A federal judge Wednesday rejected an insanity defense and found a man suffering from schizophrenia guilty of all charges for shooting and wounding a mail carrier in Milwaukie on Christmas Eve 2022.
A panel of independent judges determined the recipients in each category. Several of the union’s honorees also received awards from the Postmaster General Heroes’ Program.
The victim is described as a Black man with gray stubble beard, balding with white stubble hair on his head. He was wearing a dark T-shirt with "United States Postal Service" and a yellow logo on it.
As 1825 dawned, the American postal network was still known as the General Post Office — but not for long. By the 1830s, it was renamed the Post Office Department.
Today, NALC President Brian Renfroe, APWU President Mark Dimondstein and NRLCA President Don Maston participated in a National Press Club Headliners event in Washington, DC, to discuss the threats facing USPS and the future of the agency.
Louis DeJoy’s effort to turn around the U.S. Postal Service’s financial fortunes was made more difficult by a host of entrenched interests, but he threaded the political needle in a way that gained grudging respect from stakeholders who often opposed his reforms.