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Video: Caring California Letter Carrier gets $500 from co-worker via TV show
Kevin Wonten wanted to pay it forward to his
long-time friend Frank Betancourt. Both men are veteran letter carriers
with the United State Postal Service.
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USPS Loss For January 2013 $437 Million -- Year To Date loss for FY 2013 $1.7 billion
- USPS reported a net operating loss of
$437 million for the month of January 2013.
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USPS To Close Wichita Remote Encoding Center --797 employees affected
The U.S. Postal Service today announced the
Wichita Remote Encoding Center (REC) will close no
sooner than September of 2013, as technology enhancements have made the
need for RECs virtually obsolete.
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USPS to Launch New Product Line of Apparel and Accessories
The agreement leverages Postal Service
intellectual property by introducing the Rain Heat & Snow brand of apparel
and accessory products. Comments (Count)
USPS spending $2.2
million to send execs to National Postal Forum
Documents obtained by MacFarlane
show the event will cost the agency approximately $2.2 million,
including travel and $220,000 for exhibit space.
Postal Service Defends Pricey Conference|
The
National Postal Forum Is NOT a Party
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Lawmakers demanding answers over postal
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Video from
KTVU 2: :USPS conference
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24 Senators Urge USPS not to take any
action on eliminating Saturday
mail delivery unless authorized by Congress
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On February 15, 2013 24 members of the Senate wrote to Postmaster
General Patrick Donahoe to express their concerns on USPS' intent to end
Saturday mail delivery service in August and its legality.
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USPS Announces Moratorium on DUO and POStPlan Implementation
Postal officials notified NAPUS that Delivery Unit Optimization (DUO)
implementations and Post Office closures will be suspended temporarily
starting Monday, November 19 and continuing through Friday, January 4,
2013.
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USPS, NALC Sign Agreement to convert 6,000
PTF carriers to full time, hire 3,400 TEs
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USPS Management and Privatizers: Reading
from the Same Script
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GOP Sets Postal Service On Fire and Demand They Put Themselves
Out
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Arbitrator Orders Los Angeles
District Manager to Apologize to Employees For Fired Abusive
Supervisor
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"Arbitrator
goes after the Los Angeles District Manager for their lack
of enforcing their own "ZERO TOLERANCE" policy. The district
Manager has to now do a written apology to the employees at
the Redondo Beach California Office."
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Postal Service
Set to Default on Billions in Health Payments
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New PMG Video To Employees
explains how USPS will continue moving forward
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Donahoe tells employees
that new service standards were instituted July 1. The new
standards will allow the Postal Service to consolidate up
to 140 network facilities, while still providing excellent
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Romney Working To Eliminate
The US Postal Service
Mitt Romney and his economic advisors like Kevin Hassett have
a clear message in how a Romney administration would address
the US Postal Service. It’s fairly simple they would eliminate
it. ” .|
Editorial: Who is Stephen
Crawford and How Will He Affect the Post Office?
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Issa targets six-day provision
in appropriations bill
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Rural Carriers have a New
contract
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In an interest
arbitration award dated July 3, 2012, the NRLCA and USPS finally
have a new National Agreement, which is effective from November
21, 2010 through May 20, 2015.See
Arbitration Award
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USPS Ends FY Second Quarter With $3.2
Billion Lost – YTD $6.5 Billion
The Postal Service continues
to suffer from a severe lack of liquidity caused by over $25
billion of cumulative net losses in the past five fiscal years
which included $21 billion of Congressionally-mandated payments
for prefunding retiree health benefits
NALC: USPS
reports that pre-funding accounts for $6.2B of the $6.5B in
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August 31, 2013
End of an era: Tennessee Post Office closes as landlord questions move
Stolen postal truck chase detailed
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August 30, 2013
NALC responds to PMG’s workroom floor video
“The PMG’s comment that there are some positive aspects in both bills is
bizarrely beside the point,” Rolando remarked. “Sure, there are a number
of individual provisions in the bills that are good in isolation—but both
bills would hasten the destructive downsizing and service cuts we’ve faced
for years, and both would attack the collective-bargaining rights of
postal employees. Comments
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NALC:
New Memorandum of Understanding on Filling Residual Vacancies
NALC and the Postal Service have entered into
the Memorandum of Understanding Re: Residual Vacancies – City Letter
Carrier Craft, which establishes a process for filling residual vacancies
not under a proper Article 12 withholding order. Comments
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Michigan: Armada welcomes new postmaster
The PMG has a bridge to sell: The GAO
report on the Postal Service healthcare plan
Accounts clash on reason for post office
camp departure
Eastern Kentucky. post office burns
Postal worker admits gift card theft
Video: Iowa Postal Workers Protesting Two
Bills In Congress
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August 29, 2013
Iowa man sentenced for counterfeiting nearly $60,000 in postage meter stamps
USPS: Properly processing change of address forms
California:
Novato to begin Postal Carrier Alert program for seniors, disabled
USPS looking for holiday help
Inside the Postal Startup That Wants to Stick It to the (Mail) Man
Mailman mauled by dog, in intensive care
Today in labor history: National Association of Letter Carriers founded
Legal Loophole Allows Homeless At Astoria Post Office
North Las Vegas mailman sent to hospital after bee attack
Police shoot
at stolen postal van
Michigan letter carrier accused of stealing Kohl's coupons
Berkeley post office protest leads to crime in area, authorities say
USPS causing “confusion” with post office relocation process
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August 28, 2013
Video: Georgia Letter carrier claims 'acting manager' repeatedly harassed her
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Gessell Colon, a United States letter carrier
in Columbus, is crying foul after claiming she has been the victim of
repeated sexual harassment on the job. Comments
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Business worries USPS will broadly raise rates to make more revenue
Canada Post segment reports a $104-million
loss before tax in second quarter
Bomb squad investigates suspicious package
near Boynton Beach post office
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August 27, 2013
USPS Turns to Corporate America For Input on Leadership Development Programs
USPS is soliciting input from
the Executive Leadership Development and Corporate education communities
about the requirements and conditions to design, develop, and deliver a
program (or series of programs) targeted for senior executives Comments
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USPS
Seeking National Contract for Rental, Leasing of Minivans & Cargo Vans
According to USPS: Presently, there are not sufficient capital funds to
purchase new equipment. Comments
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Video: Chattanooga Post Office Landlord and USPS Part Ways on Bad Terms
Green said she signed the lease and sent it off to USPS seven days ago but
that a signature from USPS officials to honor the lease never showed up.
USPS placed post office on emergency suspension. Comments
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Ohio
Letter carrier on probation delivers mail on day off
The man was sent home and a supervisor from the post office came to
deliver the remainder of the mail. Comments
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Iraq
veteran must move mail box or lose mail service
Florida: Aripeka’s small but beloved post office slated to close Sept. 13
Cleveland woman’s mail delivery interrupted due to postal carrier fear over her
dog
Mayor’s Appeal on Berkeley Post Office Rejected – for Now
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Exigency Extra
Sketch of Hayneville postal driver robbery/shooting suspect released
No way! Commission rejects appeal on post office closure for being late -
postmarked one day after filing deadline
Video: Vermont post offices facing slashed
service
Nebraska window clerk pleads not guilty to
federal charges
Jekyll Island working to keep its post
office and zip code
USPS Hasn't Updated Revision Guidance on
Employee Handbook (ELM) in Almost 20 Years
Carbondale Post Office Officially Shut
Down: Mail Will Be Processed in St. Louis
St. Hilaire post office ransacked
Calgary mail carriers watching the skies
as Hawk targets postal workers
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August 26, 2013
Local soldier reimbursed after Postal Service denied claim
Public Sector Has Some of Oldest Workers Set to Retire
USPS plans to sell antique
Palmer Square post office in Princeton NJ
Postmaster comes through big for those fighting wildfires
Postal Service apparently not 'Stronger
than the Storm' in Sea Bright
New scheme targets people who are moving
Current Thrift Savings Plan Fact Sheet
Bomb squad called to Ohio post office
A smile, a word
and a first-class fellow: Bakersfield window clerk is remembered
Christmas for Pat: A heartwarming tale in which everyone gets what they want -
and then doesn't
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August 25, 2013
Video: Postal Worker Killed In Hit-And-Run Crash
Remembered As Loving Family Man -
Police continue to hunt for the
hit-and-run driver in a early Saturday morning crash that that killed two
men — a 47-year-old postal worker who was just a block from work, and the
suspect’s brother Comments
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Arkansas Postmaster Named One of Best in
the U.S.
Postal Service updated study called flawed
as Gretna rallies to save downtown post office
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August 24, 2013
Postal worker on the way to work killed by
drunk driver in South Los Angeles
Pit bull attack sends mailman to hospital
Musical chairs in Reading PA leaves
historic post office without a place
Video: Las Vegas woman catches thieves on
video stealing from her mailbox
Tennessee Postal Worker Killed By Police Remembered
Video: Las Vegas woman catches thieves on
video stealing from her mailbox
When postal workers double as first responders
$50,000 reward offered in Pennsylvania post office robbery
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August 23, 2013
PMG
Responds to GAO Report On USPS Healthcare Plan
Post and Pa rcel -
Without addressing the cost issue in a responsible way, the Postal Service
may be unable to afford to provide health care benefits to retirees. Our
proposal assures that we will. Comments
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USPS and Mail Handlers National Agreement Finalized
The NPMHU and USPS have finalized the text of the 2011 National Agreement
as compelled by the February 15, 2013 Award of the Board of Arbitration. Comments
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Eighth NY Postal Worker Sentenced for Stealing $40,518 in
Unemployment Insurance Benefits
NJ Letter Carrier gets prison for using mail route in $390,000 tax
returns scheme
Video: Dutch Designer Follows The Postal Trail
SC postal worker charged with stealing counterfeit
cash from mail and then trying to spend it
Camp at the Berkeley Post Office Continues
USPS Issues March on Washington Stamp
Oregon letter carrier charged with sexually assaulting 75 yr
old woman on route
Former mail carrier explains discarding 2,000 items
Wauwatosa postal carrier threatened, chased while on job
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August 22, 2013
Tennessee Postal Worker Killed By Police Remembered
Taylor served 20 years in the Air Force, and
went on to work for another 23 years with the U.S. Postal Service in
Knoxville. He expected to retire this December. Comments
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Why was the mail Delayed ?
From Communities and Postal Workers United: - Many people think, what is the problem? The
mail only has to travel an extra 50 miles to the new sorting facility and
50 miles back, an extra couple of hours. What’s the big deal? Why is the
mail being delayed days or even weeks? Comments
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Congress's toughest watchdog is also its richest member
Worth $355.4 Million - Congressman
Darrell Issa wiped some significant debts from his
books last year, helping him climb to the very top of The Hill's 50
Wealthiest. The California Republican no longer lists $75 million worth of
personal notes among his liabilities. In addition, a personal loan from
Union Bank went from at least $50 million in value in 2011 down to $25
million. Comments
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Mailer Groups Tell USPS BOG A Rate Increase Would Be “Devastating”
The Affordable Mail Alliance (AMA) understands that the Board of Governors
will be considering a potential exigency rate increase on your
conference call on September 5. The mailing industry, and its
suppliers, responsible for $1.3 trillion in sales annually, and nearly 8
million private sector jobs, are unanimous in our great concern that,
notwithstanding the Postal Service’s ongoing financial predicament, an
“exigent” increase would cause severely adverse, and likely irrevocable,
consequences for mail volume and revenue. Magazines,
Newspapers Brace for Exigent Postal Rate Hike
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Exigent
Postal Rate Increase Is Feared Near Comments
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USPS stamp commemorates March on
Washington
Unlikely Allies Rush to Save a Bronx Post
Office's Murals
Rochester: Postal Service hiring more city
carrier assistants
Former NY postal worker gets jail time for
mail thefts
OIG Begins Probe of Postal Service
Conferences
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August 21, 2013
Postmaster General Visits North Dakota for Firsthand Look at State's Needs
The senator also arranged a roundtable
featuring community leaders, postal worker representatives, oil industry
and newspaper leaders to apprise the postmaster of the pressing need to
retain and expand postal services to residents and businesses, as well as
rural communities in the region. Comments
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New health plan options, reduced retirement benefits & Chained CPI
Chained CPI could cost feds thousands over
time, NARFE says - Many federal employees and retirees have
expressed concern over the impact of the Affordable Care Act and reforms
to the Federal Employee Health Benefits program. However, another plan
under consideration on Capitol Hill may have a greater impact on feds’
long-term financial well-being — the chained Consumer Price Index. The
Obama administration has come out in support of the chained CPI Comments
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USPS Awards SecureKey Technologies Contract to Implement Federal Cloud Credential Exchange
SecureKey, the leading provider of trusted
identity networks, today announced it has been awarded a contract by the
United States Postal Service® (USPS®) to provide the cloud-based
authentication infrastructure for the new Federal Cloud Credential
Exchange (FCCX)
Can the US Postal Service find a future running a gov't cloud-based
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USPS
Chief Information Officer Ellis Burgoyne retiring in October
PMG Pat Donahoe credited Burgoyne with guiding USPS through one of its
most pressing challenges — the use of information systems archived
USPS CIO to resume duties after extended leave
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Indiana Postmaster arrested on child exploitation charges
According to charging documents, law enforcement first began their
investigation in June
2013, when an undercover member of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s
Southern Indiana
Child Exploitation Task Force connected with a computer that was allegedly
sharing sexually explicit
images depicting young children. Comments
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Postal Service: No deal with LDS
Church
Postal employee sentenced for stealing
mail
Video: Roanoke, VA Postal Workers Picket
in effort to educate people About USPS issues
Deputies: Flasher busted at a Florida post
office
High on Landmark Panel’s List - A
Post Office Lobby, Adorned and Ennobling
Postal Service spokesman says no rural post offices in danger of
closing
Minnesota Postmaster pleads guilty to
stealing postal funds
Video: “If The Post Office Closes Horatio
Will Be No More”
Springfield, IL: Postal Workers Picket
Into the Postal Weeds: Where in the
World...Is the USPS Headed With Flats? (PDF)
Moleskin Postal Notebooks Combine Writing
Book and Letter
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August 20, 2013
Mail Carrier
Assaulted by Customer
Teen Neighbor, Mailman To Be Honored For
Rescuing BA Woman From
Fiasco in Freistatt: How the Post Office
Became a Cluster Box
USPS to be no show, but Gretna to rally Friday
to save downtown post office from closure
Stabbing near Berkeley post office
demonstration raises questions
PMG to Visit North Dakota
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August 19, 2013
GAO: USPS Proposed Health Plan Could Improve Financial Condition, but Impact on Medicare and Other Issues Should Be Weighed before Approval
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) would likely
realize large financial gains from its proposed health care plan,
primarily by increasing retirees’ use of Medicare. Some elements of USPS’s
proposal would add uncertainties that could reduce funds available for its
employees’ and retirees’ future health care. GAO:
USPS Healthcare Plan Would Hurt Medicare, Postal Worker s |USPS
Plan to Pull Out of Fed Health Benefits Could Cost Postal Workers
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USPS OIG Audit report: Use of PSEs in Customer Service Operation
The Postal Service showed incremental
increases in using PSEs in customer service operations in FY 2012 and
achieved significant labor cost savings totaling over $233 million.
However, it ended the year with a PSE usage rate of only 10.5 percent,
about half of the maximum 20 percent usage rate allowed by the National
Agreement. Comments
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California Company Fined $250,000 for scheme to defraud USPS in sale of Postal Uniforms Los Angeles resident Carl Wayne Adrian, Sr.,
and his company, California Uniforms, Inc. were fined $250,000 and ordered
to forfeit $135,000 worth of seized Postal uniform items. Adrian Sr. was
also sentenced to 12 months of home detention by U.S. District Judge
William Q. Hayes. Comments
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USPS Board of Governors to meet in closed session on September 5th, 24th and 25th The US Postal Service Board of Governors will
meet in closed session next month via teleconference and in Kansas City,
MO Comments
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Mailman at 72 With America’s Longest Route
Two hospitalized after vehicle crashes into post office near
Jennings
USPS Cloud Contract Award Coming Soon
USPS Online help for mailing promotions
USPS OIG: Fueling a Fleet
USPS Board of Governors to meet in closed session on September
5th, 24th and 25th
Will USPS Future Plans for Priority Mail Result in Higher Rates?
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August 18, 2013
Postal Service Applies Old Promise to New
Priority
Who's the stranger with my mail?
Misunderstanding results in many Berkeley post office protesters breaking
camp
America's Post Office: Not As Doomed As You Think
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August 17, 2013
Embattled Postal Truckers to protest privatization on Labor Day
In
April 2013 USPS sent the postal unions a notice of intent to subcontract
their Pacific Area Postal Vehicle Service, citing cost comparisons. This,
despite the fact that they failed in a previous attempt to subcontract PVS
in California on an environmental pretext. Comments
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Video: USPS Contract Tractor-Trailer
delivering mail overturns in Sunol, CA
Chattanooga East Lake Finance Station to close
Joplin's request for post office
consolidation denied
Post Office
Sees Gain in Lost Weekend
Utah cyclist sustains critical head injuries in collision with mail truck
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August 16, 2013
NALC: USPS finances show 3rd quarter ‘rebound’
The Postal Service has released its financial
figures for the third quarter of Fiscal Year 2013, which covers April, May
and June. “The latest quarterly report makes clear that its finances are
rebounding strongly as the U.S. economy improves,” NALC President Fredric
Rolando said. “ Comments
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APWU: First 399 Clerk Craft PSEs to be Converted to Career Status
In
response to demands from the APWU, the Postal Service agreed on Aug. 14 to
convert 399 Clerk Craft Postal Support Employees (PSEs) to career status.
The conversions will be the first in mail processing.
APWU:
PSEs Overtime Adjustment Postponed to Pay Period 19. Comments
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National ad campaign featuring USPS employees debuts
The new ad is the latest round of a comprehensive multi-media campaign on
the Postal Service’s revamped Priority Mail offering. Already, USPS has
sent an introductory mailpiece to 10 million U.S. businesses.
Anatomy of an ad: Making the new USPS Priority Mail commercials
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Did Netflix and the USPS have
a falling out?
Gretna sets Aug. 23 rally to
protest possible post office closure
Protestor at Berkeley post office camp-in
stabbed in thigh
Two South Carolina postal workers indicted
for delay of mail
Illinois Man gets prison time for
snatching ‘COD’ mail package without paying
Clifton post office addresses customer
complaints
Sale process for Norristown, PA post
office moves forward
Canada postal carrier sentenced to house
arrest and ordered to make donation for stealing mail
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August 15, 2013
PMG Video: USPS Will Not Need a Taxpayer Bailout If Congress Acts
As for eliminating Saturday delivery, Donahoe
says the proposal "is still on the table." There are bills in the Senate
and House that would allow the postal service to move to a 5-day delivery
system but the plan has already been dismissed by members of both parties. Comments
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APWU Wins Major Subcontracting Case
The APWU won a major victory Aug. 13 when Arbitrator Shyam Das issued a
ruling that will help the union fight subcontracting, President Cliff
Guffey has announced. Das ruled that locals must be notified when
management makes a decision at the local, district or area level to
contract out craft work Comments
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APWU: $937 Cost-of-Living Raise Set for September
Career APWU members will receive a $937 annual increase in pay in
September, APWU President Cliff Guffey has announced. “This substantial
raise is the result of the 2010-2015 Collective Bargaining Agreement,
which preserved cost-of-living adjustments for our members,” he said Comments
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Video: Why do conservatives want to kill the USPS?
Thom Hartmann talks with Don Soifer,
Executive Vice President-Lexington Institute Comments
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Oklahoma group pitches compressed natural gas deal to USPS
A group of Oklahoma City businessmen is
optimistic about its chances of working out a deal with the U.S. Postal
Service to try out a fleet of vehicles that run on compressed natural gas
instead of gasoline.. Evans said the Postal Service has never
leased vehicles before, but the arrangement could save it about $600
million a year in maintenance costs if the MERVAN Project is taken
nationwide. Postal Service officials still has questions about the
proposal, which will be addressed at future meetings. For now, the group
is focusing on building grassroots support for the project. Comments
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MVS Arbitration
Burrus Journal -The
July 25 interim decision identifies the issues in dispute as whether the
union under the terms of the Memorandum conditioned their agreement for
increased PSE wages on the establishment of desirable duty assignments and
other issues. In the decision, the arbitrator’s award specified that such
conditions of agreement must be “reasonably related” to the wage
adjustment. Assuming that agreement cannot be reached through further
discussions, it will be a stretch for the union to convince the arbitrator
that the establishment of desirable duty assignments is reasonably related
to wage increases for new employees.
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Mystery' blockade of private truck at Portland mail
facility
A mystery vehicle suddenly blocked a private
truck attempting to transport mail at the Mt. Hood Distribution Center (US
Postal Service) at 9am this morning (8/14/2013). A ten-foot banner reading
“Stop the Privatization of the People’s Postal Service” covered one side
of the silver station wagon, tying the action to a blockade of the same
private truck last month. Comments
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Frustration Builds as Mail Still Withheld
in Chicago Neighborhood
Up to $5,000 Reward Offered for the
Burglary of Golden, MO Post Office
Pennsylvania mailman held on theft charges
Rural letter carriers union protests
proposed cutbacks
Let the
Open Season Panic Begin!
Ohio Postal
Worker Found Guilty of Workers Comp Fraud
Letter carrier sues bakery after sign allegedly fell on him
Could These Apps Save the USPS?
Sending mail around Hampton Roads to take longer after distribution
operations move
If the postal
service has to show a profit, why not the rest of the government?
Rhode Island letter carrier pleads not guilty in theft of mail
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August 14, 2013
PMG addresses legislation, health care in latest video
Updated with video-In his latest video, PMG Pat Donahoe
addresses the latest news on legislation and proposals for USPS to sponsor
its own health care plan
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USPS Sees $500 Million From Priority Mail Changes
The U.S. Postal Service says it’s improving
its express shipping options to become more competitive with FedEx Corp.
and United Parcel Service Inc. Day-specific delivery “will be a very
compelling feature and attract new business for USPS, which means it could
draw volume away from FedEx and UPS from their two-day and three-day
deferred air express services and ground service,” said Satish Jindel,
president of SJ Consulting Group in Sewickley, Pennsylvania.
Press
Release: USPS Launches Major Upgrades to Priority Mail Comments
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APWU, USPS Agreement Strengthens, Clarifies PSE Seniority
The American Postal Workers Union achieved a significant victory on Aug.
13, with the signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that strengthens
and clarifies the seniority rights of Postal Support Employees (PSEs),
Industrial Relations Director Mike Morris has announced Comments
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FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement: Finding the Paradigm of an Effective Lexical Nexus
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by Attorney Robert R. McGill
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In the end, one
must always remind oneself that the Federal or Postal Disability
Retirement applicant always has the burden of proof. As such, to prove a
Federal Disability Retirement application based upon a preponderance of
the evidence, one must always present a cohesive, comprehensible and
streamlined presentation of the lexical nexus to the deciding agency – the
U.S. Office of Personnel Management. Comments
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What it’s all about: The war on workers goes to the post office
Mark Jamison via Save The Post Office -What if the postal crisis we’ve read about
over the last five years isn’t really about saving the Postal Service
after all? What if the story really isn’t about an archaic Federal agency
struggling to find a business plan in the face of technological change?
Could the real story be much simpler than that? Maybe the real story is
about changing the basic relationship between employers and employees in
the one sector of our economy where employees have been able to maintain
decent wages and benefits? : Comments
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NRLCA Convention: Saturday Mail Delivery
Safe For Now But Common Sense Solutions Could Fix USPS Woes
Video:
UPS cargo plane crashes at Alabama airport
Video:
Man Jumped Post Office Counter, Grabbed Postal Clerk By The Throat
Go Paperless? Not Just Yet
Woman hits gas instead of brake - Slams into VT Post Office
National Alliance of Postal and Federal
Employees To Relocate After Selling Building For $5.5M
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August 13, 2013
Washington Post Editorial Board Endorses Darrell Issa's Postal Service Reform Bill
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DailyKos - It appears the Washington Post has hit a new
low by endorsing Congressman Darrell Issa's Postal Service Reform bill and
not offering a complete, objective analysis of the whole postal service
situation: First off, to the editors of the Washington Post, the U.S.
Postal Service's financial problems were caused by the Postmaster General,
Issa and others in the first place, not by other factors at hand like
say... Competition. And you can't get anymore clueless like the
Postmaster General in comparing the USPS to Greece:
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VIDEO: Woman thinks letter carrier is stalking her
This is a video I found on YouTube, It's just a lighter side of postal
news.
The woman confronts letter carrier by saying, “Stop stalking me, alright?
Don’t ever stalk me again.” He calmly turns around with a look of
confusion and has no idea of what she’s talking about.
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USPS
pilot program to expand footprint in $20 billion small business market
Video:
Man killed in shooting near Chicago South Side post office
Political mail a landslide winner for the Postal Service
Video:
Sun Valley, NV’s Sole Post Office Proposed to Close
Virginia: Jacqueline Fisher, 20, among youngest
postmasters appointed by USPS
When good
news is bad news: The Postal Service spins its Q3 financial
report
Mailman injured, cited in a rollover crash in
Mooretown
Web Services to Challenge Post Office in Bill-Paying
Newburgh postal facility move to slow first-class mail deliver
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August 12, 2013
Sen. Sanders: Congress Must Not Hobble Postal Service Rebound
With revenue rebounding, the U.S. Postal Service would have posted a
profit for the past three months without an unprecedented requirement that
it sink $5.5 billion a year into future retiree health care, Sen. Bernie
Sanders (I-Vt.) said today.
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APWU: OWCP Suspends USPS Access to Electronic Data-- Indefinitely
As a result of the suspension, the Postal
Service is also unable to access the Agency Query System (AQS), which
provides secure access to FEC injury claims, and will be unable to obtain
specific case documents through electronic kiosks in OWCP District
Offices. Comments
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"Clerks Care Program" encourages employees to seek new opportunities, leads for USPS
Clerks Care, a new lead generation program
that encourages all clerk craft employees to identify and submit leads to
help grow revenue and build new business opportunities for USPS, is
underway.
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Netflix Blames Closing of DVD Distribution Center On USPS
Netflix has closed the Bloomfield DVD distribution center due mainly to
United States Postal Service transportation and service changes, along
with increased internal production efficiencies, resulting [in] a small
number of jobs lost, Comments
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PRC agrees to hear mayor’s plea to halt
Berkeley post office sale
$5,000 Reward Offered in Golden, Mo. Post
Office Break-in
NLRB at full strength as four Obama
appointees are sworn in Monday
Connecting History: March on Washington
stamp goes social
St. Louis to greet 5,000 letter carriers
this week
Video: Suspicious Substance At JFK Turns
Out To Be Beauty Supplies
eBay Aware of Problem with USPS Tracking
Numbers
Postmaster has show dogs, rides
motorcycles
The Post's View: Saving the U.S. Postal
Service
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August 11, 2013
Without Pre-Funding Obligations The USPS Would Profit How Much?
New Hampshire Labor News - The new
USPS Financial Report issued Friday further validates the claim that the
Postal Service is neither broken nor in crisis. Excluding the pre-funding
expense the USPS has turned a $660 million profit delivering mail in
fiscal year 2013. Showing again that Senator Carper,
Senator Coburn and
Congressman Issa are manufacturing a postal financial crisis as an excuse
to dismantle it. Standing in their shadows are vultures named
FedEx and UPS. It
appears that Senator Carper and Senator Coburn are being influenced by
FedEx and UPS who would capitalize on a dismantled Postal Service. The
facts paint the picture: Since Carper’s reelection nine months ago he has
received $30,000 from FedEx and 26,500 from UPS . Comments
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Voluntary Early Retirements for City Carriers in FY 2014?
by Don Cheney -
The Postal Service is predicting a huge number of retirements--41,000--in
FY 2014 that starts October 1, 2013. Comments
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Merchants not so bubbly for Postal's
alcohol delivery pitch
Weiner inserts his own campaign
fliers into mailboxes
Postal truck fire in New Castle
County
US Postal Service Stops Discarding
Imagination Library Books
Teens destroyed 43 mailboxes, property in
Bridgewater, police say
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August 10, 2013
Postal Customers Get it - Why Can’t Some Members of Congress?
Postal customers concerned about the undoing of their postal service are
speaking out. In recent op-eds featured in local newspapers, customers
point out that much of the financial “reasoning” surrounding the Postal
Service doesn’t hold water. Comments
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Widow Questions Safety at Brooklyn Center
Post Office Where Husband Was Run Over
Playing Post Office
Video: USPS Suspends Mail Delivery on
Street in Chicago after carrier attacked
California: Mail strewn about roadway
after USPS Contract truck overturns
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August 9, 2013
USPS Reports Net Loss Of $740 Million for FY Third Quarter
Corbett said current projections indicate
that the Postal Service will continue to have low levels of liquidity for
the remainder of this fiscal year, will be unable to make the required
$5.6 billion retiree health benefits prefunding payment due by Sept. 30,
and will continue to have no ability to borrow additional funds at that
date.
NALC:
USPS finances are rebounding strongly as economy improves Comments
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APWU: USPS Issues Stamps Honoring Workers, But What About Its Own?
The Postal Service’s release on Aug. 8 of a series stamps featuring iconic
images of the workers who built the nation’s bridges, railways, and
skyscrapers almost a century ago is more than a little ironic, the APWU
noted. Comments
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Hundreds trying to save Fernandina Beach
post office
Nevada: Girl,
7, suffers bumps, bruises when hit by postal vehicle
California: Teen Rides Bike Into USPS
Truck, Breaks Leg
Florida
postmaster faces DUI charge
Massachusetts Postal Worker Arrested for Stealing Video Games From the Mail
Ask the
Experts: VERA, FEHB and sick leave
Postal workers save child from attempted
kidnapping
Expiring leases send two San Diego post offices off for closure
Men dressed as postal workers rob elderly woman
High Rent Forces Post Office Move
NPR: Can Congress Figure Out How to Rescue the Post Office?
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August 8, 2013
Mail Handlers and USPS Reach Agreement on Fishgold Arbitration Questions &
Answers-With the release of
the Fishgold Arbitration Award, which established the terms of the 2011
National Agreement, the parties agreed to jointly develop and implement a
Question and Answer document addressing and affirming the parties’ mutual
understanding and interpretation of many provisions contained in the 73
page decision. Comments
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Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe on USPS Budget
Solutions
People were calling for you to
resign. How did you feel about that?
I don’t want to be a smart aleck, but I’m not running a popularity
contest. I’m trying to do the responsible thing. Comments
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Burrus: Carper Postal Bill is doing the bidding of the major mailers in his state
Between A Rock and A Hard Place -
Postal unions and American citizens who rely upon secure and trusty mail
delivery can thank Senator Carper, a Democrat for putting them in a
position to oppose any postal legislation in this session of Congress.
The House under the leadership of Chairman Issa has already voted a Bill
out of Committee that is totally unacceptable. Now Carper is doing the
bidding of the major mailers in his state and has produced an equally
offensive piece of legislation for consideration in the Senate Comments
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Video: USPS Rejects Sacramento Chef’s Insurance Claim For Stolen Kitchen Knives
- He shipped the 24-pound,
10-ounce package from the U.S. Virgin Islands when he moved here — but
said the package he picked up from his mailbox inside The UPS Store felt
almost empty
Comments
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Louisiana: Metairie robber dressed as mail
carrier forces way into woman's home
Illinois: Cahokia post office to reopen
Monday
Florida: Mailman on New Smyrna Beach-area
route arrested on charges of defrauding customers
Rhode Island Letter Carrier Indicted for
Allegedly Destroying, Stealing Mail
USPS Forever Stamps Honor America’s
Industrial Workers
Authorities release photo of “vehicle of
interest” in Hayneville
13,000 pieces of mail recovered at
Columbus postal carrier's home
Inside Man: Duo Faces Five Years in
Ansonia, CT Postal Truck Heist
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August 7, 2013
Issa’s gavel up for grabs as jockeying begins
About a half-dozen lawmakers are jockeying for the gavel of the powerful
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee...(Darrell)
Issa’s term as the Obama administration’s chief inquisitor expires at the
end of 2014, and unless leaders waive party rules, he won’t be eligible to
keep running the committee. Comments
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Sanders, Postal Unions Oppose Bill to Weaken Mail Service, End Saturday Deliveries, Slash Jobs
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders said today he agrees
with Postal Service unions that oppose legislation likely to end Saturday
mail service, significantly slow down delivery, close processing plants
and eliminate door-to-door deliveries. Comments
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Undermining the Union in the Legislative Arena –
More Concessions from APWU President Guffey
- by Clint
Burelson, candidate for APWU Clerk Craft Director Comments
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Day
12 of Tent City on steps of Berkeley’s Post Office
The Tent City on the steps of Berkeley’s main post office is now in its
12th day. Two dozen campers have been sleeping there to rally opposition
to the Grand Theft of the people’s Post Office being engineered by
Postmaster General Donahoe and his right wing collaborators in Congress.
“These post offices were paid for by our parents and grandparents,” said
one camper. “Why should they be sold off to line the pockets of a handful
of big corporations?” Postal police and postal inspectors come by every
day and all night, threatening to remove the camp and its banners, and
arrest the protesters Comments
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Friends remember Deatsville postal worker
killed in vehicle crash
Video: Three hurt after car plows into
Hawaii Kai post office
California: Reward offered after Oakdale
letter carrier assaulted in road rage incident
Postal reform?
Sticking point: Postage stamps, ads not a
match
Postal Service property taken
during robbery, shooting of truck driver in Hayneville, AL
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August 6, 2013
DeadTree Edition - USPS’s
most successful efficiency tactic in recent years has been reducing its
workforce by offering Voluntary Early Retirement (VERA). But reports of
disgraceful nine-month waits to start receiving full retirement checks
discouraged many other employees from taking the offers. Comments
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PMG Seeks to Take Us Out of Federal Healthcare Plan
by Greg Bell - Thanks, But No Thanks- Donahoe first urged lawmakers to take postal
employees and retirees out of the FEHBP at a House hearing on March 27,
2012, claiming such a move would save the USPS $7 billion annually. (Now
he claims savings would reach $8 billion per year.) Comments
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Alabama postal worker killed in
single-vehicle crash
Video: Mailman, neighbor save woman from burning house in Broken
Arrow,OK
Video: Washington State postal worker off the job for stealing
mail
Postal Carrier Attacked By Pit Bulls In Chartiers
Post office protesters defy order to move
Burned
post office in Hawaii unlikely to be rebuilt
Post Office Enforces Parcel Policy
Postal service closes Alorton and Cahokia post offices
Beware the fungus! Two more post offices
closed over mold problems
Op-Ed: Save the post office by finding a
new use for it
Veteran US mail carrier works with speed,
ease at post office
Houston: Feds searching for suspect in
armed robbery at postal station
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August 5, 2013
Postal unions write joint letter to Reid against Carper-Coburn postal bill
The four postal unions sent a joint letter to Senate Majority Harry Reid
on Aug. 5 expressing “utter dismay” at the introduction of S. 1486, the
postal bill co-sponsored by Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) and Sen. Tom Coburn
(R-OK), the chair and ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs Committee. The bill continues the disastrous policy
of mandating massive pre-funding of retiree health benefits and provides
for major downsizing measures to pay for it, the letter notes. Comments
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As
prospects dim for postal reform, Senate bill already encountering flak
Only days after it was introduced , a proposed Senate overhaul of the U.S.
Postal Service is taking its lumps from both organized labor and the
mailing industry.
Senate finds bipartisan postal bill where House did not Comments
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Senator Carper introduces legislation to virtually end the USPS
New Hampshire Labor News -
Democratic Senator Tom Carper has moved the Postal Service one big step
closer to extinction this weekend by introducing his new Postal Reform Act
S 1486. Mr Carper a long time ally of wealthy corporate interests intends
to drive the stake into the heart of the worlds best Postal Service. His
bill on many levels closely resembles Congressman Issa’s HR 2748 which
passed out of a House committee 10 days ago on a party line vote, with
only GOP support. Comments
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OPM:
USPS Early Retirement Claims Partially Responsible for Backlog
The Office of Personnel Management is months behind schedule in
eliminating the retirement claims backlog because of mandatory budget cuts
and an influx of new applications from the Postal Service earlier this
year, according to an update released on Monday. Comments
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An Environmentally Sustainable USPS?
by Thomas Day, USPS Chief
Sustainability Officer
Video: USPS plans to sell downtown Reading PA post office, carrier annex
Postal authorities increase pressure on
protesters seeking to stop sale of historic Berkeley
PO
Yonkers post office robbed at gunpoint
USPS launches multi-channel marketing campaign to promote priority mail
Postal Service IT contract oversight deficient,
says IG
Inside Man:
Three Due In Court In Staged Ansonia, CT Postal Truck Heist
Rolando Letter: Postal Service
pre-funding is source of red ink
Door-to-Door Postal Delivery Is Part Of The American Experience
Sale of main Berkeley post office building means loss of rich history
USPS Awards Two Contracts Worth More than
$53 Million To AT&T
Wife of contract carrier explains a 12
things about rural America's communications lifeline
The Postcard's Stormy Birth
Postal changes put an end to tradition of
Missouri family
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August 4, 2013
With Changes Looming, Fayetteville Postal
Workers Carry On
International students could be hurt by
Postal cuts
Postal Service loses money despite
customer growth
NAPUS: Initial Posting of 6 Hour Offices
to Open August 20
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August 3, 2013
The Postal Worker Today & Filing a Federal Disability Retirement Application Based upon Workplace Stress-
By Attorney Robert R. McGill
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Stress is an inherently commonplace element
in the workplace. Whether on a farm tending to sick animals or attempting
to meet a deadline in order to satisfy a client, workplace stress is a
factor which must be tolerated in any employment arena. For the U.S.
Postal Worker, such stresses are compounded by the corporate imposition of
a top-down organizational infrastructure incentivizing short-term profits
reflected on a skewed economic model, threatened with oversight by an
unsympathetic Congress, always at the expense of labor – of the craft
employees who must work with less, and refuse to allow the hostile work
environment to interfere with the task at hand, Comments
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USPS Warns Protesters Camping At Historic Berkeley Post Office To Move Out
A group of postal inspectors and postal
police visited the protesters Friday and warned them that they needed to
remove their tents from the steps of the historic post office at 2000
Allston Way, U.S. Postal Inspector Jeff Fitch said. Comments
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Postal
worker robbed in southwest Houston
Save the
mail: The Postal Service needs help on several fronts
The Story
Behind Nebraska’s Post Office Murals
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August 2, 2013
Senators Introduce Bipartisan Postal Reform Bill
This proposal is a rough draft of an agreement subject to change that I
hope will move us closer to a solution that will protect taxpayers and
ensure the Postal Service can remain economically viable while providing
vital services for the American people.”
Senate postal
reform would reduce USPS payments into FERS
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Proposal
to Reduce Fed Workers' Comp Benefits Attached to Postal Bill
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Senate does postal reform: Highlights and low points of the Carper-Coburn
bill | Senator
Sanders: Postal Reform Bill significantly weaker than the bill passed in
Senate last year
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NALC
and APWU call Senate Postal Reform Bill “Misguided” and “Fatally Flawed”
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NAPUS
Reacts To Carper-Coburn Postal Reform Bill Comments
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AP Interview with PMG: USPS
takes photos of all mail
The Postal Service takes pictures of every
piece of mail processed in the United States - 160 billion last year - and
keeps them on hand for up to a month. In an interview with The Associated
Press, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said the photos of the exterior
of mail pieces are used primarily for the sorting process, but they are
available for law enforcement, if requested. Comments
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Video:
Postal Truck Driver Shot, Robbed at Hayneville AL Post Office
USPS:
Postal bulletin board guidelines
Arbitrator: MOU Requires Union Agreement When Exceptions to PSE Wage Rates Are
Needed
August 2013 Newsletter
Of Communities and Postal Workers United (PDF)
Alabama: USPS Truck Driver Robbed, Shot Now in Stable Condition
USPS OIG: The Postal Service's Use of Social Media (PDF)
The End of Creative Mailboxes?
Ripley's Strange Mail Contest
Chain collision injures postal worker delivering mail
OSHA announces changes to recordkeeping
rule for federal agencies to improve tracking of federal
workplace injuries, illnesses
Postal worker hurt while delivering mail:
Two Men Rob Atlanta Post Office
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August 1, 2013
Cash-strapped Postal Service eyes alcohol deliveries
to help raise revenues
Allowing the Postal Service to deliver beer,
wine and spirits is high on his wish list for raising cash for his
financially ailing agency, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said
Thursday.In an interview with The Associated Press, Donahoe also endorsed
ending most door-to-door and Saturday mail deliveries as cost-saving
measures for his agency, which lost $16 billion last year. Comments
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Donahoe's
Postal Vision - DM News
the turmoil and uncertainty surrounding the USPS has big business mailers
attentive, waiting for a shoe to fall. They tentatively prepare for
rejiggered delivery schedules and worry about an “exigent” rate
increase—one that would be activated above and beyond the scheduled
increases already approved by the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC).Cognizant
of Donahoe's alertness to the concerns of his biggest customers—business
mailers—Direct Marketing News approached the PMG to ask if he would
field a few questions from our readers Comments
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Video: San Diego Letter Carrier recounts details of pit bull attack
A
letter carrier who was attacked by a pit bull while on his route is hoping
his story draws attention to what he says is a problem.
Comments
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Ohio Postal
Worker Under Investigation
Agents with the DEA and the United States Postal Service Office of the
Inspector General spent hours hauling away bins of mail from a house off
Sale Road in North Columbus. A postal truck was brought in to haul away
all the seized mail. It was filled to the roof along with another car. Comments
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TSP Funds Back in the Black in July
USPS delivery changes begin for St. Cloud, MN
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