USPS Stamp Out Hunger food drive starts this weekend
Customers are asked to leave bags containing non-perishable food items next to their mail boxes on Saturday.
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Customers are asked to leave bags containing non-perishable food items next to their mail boxes on Saturday.
The letter carriers will collect the donations and and distribute them to local food banks. Over the last 30 years, the drive has collected nearly two billion pounds of food.
If you're looking for a job, the united states postal service might be looking for you.
You can apply at the Chicago Network Distribution Center at 7500 Roosevelt Road in Forest Park and the Palatine Processing and Distribution Center located at 1300 East Northwest Highway.
In 2018, armed robbers hit 36 letter carriers, but by 2021, that number had jumped to 154.
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin delivered a message loud and clear to the U.S. Post Office on Monday: something must be done about the alarming trend of attacks on letter carriers. The crimes don't just harm the postal workers, but everyone on their routes. CBS 2's Marie Saavedra looked into three solutions that could help.
They're looking to fill a variety of positions across their Chicago and suburban locations.
They're looking to fill a variety of positions across their Chicago and suburban locations.
Durbin also wants to know why a rapid alert system to notify carriers if a crime was committed near their routes was discontinued in 2021.
The senator met with postal workers on Tuesday to talk about recent armed robberies on delivery routes.
The USPS will be in Villa Park on Wednesday.
Anyone wanting to learn more about jobs at the U.S. Postal Service has a few chances to do just that. USPS hosted a job fair on Tuesday, with two more set up for the next two days.
If you're looking for a job, there's a pair of hiring events happening today that you may want to check out.
The robberies happened in the afternoon and evening hours during the months of March and April.
A dozen postal workers were robbed at gunpoint across Chicago during March and April, and the thefts could affect your mail service.
The robberies happened in the afternoon and evening hours during the months of March and April.
The method is simliar each time: A group of one to three men wearing dark clothes and ski masks approaches a mail carrier, armed with guns, demanding the US postal keys, which is a kind of master key that unlocks some blocks of mailboxes.
Morning Insider Lauren Victory explained why the government's solution to the problem made neighbors even more mad.
Morning Insider Lauren Victory explained why the government's solution to the problem made neighbors even more mad.
Investigators said at 1:03 p.m. Monday, Feb. 13, the men robbed the letter carrier at 748 S. Francisco Ave., near Polk Street, in the East Garfield Park neighborhood.
A surveillance photo shows the suspects walking in an alley.
A Naperville man is sentenced to nine years in federal prison for ringleading a mail and identity theft conspiracy - resulting in over $400,000 in purchases with stolen credit cards.
The Schaumburg post office will now be named the Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan Memorial Post Office Building.
The couple ceremoniously shipped them off to their friends and family at the afterhours USPS drop box near their home.
CBS 2's Marissa Perlman has a bride's story on why she now wants the mail carrier to step up.
