From the National Association of Postal Supervisors June 25, 2015 – The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (Agency) proposes to amend its regulations at 5 CFR parts 1600, 1601, and 1651 to change the default investment fund for certain participants in the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP). The proposed regulation would (1) change the TSP’s default […]
PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. – The 90-year-old man accused of threatening a Boca Raton post office employee with a gun has “serious medical issues” according to his attorney. The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office says the suspect, HB Shea, pointed a handgun at the employee Monday and threatened to “blow his head off.” On Thursday […]
A 90-year-old man grew so upset about having to step out of a West Boca post office line, he returned with a gun and threatened to kill an employee, deputies say. The suspect, identified as H.B. Shea, of West Boca, slammed a pistol on a counter, looked at an employee and said he would “blow […]
A heartbreaking photo snapped by a bystander in Brighton, Colorado shows a police officer attempting to distract a 2-year-old girl after she and her family were involved in a deadly car wreck on Thursday. The devastating car crash killed the father instantly, so when officers arrived they did their best to distract the little girl […]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) – It’s a route he’s taken hundreds of times. The scars are slowly healing after Bruce, a Portland area mail carrier, was attacked by a pit bull Monday afternoon. “If it was a child, it would’ve been pretty worse. Then he grabbed my hand that I had my mace with and bit […]
Campbell County, VA – Mail carriers deal with all the elements: snow, rain and even the heat.Most of the time nothing keeps them from getting through. But in one community, the road is getting the blame. It’s a road rarely traveled in Campbell County: Mount Vista Drive, with gravel and road at its surface. Dane […]
APWU – 06/23/2015 – The Postal Service has signaled it will try to derail a measure approved by the House Appropriations Committee on June 17 to restore postal service standards to the levels that were in place on July 1, 2012. The committee’s vote would rescind the lower service standards the USPS implemented on Jan. 5 – […]
Driving drunk, while delivering the mail. Those are the accusations against a Fairfield County postal worker. Deputies say one of Angela Castro’s coworkers contacted them because they were worried it was taking her seven hours to finish a three-hour postal route. When a deputy caught up to her, they said there were several factors pointing […]
Sitting there calmly, you’d never realize what 4 year-old Boss had just done to the mailman. “Blood everywhere, I didn’t realize it was the postman at first,” said William Harper. When William came home for lunch, he found that his dream pit bull had become someone’s nightmare. “Yeah they took him right to the hospital […]
NALC President Fredric Rolando’s statement regarding ‘Fast Track” passage in the House: Today, the House of Representatives showed that it continues to prioritize a ‘passage at all costs’ approach to a seriously flawed Trade Promotion Authority bill—better known as Fast Track. In the House’s quest to advance this doomed trade package, it is neglecting serious […]