USPS Mail Delivery Performance Recovers from Severe Winter Storms; Peak...
For the week of March 6, overall USPS service performance for delivery of First-Class Mail reached 83.7 percent USPS focused on continued, sustained improvement across all mail categories WASHINGTON,...
View ArticleCalifornia men plead guilty to using use fraudulent debit cards to make ATM...
California Men Plead Guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Bank Fraud CONCORD – 3/19/21 – Vahan Aghajanyan, 25, of Glendale, California, and Garnik Saroyan, 26 of Sun Valley, California, pleaded...
View ArticleFormer Illinois Postal Employee Sentenced for Stealing Rebate Checks
WSIL – 3/19/21 – A former Williamson County mail carrier was sentenced after stealing rebate checks. Brittany Freeman, 27, of Johnston City, Illinois was sentenced this week to three years’ probation...
View ArticleUSPS says employees should schedule a COVID-19 vaccination at the first...
USPS News Link – 3/22/21 – The Postal Service is reminding employees to not delay pursing access to COVID-19 vaccines if they want to be vaccinated. The organization’s goal is for everyone to be able...
View ArticleUSPS Unveils 10-Year Plan to Achieve Financial Sustainability and Service...
Aims to meet or exceed 95 percent network-wide, on-time delivery Operates at break-even by FY2023 avoiding $160 billion in projected losses over the next 10 years USPS 3/23/21 HIGHLIGHTS OF THE...
View ArticleNorth Pole Mail Carrier Indicted for Theft, Delay, Destruction of Mail
DOJ – 3/22/21 – Fairbanks, Alaska – Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Wilson announced that Melissa M. Lascurain, 40, of North Pole has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of Mail Theft and Delay...
View ArticlePostmaster General and Union and Management Associations Form Joint Task...
Task Force to Identify and Address Service Issues at Select Locations Across the Country The following Joint Statement was issued by: Postmaster General and Chief Executive Officer Louis DeJoy Fred...
View ArticleCalifornia Postal Clerk Sentenced for Stealing from Customers
SAN DIEGO – 3/23/21 – U.S. Postal Service employee Esteban Sanchez was sentenced in federal court today to time served and ordered to pay $20,153.23 in restitution for stealing money orders from 21...
View ArticleFormer New York Postal Employee Sentenced For Worker’s Compensation Fraud
BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK – 3/23/21 – Christine O’Neill, age 61, of Johnson City, New York, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Thomas J. McAvoy to serve three (3) years on probation...
View ArticleFormer Bar Harbor, MN Postal Employee Pleads Guilty to Stealing Mail
BANGOR, Maine – 3/25/21 – A Hancock man pleaded guilty today in federal court to theft of mail by a postal employee, Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced. According to court records, Daniel...
View ArticleUSPS has proposed changes for Priority Mail Express delivery times and the...
USPS News Link – 3/26/21 – The Postal Service has proposed changes for Priority Mail Express delivery times and the reclassification of Bound Printed Matter parcels. Currently, Priority Mail Express...
View ArticleFormer Maryland USPS Carrier Sentenced for Making False Statements to Obtain...
While Claiming Disability, Postal Carrier Received Compensation for Variety of Jobs, Including as a Snow Plow Driver, Plumber, and Field Supervisor for a Home Improvement Company Greenbelt, Maryland –...
View ArticlePennsylvania Postal Employee Pleads Guilty To Theft Of Mail
HARRISBURG – 3/30/21 – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Lower Paxton Postal employee, Candy Ehler, age 51, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, pled...
View ArticleConnecticut USPS Employee Pleads Guilty to Theft of Mail
3/30/21 – Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Matthew Modafferi, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Postal Service, Office of Inspector General,...
View ArticlePennsylvania Postal Employee Charged with Issuing Money Orders to Herself
PITTSBURGH – 3/30/21 – A resident of Cabot, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on a charge of fraudulently issuing money orders, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman...
View Article“The Nike Air Force 1 USPS” Experimental shoe is neither licensed nor...
USPS – 4/01/21 – The Postal Service, which receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations, protects its intellectual...
View ArticleFormer Oklahoma APWU Secretary-Treasurer Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement of...
On March 24, 2021, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, Brenda G. Walters, former Secretary-Treasurer of American Postal Workers Union (APWU) Muskogee Area Local 7...
View ArticleUSPS Statement on COVID-19-related funding
USPS – 4/02/21 – The U.S. Postal Service continues to track our COVID-19-Related Operating Expenses consistent with our understanding with the Department of the Treasury. As of March 31, 2021, we have...
View ArticleFormer Nebraska postal worker sentenced for postal funds theft scheme
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A former U.S. Postal Service worker in Omaha has been sentenced to five years of probation and ordered to repay nearly $14,000 for a scheme in which he stole postal funds. Cameron...
View ArticleCoffee Anyone? Espresso Drinks Forever Stamps Now on Sale
WASHINGTON, DC — 4/9/21 – The U.S. Postal Service celebrates America’s love of coffee today with the issuance of four new stamps. Whether milky, dark as night, sweetened, flavored or highly...
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