THURSTON COUNTY, Wash. — An undercover operation in the South Sound aims to capture porch pirates this holiday season. Postal inspectors are using bait boxes to stop thieves in their tracks by luring them in with the very boxes they’re out to steal. Bait boxes are designed to look like any other packages. The difference […]
SCOTTSDALE, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) — Identity theft has been a major problem for years, but now scammers are expanding their web of crime to include the dead. Amy Ballen’s husband, Tom, died last month. According to the Scottsdale widow, the stress and sadness of losing the love of your life can be overwhelming. “The whole […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service today revealed two additions to the 2020 Stamp Program: Big Bend and Grand Island Ice Caves. Both stamps will be released on Saturday Jan. 18, 2020. There will be no national first-day-of-issue ceremony for these stamps. Details on obtaining first-day-of-issue cancellations will be announced in a future Postal Bulletin issue. These […]
MILWAUKEE — A mailman is in serious condition after he was struck by a hit-and-run driver. The incident happened about 5:45 p.m. Tuesday at South 13th Street and West Euclid Avenue in Milwaukee. A surveillance camera at a nearby business captured the collision on video. It shows the driver hitting the mailman as the mailman […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – DOJ 12/11/19 – U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray announced that two brothers convicted of shooting a U.S. Postal Carrier were sentenced to prison today. U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad Jr. sentenced Rashawn Donnell Williams, 31, of Charlotte to 28 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered him […]
GREEN TREE, Pa. — New complaints are surfacing about mail delivery from the US Postal Service’s Green Tree office. Last week, 11 Investigates discovered around $13,000 in donation checks were at the post office but never delivered to St. Philip Church in Crafton. They were sitting at the Green Tree office for nearly six months. WPXI
What: The U.S. Postal Service celebrates the Lunar New Year with the release of the Year of the Rat Forever stamp. The Year of the Rat begins Jan. 25, 2020, and ends Feb. 11, 2021. The stamp features a rat mask that calls to mind the elaborately decorated masks used in the dragon dance, a […]
A U.S. Mail letter carrier is recovering after she was attacked by three pit bulls during her route in Hilliard. Lacey Cassidy wears an arm sling with her arm wrapped in a heavy bandage. ” I have never pleaded with an animal in my life,” Lacey Cassidy said. “All I could do was please, don’t, […]
A U.S. Postal Service truck struck and killed an 81-year-old woman who was crossing University Boulevard in Silver Spring, Maryland, Monday night, police say. The woman appeared to have been crossing the 1100 block of University Boulevard West in front of the Warwick Apartments. Montgomery County Police said a USPS driver allegedly hit her with […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, December 9, 2019 Luzerne County Man Pleads Guilty To Theft Of Mail WILKES-BARRE – DOJ – 12/09/19 – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Mark Kerpovich, age 29, of Shavertown, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on December 6, 2019, before U.S. District Court Senior Judge A. […]