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Busiest Day For Post Offices
CHICAGO (WBBM) – This is the busiest day of the year for post offices all across the country. WBBM’s Newsradio 780’s Bernie Tafoya was out talking to people who were mailing last minute cards and...
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Thieves Target Mail Carriers On South Side
CHICAGO (CBS) – On Chicago’s South Side, someone’s been targeting mail carriers. As CBS 2’s Kristyn Hartman learned, they’re stealing bundles of mail knowing some of it could have money or checks...
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Postal Service Plans Normal Operations
CHICAGO (CBS) ) — You know the old saying about how snow will not keep postal carriers from their appointed rounds? Actually, that’s not even the official motto of the U.S. Postal Service. However,...
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Prison Inmate Suspected Of Mailing Powder To Grundy Courthouse
MORRIS, Ill. (CBS) — Authorities have identified a prison inmate as the person allegedly responsible for sending a suspicious powder to the Grundy County courthouse last month. As WBBM Newsradio’s...
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Postal Service Confirms Cuts That Will Slow Mail Down
UPDATED 12/05/11 4:24 p.m. CHICAGO (CBS) — If you still mail a check to pay your bills, it’s going to take longer for them to get where they’re going starting in January. As CBS 2’s Susanna Song...
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Former Mail Carrier Admits Stealing $275K In Charity Donations
CHICAGO (CBS) – A former mail carrier has pleaded guilty to stealing $275,000 in donations that had been mailed to a charity on his route in west suburban Berwyn. Frederick L. Taylor, a mail carrier at...
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Off-Duty Cop Catches Mail Thief
CHICAGO (CBS) — A Chicago police officer spotted a mail heist yesterday afternoon on the West Side, but wasn’t in a position to stop it. “I saw a postal truck and the window was broken out,” said...
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Ex-Postal Carrier Gets 2 1/2 Years For Stealing $275K In Charity Donations
CHICAGO (CBS) – A former mailman who figured he needed the money more than “The Servants of Mary” was sentenced to 2 ½ years in prison on Tuesday, for stealing mail containing more than $275,000 in...
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2 Investigators: Complaints Growing Over Undelivered Mail
(CBS) — Regular mail delivery is taken for granted by most people, but now there’s been a growing chorus of complaints from residential neighborhoods across the city to businesses in the Loop. The CBS...
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Hundreds Of Pieces Of Mail Found Dumped In Trash
CHICAGO (CBS) – Postal inspectors were investigating why more than 600 pieces of mail were dumped in the trash in the North Park neighborhood last week. The inspector general’s office for the U.S....
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Feds Investigate Missing-Mail Complaints In Lake Forest
(CBS)—Federal authorities are investigating complaints from Lake Forest residents that letters and checks were not being delivered. It isn’t known how widespread the problem may be. But officials are...
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26 Years Later, City Sticker Renewal Arrives In Mail
CHICAGO (CBS) — It’s called snail mail for a reason. A check for a city vehicle sticker arrived in the mail this week at Clerk Susana Mendoza’s office. It was mailed 26 years ago! The Chicago Bears...
View ArticleMail Held 8 Years By Israel Finally Reaches Palestinians In West Bank
(CBS) — For the first time in eight years, Palestinians are receiving international mail. Letters, packages, presents and even a wheelchair have arrived in the West Bank after Israel released 10 tons...
View ArticleMail Service Moving At A Snail’s Pace In Lakeview
CHICAGO (CBS) — Monday is a holiday, so no one gets mail. But in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood, some residents said that happens all the time. Mail service so bad, a Chicago congressman sent a...
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Florida Man Pleads Guilty To Mailing Bombs To Trump Foes
(AP) — A Florida man pleaded guilty Thursday to sending pipe bombs to CNN and prominent critics of President Donald Trump in a wave of attacks that harmed no one but spread fear of political violence...
View ArticleArlington Heights Residents Are Fed Up With The Lost And Late Mail, Say...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (CBS) — No mail, late mail, stolen mail, someone else’s mail – all of these are complaints we’ve heard from residents in Arlington Heights. They are fed up with the U.S. Postal...
View ArticleSome Hyde Park Residents Say They’ve Gotten No Mail For Weeks, Are Missing...
CHICAGO (CBS) — No mail for weeks – it’s an issue in Hyde Park, where CBS 2 heard from a few people who are missing shipments they need. CBS 2’s Tara Molina talked to an elderly man who relies on...
View ArticleAfter CBS 2 Report, More Chicagoans Say They Haven’t Been Getting Mail; Union...
CHICAGO (CBS) — No mail for weeks – we’ve learned it’s not just one Chicago neighborhood waiting. CBS 2’s Tara Molina first exposed the issue Tuesday night in Hyde Park. But now, she has learned...
View ArticleMembers Of Congress Address Growing Complaints About Inconsistent USPS...
CHICAGO (CBS) — Inconsistent deliveries, mail missing for weeks – CBS 2’s Tara Molina continued Thursday night to dig into U.S. Postal Service issues across Chicago. On Thursday, Molina asked our...
View ArticleRep. Bobby Rush Hosts Townhall After CBS 2 Reports On Chicagoans Getting Mail...
CHICAGO (CBS) — Delayed mail service and sometimes even no service – CBS 2 has been on the case for months in neighborhoods across the city. On Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Illinois) told CBS 2’s...
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Mail-Sorting Machines Taken Out Of Service At Main Post Office, O’Hare, Union...
CHICAGO (CBS) — On Monday, CBS 2 learned that mail-sorting machines are being taken out of service at Chicago’s Main Post Office west of the Loop and also at O’Hare International Airport. The claim...
View ArticleChicago Mail Carriers Threaten To Stop Delivering In Some Neighborhoods...
CHICAGO (CBS) — Chicago postal workers, saying it is too dangerous to deliver the mail, are threatening to stop delivering in some neighborhoods one week after a mail carrier was shot on her route....
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West Englewood Mother, Son Say They’ve Gotten No Mail In More Than A Week,...
CHICAGO (CBS) — For months, we have exposed mail delays hitting Chicago neighborhoods hard. On Tuesday night, CBS 2’s Tara Molina took us to West Englewood, where one woman just wants to make her vote...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Cases At Post Offices May Be To Blame For Spotty Mail Service In...
RIVERDALE, Ill. (CBS) — Spotty mail service has people in the south suburbs fired up – and worried about the holiday season. They are issues that CBS 2’s Tara Molina first investigated months ago. On...
View ArticleHow To Protect Holiday Packages From Porch Pirates; ‘It Wasn’t Just...
CHICAGO (CBS) — Caught on surveillance video: a man running up a set of stairs isn’t going to visit friends. He’s part of a team that’s stealing packages. And the pandemic means more opportunities for...
View ArticleResidents Served By Mount Greenwood Post Office Say They’ve Had Problems With...
CHICAGO (CBS) — Postal problems have been a side effect of the pandemic – but not in this case. People served by the Mount Greenwood Post Office – which serves the Mount Greenwood neighborhood as well...
View ArticleLocal Mayor Tries To Get To The Bottom Of Bad Mail Service; ‘It’s Very...
CHICAGO (CBS) — One local mayor is so fed up with the bad mail service in his area, he went to the post office to demand action. CBS 2’s Jeremy Ross went along to find out what could be done. There are...
View ArticleUSPS Says There Are No Delays At Post Office In Bronzeville; Woman Waiting On...
CHICAGO (CBS) — A Bronzeville woman relies on disability checks to get through the week. The only problem is that she says she can’t rely on the U.S. Postal Service to deliver. On Thursday night, CBS...
View ArticleONLY ON 2: Postal Worker Says Many Staffers Are Coming Down With COVID-19,...
CHICAGO (CBS) — A Chicago-area postal worker who is battling COVID-19 spoke out Monday out about the mail service delays and issues we’ve spent months uncovering, across the city and surrounding...
View ArticleMaria Quiroz Became A U.S. Citizen In October, But Now The Documents To Prove...
CHICAGO (CBS) — The pandemic delayed Maria Quiroz’s becoming a U.S. citizen, and then the U.S. Postal Service lost the documents she needs to prove she has done so. For months, we have investigated...
View ArticleNeighbors Say Mail Problems Are Improving At Mount Greenwood Post Office, But...
CHICAGO (CBS) — For weeks, we have been showing you scenes of packages piled up outside the post office in the Mount Greenwood neighborhood. Neighbors told use they have had mail problems for months....
View ArticleNorthwest Indiana Woman Fears Items She Mailed To Her Son In Georgia For...
CROWN POINT, Ind. (CBS) — Chances are Christmas is coming a little later than usual for some in the Chicago area, as gifts sent through the U.S. Postal Service were still in limbo a day after Christmas...
View ArticleAuburn Gresham Woman Fit To Be Tied With No Mail For More Than A Month
CHICAGO (CBS) — Some Auburn Gresham neighborhood residents have been without mail for more than a month – and even in temperatures well below freezing, there is a line of people outside the Post Office...
View ArticleU.S. Post Office Blamed Short Staffing For Problems With Mail In Chicago, But...
CHICAGO (CBS) — We have been reporting on mail problems for months, and we are still getting bombarded with emails and calls from people saying delivery is only getting worse. So CBS 2 Political...
View ArticleSouth Shore Woman Says She And Her Neighbors Haven’t Had Mail For Over A...
CHICAGO (CBS) — We continue to hear from people across Chicago dealing with missing and delayed mail. CBS 2’s Tara Molina started investigating the issues more than six months ago and the USPS has yet...
View ArticleCongressman Bobby Rush Calls On Chicago Postmaster General To Resign...
CHICAGO (CBS) — Anyone who got mail in Chicago Thursday should feel lucky. The United State Postal Service said all downtown routes felt the effects of weather and the pandemic. But the failures inside...
View ArticleMore Long Lines At Chicago Post Offices, Complaints About Missing Mail...
CHICAGO (CBS) — Lines were long and fuses were short this weekend as more mail delivery frustrations played out at post offices around Chicago. As CBS 2’s Steven Graves reported, one couple having to...
View ArticleMan Who Moved From Chicago Gets His Forwarded Mail Delivered 3 Months Late
CHICAGO (CBS) — This is one of the most epic mail fails we’ve heard about – and thanks to the Post Office’s own letter stickers, we can show you just how lousy it was. As CBS 2’s Jermont Terry...
View ArticleUSPS Investigates More Than $100,000 Dollars In Mailed Checks Stolen By Scammers
CHICAGO (CBS) — Somewhere between dropping checks in the mail and them getting in the hands of the people they are written to, they are disappearing — more than $100,000 worth. It’s a story CBS 2 broke...
View ArticleDolton Man, Kelvin Dortch Jr., Charged With Mail Theft After Mail From Park...
UPDATED 09/23/21 11:13 p.m. PARK RIDGE, Ill. (CBS) — A man was arrested in Dolton last week in connection to a series of mail thefts from blue U.S. Postal Service collection boxes. Postal inspectors...
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