The US Postal Service delivered gifts to thousands of consumers last month who were victims of scams involving Moneygram. Millions of dollars are being returned to people who thought they lost it all. Fraud victim Wanda Wood explained, “One morning I answered the phone… and this a young fella said “hi Grandma”…” Wanda says the […]
For the second time this month, a crook posing as a letter carrier has tricked a victim into opening their front door. Police say it’s a disturbing new trend in home invasions. Read More
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The winds howled and temperatures in the Quad Cities dropped to minus 20 on Monday, January 6, 2014. Wind chills peaked near minus 50. That didn’t stop the U.S. Postal Service from delivering the mail. “It’s cold, the wind just whips right through you,” said Jessica Timm, a U.S. postal mail carrier. Jessica started […]
Surge from the winter storm caused some significant and dangerous flooding in communities along the Jersey Shore on Friday. First, a surging high tide trapped a mailman in Monmouth Beach. Rescuers from the Monmouth Beach and Long Branch Fire Departments came to his aid as the Shrewsbury River surrounded his truck at the intersection of […]
SACRAMENTO – An honor student who went on a drinking binge is in jail and facing assault charges after hitting a mailman Monday. According to his father, 30-year old Brandon Williams had been drinking vodka for two days before the incident Monday afternoon. After calling a fill-in mail carrier a “bastard,” Williams allegedly waited for […]
Another story that came and went without much notice this week was the announcement by the u-s post office that the price of a first class stamp will rise from 46 to 49 cents in late January. This got us wondering about the future of mail delivery in this country. For more,, we are joined […]
Every day the postal service mails millions of letters and packages and it’s even busier during the holiday season! Since they have to handle so much mail, there are some cases where they misplace or misdeliver items. One local man is out of almost $1,500 after he purchased a coin, tried selling it, and now […]
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player HOUSTON – Stuffed and overflowing mailboxes at Houston area post offices have customers concerned the postal service is putting their mail and personal information at risk. Mail was practically spilling out of the blue mailboxes outside of the Julius Melcher Post Office on Timmons when we stopped by and customers […]
The holiday rush of packages is on, making for long lines at post offices all over the state. But something bizarre happened Thursday, at the Colbalt Post Office in East Hampton. A strange odor left a post worker unconscious. The postal worker was taken to the hospital by ambulance after smelling an odor and […]