The passenger vehicle involved in the crash left the scene, officials say A private mail truck caught fire Saturday night after it was involved in a crash on State Highway 183 in Euless, fire officials say. The 18-wheeler, which was carrying U.S. Postal Service mail, and a passenger vehicle collided shortly before 10 p.m. in […]
CHICAGO (CBS) — They enter empty-handed but walk out carry bags of stolen packages from a mailroom. The theft alone is alarming, but CBS 2’s Jermont Terry reports, there’s a concern about how the thieves gain access to the West Loop condos. The suspects don’t break in or wait for somebody to open a door. […]
MILAN, Ill. (KWQC) – Postal carriers are preparing for their busiest season! Nearly 13 billion pieces of mail are expected to be processed and delivered between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day. Over the past five years, the USPS has seen the number of packages increase by more than 2 billion – from 4 billion to 6.1 […]
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Police said two suspects who carjacked a UPS truck on Thursday afternoon and led several police agencies through the streets of South Florida are dead. The suspects who reportedly shot at police from the truck engaged police in a shootout resulting in their deaths on Miramar Parkway and Flamingo Road. Images from […]
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 […]