Holiday Safety is Important for You and the Postal Service Prevent Slips, Trips, and Falls for the Holidays USPS Carrier, Manprit Singh, photo by USPS employee Tom Ouellette WASHINGTON — Safety should be a year-round concern. But with all the hustle and bustle to get ready for the holidays, it’s possible that safety isn’t the first […]
CANTON, Ohio — Canton police are investigating after a postal worker was robbed at gunpoint. According to the police report, it happened on Cherry Avenue around 3 p.m. Saturday. The victim said he was delivering mail when the suspect got out of a car came over to him with a gun. He then forced him […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A Charlotte couple’s doorbell camera captured what appeared to be a postal worker tossing a package filled with glass ornaments up the stairs in an apartment building. Zachary Miller posted the video on Friday, and it’s since gotten a lot of attention. “I was really surprised,” Miller said. “I was actually standing […]
Memphis, TN – DOJ – 10/18/19 – After a federal jury trial, Wendy Thomas, 39, has been convicted for robbery of mail, money or other property of the United States and use of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the guilty verdict today. According […]
SOCASTEE, SC (WBTW) – A Socastee neighborhood is frustrated with a USPS mail carrier’s on-going behavior of tossing packages. On Thursday afternoon a doorbell camera caught the carrier tossing a package onto Billy Estes’s porch. “We need to know what’s going on at our homes when we’re not there. I mean not only for our […]
The following message from Postmaster General Megan J. Brennan was distributed to USPS employees Oct. 16, following her retirement announcement: USPS News Link – 10/17/19 – Today I am announcing my retirement from the U.S. Postal Service, effective Jan. 31, 2020. When I was appointed Postmaster General, I made a commitment to the Board of Governors […]
Halloween decorations at a home in Brentwood are stirring up some negative attention from the post office. Richard Beatty decorated his home for Halloween and one of the items includes a skeleton hanging from a gallows. Beatty says his African American male carrier told him two days ago that he finds it offensive because it […]
On August 21, 2019, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Wanda Coleman-Gordon, former Secretary-Treasurer of American Postal Workers Union (APWU) Local 1477 and the Texas Postal Workers Union (both located in Tyler, Tex.), was charged in a one-count indictment for embezzling $71,064 in union funds, in violation of 29 […]
St. Louis, MO – DOJ – 10/17/19 – Arielle Steed, 27, of St. Louis, MO, pleaded guilty to one felony charge of aiding and abetting the robbery of a United States Postal employee. Steed appeared in federal court today before United States District Judge Catherine D. Perry who accepted her plea and set her sentencing […]
DOJ – 10/16/19 – A federal grand jury returned an indictment in early October charging a Tulsa woman with stealing mail and destroying post office boxes at a U.S. Post Office station located in south Tulsa, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores. The indictment was unsealed today after Hillary Victoria Ginn, 42, was arrested by U.S. […]