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The 2020 United States Postal Service crisis was a series of events that caused backlogs and delays in the delivery of mail by the United States Postal Service (USPS). The crisis stems primarily from changes implemented by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy shortly after taking office in June 2020.
The U.S. Post Office, as it was known then, started a dead letter office in 1825 to deal with undeliverable mail. By 1893, it handled about 20,000 items every day. [ 6 ] Patti Lyle Collins was a long-time employee of the office, responsible for the redirection of an estimated 1,000 letters a day. [ 13 ]
A package redirection scam is a form of e-commerce fraud, where a malicious actor manipulates a shipping label, to trick the mail carrier into delivering the package to the wrong address. This is usually done through product returns to make the merchant believe that they mishandled the return package, and thus provide a refund without the item ...
A former U.S. Postal Service employee is headed to prison after federal prosecutors said she sold a USPS key for $2,500 — resulting in hundreds of pieces of mail stolen in Alabama.
The ex-mail sorter will have to pay back victims $108,692.49 as part of his plea deal with prosecutors, the Department of Justice said. Dozer is expected to face sentencing on April 22.
The USPS center, which opened Feb. 24, has experienced problems from the start, from lost mail to packages that get rerouted right before arriving to their destination. Only 36% of its inbound ...
The United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), or the Postal Inspectors, is the federal law enforcement arm of the United States Postal Service.It supports and protects the U.S. Postal Service, its employees, infrastructure, and customers by enforcing the laws that defend the United States' mail system from illegal or dangerous use.
Recent audit results released by the United States Postal Service Inspector General detail just how bad mail delivery issues in norther Minnesota have become.