"...RICHMOND, Va. -- It's another piece of the puzzle troubling people living in Central Virginia who've reported late or even stolen mail. Four different U.S. Postal Service employees that worked in the Richmond area have now been charged with either obstruction of mail or stealing mail. According to court records...The mail is said to have included financial and bank statements, as well as election-related mail."
"...fired from another car, said police in Warren, about 60 miles southeast of Cleveland. Police said they believe Davis and the suspect knew each other. ..."
"...The Postal Service and the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) continue to negotiate to reach a new contract but are also moving forward with preparations for a potential interest arbitration. Both parties have selected Dennis Nolan to serve as the interest arbitrator. Nolan served as..."
"In preparation for the 2025 plan year, OPM for the first time outlined clearer plans to implement the Postal Service Health Benefits (PSHB) program in January. ...A special enrollment period beginning April 1 as well as the upcoming Open Season this fall will be the first time Postal employees and annuitants will be able to enroll in the brand-new health insurance program, mandated by the Postal Service Reform Act that President Joe Biden signed into law in 2022. ...Any FEHB carrier that wants to apply to offer plans in the PSHB program must submit their proposal of benefits and rates by May 31, OPM said. Then enrollees in the new PSHB program will begin receiving coverage on the first day of 2025."
"...Around 7 am, officers responded to reports of someone swinging a six-foot metal pipe near Inyo and O streets. Police say the suspect was uncooperative and would not drop the pipe. He then barricaded himself inside the U.S. Post Office on Kern and M streets. Two Post Office employees were inside when the man went in but stayed in a separate room away from him...."
"...The U.S. Postal Service urged a Pennsylvania federal court to toss a former mail carrier's religious discrimination suit following its trip to the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing his request to skip..."
"The Postal Service will observe Women’s History Month, which begins on Friday, March 1. The commemoration was first observed nationally as Women’s History Week in 1980. The week was chosen to coincide with International Women’s Day on March 8, a global observance that began in 1911. ..."
"...After a trial lasting less than two days, 33-year-old Robert Gafford of Jackson was found guilty of one count of delaying or destroying mail and one count of embezzlement of mail.
According to a release from the Office of the United States Attorney Eastern District of Missouri, Gafford worked out of the Cape Girardeau Post Office annex at the time and was responsible for delivering mail on a rural route in or near Scott City.
According to a release from the Office of the United States Attorney Eastern District of Missouri, Gafford worked out of the Cape Girardeau Post Office annex at the time and was responsible for delivering mail on a rural route in or near Scott City.
In late 2021, the postmaster received complaints from a couple on Gafford’s delivery route..."
"...Nevada’s two Democratic senators and lone Republican member of Congress have joined the chorus of opposition to the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) plans to move its Reno mail processing operations to Sacramento, The Nevada Independent has learned. Under the proposal, the Reno facility — which is the hub for Northern Nevada mail — would no longer be responsible for processing mail and would instead become a center that would prepare already-processed mail for delivery. This means that if someone from Northern Nevada sends something in the mail, it would first go to Sacramento before reaching its destination. ...They asked for USPS to provide any assessments conducted on the impact of downsizing the Reno facility on the region and the impacts of the region’s weather on service. The drive from Sacramento to Reno crosses over the Sierra Nevada mountain range, which often receives heavy snow. “USPS does not provide information about the study on which it relied to reach this determination"
"...YAKIMA- Following a public meeting held February 28th - attended by around 40 residents - Yakima resident now have just two weeks until March 14th to give feedback to the US Postal Service about a proposal to relocate some of Yakima County's mail processing to Spokane. At Wednesday's meeting, the USPS Pacific Northwest Division Senior Processing Director Brian Gaines, told residents that mail within the county would still be processed in Yakima, but anything with a zip code other than 989 would be sent to Spokane for processing. ..."
"HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - In South Huntsville, neighbors are on high alert after an opportunistic thief has been making off with items inside their mailboxes. ...he has video footage of the thief in a car driving away from a mail theft at his parent’s home..."
"...ATLANTA — Several Midtown Atlanta neighbors are claiming their packages are disappearing or not making it to them at all. They are blaming the United States Postal Service.
“I got a notification from our locker system here that I got a delivery from USPS. So, I went to retrieve the package but there was nothing in the locker,” said Stephen Gaskins.
Gaskins said at first he thought the delivery message was a mistake. He then contacted the locker system office that operates his complex in Midtown Atlanta. ..."
"...BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Dozens of workers at the United States Postal Service processing center on William Street took their fight to the streets Friday in Buffalo, as the USPS is considering uprooting the facility and moving it to Rochester. If the move is approved, the center that processes 30,000 letters per hour and hundreds of employees would be relocated 60 miles east. This would mean all the mail that now moves through Buffalo would have to be processed in Rochester first, which could lead to delays across Western New York...."
"...Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia said she, and Congressmen Al Green and Pete Sessions, were told that the problems at the Houston-area processing facilities began when a decision was made to move some of the operations from the North Houston facility to the South Houston facility in Missouri City. ..."
"...sentenced to eight years in prison, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of Mississippi announced in a Feb. 22 news release. The man’s public defenders declined to comment on the case to McClatchy News because they are likely to appeal. On Feb. 11, 2023, a mail carrier with the United States Postal Service was..."
"A private Facebook group with more than 8,600 members is doing its part to preserve a tradition that might seem out of step in the digital age: mailing greeting cards. The group, called Random Acts of Cardness, allows members to post greeting card requests for themselves or others, such as a co-worker dealing with an illness or a loss, or a friend celebrating a birthday or anniversary. ..."
"...cannot be tossed in the trash.
These batteries are typically regulated as universal waste and include dead batteries from mobile scanners, phones, laptops and other electronic equipment.
USPS facilities must recycle universal waste batteries ..."
"...He addressed a variety of topics, including package volume growth and network modernization..."
