The United States Postal Service (USPS) is finally taking steps to electrify its massive fleet of delivery vehicles, according to Electrek. Recent images have surfaced on X, formerly known as Twitter, showing a customized version of electric vehicle startup Canoo’s delivery van sporting USPS branding. It provided a glimpse into the postal service’s clean energy […]
Jun. 7—Carl Corpuz was on his Anchorage mail route last summer when he approached a door with a package. The door opened, with a young girl inside. Before he could react, a German shepherd lunged out. “It didn’t even bark first,” he said. The dog attacked Corpuz, biting him on the wrist and scratching his […]
GREELEY, Colo. (KDVR) — There has been much heartbreak and loss for many Greeley residents sifting through damaged belongings after their homes flooded this week. The intensity of the storm that rolled through Greeley Tuesday night was captured on Dezarae Wolf’s cell phone camera. She is one of those who lost so much this week. […]
FORT PIERCE — A lengthy procession of U.S. Postal Service vehicles Saturday slowly passed the home where longtime postal employee Roosevelt Benjamin was found fatally shot a week earlier, the drivers handing roses to his widow. Many outside the residence on Avenue P just east of North 25th Street wore Dallas Cowboys shirts — Benjamin […]
A postal carrier who federal prosecutors said was caught on camera stealing cash, lottery tickets, gift cards and other items from the mail in western New York has avoided a prison sentence. After community members in Rochester complained to the U.S. Postal Service that “their mail had been tampered with,” surveillance cameras were installed in […]
(WJW) — Neither rain, nor snow, nor a 60-mile-per-hour speed limit could stop one Ohio postal worker from her delivery route. The postal worker was pulled over for driving more than 100 miles per hour, and police believe she was trying to race a sports car in her mail truck. How to see the sunspot […]
By David Shepardson (Reuters) -A bipartisan group of 26 senators on Wednesday urged the U.S. Postal Service to pause planned further consolidation to its processing and delivery network, warning it could slow mail deliveries. The letter, seen by Reuters and led by Senator Gary Peters, who chairs the committee overseeing the USPS, urged a halt […]
Increasingly fearful for their safety on the job, dozens of letter carriers rallied outside a Baltimore post office Tuesday afternoon for better protection. Tony Vaughn, president of Baltimore’s chapter of the National Association of Letter Carriers, which represents around 3,000 letter carriers in the region, said over the past two years that there have been […]
“’Man, I’m done.’” That’s what Gulfport resident James Franic Ray said after he realized authorities had connected him large mail-order shipments of methamphetamine to his home on Cable Ridge Road, records show. His arrest came after a postal inspector at a post office in Mobile, Alabama, first intercepted an April shipment of over four pounds […]
Authorities say they’ve identified and charged the two remaining juvenile suspects involved with robbing a New Hampshire postal worker at gunpoint on Tuesday. According to Nashua Police, the identities of those two suspects will not be released due to their ages. Although charges are forthcoming, police say no further information will be revealed regarding their […]
Apr. 18—Members of Congress have told the U.S. Postal Service they oppose plans to consolidate mail processing centers, warning that the proposals could lead to deteriorating mail delivery. A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Tuesday wrote to U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, criticizing the Postal Service’s recent announcement of consolidations and its intent to review […]
Apr. 16—Rep. Jared Golden, of Maine, D-2nd District, introduced legislation on Tuesday to halt the consolidation of mail processing facilities nationwide, taking the step just days after the U.S. Postal Service said it plans to shift some operations from Hampden 130 miles south to Scarborough. “Reducing local mail processing capacity and requiring mail to travel […]