New Jersey Postmaster Indicted for Sexual Assault

Gabriel Ekram Pagabe Ali, 47, is charged by indictment with sexually assaulting the victim, an employee of the U.S. Postal Service while on duty as a postmaster at the U.S. Post Office in Teaneck.

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Former APWU – South Jersey Area Local Secretary/Treasurer Pleads Guilty To Embezzling $34,500

On August 8, 2019, in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey (Camden), Robert Peter, former Secretary/Treasurer of American Postal Workers Union (APWU) Local 526 (located in Blackwood, N.J.), was charged in an information with one count of embezzling union funds in the amount of $34,500, in violation of 29 U.S.C….

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New Jersey Local APWU Secretary-Treasurer Admits Embezzlement

DOJ Press Release – August 8, 2019 CAMDEN, N.J. – A former secretary-treasurer of a U.S. Postal Workers Union today admitted embezzling $34,500 of union funds, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced. Robert Peter, 58, of Sicklerville, New Jersey, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Noel Hillman in Camden federal court to an information charging him…

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OIG Report: Consolidation of Mail for Dallas and New Jersey NDCs

Background Highway Contract Routes (HCR) are competitive fixed-price contracts the U.S. Postal Service awards to contractors to transport mail between post offices, network distribution centers (NDC), and other designated stops. In fiscal year (FY) 2016, the Postal Service spent about $3 billion for about 8,664 HCRs. The Postal Service uses 21 NDCs to increase operational…

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Inside a NJ post office: How your holiday mail gets delivered on time

[maxgallery id=”43007″]By Alex Young – December 11, 2015 BELLMAWR — The United States Postal Service processing plant in Bellmawr serves as the main center for every postal delivery in South Jersey. “Think of it as the hub, and every associated post office is like the spokes,” said Ray Daiutolo Sr., Communications Programs Specialist for the…

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USPS: “Under No Circumstances” should employees be charging personal cell phones using Government Outlets and Computers

“Postal Banana Policy“ Somebody slipped on a banana peel at some post office somewhere. Response: “No one will ever eat a banana in the post office ever again.”

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Amazon Fresh grocery delivery expands to New Jersey

By Jason Del Rey – May 8, 2015 Get ready to see bright green Amazon delivery trucks in the Garden State. Amazon has quietly expanded its Amazon Fresh grocery delivery business to parts of Northern New Jersey, a check of its Amazon Fresh website found. ZIP code checks showed that Amazon is delivering groceries and…

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Twenty years later: Montclair looks back at Watchung Plaza Post Office shooting

“I think we’re in mourning,” Teresa Elliot, a commuter using the Watchung Avenue Train Station, told The Montclair Times 20 years ago this week. “It doesn’t seem real.” Elliot’s comments came just hours after a quadruple homicide in the Watchung Plaza Post Office left two postal workers, Ernest Spruill and Stanley Scott Walensky, and two…

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