DETROIT (WJBK) – “I just couldn’t believe how incredibly confident the guy was just to pull up in my driveway like he lived there,” said a Detroit homeowner. “It was almost like it was his package.” And unfortunately it is now. That confident crook was caught on camera swiping a package a postal worker just dropped off. […]
California is seeing a big increase in mail thefts. It has been a particularly big problem in the East Bay. ABC7 News has discovered that Livermore residents have been buying new mailboxes when it’s really the post office’s responsibility. After thieves stole their mail and broke their cluster box at the end of January, Julie […]
LAS VEGAS (KSNV NEWS3LV) — A crook was caught on camera stealing mail from community mailboxes in Summerlin. Fed up neighbors hope surveillance video will help the United States Postal Inspection Service identify the suspect before he hits again. The suspect is in a white, full-size utility van. He is believed to be 35-40 years old, […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Again and again, cluster mailboxes prove to be hot spots for thieves. That’s because most of them around Albuquerque are old, outdated and flimsy in their construction, making it too easy to break in. Richard Adams, who lives in a gated community near Paseo del Norte and Ventura, is among the many […]
NEW YORK (CBS New York) — A postal worker was caught on surveillance video making an apparent half-hearted attempt to alert a Queens family about a package delivery. The video shows the mail carrier pull up to Jamal Williams’s home in Rochdale, Queens and get out of his truck with what appears to be a slip for a package. […]
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — People who live in Church Hill are frustrated over the abrupt closure of their post office. “Without any warning, it’s kind of depressing,” said Lewis Robinson, who showed up Monday morning to get mail from his post office box. So did John Rasmussen. “I have mail probably including checks for my […]
NALC News – Thanks in large part to the efforts of NALC members, House Resolution 28, urging the House of Representatives to take all appropriate measures to ensure the continuation of door delivery for business and residential customers, now has a bipartisan majority of 218 co-sponsors. Please continue to ask your representatives in the House to support strong […]
APWU News – 04/06/2017 – In order to have a healthy, sustainable, public Postal Service, legislation is necessary to protect postal customers and postal workers from USPS’s current financial crisis. The bi-partisan Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) of 2006 largely caused this crisis, sending the Postal Service on a severe downward spiral. The PAEA mandated the Postal […]
A United States Postal Service letter carrier is being investigated after reports that he was charging residents along his route $25 to install curbside mailboxes — a move that some of those residents say was foisted on them. Jonathan Martin has delivered mail to the 262 homes that comprise the Bayshore Estates residential area for […]
THE PRESIDENT: My fellow Americans: On Tuesday, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad launched a horrible chemical weapons attack on innocent civilians. Using a deadly nerve agent, Assad choked out the lives of helpless men, women, and children. It was a slow and brutal death for so many. Even beautiful babies were cruelly murdered in this very […]