LATEST POSTAL NEWS  

USPS Meets With APWU On Plans To Consolidate Or Close Stations - At a meeting at USPS Headquarters on June 23, the Postal Service briefed APWU Clerk Craft officers about plans to consolidate operations in large stations and branches. Managers also provided the union with an updated list of 3,243 stations and branches in Level-24-and-above installations that are being reviewed. At the briefing, postal officials said that 740 already had been identified as candidates for consolidation and/or closing. Residents start petitions as USPS plans national review on consolidating branches | 13 Post Office Branches On the Line in Connecticut (7/1) |

Postal Carrier's Letter Ignites Complaints

A recent letter sent out by one postal carrier stated that residents needed to have their curbside mailbox put up “so there will be no delay in your mail’s delivery to your home.” The letter stated that due to the down economy, the postal service waited six months for the residents to comply with this request. It also stated that the curbside boxes would help the letter carrier deliver mail more efficiently. But Postmaster Julius Jones said the letter sent out by a carrier, which he did sign off on, miscommunicated the situation. (7/1) |

USPS Workforce Continues To Decline

The US Postal Service has reduced its career complement in the last twelve months from 669,372 to 633,046--a difference of 36,326. The clerk craft suffered the biggest reduction -- 197,966 to 182,592 (15,374). The other career employees categories also suffered a reduction from this same time last year such as the city carriers - 11,435 (202,971)  (6/30) |

Union Battles USPS Over Ergonomic Hazards

Locally Filed OSHA Complaints and a National Unfair Labor Practice Charge are among the actions taken by the APWU in our ongoing battle with the Postal Service over ergonomic hazards on the Delivery Bar Code Sorter (DBCS).The NLRB Regional Director has scheduled a hearing on July 20, 2009, on the allegations in the formal complaint filed May 1, 2009.  (6/29) |

USPS OIG: What’s the Right Level of Financial Reporting?

  How can the Postal Service provide you and other stakeholders with the most appropriate financial information?   (6/29) |

Postman doesn't even ring once

Patterson woman can't get home mail delivery because of distance rule
"Under the quarter-mile rule, (the U.S. Postal Service) exempted itself from providing carrier delivery service to customers who reside within a quarter-mile of noncity delivery post offices.."   (6/29) |

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OPM Updates Benefits Checklist Upon Death of a Federal Employee

USPS FERS Annuity Estimates Are Too Low Between MRA and age 62

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7/2/09

• Documented Work Stress Patterns Implemented and Enforced: A Thesis - How the Ongoing Violation of the Guiding Principles of the United States Postal Service is Creating a Toxic Work Environment

• Editorial: Postal predicament

• Mail-sorting operations to move off Staten Island, officials told

• Video: Post offices might be closing up shop

• Postal employee Ron Skovron retires

• MI : USPS targeting Jackson Distribution Center for possible closure

• Postal Pick-Up Slip Lists Number for Sex Hotline

• Chicago Mail Handler charged in sex attacks

• Postal worker pleads guilty to tossing mail into dumpster

7/1/09

• Internet, e-mail cuts big into post office business

• Postmaster retires after 27 years

• Post offices stamp out stamp machines

• South Carolina Carrier Robbed at Gunpoint

• Ark-La-Tex post offices may close

6/30/09

• Postal service says five-day delivery only a rumor

• Dozens of Delaware Post Offices to End Bulk Mail Service Tuesday
• Postal employee guilty of opening mail
• Former Postal Worker Facing Prison Time
• Residents of Florida Town Upset by Possible Post Office Closure
• Possible Closures for OK Post Offices

• Talk of closing Nashville post office riles patrons

• Public speaks out against post office closure

• Mail damaged by fire; post office seeks assistance

6/29/09

• Three Louisiana Postal Employees Sentenced For Making False FEMA Claim And Delay Of Mail

• APWU: Latest List of USPS Facilities Targeted for Consolidation || Local Consolidation Web Sites

• High-tech mail service raises $30M

• Quebecor World: Has the Stalked Become the Stalker?

• Veteran letter carriers get national award for safety

• Idaho: Backcountry mail pilot helps preserve way of life

• Postal Cutbacks in Age of E-mail

6/28/09

• Small Post Offices Serve As Community Link

• Stamped for extinction
• Mail priorities

6/27/09

Friends rally to keep popular window clerk’s job

Peter Avallone, who has worked for the Postal Service since 1988 and in Brookside since 2003, said he was informed two weeks ago by Postmaster Rita Schmidt, that the Postal Service wanted to move excess employees from other branches to work at Brookside. Because Avallone has part-time status, his job was in jeopardy and he was given the choice of either being a mail carrier or having his hours cut, potentially to only one hour a week.  |

Postal Union Officials Charged With Embezzlement, Theft

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) recent criminal enforcement data  |

• Mail Carrier Robbed at Gunpoint
• Mail Carrier Finds Newborn Wrapped In Plastic at Abandoned House
• Temporary' post office to change - 25 years later
• Locals react to possible loss of mail delivery
• Carwash company accused of bilking USPS

• Senators Urge Congress, Postal Service to Protect Oregon's Vote-by-Mail
• PRC Seeks Commission Secretary/Chief Administrative Officer

6/26/09