KIMBALL, Minn. — Friday, May 13, marked 40 years since a bomb rocked a small Minnesota town and took the life of the assistant postmaster. Someone sent that bomb in the mail in Kimball. Ivend Holen, 60, died in the blast as he sorted through packages that May morning. No arrest has ever been made in the […]
WARNING: Video contains vulgar language. GREEN BROOK — Is it racist to describe a person as black? Post Service officials say they’re investigating a confrontation between a postal carrier and two Green Brook residents that the residents captured on video — a shouting match after one of the residents described the carrier as “the black mail lady.” U.S. […]
Residents of a Sherman Oaks condominium complex are concerned after two suspected mail thieves were caught on camera using keys to enter a secured building before emptying out multiple mailboxes. “They went through everyone’s mailbox and got away with quite a few things,” said Mike Mazzo, a resident of the building. Read more
POMPANO BEACH, Fla. (WSVN) — Authorities have released a new clue as they continue searching for a man in connection to the robbery of a postal worker in Pompano Beach. According to investigators, the subject robbed a postal worker of cash at the Pompano Beach main post office near Atlantic Boulevard and Powerline Road, April […]
ARLINGTON (CBSDFW.COM) – A postal worker is recovering on Friday night after Arlington Police said he was attacked and beaten unconscious while delivery mail. Investigators arrested Chris and Jonathan Allahverdi and charged them with felony assault. Detectives believe the mail carrier was delivering mail at a communal box when a nearby business owner demanded his mail. They […]
NALC News – 5/11/16 – NALC President Fredric Rolando testified today during a House Oversight Government Reform Committee postal reform hearing titled “Reforming the Postal Service: Finding a Viable Solution.” Click here to read the full text of his testimony submitted for the record. Also testifying before the committee, which has Postal Service oversight, are Postmaster General […]
KIMBALL, Minn. – 5/12/16 – Nearly 40 years have passed since a central Minnesota Postmaster was killed when a bomb exploded as he sorted packages. Forty years, and yet interest in the case… and determination to find the person responsible… has not waned. On Thursday the U.S. Postal Inspection Service officially announced a $100,000 reward […]
RT America – 5/11/16 – The US Postal Service has been hamstrung by Congress and the agency is not getting a single dime of taxpayer money despite losing $2 billion last year. But it’s not all bad news: The agency’s revenue went up five percent last quarter. Mark Dimondstein, president of the American Postal Workers […]
JACKSONVILLE (KYTX) – A retired Tyler postal worker is taking the journey of a lifetime. Bobby Abel is hiking the Appalachian Trail one month a year. Right now, he’s in the middle of his second leg, hiking from Virginia to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. It’s something some may call crazy. Even Bobby’s wife Paula says […]
NALC President Fredric V. Rolando’s statement on the U.S. Postal Service’s financial report for the second quarter of Fiscal Year 2016, covering January, February and March. The $576 million quarterly operating profit announced today by the Postal Service is positive news for an agency that enjoys widespread public support. The continuing financial upswing shows the importance of […]