RICHMOND, Va. — The U.S. Postal Service responded Friday to a recent report ranking Richmond’s mail delivery times as the third-worst in the country. Jaclyn Barton, a VCU graduate student studying multimedia journalism, compiled the data she obtained from the USPS website for the Capital News Service. Last spring, less than 84% of the region’s first-class mail […]
NALC News – 11/14/19 – The large loss posted by the U.S. Postal Service in Fiscal Year 2019 ($8.8 billion) is largely the result of external factors, not the normal operations of the agency. More than half the loss stems from the 2006 congressional mandate that requires the Postal Service, alone among all public agencies […]
CHICAGO (CBS) — For months, a homeowner in Wrigleyville has been complaining about missing mail – until she found her own mail, and her neighbors’ dumped in the trash. As CBS 2’s Steven Graves reported Tuesday evening, the supposed culprit was caught on camera. For Maggie Czerwien, it all began with a walk beside her […]
AMHERST, Ohio (WJW) — Quick action by a neighbor and postal carrier helped save a woman who was attacked by her 100 pound dog. The woman was taken to the hospital and is home recovering after undergoing two surgeries, one on each of her arms. 33-year-old Janae Presutto-Canon says around noon Wednesday, she heard her […]
NALC News – 11/06/19 – National Arbitrator Shyam Das has issued his award in a national interpretive dispute involving the memorandum of understanding regarding the consolidation of NALC pay levels. The memorandum, which went into effect on November 24, 2018, elevated all Grade 1 letter carriers to the former Grade 2. Arbitrator Das recognized that […]
NALC 11/06/19 – The federal district court in Washington D.C. today issued a decision dismissing NALC’s lawsuit that sought to halt the Consolidated Casing Initiative. U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg concluded that the court lacked jurisdiction to issue the preliminary injunction that NALC requested, which would have halted the Initiative pending the outcome of […]
HONOLULU (KHON2) — Crimestoppers released two videos of what appears to be a female suspect in a green car, stealing mail on Ainamakua Drive and Kowa Street in Mililani. “These particular incidents were caught on surveillance, but it’s possible she may have also stole mail from other people that didn’t have video surveillance,” said Sgt. […]
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — Residents in a West Des Moines neighborhood voiced concerns Monday after a dog attack stopped their mail service. The city said it is doing everything possible to get door-to-door mail delivery back, but another victim and her neighbors said it is not enough. Erin Sears was visiting her mother on […]
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HERMITAGE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Charles Ray was angry when he found out a check he wrote to pay his car insurance was stolen from his mailbox, altered, then cashed. On Saturday morning, he put the check in his mailbox outside his home on Highland View Drive. Hours later surveillance video shows an SUV pulling up […]