COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) – You’ve heard of porch pirates swiping your holiday packages off your front doorstep before you do. Now, there are new, more confident Christmas crooks in Colorado Springs finding ways to open locked mailboxes and steal your mail. The Postal Inspection Service tells 11 News there were two more reports Friday […]
SYRACUSE, NEW YORK – 12/14/17 – Brian T. Hanlon, age 36, of Syracuse, New York, was sentenced yesterday in federal court to serve a two-year term of probation and pay a $2,500 fine for willfully obstructing the passage of the mail by stealing money from mailed letters, announced Acting United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith […]
SAGINAW, MI (WNEM) – On snowy days like Wednesday, most people prefer to stay indoors. That’s not an option for Jennifer Frasle. She spends six to eight hours a day walking through all types of weather a mail carrier. “It’s very physical, but mental as well because you have to be able to put the […]
Amazon Prime members who have placed orders for same-day delivery recently may have noticed something odd about the people delivering the package. They aren’t in uniform and they’re driving up in unmarked cars of all makes and models. The explanation? They most likely drive for Amazon Flex, a delivery service similar to Uber or Lyft […]
ATLANTA (CBS46) – Ever since we started investigating the issue of late mail delivery throughout Metro Atlanta, CBS46 has received a flood of e-mails and phone calls from people in every corner of the viewing area, who want to talk about a personal experience that matches up with what we’ve been reporting. We’re also getting […]
December 12, 2017 Couple Sentenced to Federal Prison for Drug Distribution Conspiracy Involving Mail Theft Postal worker stole packages containing oxycodone and hydrocodone mailed from the VA and intended for veterans, then resold pills with codefendant CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A couple who conspired to steal oxycodone and hydrocodone from packages mailed from the Department of […]
12/12/17 – John H, Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Scott Pierce, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General, announced that MARCEL VAN WOLVELAERD, 62, of Guilford, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to submitting false […]
KENSINGTON, Brooklyn — What was once New York City’s worst post office seems to be back to it’s old ways. Letters, bills, and other valuable pieces of information were left unattended in the lobby of one Brooklyn apartment building last week. Along with the letters there was a note: “Do Not Touch, Mail Lady will […]
CAMDEN, N.J. – 12/12/17 – A Sicklerville, New Jersey, man today admitted his role in a scheme to steal and convert over 100 blank U.S. Postal Service (USPS) money orders, resulting in nearly $100,000 in losses, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced. Marc Saunders, 39, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Joseph H. Rodriguez […]
SCOTTSDALE, AZ – U.S. Postal inspectors will be keeping close tabs of a Valley neighborhood looking for a postal imposter caught stealing packages on a home surveillance camera. The video was recorded on Monday at a home near Hayden Road and the Loop 101 in north Scottsdale. It shows a woman wearing a USPS mail […]