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Video: The postman never rings at Queens apartment building- until a TV reporter show up

OZONE PARK, Queens (PIX11) – For almost four months, postal carriers have been passing by 97-05 103rd Ave., an apartment building in Ozone Park, Queens, without making any attempt to deliver the mail. The tenants have been forced to go to the local post office, 10 blocks aways, to pick up their mail. Why?

Landlords Mike Tummolo and his son Mike Jr. say instead of the postman carrying keys to open the front doors of the apartment buildings on his route, as he used to, in November the Postal Service began requiring a box on the outside of the apartment buildings where the key to the front door could be kept. The Tummolos put the box in, but the Postal Service said it’s too far away from the door. The landlords says they were never told where the box had to be and it’s too cold to move it now.

“The cement doesn’t set well when it’s that cold”, said Mike, Jr., who sought to work out a middle ground with the post office to ensure delivery, and then move the box when the weather got better.

But the postal service said no, and has refused to deliver mail to the building ever since. The surveillance cameras show the carriers walking past the building, past the key keeper box, never stopping.

Read more: The postman never rings at all — until PIX11’s Arnold Diaz comes calling | New York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV.

Video: asbestos found at Virginia post office, mail being inspected

GLADE SPRING, VA (WJHL) – An electrical fire forced a Southwest Virginia town to find another place to process mail. But another problem was discovered at the Glade Spring Post Office.

On Friday afternoon, firefighters made quick work of the electrical fire at the post office.

Glade Spring’s Assistant Fire Chief Ricky Stumbo gave News Channel 11 more information. He said, "our understanding is that the ceiling of that facility is full of asbestos."

Asbestos that might have contaminated the people of Glade Spring’s mail.

WJHL.com

Rewad more: GSVFD: asbestos found at post office, mail being inspected – WJHL.com.

Video: USPS Oakland plant finally changes 911 policy that may have cost employee’s life

The United States Postal Service (USPS) changed an outdated emergency policy in January following an NBC Bay Area investigation that exposed critical delays in a life and death situation at a mail processing facility in Oakland.

The policy, dating back to the 1970s, advised postal service employees not to call 911 first when they witnessed a medical emergency and instead instructed them to call the onsite postal police unit. The policy stated “Only the postal police are to initiate the 911 procedure.”

The USPS adopted a new 911 policy in the Oakland facility at the beginning of the year. The first line now states “In an emergency, anyone should immediately call 911.”

Read more: USPS Changes Outdated 911 Policy | NBC Bay Area.