"A heartbreaking loss": Perez Hilton reacts after Air Force veteran Nicholas Acker dies in shocking post office accident days after proposing

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American blogger and columnist Perez Hilton recently shared his reaction after Air Force veteran Nicholas Acker tragically lost his life this past weekend. According to The Daily Mail, the 36-year-old US Postal Service employee died after getting stuck in a mail-handling machine at the Detroit Network Distribution Center in Allen Park.

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Acker Nicholas died in Michigan after becoming trapped in a conveyor belt system that sorts and prepares mail for delivery. He was stuck in the machine for 6-8 hours before the Allen Park Fire Department arrived at the facility on Saturday, November 8. The 36-year-old had reportedly proposed to his partner, Stephanie Jaszcz, just ten days before his gruesome death.

After multiple reports confirmed Nicholas Acker’s tragic death, Perez Hilton took to his blog and shared his reaction. On November 13, 2025, the media personality wrote:

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“What a heartbreaking loss.”

According to Perez Hilton’s blog, Acker’s fiancé, Stephanie Jaszcz, got worried after he didn’t come home from his shift. She reportedly also waited outside the facility for hours before firefighters arrived. It is still unclear how exactly the Air Force veteran got caught in the machinery.

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Meanwhile, the US Postal Service released a statement to the media saying:

“The United States Postal Service is deeply saddened by the loss of our employee at the Detroit Network Distribution Center (NDC) in Allen Park, MI. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family. The NDC is fully operational, at this time.”


Nicholas Acker’s fiancé slams the US Postal Service for failing to honor his death

Nicholas Acker and Stephanie Jaszcz (Image via Facebook/ @StephanieJaszcz)
Nicholas Acker and Stephanie Jaszcz (Image via Facebook/ @StephanieJaszcz)

While the officials concluded the incident was an accident, Stephanie Jaszcz slammed US Postal Service for prioritizing mail service operations and not acknowledging her late fiancé’s accomplishments to the company and the country after his passing. In a statement to the New York Daily News, she expressed her outrage, saying:

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“The mail’s still moving? Gross. ‘Sorry about the loss, but the mail’s still moving.’ They couldn’t even say his name or acknowledge that he was an Air Force veteran. A man gone. A veteran. A husband. A human being. And all you can think of is mail keeps moving? Inhumane. It’s gross.”
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The Michigan native reportedly served in the Air Force for nearly a decade. He had also worked at the US Postal Service facility for more than a year.

Perez Hilton also noted that Nicholas Acker’s fiance, Stephanie Jaszcz acknowledged her loss in a Facebook post on Sunday, November 9, 2025.

“Nick, I don’t know how to do this without you. I don’t want to. You were my safe place, my steady, my laughter when the world felt too heavy. And now everything feels off-kilter, like the ground forgot how to hold me. It’s not fair… I keep reaching for you in the dark. I keep hoping this is a bad dream I’ll wake up from. But it’s real. And it hurts. And I hate it.”
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For the unversed, according to an obituary reported on by People and other media outlets, Nicholas Acker is survived by his parents and brother. He was born in Dearborn, a suburb of Detroit, to his parents Gary and Patricia Acker,

Edited by Afreen Shaikh
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