Approximately 30 percent of employees’ falls involve ice, according to USPS data. USPS News Link – 10/25/19 – The Postal Service is launching an awareness campaign to help employees learn to avoid slips, trips and falls on the job. According to the most recent data available, more than 18,600 employees were victims of these accidents […]
KINGSTREE, S.C. (WCIV) — More than a dozen family members of a United States Postal Service worker murdered in September attended an emotional hearing at Williamsburg County Bond Court on Wednesday. A judge denied bond for the second suspect charged in Irene Pressley’s murder, and family members said Pressley and the suspect are actually related. They say Jerome Terrell […]
SPRINGVILLE, N.Y. (WIVB)–A southtowns court is delaying the fight over a dog’s life. Jacqueline Wilk owns the pit bull Chunk. She says authorities wanted to euthanize the dog after he bit a postal worker. The judge pushed back that decision tonight. Chunk will have to undergo a new evaluation first. Jacquelin and her lawyer say […]
CHICAGO (WLS) — A U.S. postal worker found 3-year-old boy wandering, unclothed, on her mail route in South Shore Monday afternoon, Chicago police said. The postal worker said she was approached by a resident in the 7400-block of South Clyde Avenue, who said they saw the child walking down the street without an adult and […]
COLUMBUS (WCMH) — A former mailman accused of performing a sexual act inside his mail truck has been found guilty of public indecency. Joseph E. Rice, 53, of Westerville, is scheduled to be sentenced on the charge on Nov. 18. The verdict against Rice was issued by a judge on Oct. 15 after Rice waived […]
CANTON, Ohio — Canton police are investigating after a postal worker was robbed at gunpoint. According to the police report, it happened on Cherry Avenue around 3 p.m. Saturday. The victim said he was delivering mail when the suspect got out of a car came over to him with a gun. He then forced him […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A Charlotte couple’s doorbell camera captured what appeared to be a postal worker tossing a package filled with glass ornaments up the stairs in an apartment building. Zachary Miller posted the video on Friday, and it’s since gotten a lot of attention. “I was really surprised,” Miller said. “I was actually standing […]
Memphis, TN – DOJ – 10/18/19 – After a federal jury trial, Wendy Thomas, 39, has been convicted for robbery of mail, money or other property of the United States and use of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the guilty verdict today. According […]
SOCASTEE, SC (WBTW) – A Socastee neighborhood is frustrated with a USPS mail carrier’s on-going behavior of tossing packages. On Thursday afternoon a doorbell camera caught the carrier tossing a package onto Billy Estes’s porch. “We need to know what’s going on at our homes when we’re not there. I mean not only for our […]
Halloween decorations at a home in Brentwood are stirring up some negative attention from the post office. Richard Beatty decorated his home for Halloween and one of the items includes a skeleton hanging from a gallows. Beatty says his African American male carrier told him two days ago that he finds it offensive because it […]