WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 – James Dupont had just finished delivering mail on his rural Arkansas route when he saw a truck and car collide head-on. The veteran letter carrier pulled the driver from the truck and, as the vehicle caught on fire, saved a passenger engulfed in flames. He then managed to bend open the […]
San Rafael residents and businesses say recent postal route changes have severed years-long relationships with their letter carriers and resulted in unreliable mail delivery. On Aug. 14, the U.S. Postal Service eliminated five of San Rafael’s 75 postal routes and changed about half of the remaining routes, said James Wigdel, a postal service spokesman. No […]
Capt. Dan Casey of the St. Charles Fire Department said the man was delivering mail in a truck about 12:30 p.m. when he touched a metal mailbox in the 100 block of Hastings Way. Lightning struck nearby and traveled through the mailbox, he said. Casey said the mail carrier called 911. He had chest pains […]
Saving 5-Day Mail Delivery Highlights Agenda WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 – Over 8,700 letter carriers are set to convene in Anaheim, California August 9 to 13 as elected delegates to the 67th Biennial National Convention of the National Association of Letter Carriers — the largest convention among AFL-CIO affiliated unions. The week-long event at the Anaheim […]
HAYWARD — It was a match made in Hayward’s Post Office more than 30 years ago. Ron McMahan spied Peggy standing at the time clock, ready to begin work. “Would you go out sometime?” he asked. “I would if someone asked me. You can call me,” she replied. “That stopped him for a moment,” Peggy […]
Letter Carriers, Victims, Doctors Promote National Dog Bite Prevention Week CHICAGO, May 13 – Fifty-four Chicago U.S. Postal Service letter carriers were among the 2,863 postal employees attacked by dogs last year, yet that pales in comparison to the 4.7 million Americans bitten annually — the majority of whom were children. According to the City […]
Washington, D.C. – Today, Paul Hodes and Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter are demanding an investigation into a new round of allegations that letter carriers at even more post offices have been shortchanged on their paychecks. In documents obtained by Hodes, post offices in Dover and Salem, New Hampshire are shown to have manipulated letter carriers’ time […]
March 11, 2010 CHRISTOPHER ISAAC, age 20, of Marrero, Louisiana, was charged in a one count indictment by a Federal Grand Jury with Assault on a Federal Officer, announced U. S. Attorney Jim Letten. According to the indictment, ISAAC used a dangerous weapon to forcibly assault a United States Postal Service letter while the Postal […]
From the USPS Office of Inspector General (OIG): When a Part-Time Flexible (PTF) Carrier in Pennsylvania kept calling his office on his day off to determine if four Express Mail packages had arrived from Arizona, the manager became suspicious. Aware that such packages had been part of marijuana trafficking networks from Arizona, the manager notified […]
Glenview, IL, Letter Carrier Joe Kraus is celebrating 50 years of delivering the mail. Nothing has slowed him down. He’s a rarity. Most people change jobs many times. But for Kraus, delivering the mail in his hometown was an excellent fit. “My parents bought a new house in 1940 when I was a boy,” he […]