NAPS – 3/5/20 – Today, Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) and Rep. Mike Bost (R-IL) introduced the Postal Supervisors and Managers Fairness Act (H.R. 6085). The legislation requires the timely start of the consultation process between postal supervisor organizations and the Postal Service over USPS-proposed changes in pay and benefits for postal supervisors and mid-level employees. […]
Friday, a sea of volunteers worked to clean up North Nashville, but Ben Alexander, a postal worker, was there with a different job to do. “That’s dedication! There are no mailboxes, so what is he doing,” said Earnest Wilburn, a tornado victim. With all the electric crews and volunteers blocking the streets, Alexander couldn’t get […]
OLMS – On February 27, 2020, in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas, Asenath Roland, former President of the Kansas Postal Workers Union (located in Wichita, Kans.), pleaded guilty to one count of failure to maintain records, in violation of 29 U.S.C. 439(c). The guilty plea follows an investigation by the […]
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (CBS) — No mail, late mail, stolen mail, someone else’s mail – all of these are complaints we’ve heard from residents in Arlington Heights. They are fed up with the U.S. Postal Service. So while we work to get them some answers and a solution, CBS 2’s Audrina Bigos went to Arlington […]
USPS News Link – 3/3/20 – The Postal Service will handle one of the largest mailings in its history when it delivers 590 million mailpieces from the Census Bureau, beginning in March. The pieces will include questionnaires, letters and postcards regarding the 2020 census, the constitutionally mandated survey that seeks to count every resident of […]
United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Tristen Stoker, 21, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced in federal court in Omaha on February 21, 2020, for Theft of Mail by a Postal Employee. United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. sentenced Stoker to time served. There is no parole in the federal system. Stoker will […]
BOSTON – DOJ – 3/2/20 – A USPS employee pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to stealing approximately $7,000 in government money. Adam Lavertue, 37, of Dracut, pleaded guilty to one count of embezzlement and theft of public money, property or records. U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Stearns scheduled sentencing for June […]
Huntington Man Sentenced in Marijuana Conspiracy Involving United States Postal Service HUNTINGTON W.Va. – DOJ – 3/2/20 – A formal postal employee who participated in a scheme to distribute marijuana mailed from California to Huntington over a period of several years was sentenced to federal prison, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Michael Mason Morton, […]
FEDERAL WAY, Wash. — KIRO 7 found out Saturday evening that a Seattle area U.S. Postal Service employee tested positive for the coronavirus. A corporate communications spokesperson said that the employee works at a Seattle Network Distribution Center located in Federal Way. The Network Distribution Center is a mail processing plant that distributes USPS marketing […]
WTAJ – Travis McCabe from Greenbean Coffee in Altoona joins Jordan to surprise postal workers with coffee! Postal workers face all the elements in order to make sure our mail gets to us! Greenbean Coffee and Studio 814 decided to use this month’s Random Act Of Kindness to show these workers our appreciation!