The holiday season is upon us, that means a lot of package deliveries. NBC 10 News heard from a number of people looking for answers from shipping companies to actions some of them caught on camera. One video from a Riverside doorbell camera shows a USPS worker shouting expletives and aggressively tossing a package on […]
The former NASA engineer-turned-YouTube star — who earned viral acclaim last year with his glitter bomb booby trap for doorstep delivery thieves — has made a festive comeback, just in time for season’s gift-giving spike. Mark Rober spent nearly a year designing a new and improved version of his “Home Alone”-inspired revenge trap in a bid to […]
‘I filled up a box full of dog poop’: Portland porch pirate gets a stinky surprise The holidays are here and so too are thieves who’ll waste no time snatching up packages from doorsteps. The porch pirate problem is one Matt Coats has become familiar with since moving to Southeast Portland a few years ago. […]
CHICAGO (Updated) — A mail truck stolen Tuesday in Lincoln Park was recovered two days later on the West Side with all of its packages apparently intact. A truck belonging to the United States Postal Service was found abandoned about 3:45 p.m. Thursday in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, according to Sylvia Carrier, spokesperson for the […]
THURSTON COUNTY, Wash. — An undercover operation in the South Sound aims to capture porch pirates this holiday season. Postal inspectors are using bait boxes to stop thieves in their tracks by luring them in with the very boxes they’re out to steal. Bait boxes are designed to look like any other packages. The difference […]
SCOTTSDALE, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) — Identity theft has been a major problem for years, but now scammers are expanding their web of crime to include the dead. Amy Ballen’s husband, Tom, died last month. According to the Scottsdale widow, the stress and sadness of losing the love of your life can be overwhelming. “The whole […]
MILWAUKEE — A mailman is in serious condition after he was struck by a hit-and-run driver. The incident happened about 5:45 p.m. Tuesday at South 13th Street and West Euclid Avenue in Milwaukee. A surveillance camera at a nearby business captured the collision on video. It shows the driver hitting the mailman as the mailman […]
GREEN TREE, Pa. — New complaints are surfacing about mail delivery from the US Postal Service’s Green Tree office. Last week, 11 Investigates discovered around $13,000 in donation checks were at the post office but never delivered to St. Philip Church in Crafton. They were sitting at the Green Tree office for nearly six months. WPXI
A U.S. Mail letter carrier is recovering after she was attacked by three pit bulls during her route in Hilliard. Lacey Cassidy wears an arm sling with her arm wrapped in a heavy bandage. ” I have never pleaded with an animal in my life,” Lacey Cassidy said. “All I could do was please, don’t, […]
A U.S. Postal Service truck struck and killed an 81-year-old woman who was crossing University Boulevard in Silver Spring, Maryland, Monday night, police say. The woman appeared to have been crossing the 1100 block of University Boulevard West in front of the Warwick Apartments. Montgomery County Police said a USPS driver allegedly hit her with […]