JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – 3/22/17 – Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Osage Beach, Mo., woman was indicted by a federal grand jury today for a scheme to open fraudulent bank accounts in order to cash checks stolen from the mail. Chrystal Lynn Bernstein, 27, of […]
APWU News – 03/25/2017 – The American Postal Workers Union (APWU) submitted comments before the March 20 deadline to the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) for their ongoing “10 Year Rate System Review,” required by Congress in the 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA). The Commission is reviewing the effects of the current rate system, capped by […]
AURORA, Colo. – A United States Postal Service employee is facing a number of fraud charges in connection to allegations that she faked a cancer diagnosis in order to use hundreds of hours of sick time. According to a probable cause affidavit obtained by Denver7, Caroline Boyle, 59, an employee at the USPS Customer Products […]
3/24/17 – Amazon has been testing its Prime Air delivery drones for years now, but this week IT made its first public demo of the system in the US. A Prime Air drone dropped off some bottles of sunscreen for attendees at the company’s invite-only MARS conference in California on Monday. (MARS stands for machine […]
MECKLENBURG COUNTY, N.C. – State troopers said a drunk driver caused a wreck that killed a mailman overnight on Interstate 85 in west Charlotte. Police said that around 5 a.m. the drunk driver stopped in the middle of the interstate, near Sam Wilson Road. A tractor-trailer skidded to a stop to avoid hitting that car and […]
Update 3/22/17: LOS ANGELES – A father and son from Adelanto are scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon on federal charges related to a string of thefts from moving mail trucks and the robbery of a United States Postal Service facility in Victorville. Kory Kreshon Parker Sr., 46, and Kory Kreshon Parker Jr., 23, are expected […]
SAN ANTONIO – Neighbors in the Stone Oak area are upset after at least five clusters of mailboxes were broken into. The break-ins happened near Hardy Oak Boulevard and Stone Oak Parkway. And neighbors said this isn’t the first time this has happened. “It started happening at the beginning of December. Now it’s started twice a month every other […]
DALLAS – An indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Dallas this week, and unsealed today, charges eight individuals with offenses related to their participation in a health care fraud scheme, announced John Parker, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas. The defendants charged are: Jamshid Noryian, aka “James Noryian,” 59, of Austin […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A deadly crash shut down multiple lanes on I-85 NB Saturday morning. The crash occurred on I-85 NB, south of Sam Wilson exit, near the Moore’s Chapel Road overpass. The incident happened around 4:50 a.m. and involved a USPS postal truck and tractor trailer. NBC Charlotte was told on scene that the […]
WASHINGTON – 3/23/17 – The U.S. Postal Service will issue two new stamps this spring — a $1.15 Global Forever international rate stamp and a 3-cent stamp. The Green Succulent Global Forever international rate stamp will be available in panes of 10 stamps to be issued April 28. It can be used to mail a 1-ounce […]