APWU President Mark Dimondstein was elected to a third term on Oct. 8. Continue reading
Dimondstein Re-Elected APWU National President
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Post office employee finds two missing children in two weeks
VISTA, Calif. – Chyanne Thomas has been employed with the Vista Post Office for a year now. Within her one year of service she has received two awards for heroism after finding two missing girls in San Diego County – in the same month. Both cases have no connection to one another, according to KSWB. Continue reading
USPS temporarily suspends package delivery due to ‘porch pirates’ in Houston suburb
KATY, Texas – Thieves have been busy in the Seven Meadows neighborhood. Continue reading
Postal worker helps customer after head injury
From USPS News Link:
Rural Carrier Tammy Covietz was recently delivering mail to an older customer’s home in Jordan, MN, when the man fell while walking to the front door. Continue reading
Top postalnews.com stories of the week September 29-October 5
- Loss of Parcel Select business could hit USPS hard, consultancy says
- OPM Announces 2020 Health, Dental, and Vision Program Premiums
- Mississippi RCA Sentenced for Delay of U.S. Mail
- Electronic Signatures Coming to USPS Deliveries
- New Details: 22-year-old shot postal worker ‘multiple times’ with what was believed to be an AR-15
- Congressman Blasts Fake GOP Census Mailers in Missouri’s 1st Congressional District-Demands that U.S. Postal Service investigate
- That’s not dynamite in your mailbox. That’s an ad from a local realtor
- South Dakota postal worker charged with theft of mail
- Defendant sentenced for a second time for using counterfeit checks to buy United States Postage Stamps
- NAPS Chat podcast with Congressman Michael Bost (R-IL)
Letter Carrier Recognized For Saving Toddler’s Life
ORANGEVALE (CBS13) — Letters, ads, and boxes are a familiar sight to Andy Rendon. On one Friday in May, he says he saw something he’d never seen on his mail route. Continue reading
Houston hacker re-directs mail, steals banking information from Round Rock couple
ROUND ROCK, Texas (KXAN) — A hacker from Houston used the United States Postal Service as a tool to successfully infiltrate a Round Rock couple’s bank account and steal their personal information. Continue reading
St. Louis Man Pleads Guilty to Robbing Post Office at Gunpoint
St. Louis, MO –Dywane Upchurch, 39, of St. Louis, MO, pleaded guilty to felony charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm and assaulting a Postal employee while committing robbery. Continue reading
South Dakota postal worker charged with theft of mail
United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Pukwana, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Theft of Mail by Postal Service Employee.
Kayla Ottmo, age 35, was indicted on July 9, 2019. She appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Veronica L. Duffy on October 3, 2019, and pled not guilty to the Indictment. Continue reading
Mississippi RCA Sentenced for Delay of U.S. Mail
Jackson, Miss. – Virginia Perkins, 49, of Lake, Mississippi, was sentenced yesterday by Senior U.S. District Judge David Bramlette III to two years probation for delay or destruction of U.S. mail by a postal employee, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Christopher Cave with the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General, Southern Area Field Office. Continue reading
