The New York Police Department is investigating alleged disorderly conduct after the controversial arrest of a postal worker while he delivered packages on his route, reports CBS News correspondent DeMarco Morgan. Cellphone video captured the plainclothes NYPD officers approaching 27-year-old Glen Grays. The postal worker was in the middle of his shift on St. Patrick’s Day. […]
A Garland, TX resident claims a fill-in mail carrier sprayed her Boston Terrier in the face with pepper spray. Holly Hill said while she was sitting on her porch Thursday, the carrier walked by and asked if her dog, Remo, was “OK,” KTVT-TV (Channel 11) reported. Hill said that she told the carrier he was, but that the carrier […]
03/24/2016 – The Postal Service sidestepped a fight in federal court on March 16 over enforcement of an Oct. 19, 2015, arbitration award on staffing at Bulk Mail Centers (BMCs). After the USPS filed a “consent motion,” Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson ordered interpretation of the award to be returned to Arbitrator Ira F. Jaffe. The APWU filed […]
Hearings in the arbitration for a new contract continued in March, with testimony on the union’s economic package. Union economist Kathryn Kobe reviewed a series of graphs and charts illustrating the current state of the workforce and supporting APWU proposals for wage increases, retaining cost-of-living allowances (COLAs), and other monetary matters. Other witnesses offered supporting […]
03/24/2016 – Postal workers and postal customers got some good news recently: The Deputy Postmaster General notified a member of Congress that “consolidation activities remain in a deferred status.” A one-year moratorium on more than 70 plant consolidations and closures was set to expire in April. Management announced the deferral in response to an outcry from postal […]
SOUTHWEST PHILADELPHIA – 3/25/16 – Police say a postal worker was struck and killed in Southwest Philadelphia. It happened around 8 p.m. Friday on Lindbergh Boulevard near 74th Street. Police say the victim was struck by a white 2001 Mitsubishi. WPVI – Philadelphia
YERINGTON, Nev. — UPDATE: 6;26 p.m. 3/25 – (AP) — Sheriff’s deputies investigating the shooting death of a U.S. Postal Service worker in rural Nevada say they don’t consider her husband a suspect in what he originally reported was an accident. Read more
COLONIAL HEIGHTS, Va. (WRIC) — Residents in one Colonial Heights neighborhood say they are fed up after their mail has been repeatedly sent to the wrong homes day after day. “We get the wrong mail every week, so it’s not every other month, it’s every week we get a couple pieces of the wrong mail,” […]
The NYPD said it will review an incident in which four plainclothes officers and a lieutenant handcuffed a postal worker who was out driving his mail truck. The March 17 confrontation involving postal worker Glenn Grays was captured on cellphone videos that have been widely shared. The videos show the officers telling Grays to stop […]
FAIR OAKS, CA – Residents on a quiet Fair Oaks cul-de-sac say they are shocked and worried for their safety after a burly mail carrier clubbed and stabbed a wild turkey to death in an unprovoked attack and threatened a resident who told him to stop. Read more