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, bills and even a college acceptance letter from 2007 were among 20,000 letters found inside the garage of a Philadelphia postal carrier. When the mailman missed several days of work in April, postal officials went to his Port Richmond home and found tubs and tubs of undelivered and unopened mail. The postal worker, who has yet to be identified, worked out of the Bustleton station in Northeast Philadelphia. The neighborhood most impacted is located near Castor Avenue and Benton Street. One of those affected was desperate to receive a $900 check in December 2007. The letter just arrived on...

Overwhelmed by piles of junk mail, 'Mailman Steve' quit bringing it to the people on his North Carolina route. Customers are grateful. The Direct Marketing Assn., however, is not amused. Sick of junk mail? Pay homage, then, to overstressed, overworked mailman Steven Padgett, who has confessed to a cardinal sin among the letter carriers tribe: He failed to deliver. "Mailman Steve" -- a pudgy, kindly 58-year-old who toiled along a route in a rapidly growing neighborhood here -- was given probation in federal court this week for squirreling away at least seven years' worth of undelivered junk mail, which he...

Mailman arrested for stealing cards BY JOHN MARZULLI DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Saturday, December 8th 2007, 4:00 AM Every thief has a hallmark, and a Brooklyn letter carrier is the Greeting Card Bandit. The feds arrested Michael Olivio this week after an elaborate sting operation to identify the Grinch-like mailman in Bath Beach who intercepted hundreds of greeting cards for the cash inside, the Daily News has learned. After receiving complaints from residents in the 11214 area code, the bait was set. Special Agent Stephen Dolloff mailed "test greeting card letters" to the postal customers who had complained. One customer...

Peeved Patron Plugs Postal Worker Resident Shoots Chicago Postal Worker for Allegedly Delivering the Mail Too Late The Associated Press CHICAGO A postal worker in Chicago was shot in the leg late Tuesday after a resident along his postal route allegedly became angry that he was delivering the mail too late. Police said Denny Robinson, 31, was delivering mail around 6:30 p.m. in Chicago's West Pullman neighborhood when he was shot in the thigh. Robinson was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment for the non-life-threatening injury. Authorities said witnesses reported hearing a person yelling the postal worker was delivering...

MIDI SITE for Please Mr. Postman (choose -- please_mr.postman-the_carpenters.mid) Hey, hey, wait a minute Mr. Postman...Mr. Paw, you're my favorite postman Hey, Mr. Postman, look and see...are there big bucks in your bag for me I think that ten grand would be nice...do you think you could deliver twice George Soros supplies me well...but the FEC I'll never tell I need more money from small folks...no, I'm not kidding, it isn't a joke I do not like to be keep waiting, Postman...do not dare mess with me-e-e Although you're Asian, if irritated, I'll be calling you an F'n J.B....

Police: Mailman In Uniform Arrested In Drug Sting Postal Worker Intended To Sell Cocaine, Authorities Say POSTED: 3:26 pm EDT July 24, 2007 UPDATED: 7:04 am EDT July 25, 2007 INDIANAPOLIS -- A postal carrier wearing his work uniform was arrested this week after he tried to buy crack cocaine from undercover officers with the intention of dealing it, police said. James A. Hunter, 46, was arrested Monday at 2708 E. Thompson Road on suspicion of smoking a small sample of cocaine he allegedly accepted from the officers and asking for a price on 2 ounces of the drug, police...

Dogs Bite Mail Carriers Most In California (May 17, 2007)--It looks like mail carriers have a better chance of being bitten in California than any place else in America. As Dog Bite Awareness Week kicks off Thursday, the Post Office is releasing information on where the biggest problems are for carriers, and noting safety tips for dog owners. The New York metropolitan area had no record of a mail carrier bitten last year. Santa Ana, Calif. had the most: 96. In fact, of the top-five most likely places where mail carriers are bitten, three are in California. One carrier in...

Marital sex single greatest HIV risk for women around the world. For a growing number of women in rural Mexico – and around the world – marital sex represents their single greatest risk for HIV infection. According to a new Mailman School of Public Health Study, because marital infidelity by men is so deeply ingrained across many cultures, existing HIV prevention programs are putting a growing number of women at risk of developing the HIV virus. The findings, indicating that globally, prevention programs that take a "just say no” approach and encourage men to be monogamous are unlikely to be...

A former junior banker at Merrill Lynch yesterday confessed to of a brazen insider-trading scheme that also enlisted an exotic dancer, a retired Croatian seamstress, a New Jersey mailman and moles inside a BusinessWeek print shop..........the Trans-Atlantic stock fraud scam that racked up $6.7 million in ill-gotten gains....... Trading on tips from the young banker on six big mergers netted $6.4 million of the illicit profits, making it by far the most lucrative scheme concocted by the insider-trading ring's masterminds, Eugene Plotkin, 27, and David Pajcin, 29. The pair, who met while they both worked at Goldman Sachs, recruited Shpigelman...

LOWELL -- Santana Baez and Luis Carmona didn't want to keep any illegal drugs in their apartment in case it got raided, police said. So they put their stash inside their mailbox at 11 Allen St., Unit 302, in the city's Belvidere neighborhood, apparently forgetting the postal carrier comes on Monday, said Police Sgt. James Trudel. According to police, the carrier thought the boxes were outgoing mail but then found heroin in one and cocaine in the other.

U.S. Marine Corps Pfc. Glennon Parks Jr. Mailman Sheds Weight, Obtains Age Waiver to Join Corps By Sgt. Scott Whittington 4th Marine Corps District EVANSVILLE, Ind., Feb. 14, 2006 —He already has an eagle on his uniform, but now he’s ready to put that one on hold for another – the eagle, globe and anchor. This 34-year-old, postal worker hung up his mailbag and headed for Parris Island Oct. 12 but not without a few bumps in the road. Glennon Parks Jr., has been a postal worker for the last 15 years. He started at the U.S. Postal Service...

Dan LeBlanc’s neighbour says he saw a Canada Post carrier open the gate of LeBlanc’s Spryfield yard and shake his tied-up husky-shepherd mix, Silver. (Photo: Darrell Oake) Dan LeBlanc is livid after a neighbour says he witnessed a Canada Post carrier enter his yard and vigorously shake his dog Thursday morning. “I wouldn’t treat her like that and I sure as hell don’t want Canada Post treating her like that,” said the 39-year-old from Spryfield. LeBlanc keeps his dog Silver tied up next to a doghouse in a fenced yard. His mailbox is attached to the outside of the fence....

Faced With Debt, Georgia Man Shot Postal Worker in Apparent Bid to Go to PrisonBy Kristen Wyatt Associated Press Writer Published: Jul 14, 2005 SNELLVILLE, Ga. (AP) - Earl Lazenby had delivered mail for years to the aging brown home with overgrown plants in the yard and a National Rifle Association sticker on the front door. The home's owner was always friendly, sometimes chatting with Lazenby at the grocery store in this Atlanta suburb. But what Lazenby didn't know was that William Crutchfield was deep in debt and looking for a way out. Crutchfield apparently watched with envy as Olympic...

Mama Rangel and the Mailman March 3, 2005 BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Charlie Rangel is back. Here he's accusing the president of pitting young against old, and black against white. RANGEL: The president has attempted to polarize sometimes the young against the old [sic] by saying they're getting a bad deal, or the black males against the white males saying that we have a disparity. RUSH: All right, stop the tape. Look, the fact of the matter is, folks, that the simple answer to this is, it is the Democrats who specifically divide groups against each other. It's in their playbook....

NEW YORK -- Authorities believe a U.S. postal employee in custody here helped draft a letter of introduction that may have been used by two men who posed as journalists to assassinate a leading opposition figure in Afghanistan last fall, according to a U.S. official familiar with the case.Click here for full Washington Post article

One of the National Basketball Association greats has decided to call it quits. Karl Malone, who has not played this season because of injuries, officially announced his retirement Sunday at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City. Malone made the long-expected announcement at the home arena of the Utah Jazz, the team he played with for 18 of his 19 seasons. "I would like to officially announce my retirement from the game of basketball, playing-wise," he said. "Now, where that leads to after that, in some capacity, we will sit down and make that decision as a family." Malone, 41,...

For years, the U.S. Postal Service has subscribed to the philosophy that “neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” But if snow, rain and heat don’t stop your mail from getting delivered, its supposed anti-Islamic (or overtly Christian or Jewish) content just might. According to “Operation Iraqi Freedom” mailing tips announced by the USPS on March 25, 2003, the following items are prohibited from being mailed to troops stationed in the Middle East: obscene articles (prints, paintings, cards, films, videotapes, etc.); any matter containing religious materials...

Lazy postman George Lamb pocketed more than 17,000 letters, parcels and birthday cards because he could not be bothered to deliver them. Lamb of Avison Court, Fenham, Newcastle, stole cash, vouchers and presents while on his round in Fenham and was only caught after police trapped him through a fake package. He took nearly 17,500 parcels, letters, cards and packages, removing cash from 1,688 greetings cards, keeping hold of 7,331 door-to-door promotional packages and charity appeals, and storing 8,440 parcels in his flat in Newcastle. Post Office staff became suspicious after complaints from angry residents in the Fenham area who...

Affidavit says ex-con told postal officials he was just trying to get money to buy a ring before his wedding the next day Willie James Glover told federal agents he just wanted to do right by the woman he was about to marry. That's why he tried to rob a mailman. A federal grand jury in Mobile last week indicted Glover, 46, on a single charge of assaulting a postal employee. Glover's rap sheet dates back 25 years and includes arrests for robbery and assault. As of Thursday night, he was in Mobile County Metro Jail on a possible parole...

<p>NEW YORK (AP) -- A Staten Island postal worker was denied bail Friday after prosecutors promised a "mountain of proof" would show he assisted terrorists.</p> <p>Ahmed Abdel Sattar, 41, was ordered held by U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl, who said no bail conditions could protect the community or guarantee he would not flee.</p>