CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill. (CBS) — The United States Post Office Inspector General is investigating a fraud scheme that victims believe revolves around a south suburban post office. As CBS 2’s Mike Puccinelli reported, investigators believe someone has been ripping off individual customers and area entrepreneurs at the Chicago Heights Post Office with checks that all […]
SPLENDORA, Texas — Splendora police responded to reports of U.S. Mail packages scattered along multiple locations on Highway 59 northeast of Houston late Monday. Drivers first spotted the packages and crates at about 7:30 p.m. near East River Road. One witness said the crates, which were about a mile apart, fell out of the back […]
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Residents in the Kenton neighborhood held a rally against the test program being run by the United States Postal Service. The program, called “Consolidated Casing,” is supposed to speed up mail carriers and eliminate routes. However, neighbors complained that mail has been arriving late or at the wrong location. It’s also […]
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — There was a time when business owner Maryo Mogannam thought his postal service shop, The Postal Chase, would become irrelevant as online sales became more popular. But, to his surprise, he’s had to expand instead, as more and more of his customers needed a safe place to have their packages delivered. […]
CLEARWATER, Fla. (WFLA) — ‘Tis the season for all sorts of deliveries, but one Clearwater mail carrier dropped off something Wednesday that might still surprise you: an entire Thanksgiving feast to an unsuspecting family who otherwise couldn’t afford it. Lee Mathis and his girlfriend Janet Wetherington now have lots of last-minute preps to cook their […]
GREENSBORO, N.C. — “That’s really, really not cool,” said Katie Barrett Todd. She says it happened about an hour after the packages were delivered, right before she and her husband got home. “I did not receive a notification from Ring,” said Todd, “I got a new phone and didn’t set up the app and so […]
Nov. 20 (UPI) — A Wisconsin mail carrier said a territorial turkey has been chasing him through a neighborhood every day for about a month. Jeff Byrne, who has worked for the U.S. Postal Service for more than 20 years, said the wild turkey has been greeting him in the Allen Lane area of Waukesha every day and […]
COLUMBIA COUNTY, GA (WRDW/WAGT) – Imagine living on a dirt road that is so dangerous postal workers, school buses, garbage workers turn the other way. The other problem is you’re in charge of getting it fixed. That’s the problem on Otis Way in Columbia County. It’s one of hundreds of private roads where neighbors are […]
CHICAGO (WLS) — The United States Post Office’s annual Santa letter program Operation Santa kicks off Monday, November 18. The goal of the campaign is to give kids who may not be able to otherwise, the happy holiday they deserve. Started in 1912, Postmaster General Frank Hitchcock authorized local Postmasters to allow postal employees and […]
After hearing multiple complaints about mail delivery across Greenburgh, the town supervisor is testing its postal service. Longtime Greenburgh resident and Town Supervisor Paul Feiner says he’s had enough of the service issues and is taking matters into his own hands. They are mailing test letters to different locations around Westchester. The tests are being […]