The Hallmark movie Signed, Sealed, Delivered for Christmas follows the lives of a group of postal workers who transform themselves into an untraditional team of detectives to track down intended recipients of undeliverable mail.
The man identified as the gunman who wounded three people at a Florida State University library mailed 10 packages before the shooting, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service said Friday. A spokeswoman for the U.S. Postal Inspection Service said the packages sent by Myron May have been collected by investigators. The service determined the contents weren’t […]
IRMO, SC – 11.21.14 – Kendra Miller is a US Postal worker in Lexington County. She says she’s never noticed anything abnormal on her route, until last Friday when she drove up on a woman slumped over in her car. “I was kind of nervous because she was on the wrong side of the road […]
OMAHA, Neb. – 11.21.14 – It’s about to get even busier at the post office. Thousands of holiday packages are moving through the postal service and inspectors know some of them will contain pot. “We’ve seen more marijuana packages lately because of the legalization in states such as Colorado,” said Dave Margritz, a U.S. Postal […]
11.20.14 – APWU President Mark Dimondstein was elected to the Board of Directors of the International Civil Rights Center and Museum (ICRCM) in his adopted home town of Greensboro, NC, on Sept. 15. The centerpiece of the museum commemorates the historic sit-in by four North Carolina A&T College students at the “whites only” Woolworth lunch […]
11/20/2014 – New revelations about the security breach in the Postal Service’s data systems are raising additional concerns about this very troubling incident. The APWU remains fully committed to protecting the rights of our members and demanding information from the USPS about what management knew and when they knew it. Unfortunately, it appears the breach was worse than originally […]
Gallup gives USPS high marks Politico – 11.21.14 – The United States Postal Service is enjoying its highest approval ratings among Americans, especially young Americans, according to a new poll. In the Gallup poll on Friday, the USPS received the highest rating among 13 “high-profile government agencies,” which included the FBI and NASA. Story Continued […]
11.21.14 – A new audit from the US Postal Service Office of Inspector General says the San Francisco Processing and Distribution Center is inefficient and overstaffed. The report, released Thursday, calls for the center to drastically reduce work hours for hundreds of employees to save millions of dollars. Despite the report’s findings, the sign outside […]
A former postal worker from Clinton County was sentenced Wednesday for stealing thousands from the post office where she worked. A judge sentenced Macey Geyer, 42, to two years on probation. She was also ordered to pay over $9,000 in restitution. Video will load below. Read more
Delivering for America – Nov. 2014 – In 1977, Observatory Books opened its doors and became the first used bookstore in Southeast Alaska. Originally located in Sitka, the store became a reality when Dee Longenbaugh, the shop’s proprietor and member of the Antiquarian Bookseller’s Association of America, decided to turn her hobby of collecting books on Alaska […]