Oh yeah, wait a minute Mr. Postman—are you even really a postman? The FBI says that a bank robber disguised as a UPS worker hit up a Queens bank yesterday. And this bank robber made sure not to mistakenly hand his gun to the cashier. more ›

Apple products are, undoubtably, hot these days. And hot Apple products are worth a lot in the secondary market. Just ask all those subway iPhone grabbers. And with the next Apple product still under wraps, it seems that thieves are making do stealing Apple wares off of international flights and off of UPS trucks! more ›

Connecticut police seized more than $6 million worth of cocaine yesterday which authorities are calling one of the biggest drug busts in state history. And they couldn't have done it without logistics-obsessed delivering company UPS. more ›

Did the weather delay the delivery of your new Kenneth Cole items? That's UPS's story, and they're stickin' to it. According to the NY Post, the company continued to blame "emergency conditions" beyond their control for late, and not-yet-delivered packages yesterday. more ›

UPS has filed a lawsuit with the Manhattan Supreme Court to keep former employee, 28-year-old Wesley Anderson, from showing up at their facility on West 43rd Street. Anderson was reportedly fired on August 22, 2000 after a "package-hurling fight," but has shown at least five times in the past year, claiming to still be employed. The suit claims, "As a former employee, defendant Anderson has unique knowledge of the 43rd Street facility's various entrances and security procedures." Luckily, the Post made a "going postal" joke so we didn't have to. more ›

The Transportation Security Administration is investigating reports of suspicious packages on UPS planes in Newark and Philadelphia. And now the NYPD bomb squad is investigating a UPS truck in downtown Brooklyn! Update: The packages have been cleared, but now officials think this might have been part of a dry run for a bomb-by-mail plot (more info below). more ›

Two men were arrested for allegedly stealing four packages—which contained over $6,000 in diamonds—from a UPS truck in the Diamond District last week. According to the Post, Pedro Montanez and Juan Rivera had "swiped nearly $20,000 worth of diamond charms and rings from two UPS trucks and a Rockefeller Center office tower" on May 10 and 19. But then last week, a cop noticed them casing the UPS truck at West 48th and 6th Avenue for 45 minutes. "After Rivera stole the packages, the officer quickly moved in." The pair were charged with grand larceny. An oldie-but-goodie: A UPS deliveryman's scheme to "steal" cellphones bought with stolen credit card numbers. more ›

[UPDATE BELOW] It's so important to diversify your portfolio. With a police sketch of his likeness taped to brownstone stoops throughout the West Village, the fake deliveryman suspected in a string of home invasion robberies has apparently taken his act back uptown. Yesterday afternoon, a nanny entering a West 81st Street apartment with a 5-month-old boy was followed into the building by the suspect, who was carrying a pile of packages. Once inside, he brandished a knife and forced his way into the apartment. more ›

The front steps of brownstones throughout the West Village are now decorated with police sketches of a man suspected in a string of home invasions during the past few weeks. The man has sometimes posed a UPS worker to gain access to five apartments since his first job on October 16th, when he entered the home of an 84-year-old woman on Bank Street after asking her for a glass of water. While she retrieved the refreshment, he fled with a cell phone and a watch. more ›

Last Thursday night, a fake UPS deliveryman bound a nanny and robbed a West Village brownstone. The Post reports that a 50-something white male, pretending to be a UPS worker, first asked the nanny to sign for a fake package and then placed a sharp object against the back of her head, forcing her into the apartment. He tied her up (but not the 3-year-old charge) and took a MacBook, Apple TV, cable modem, camera and $40. When leaving, he told the nanny she could untie herself in 10 minutes. Police are investigating whether this home invasion is connected to an earlier break-in at an apartment on 9th near 5th Avenue. more ›

Three UPS employees and a fourth man were arrested earlier this week after police followed a package filled with heroin to a 29th St. address. The package had been identified as being filled with drugs at a UPS distribution hub in Kentucky. more ›