Tag: USPS

NTD News Today Full Broadcast (July 13)

Democrats and Republicans voice their support for Cuban protesters, Texas Democratic lawmakers flee the Lone Star State to block GOP election reform, and Judicial Watch sues the USPS for records about a program that reportedly monitors Americans’ social media posts and forwards that information to law enforcement agencies.


California Dogs Lead Nation in Mail Carrier Attacks

Nearly 800 postal workers were attacked by dogs last year throughout California, a state that leads the nation in postal carrier canine bites. In Garden Grove, one of California’s top danger zones for United States Postal Service (USPS) workers, officials held a press conference June 16 in conjunction with National Dog Bite Awareness Week. Victims…


USPS Employee Pleads Guilty to Dumping Mail, Including Election Ballots in New Jersey

A man who was formerly employed as a USPS mail carrier has admitted to discarding mail, including nearly 100 general election ballots, the Justice Department said on Thursday. Nicholas Beauchene, 26, of Kearny, New Jersey, has pleaded guilty to one count of desertion of mails, in which he discarded about 1,875 pieces of mail destined for…


Former Postal Employee Pleads Guilty to Dumping Mail, Including Election Ballots

A man who was formerly employed as a USPS mail carrier has admitted to discarding mail, including nearly 100 general election ballots, the Justice Department said on Thursday. Nicholas Beauchene, 26, of Kearny, New Jersey, has pleaded guilty to one count of desertion of mails, in which he discarded about 1,875 pieces of mail destined for…


Two USPS Employees Plead Guilty In Los Angeles To EDD Fraud

LOS ANGELES—Two United States Postal Service employees pleaded guilty May 24 in Los Angeles to federal criminal charges accusing them of unlawfully buying and cashing tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of postal money orders with unemployment benefits fraudulently obtained with false claims of COVID-related job losses. Christian Jeremyah James, 31, of South Los Angeles,…


RAND Study: Public Trust in CDC Falls During Pandemic

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (CNS)—Public trust in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has fallen during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the decline bringing overall population-level trust in the federal agency to the same level of trust long held by Black individuals about the agency, according to a study released April 5 by the Santa…


House Democrats Introduce Bill to Give $6 Billion to USPS for Electric Delivery Vehicles

WASHINGTON—A group of 17 U.S. House Democrats on Monday are introducing legislation on Monday that would award $6 billion to the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to buy tens of thousands of additional electric delivery vehicles. The bill sponsored by Representative Jared Huffman and seen by Reuters would require at least 75 percent of the new…


USPS Worker Saves Elderly Woman’s Life After Noticing 3 Days’ Worth of Uncollected Mail

Noticing that an elderly woman on her delivery route hadn’t collected her mail for three days, a USPS worker grew increasingly concerned. However, the phone call she made next has been credited with saving the senior citizen’s life. Shonda Lemon, 34, has worked as a USPS mail carrier in Chicago, Illinois, for eight years. She…