HERNANDO, Miss. — A postal worker is behind bars after police say she used a screwdriver to stab the postmaster at the Hernando post office Tuesday morning. Police said Tamekia Lashea Scott stabbed the victim multiple times around 9 a.m. at the post office on Commerce Street. By 6 p.m., the victim had been released […]
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — 7/5/21 – A group that feels they could make a dent in the mail theft problem said they are not being allowed to. Frank Albergo, president of the Postal Police Officer’s Association, said officers have been sidelined by USPS since August 2020. “Essentially, the postal service defunded the postal police force,” […]
TERRYTOWN, La. (WGNO) — Soon-to-be mother of two, Yeimi Alcantara, couldn’t believe her eyes when she watched video footage captured by her doorbell camera attached to the front door of her home in Terrytown, La., on Sunday afternoon. Alcantara, who is currently seven months pregnant with her second child, watched in disbelief as a United State […]
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.