The Postal Service plans to install 12,000 high security blue collection boxes nationwide to make access to mail more difficult for criminals. The agency also plans to replace mail carriers' antiquated arrow lock keys with 49,000 electronic locks.
USPS will offer enhanced in-person change of address transactions starting May 31. Customers seeking a change of address will now receive a validation letter at their old address and receive an activation letter at their new address. The Postal Service will no longer accept third-party change of address submissions.
USPS says residents can take several actions to prevent mail theft: -Don’t let incoming or outgoing mail sit in your mailbox. Reduce the chance of being victimized by removing your mail from your mailbox every day.
- Deposit outgoing mail through a number of secure manners including inside your local post office, at your place of business, or by handing it to a letter carrier.
- Sign up for Informed Deliver and get daily digest emails that preview your mail and packages scheduled to arrive soon.
- Become involved in neighborhood watches and local social media groups to spread awareness and share information.
- Keep an eye out for your letter carrier. If you see something that looks suspicious, or you see someone following your carrier, call 911.
Customers are encouraged to report stolen mail as soon as possible by submitting an online complaint to the Postal Inspection Service here or calling 877-876-2455.
A New Jersey mayor says buses of migrants bound for New York City have been stopping at the train station in his town and others in an apparent effort to evade an executive order by New York's mayor trying to regulate how and when migrants can be dropped off in the city.
The world population grew by 75 million people over the past year and on New Year's Day, it was estimated to stand at more than 8 billion people, according to figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday.
UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow. Wisconsin-La Crosse fired Gow on Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2023, after learning Gow and his wife have been producing and appearing in pornographic videos. Gow maintains the firing violated his free speech rights.
The U.S. military is now putting independent lawyers in charge of its investigations of sexual assault and other major crimes, what Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III has called the "most important reform" to the military justice system in recent history.
A decades-old law bans Medicare from paying for weight loss drugs. Now, drugmakers and a wide-ranging bipartisan coalition of lawmakers are gearing up to push for that to change next year.
Barring a court order, in March Texas police will start being able to arrest people they suspect have entered the U.S. illegally, but increases in border crossings since a 2021 law authorizing some arrests shows the limits of that approach in the face of desperation that causes people to risk everything and travel thousands of miles to the U.S.
