MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Memphis man has a warrant out for his arrest after he allegedly attacked his work supervisor at the Post Office on 555 South Third St.. Police are asking the public to be on the lookout for Richard L. Martin, 59, of Tuggle Road. The warrant is for the charges of aggravated […]
1/23/16 – A postal worker was killed Saturday after a tree fell onto his vehicle at a DeKalb County golf course. DeKalb County fire Capt. Eric Jackson said the male postal worker was driving on the premises of Lithonia’s Mystery Valley Golf Club when, around 12:30 p.m., a tree “that appeared to be in poor […]
MESA, AZ – Missing mail in one East Valley community led police to a man who was stealing from neighborhood collection boxes. The US Postal Service uncovered mail was going missing from mail boxes around November of last year. In several cases, the mail was being taken out of locked neighborhood collection boxes. Court documents […]
MASON CITY, Iowa – 1/22/16 – Authorities say about 50 to 100 people in the area have had their mail stolen. Jim O’Hara, a postal inspector from Des Moines, says this started around Christmas, including mail coming in and going out. Authorities say it’s mostly letter mail being affected. Residents in Mason City, Clear Lake, […]
Latest cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) 1/22/16 – Based on the Jan. 21 release of the December 2015 Consumer Price Index (CPI), the accumulation toward the seventh cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for letter carriers under the 2011-2016 National Agreement remains at $0. Read details at NALC
APWU news – 01/22/2016 – APWU members across the country will mark Feb. 17 – the opening day of arbitration for a new contract – with a show of solidarity. Workers in every craft and every category will wear stickers specially made for the occasion. The stickers bear the slogan, “Opening Day – Fighting for Justice.” Union […]
NALC and the U.S. Postal Service have settled two national-level cases. The parties have settled national-level case Q06N-4Q-C-09106125 (M-01868) concerning the excessing rules when employees from other crafts are excessed into the letter carrier craft outside of their original installation. NALC and USPS also have settled national-level case Q11N-4Q-C 15037141 (M-01867) concerning the effective date […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Valley News Live) – U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp is pressing U.S. Postmaster General Megan Brennan on the need to improve mail delivery and service. This follows several reports from Valley News Live about poor mail delivery service in the Woodhaven neighborhood of South Fargo. Heitkamp said in a hearing on Thursday that they need […]
RATON, N.M. (KRQE) – Police say a Raton United States postal worker was beat and left for dead Wednesday morning by a man using a brick as a weapon. It happened after 10 a.m. in the 600 block of North 2nd Street; that’s just half a mile from the Raton Post Office on Park Avenue. When […]
Surveillance video captured images of suspected mail theft on two different occasions, putting residents in the West Hollywood building on alert Tuesday. In the video captured at the apartments in the 300 block of South Sherbourne Drive, two women can be seen acting casually as they approach the mailboxes with what appears to be a […]