Project Safe Delivery | USPS, Inspection Service offer update

  Project Safe Delivery | USPS, Inspection Service offer update

"USPS and the Postal Inspection Service provided an update this week on their Project Safe Delivery campaign to crack down on postal crimes and attacks on postal employees.

Multiple USPS departments are working on the campaign, which was announced in May.

“As our nation continues to address a sustained crime wave, our targeted focus to crack down on postal crime is progressing,” said Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. “The safety of our letter carriers — and all postal employees — is our top priority. We will continue to work steadfastly with our law enforcement partners to increase the safety of our employees and protect the sanctity of the nation’s mail.”

“We have effectively focused our efforts with USPS on hardening both physical and digital targets to combat threats to postal employees and secure the mail,” said Chief Postal Inspector Gary Barksdale. “We continue to turn up the pressure and put potential perpetrators on notice: If you attack postal employees, steal the mail or commit other postal crimes, postal inspectors will bring you to justice.”

Under Project Safe Delivery, USPS and the Inspection Service have:...

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Reference: usps.com
 

Former St. Petersburg postal mail handler gets nine years in prison for theft of Social Security checks

  Former St. Petersburg postal worker gets nine years in prison for theft of Social Security checks

"...A former U.S. Postal Service mail handler was ordered to serve nine years in prison Wednesday for stealing close to $3 million in Social Security checks from a St. Petersburg mail-processing facility..."

Reference: www.tampabay.com  

Feds charge dozens of Southern California postal workers

  Feds charge dozens of Southern California postal workers

"...One case alleges that a former Mail Handler Union executive stole more than 150 mobile phones at a distribution center in the Moreno Valley and traded them through a website..."

Reference: www.newson6.com  

Huntsville woman arrested in mail theft case

  Huntsville woman arrested in mail theft case

"...Madison Police arrested a Huntsville woman Thursday in connection with recent mail thefts and destruction of mail from residential mailboxes, according to a press release..."

Reference: www.enewscourier.com  

Postal Service not pursuing marijuana charges due to "small amount" (586 grams = 20.6705 ounces or 1.29191 pounds)

  USPS not pursuing charges following marijuana bust

"...Postal Inspector David Birch said because it was a small amount of marijuana, the USPS has decided to let local authorities prosecute the case...."

Reference: postal-edaily.blogspot.com  

Former Montgomery postal mail handler gets 10 year sentence for shooting

  Ex-postal worker gets 10-year sentence for shooting at co-workers

"...Darby was a former part-time mail handler. He had pleaded guilty to attempted assault, discharging a gun during a violent crime and possession of a firearm in a federal facility. ..."

Reference: www.tuscaloosanews.com  

"Apologies for theft" order given to ex-mail handler

Ex-RI mail handler told to apologize in card theft

"...must also repay the money he stole from the cards, which he took in September and October while working at the U.S. Postal Service's processing center in Providence...."

Reference: www.boston.com

Contract route postal worker arrest one of many in Alabama

  Theft, mail destruction prosecutions rise for Alabama postal employees

"...Among the recent cases detailed in court records was that of Michael Ray Hyatt, a former Gadsden highway contract route postal worker who was sentenced ..."

Reference: al.com 

Birmingham postal supervisor pleads guilty to $300,000 kickback scheme

  Birmingham postal supervisor pleads guilty to $300,000 kickback scheme "...A vehicle maintenance supervisor for the U.S. Postal Service pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges he defrauded the government of more than $300,000 in a billing kickback scheme..." Reference: al.com  

False alarm over parcel at U.S. Embassy to Vatican

  False alarm over parcel at U.S. Embassy to Vatican "...ROME (AP) — Bomb squad teams were dispatched to the U.S. Embassy to the Vatican on Wednesday after it reported a suspicious package — but it was a false alarm, police said. Embassies in Rome have been on high alert for a week after anarchists mailed package bombs to..." Reference: www.usatoday.com  

Seattle attorney who sent suspicious letter to GOP senator sentenced

  Seattle attorney who sent suspicious letter to GOP senator sentenced "...On May 8, a mail handler examining a letter sent to Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., was hit in the face by a blast of white powder emanating from the envelope. Concerned that the powder could be anthrax -- the biological agent that killed five in a string of attacks beginning in 2001 -- the mail handler was decontaminated and the substance analyzed. ..." Reference: www.seattlepi.com  

Eight people indicted in Birmingham on mail theft charges

  Eight people indicted in Birmingham on mail theft charges "...In separate indictments filed in U.S. District Court, the grand jury charged five U.S. Postal employees, two employees of postal contract centers, and one man not affiliated with the Postal Service with stealing, delaying or destroying mail...." Reference: blog.al.com  

Lost in the mail: Wrong woman signs for $5,000 ring

  Lost in the mail: Wrong woman signs for $5,000 ring "...Joseph Breckenridge, media relations representative for the post office in Northern Florida and Alabama, explained that USPS gave Broccoli the benefit of the doubt and sent him a partial payment of $400, because the carrier who delivered the package failed to get the printed name..." Reference: www.waltonsun.com  

Postal employee admits to massive mail theft

  Postal employee admits to massive mail theft "...Court documents indicate Schmauder would give the stolen lingerie to his wife, while reselling the CDs and DVDs to Angelo's Movies, Music and Gifts, which bills itself as the largest independent music store in the Denver area. ..." Reference: www.9news.com  

National Mail Handlers Union Building Carjacking?

Newark woman carjacked outside Kearny postal facility "...A 49-year-old Newark woman was carjacked and punched in the face upon showing up to work at the National Mail Handlers Union, 1200 Harrison Ave., in Kearny on Monday morning, according to Kearny police...." Reference: www.nj.com

Documentary that looks at hostile workplaces; Royal Oak

 
'Murder by Proxy'
"...A Congressional committee determined McIlvane was a powder keg ready to blow because of petty, intimidating, even "reprehensible" managers at the Royal Oak Post Office...."
Reference: www.dailytribune.com

 

Alleged Al. shooter linked to mail bomb attempt

  Alleged Ala. shooter linked to mail bomb attempt
"...the University of Alabama professor accused of shooting three colleagues and an attempted mail bombing of a Harvard professor. Officials said Amy Bishop..."
Reference: whdh.com

 

FBI Investigating White Powder Sent To Alabama Gov't Offices

 
FBI Investigating White Powder Sent To Alabama Gov't Offices
"...Birmingham, Alabama, United States (AHN) - Nine letters containing suspicious white substance has been mailed to government offices in Alabama, causing one office to be evacuated and a U.S. congressman to be quarantined.

Read more: http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7017431392#ixzz0cDo46HPd
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Reference: www.allheadlinenews.com

 

Thieving Mailman Nets Jail Time For Flix

 
Thieving Mailman Nets Jail Time For Flix
"Springfield, MA (AHN) - ...plead guilty this week to stealing more than 30,000 DVDs from the mail. Weathers, who worked at the Postal Service's bulk processing center..."

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Reference: www.allheadlinenews.com

 

Women accused of using post office to ship drugs plead not guilty

 
Women accused of using post office to ship drugs plead not guilty
"...conspiracy with intent to distribute, possession with intent to distribute and using the postal facility at Los Indios to distribute nearly 500 pounds of the illegal drug, records show...."
Reference: www.brownsvilleherald.com