Showing posts with label Florida. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Florida. Show all posts

Friday, November 1, 2024

Northeast Florida lawmakers demand audit of Jacksonville USPS facility over lost, delayed mail

"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Customers have reported that important packages are being delivered to the wrong states, and in some cases, mail is being lost altogether. ...Congressman John Rutherford and four other U.S. Representatives from Northeast Florida and Georgia are requesting an audit of the Jacksonville Network Distribution Center (NDC). ..."    


This Article is From: www.news4jax.com


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Sunday, July 17, 2011

Traffic stop has exposed a multimillion-dollar international mail fraud scam

Traffic stop exposes multimillion dollar mail scam

"...The elaborate fraud has roots in Florida with thousands of victims in 10 countries - stretching from..."    postal news

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Sunday, June 8, 2008

A Look Back to June 8, 1959: Missile Mail

While the Post Office Department had no official mail rocket program, unofficial mail rocket launchings made occasional headlines

"...the postal service and defense department cooperated in an experiment using missiles to carry mail in 1959. On June 8 of that year, a missile carrying 3,000 letters was fired from Navy submarine U.S.S. Barbero to a Naval station at Mayport, Florida, one hundred miles away. On hand for the service was Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield, who boasted that missiles would be able to speed mail across the U.S. and oversees. Among the pieces of mail carried was a letter from President Dwight D. Eisenhower..."    



Source: www.postalmuseum.si.edu

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