ESCONDIDO, Calif. — A United States Postal Service mail carrier was honored Monday for his heroic effort in saving the lives of two Escondido residents after a crash. On October 16, Eric Reyes was delivering mail along his route around 4 p.m. when he heard a crash at the intersection of Harding Street and Lincoln Avenue […]
DES MOINES, Iowa — One block on the east side of Des Moines hasn’t been receiving mail for nearly a month, and it is all because the mail carrier feels threatened by a few dogs. “That one house can destroy the whole block more or less,” Daryl Bailey said. Bailey, a 40-year resident on the […]
NEWARK, N.J. – 4/8/19 – An Essex County, New Jersey, man today admitted his role in a scheme to steal credit cards from the mail, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced. Moussa Dagno, 24, of Harrison, New Jersey, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Katharine S. Hayden in Newark federal court to an information charging him […]
SAN ANGELO, Texas — A daughter’s tweet about her pride in her postal worker dad went viral last week. Fernando Barboza is a postal worker who makes it a habit of befriending canines along his route. “We like to think we are the guardians of our routes our neighbors that we deliver we are the […]
WARRENDALE (KDKA) — All services are resuming today at the postal center in Warrendale following a mercury spill. Postal officials say the mercury leaked from an improperly mailed package. It got onto a conveyer belt and contaminated some packages. Hazmat crews cleaned it up. CBS Pittsburgh
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — 4/7/19 – They’re accused of robbing a Sacramento postal carrier, then trying to get the reward money for information leading to an arrest Federal agents might describe it a special delivery that helped crack their U.S. Postal Service case. An armed robber stole a master key from a Sacramento postal carrier. Then […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — One of the three reported postal worker robberies has turned out to be a hoax, police said, landing the alleged victim behind bars. Cortney Harris, 37, told police he was delivering mail Friday around 11:20 a.m. in South Memphis when a man came up behind him and threatened to shoot him if […]
Munster Man Sentenced To 29 Years In Prison In Connection With September 2017 Explosion at East Chicago Post Office and Subsequent Mailing HAMMOND – 4/04/19 – Eric P. Krieg, age 47, of Munster, Indiana, was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Joseph S. Van Bokkelen upon his guilty plea to knowingly making an unregistered destructive […]
Smokey Robinson addresses the audience at the Marvin Gaye stamp ceremony, held April 2 in Los Angeles. USPS News Link – 4/3/19 – Marvin Gaye was honored by USPS this week for his contributions to the Motown sound of the 1960s and R&B music in the 1970s. During the April 2 dedication ceremony for a […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Postal inspectors and Memphis police say they’re working to find out what happened after two postal workers were robbed in just a few days.. A postman was robbed at gunpoint Thursday near Midtown, on North Trezevant Street and North Drive. Authorities say the robber wore a grey hoodie, had a nickel-plated semi-automatic […]