RICHMOND, Va. — The U.S. Postal Service responded Friday to a recent report ranking Richmond’s mail delivery times as the third-worst in the country. Jaclyn Barton, a VCU graduate student studying multimedia journalism, compiled the data she obtained from the USPS website for the Capital News Service. Last spring, less than 84% of the region’s first-class mail […]
Farm Service Agency Executive Director, Former Clerk Of Court, And 27 Others Indicted For Conspiracy To Commit Wire Fraud And Theft Of Government Funds PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA – A federal grand jury in Tallahassee has returned a far-reaching indictment that unveils a criminal network of 29 people who actively worked to defraud the federal government […]
Six Charged In Multi-Million Dollar Elder Fraud Scheme LAS VEGAS, Nev. – DOJ 11/14/19 – Six Las Vegas, Nevada area residents were charged with running a fraudulent mass-mailing scheme that tricked hundreds of thousands of consumers into paying more than $10 million in fees for falsely promised cash prizes, the Department of Justice has announced. The unsealed […]
NALC News – 11/14/19 – The large loss posted by the U.S. Postal Service in Fiscal Year 2019 ($8.8 billion) is largely the result of external factors, not the normal operations of the agency. More than half the loss stems from the 2006 congressional mandate that requires the Postal Service, alone among all public agencies […]
CHICAGO (CBS) — For months, a homeowner in Wrigleyville has been complaining about missing mail – until she found her own mail, and her neighbors’ dumped in the trash. As CBS 2’s Steven Graves reported Tuesday evening, the supposed culprit was caught on camera. For Maggie Czerwien, it all began with a walk beside her […]
BOSTON – DOJ 11/08/19 – A Worcester man was sentenced today in federal court in Worcester for his role in a cocaine trafficking ring responsible for smuggling over 20 kilograms of cocaine into central Massachusetts. Erick Cruz, 29, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Timothy S. Hillman to 34 months in prison and three […]
Several changes have occurred that could affect USPS employees’ benefits selections during this year’s open season. USPS News Link – 11/12/19 – The Postal Service wants employees to know about some important changes concerning the open season benefits enrollment period that began this week. Here’s a rundown: • The U.S. Office of Personnel Management recently announced […]
DOJ 11/07/19 – Jackson, Miss. – Jerome Rashad Benamon, 26, and Edward James Mobley, 36, both of Kemper County, Mississippi, were sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan, III for armed robbery of a postal carrier, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Adrian Gonzalez, U.S. Postal Inspector in Charge of the Houston […]
AMHERST, Ohio (WJW) — Quick action by a neighbor and postal carrier helped save a woman who was attacked by her 100 pound dog. The woman was taken to the hospital and is home recovering after undergoing two surgeries, one on each of her arms. 33-year-old Janae Presutto-Canon says around noon Wednesday, she heard her […]
NALC News – 11/06/19 – National Arbitrator Shyam Das has issued his award in a national interpretive dispute involving the memorandum of understanding regarding the consolidation of NALC pay levels. The memorandum, which went into effect on November 24, 2018, elevated all Grade 1 letter carriers to the former Grade 2. Arbitrator Das recognized that […]