SF News Armed Suspects Rob Mail Carrier In Dublin, Who Happened to Be 63 Years Old A 63-year-old woman who’s a postal carrier in Dublin was robbed of her mail keys and cellphone at gunpoint Monday afternoon by two masked suspects, and security camera footage has captured what appears to be the suspects’ vehicle.
SF News Outrage Grows Over Postal Carrier Robberies After Armed Robber Sentenced to Only 30 Days in Jail As robberies of postal carriers skyrocket in the Bay Area and nationwide, the Postal Service is up in arms over one suspect who committed an armed robbery of a mail carrier and only got a 30-day sentence.
SF News Another US Postal Service Mail Carrier Robbed, This Time in the Richmond District Another robbery of a mail carrier happened in the Richmond District Friday afternoon, and it’s not just a Bay Area thing, as robberies of postal workers have nearly doubled nationwide over the last year.
SF News US Postal Service Offering $50,000 Reward For Information On Suspect Who Robbed Mail Carrier This suspect in bright orange Warriors jacket stands accused of robbing a mail carrier of their postal keys, and the U.S. Postal Service is offering $50,000 for information leading to the suspect’s arrest.
SF News San Francisco Man Indicted on Felony Charges for Firing Gun at U.S. Postal Worker Vo Nguyen, 38, allegedly fired at least 15 shots at a mail carrier outside his house on Sparta Street in the Viz Valley neighborhood in April, and now faces up to 20 years in prison.
SF Politics Pelosi Shows Up at Bayview Post Office After Winning Apparent Concessions On Mail Delivery The postmaster general now claims he’s backing off his draconian postal service cutbacks, but Nancy Pelosi was in the Bayview Tuesday morning to vow she’ll keep pushing the envelope.
SF News Report: SF's Postal Service Is Incredibly Slow, Wastes $21 Million Per Year It's not just the food movement that's "slow" in the Bay Area. Postal Service employees in San Francisco move far less mail every hour than is typical of a processing and distribution center,
SF News City Attorney, Tenant Advocates Fight U.S. Postal Service Over Delivery Rules for SROs Under current U.S. Postal Service procedure, mail carriers aren't obligated to sort and deliver mail to individual occupants in single-room occupancy hotels, using instead a bulk delivery point like a desk clerk.
SF News Postal Service Selling Off North Beach Annex, Seven Other Post Offices in Bay Area You may recall last fall that we reported on the ever-dwindling number of corner mailboxes as the USPS slowly becomes obsolete, with over 800 having been removed in the past few years in
SF News Your Corner Mailbox? It Might Disappear Soon One very visible symbol of the shift from snail mail to email and all forms of electronic communication: Those blue mail boxes are disappearing! San Francisco's lost about 800 in the last couple
SF News Stamp Advisory Committee Considering Milk Stamp Speaking of cool postage stamps -- Remember when Bay Area Reporter talked about an effort that's underway to get San Francisco artist Jim Leff's stamp memorializing Harvey Milk made into an official U.
SF News Dog Dies in Postal Truck Inferno on I-880 Last night around 2AM near downtown Oakland, an empty U.S. Postal Service truck slammed into another truck that had pulled over along I-880 in order to assist a woman who was having
misc Registered to Vote? Deadline Tomorrow Those who still need to register to vote in time for the February 5 presidential primaries need to do so by tomorrow, January 22nd. Re-registering is necessary whenever you move, change your name,
misc This Week in Le Rock: January 21 - 27 Wednesday, there is the sold-out Ingrid Michaelson show that had to be moved from Cafe du Nord to Slim's because apparently everyone is into "librarian chic" right now. Though it's sold-out, you can
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight The Asian Art Museum's monthly throwdown, Matcha, kicks off around 6pm with DJs, tours, workshops and cocktails. The Live Action Cartoonists, a performance troupe that combines comics and theatre, will perform highlights from
Arts & Entertainment Dark Side of the Cop's Marco Panella New bands are always getting compared to other bands. Most of the up-and-comes suffer by this comparison. In rare cases, it may be helpful. Such is the case with Panella’s band, Dark
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: Cut Copy at Popscene Cut Copy's CD Bright Like Neon Love makes us smile and dance like no other CD we own. We haven't taken a shine to an upbeat electro-pop band like this since Tahiti 80.
Arts & Entertainment Indie Rock <em>Believer</em> The June music issue of The Believer will come packaged with a CD compilation of pure indie rock gold. We hear that local do-gooder and author extraordinaire Dave Eggers is behind the compilation,
Arts & Entertainment Damn, It Feels Good To Be An SFist! Special thanks to Noisepop for their ongoing support of SFist’s coverage of the festival. SFist has a hard time making it to opening bands. General tardiness, and memories of suffering through openers
Arts & Entertainment Local Band to Tour Libya I mean, when we heard from our musician friends that there weren't enough rehearsal spaces and music venues in the San Francisco area, we had no idea it was this bad. The Heavenly
