to Main Street as a large plume of smoke hung over the town. While the post office’s red brick walls were still standing by the end of the response, much of the rest of the building was destroyed. Its […]