CHICAGO – 6/16/21 – Wanda Prater is out as Chicago’s Postmaster General, following months of mail delivery complaints, according to Congressman Bobby Rush. Rush says Eddie C. Morgan has replaced Prater, effective Saturday, June 12. In February, Congressman Rush called for Prater’s immediate resignation or firing after results of an Inspector General report found thousands of pieces […]
CLEVELAND (WJW)– The FOX 8 I-Team learned a dispute over a parking issue may have led to a postal carrier being shot. The I-Team obtained police body camera video that shows an officer speaking to the victim shortly after he was shot in the arm. The shooting happened on East 88th Street in Cleveland at about 3 p.m. […]
? PAWTUCKET, R.I. (WPRI) — 6/9/21 – A United States Postal Service worker says he was abducted earlier this month, and court documents indicate it may have been related to drug trafficking. According to the criminal complaint, the postal carrier reported being forced into a car at gunpoint on the afternoon of June 1 outside […]
CHICAGO (CBS) — 6/9/21 – A South Side packaging company thought the end of the pandemic would mean the end of an expensive mail scam with crooks tearing into envelopes with checks and then cashing them to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars. Now the postal inspector is not offering updates to the […]
HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. (KDVR) — Mailbox theft in some parts of the metro area has residents concerned about identity theft. Spencer Roesch told the FOX31 Problem Solvers he’s tired of walking to his mailbox and seeing the community mailboxes open and mail strewn across the ground — the work of thieves targeting the area. “If […]
FERGUSON, Mo. – Jonathan Tremaine Thomas was stunned when he lifted the lid to the dumpster behind his business on North Florissant Road in Ferguson on Monday night. He saw a pile of undelivered mail. Some of the communications involved the IRS and Social Security Administration. “It was a real shock,” he said. Thomas is the owner of Soul Coffee […]
Fox 2 Detroit – 4/27/21 – The county prosecutor says this is an example of the video not telling the whole story after a road rage fight broke out with a postal carrier and two women in Flint.
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — 4/19/21 – Steal the mail, wash the check, repeat. The cycle of “check washing,” a scam that involves mail and bank fraud, continues in Hampton Roads. The cases of check washing at the post office on Thoroughgood Road in Virginia Beach, officially known as the Bayside station, go back as […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – An Albuquerque postal worker is under investigation after making videos mocking homeless people along his mail route. He then posts those videos on the popular social media app, TikTok. KRQE News 13 does not know who is behind the videos but believes he is a mail carrier and he’s doing this while […]
USPS News Link – 4/15/21 – The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) won’t hold its annual Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive as planned this year, but it isn’t giving up on the cause. Rather than leaving bags of food by their mailboxes on the second Saturday in May, postal customers will be urged to […]