GRAY, Tenn. (WJHL) – It’s the time of giving this Christmas season and a local postal worker is giving back to the ‘fur babies’ on his mail route. Mail Carrier Allen Jaynes has been with the United States Postal Service for about 25 years. For the past 10 years, he has made gift bags filled […]
Garden City Man Sentenced in Federal Court for Stalking BOISE – DOJ – 12/17/19 – Frank Abbott Sweeney, 76, of Garden City, Idaho, was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison for using the mail to stalk six victims, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. U.S. District Judge David C. Nye also sentenced Sweeney […]
GAO – 12/17/19 – Costs associated with U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) last mile delivery network, referred to as “last mile” in this report, have increased since 2008 and in 2018 were nearly a third of USPS’s operating costs. GAO found that last mile costs—which consist of street delivery activities and include mail carrier compensation and […]
DETROIT (WXYZ) — A visibly distressed postal worker was helped by a neighbor Saturday after she was reportedly followed by several men in a red van while out making deliveries. Ring doorbell video shows the mail carrier looking over her shoulder and shaking as she goes to a nearby front porch in the area of […]
The holiday season is upon us, that means a lot of package deliveries. NBC 10 News heard from a number of people looking for answers from shipping companies to actions some of them caught on camera. One video from a Riverside doorbell camera shows a USPS worker shouting expletives and aggressively tossing a package on […]
Hello, my name is Eric Glickstein, and I am the second generation here at LutherSales Furniture & Appliance. My father started this business out of the rear of a station wagon with his life’s savings of $3,000.00 back in 1967. Coming from the streets of Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn raised by a single Mom, he entered […]
The former NASA engineer-turned-YouTube star — who earned viral acclaim last year with his glitter bomb booby trap for doorstep delivery thieves — has made a festive comeback, just in time for season’s gift-giving spike. Mark Rober spent nearly a year designing a new and improved version of his “Home Alone”-inspired revenge trap in a bid to […]
‘I filled up a box full of dog poop’: Portland porch pirate gets a stinky surprise The holidays are here and so too are thieves who’ll waste no time snatching up packages from doorsteps. The porch pirate problem is one Matt Coats has become familiar with since moving to Southeast Portland a few years ago. […]
Get Ready for the Year’s Busiest Mailing and Shipping Week More Than 28 Million Packages Delivered Per Day This Week WASHINGTON — Many consumers are in a sprint to the finish getting their holiday gifts and greetings in the mail. This week is anticipated to be the busiest week of the holiday mailing and shipping season […]
CHICAGO (Updated) — A mail truck stolen Tuesday in Lincoln Park was recovered two days later on the West Side with all of its packages apparently intact. A truck belonging to the United States Postal Service was found abandoned about 3:45 p.m. Thursday in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, according to Sylvia Carrier, spokesperson for the […]