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 […]
NALC News – 4/14/21 – On April 10, all city letter carriers began earning their new pay rates in accordance with the 2019 National Agreement. The new pay rates include the following: For career city carriers: 1.1% General Wage Increase effective November 23, 2019 $166 Cost of Living Adjustment effective February 29, 2020 $188 Cost […]
USPS worker is savagely beaten by two women ‘trying to get stimulus checks’ outside her badly dented postal van in broad daylight attack in Flint, Michigan A USPS mailwoman has been savagely beaten by two women who were accused of trying to rob stimulus checks from her van in Flint, Michigan. Footage shows the two women pounding the […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (FOX 46 CHARLOTTE)- 4/01/21 – Postal workers are protesting, saying they aren’t receiving basic worker’s rights, like being able to use their earned paid time off, being treated with respect, and being able to take sick days without being belittled for doing so. The Charlotte-area American Postal Workers Union president says the constant […]