Service alert. USPS News Link – 9/3/19 – The Service Alerts section (posted below) on usps.com has the latest information on Hurricane Dorian, which has affected the Bahamas and threatens Florida and other states along the southeast coast. Due to mandatory evacuation orders, more than 140 Post Offices have suspended service throughout the Southeast, including 83 […]
“The Postal Service is shocked and saddened by the events that occurred yesterday in the Midland-Odessa area. We are especially grieving the loss of our postal family member, letter carrier Mary Granados, age 29, and we continue to keep her family in our thoughts. The United States Postal Inspection Service, the law enforcement arm of […]
A postal worker, a truck driver and a high school student were among the seven people gunned down in a mass shooting in Texas over the weekend, officials and relatives said Sunday. Twenty-two people, including a 17-month-old girl, were also injured in the rampage, which occurred after a traffic stop between the west Texas cities of Midland […]
September 30, 2019 Defendant sentenced for a second time for using counterfeit checks to buy United States Postage Stamps – PEN New Details: 22-year-old shot postal worker ‘multiple times’ with what was believed to be AR-15 – PEN 11-year-old arrested for Quincy mail carrier attack Ordinary Americans finally win in court against USPS NPMHU: Urge Your U.S. […]
Five people were dead and 21 injured Saturday after a motorist opened fire in random shootings around Odessa, Texas, police said. Three of the injured were law enforcement officers — a state trooper, an Odessa police officer and a Midland police officer, Chief Michael Gerke said at a news conference. Gerke said the attack happened […]
(CNN) – Authorities arrested 35 people and seized enough fentanyl to kill roughly 14 million people in a three-state drug bust announced on Thursday by the US Justice Department. The alleged drug trafficking ring is an example of fentanyl coming to the US from China, said US Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger of the Eastern District […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service today salutes the dinosaur that dominated the tail end of the dinosaur age with new Forever stamps depicting the awe-inspiring Tyrannosaurus rex in growth stages from infancy to adulthood. The stamps were dedicated at a ceremony held at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. “With the dedication of […]
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — 8/29/19 – A former postal worker from Massachusetts who stole from customers along her route and was accused of smoking crack on the job has avoided prison. The Telegram & Gazette reports that 38-year-old Stephanie Lacroix was sentenced to three years of probation on Wednesday. The Fitchburg woman was also ordered […]
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (CBS4)– Instead of delivering the mail, an Englewood letter carrier was stealing it. Randy Younger, 47, avoided prison and was sentenced by federal judge William Martinez to three-and-half-years probation including six months home detention. It was a combination that provided trouble, Younger was both a mailman and a drug addict. He admitted stealing […]
NALC News – 8/29/19 – NALC today filed a lawsuit against the Postal Service in the federal district court in Washington D.C. The suit asks the court to issue an injunction stopping the Postal Service from continuing its Consolidated Casing Initiative until NALC’s pending national level grievance is resolved. The grievance over consolidated casing is […]