USPS News Link – 5/26/20 – The Postal Service is continuing its Hatch Act education campaign. The Hatch Act is a law that prohibits postal and other federal employees from engaging in political activity while on duty, while wearing a uniform, while on federal property or while inside a federal vehicle. It also prohibits executive […]
DENVER (KDVR) — The City and County of Denver on Thursday ordered the closure of a United States Postal Service distribution center. The facility is located at 7550 E. 53rd Pl. in northeast Denver and handles mail for all of Colorado and Wyoming, which have a combined population of about 6.5 million people. The Denver […]
WASHINGTON, DC — With a nod to the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, the U.S. Postal Service on May 21 is issuing new postage stamps honoring the lives and legacies of four of the movement’s greatest voices: novelist Nella Larsen; writer, philosopher, educator and arts advocate Alain Locke; bibliophile and historian Arturo Alfonso Schomburg; and […]
DOJ – On May 12, 2020, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Janet Pilcher, former Secretary-Treasurer of National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 536 (located in Rome, Ga.), pleaded guilty to embezzlement of union funds in the amount of $65,033, in violation of 29 U.S.C. 501(c). The guilty […]
GREENWOOD, Ind., May 12, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Forest Lawn Funeral Home has announced today that funeral services have been scheduled for Angela Summers for Sunday, May 17, 2020 at Forest Lawn Funeral Home, 1977 S State Road 135, Greenwood, IN 46143. Due to current COVID-19 restrictions, the service will be held as a Tent Drive-Thru requiring family and friends to remain in their cars […]
USPS News Link – 5/11/20 – How many journeys to the White House start with a roll of toilet paper? That’s exactly what led Cincinnati Letter Carrier Kyle West — now known to millions as “Mailman Kyle” — to the Blue Room on May 1 to receive praise from President Donald Trump during a recognition […]
CHICAGO – Family claims the first letter carrier to die of coronavirus was discharged from the hospital after testing positive and giving birth. The National Association of Letter Carriers honored Unique Clay, 31, Saturday after she became the first active letter carrier in Chicago to die of coronavirus. “All I need is answers, why would […]
VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala. (WIAT) — An unexpected twist to a TikTok video recorded in Vestavia Hills has sparked a worldwide internet sensation. Alexis Dinga’s mom asked her to go over to her neighbor Collins Kitchens’ house to borrow an onion for dinner. The girls, who are both students at Auburn University, decided to set her […]
TRENTON, N.J. – DOJ – 5/7/20 – A U.S. Postal Service (USPS) carrier will make his initial appearance today on charges that he stole from the mail prescription drugs issued by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced. Christopher F. Donohue, 60, of Leonardo, New Jersey, is charged by complaint […]
USPS News Link – 5/8/20 – The U.S. Postal Service has reported total revenue of $17.8 billion for fiscal year 2020’s second quarter (Jan. 1-March 31, 2020), up 2 percent from the same period one year earlier. The coronavirus pandemic, which has severely hurt the U.S. economy, began to cause mail volume to decline in late […]