USPS mail thefts and robberies – 09/05/23
Postal worker robberies and other mail thefts are becoming a daily event. These are the ones I found today.
Postal Inspection Service outlines steps to address ‘alarming’ rise in letter carrier robberies
USPS and its Postal Inspection Service are adding new security measures to its blue collection boxes to prevent criminals from stealing mail and altering checks. USPS also expects these added…
Woman Buys Nearly $20K In Stamps With Fake Checks Across Long Island
A Long Island woman traveled to post offices across Long Island buying tens of thousands of stamps with false checks, police said.
“SMISHING TRIAD” TARGETED USPS AND US CITIZENS FOR DATA THEFT
The bad actors attributed to Chinese-speaking cybercriminals are leveraging a package tracking text scam sent via iMessage to collect personal (PII) and payment information from the victims with the goal…
Letter carrier stole checks worth $1.7M from the mail, court documents say
A U.S. Postal Service letter carrier in Washington, D.C., allegedly stole checks out of the mail worth a total of almost $1.7 million, according to federal court documents.
Chicopee mail sorting facility to close, eliminating 305 jobs
CHICOPEE — A California-based mail sorting contractor announced it will close its Chicopee facility, eliminating 305 jobs by the end of October.
USPS mail thefts and robberies – 09/04/23
Postal worker robberies and other mail thefts are becoming a daily event. These are the ones I found today.
Postal Service Health Benefits (PSHB) Program will be effective January 1, 2025
The Postal Service Reform Act of 2022 (PSRA) was signed into law in April 2022. Since then, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), in conjunction with the Postal Service, has…
Pascrell, Colleagues Reintroduce Bipartisan Postal Police Reform Act
Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) and his colleagues have reintroduced the Postal Police Reform Act, a bill to reverse a 2020 directive from the Chief Postal Inspector restricting Postal Police…
U.S. Postal Service Employee Charged with Assaulting a Supervisor at Postal Facility in Carmel Mountain Ranch
Edwin Cuadrado, Jr., a United States Postal Service (USPS) employee, was arrested and charged in a federal criminal complaint with stabbing a supervisor on August 25 at a mail facility…