September 15, 2015 By Jonathan D. Silver / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that Pittsburgh’s postmaster has been charged with intimidating a subordinate in an effort to cover up his illegal opening of express mail packages, some of which contained drugs, at the East Liberty station over the past year, according to a criminal […]
PHOENIX (KPHO/KTVK) – For more than a week, 18 homes on a dead-end street in Phoenix had not received any mail from the U.S. Postal Service. Nobody on the block was notified as to why their carrier stopped delivery, telling our crew it just happened all the sudden. “I realized after nine days that I […]
APWU News 09/14/2015 – APWU officers are renewing warnings about the dangers posed by sleep-deprived truck drivers and asking union members and the public to oppose a request by private subcontractors for an exemption from a federal safety rule. Comments must be submitted to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) by Sept. 21. If […]
The Finnish postal service begins tests using a drone for transporting parcels, saying such a service could become a reality within a few years.
ATLANTA — Some neighbors in an Inman Park neighborhood say they are fed up with the constant problems with mail delivery. They say sometimes they don’t get mail, get other people’s mail, or other people get their mail. “I’ve had two checks lost, two packages lost, pretty much two or three times a week we […]
YouTube: A letter carrier in the Bronx (CCA?) needs to learn how to walk up stairs to make deliveries ’cause her throwing skill isn’t too good.
BRENTWOOD (CBSLA.com) — Police in Brentwood are asking the public if they can help them nab a series of mail thieves. Security cameras in one building — the Regency Royale — caught one alleged thief who appears to have a master key to mailboxes. The mystery, of course, is how she obtained the master key […]
You trust them to deliver your bills, coupons, gifts and online orders. They’re the men and women that serve your neighborhood six days a week. But what happens when your local mailman decides there’s too much mail to deliver, and instead of placing it in your mailbox, it gets thrown in the trash? Brian McLaughlin, […]
JACKSONVILLE, Ala. (WIAT) — Kayla Coffman came to work for the postal service almost 20 years ago because she wanted to have a job that would be more routine and flexible than her previous career. “Being a mother, it just wasn’t a good thing to be getting up in the middle of the night,” Coffman […]
AUSTIN — Homeowners in a South Austin neighborhood as well as employees at the United States Postal Service are left scratching their heads after a group mailbox disappeared entirely. The mailbox serves close to three dozen homes in the Central Park neighborhood off Stassney Lane. Neighbors believe it was stolen sometime between late Monday night […]