USPS made last minute
“public” changes some facilities; some facilities
move dates that were changed just last week has
changed again. Approximately TWENTY-ONE (21)
facilities have had their move dates changed to
“To Be Determined” (TBD) or “Not Applicable” (N/A)
and four (4) facilities move dates changed to an
earlier or later date.(4/4/15)
Comments (Count)
In 2012, the U.S. Department
of Labor (DOL) sued the United States Postal Service
(USPS) for retaliating against a Safety Specialist
at the Seattle, Washington Processing & Distribution
Center (P&DC) (2/26/15)
Comments (Count)
The APWU Oakland Local
#78 took the unusual step of launching an office-wide
petition against Tour 1 Postal Supervisor. The petition,
which has more than 100 signatures, details years
of unacceptable conduct. Comments
(Count)
USPS gets approval for ‘customized delivery’ market
test of groceries, other prepackaged goods
- On September
23, 2014, the Postal Service filed a notice with
the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) announcing
its intent to conduct a market test of an experimental
product called Customized Delivery. Customized Delivery
is a package delivery service offering that will
provide customers with delivery of groceries and
other prepackaged goods, primarily during a 3 a.m.
to 7 a.m. delivery window.
Comments (Count)
USPS would like to
retain the best qualities of the current right hand
drive long Life Vehicle (LLV) without having to
redevelop what has been proven to work.
(9/9/14)
Comments (Count)
Republican attack against
the United States Postal Service grows, as the do-nothing
Congress down make your mail delivery significantly
slower. Ed Schultz and Sen. Bernie Sanders discuss
Comments (Count)
Or How another competitor
profits off of USPS The U.S. Postal Service has become an
extension of Amazon and is courting other e-commerce giants
Comments (Count)
Reggie Bennett had a lot of
friends, both on the job where he was beloved by his fellow
mail carriers and in the community where he had delivered
mail on the same route for 30 years.
Real Mail Notification offers
customers daily email alerts USPS is continuing to test a
program that offers customers a digital preview of the mail
they’ll receive later that day.
Comments (Count)
After an onsite inspection,
OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) slammed
the Postal Service with five citations for violating safety
standards at a post office located in Kent, WA, Comments (Count)
A mail truck was hit by a
freight train Thursday morning in west suburban Addison. A
Canadian National train hit the semi, which was carrying
mail.
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Comments (Count)
A 20-year USPS Mail Processing
Clerk has been arrested for threatening his co-workers. In
April a mail carrier was arrested after allegedly using a
gun to demand that his coworkers at a Fort Worth post office
get on the floor. Comments (Count)
Helios is a national provider
of workers’ compensation pharmacy benefit management
services serving Government Agencies, Employers, Third-Party
Administrators and Insurance Carriers. Comments (Count)
Unfortunately, the CBO, C21,
and the media reports all seem to have misunderstood the
amendment, and they are obfuscating the main issue — how
much would it actually cost the Postal Service to comply
with the Fattah amendment? The amendment would simply
require undoing what has happened since the beginning of the
year, when the interim standards ended, and the cost would
not be anything like $1 or $2 billion. As the following
discussion explains, the amendment would probably cost
something like $50 million, and the Postal Service could
easily afford it . Comments (Count)
Package delivery can be tricky
– sometimes a box can’t be left without a signature and
those dropped at the front door could be damaged by weather.)
Comments (Count)
The U.S. Postal Service is
currently replacing its existing retail point of service
software with Retail Systems Software (RSS). As of May 2015,
the Postal Service has deployed RSS to about 3,400 of the
17,781 retail units. The Postal Service plans a complete
nationwide deployment by May 2016.
Comments (Count)
The American Antitrust Institute
(AAI) today issued a white paper. The paper urges the
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to carefully scrutinize the
competitive impact of the proposed Staples/Office Depot merger. Comments (Count)
The cybersecurity incidents
announced recently by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
could affect some Postal Service employees. Comments (Count)
A U.S. supervisory postal
inspector once named a federal employee of the year pleaded
guilty Wednesday to stealing mail containing prescription
pills, jewelry, passports, collectible Playboy magazines and
other items in San Jose.
Comments (Count)
Dover police said they arrested a
postal worker after a resident saw the trespasser in her home
on a surveillance video walking through the house and wearing
her woman's high heel boots.
Comments (Count)
The sight of an empty mailbox in
Charlotte Courthouse is more than just an inconvenience for
businesses and citizens. It’s straining communication and
commerce in the county, and now even public officials have had
enough. Comments (Count)
The U.S. Postal Service has
declined a civic improvement group’s proposal to replace the
Tieton Post Office’s facade with a giant mosaic resembling a
historic postage stamp. Comments (Count)
USPS released the following
statement regarding “Providing convenient customer access to
postal products and services” and privatizing the Postal
Service: Comments (Count)
There’s growing concern
nationwide that mail delivery may no longer be safe. Mail
delivery shouldn’t be stressful. But for one Fresno woman, it
is. Comments (Count)
Should a carrier deviate from his
or her designated geographic zone during street delivery, an
alert is sent to the supervisor in an email or text message.
Comments (Count)
The APWU and the Postal Service
signed an agreement on July 15, 2015, that will compensate
Postal Support Employees (PSEs) for the time they spent and
costs they incurred to obtain fingerprints for background
investigations
Comments (Count)
A South Boston mail carrier says
the city’s policy on towing went too far after his car was
removed while he was delivering mail.
(7/21/15)
Comments (Count)
According to the CBO, in order to
return to the earlier service standards, the Postal Service
would need to add work hours, reopen facilities that have been
closed or sold, and replace equipment it no longer owns. The
CBO offers to provide Senator Carper with further details on
the $1 billion price tag, but the letter itself does not
explain how the number was arrived at. If you look at what’s
happened over the past few months, the $1 billion doesn’t seem
credible, and one wonders if the CBO has misunderstood what
the amendment is all about. .
Comments (Count)
This was a self-initiated audit
to determine whether the structure, operations, and resourcing
of the Postal Service’s cybersecurity functions align with
best practices to support the enterprise. .Postal
Service response to OIG cyber security audit
Comments (Count)
A two-year-old is dead and two
other pedestrians, including another child, are hurt after
they were struck by a postal truck in New Jersey, authorities
said. .
“You
think you know your own body,” says Paul Newman/ Monroe Mailman.
Extreme summer heat can take it’s toll quicker than you think.
Especially if you work outside like mailman, Paul Newman, it
almost took his life.
Comments (Count)
If you are confined to a wheel
chair you will not be able to get into the Xenia post office.
USPS spokesman says, “If they aren’t happy with the service we
provide at that location they are welcome to go to one of the
nearby post offices that are handicap accessible,”
Comments (Count)
MDDs
are single devices intended to support multiple requirements —
such as Sunday delivery and dynamic routing — report scan data
faster, and support future software enhancements. When the
Postal Service cannot provide real-time delivery information to
its customers, it can lose customers and its brand and
reputation can suffer.
Comments (Count)
The head of the National Treasury
Employees Union (NTEU) urged Congress this week to reject
proposals to weaken the federal Thrift Saving Plan’s (TSP) G
Fund. Congress is reportedly considering tapping the personal
retirement savings of federal employees, retirees and members of
the military
Comments (Count)
“The
House Appropriations Committee approved an amendment to restore
postal service standards on June 17, 2015. The legislation would
rescind the lower service standards the USPS implemented on Jan.
5
Comments (Count)
“While the topic of five-day
delivery was a large part of the legislative ask in the last
Congress, we are currently looking to gain consensus and we have
not been promoting five day as a key tenet,” said Postal Service
spokeswoman Sue Brennan. Comments (Count)
USPS plant employees will soon
receive new surface visibility devices that will make it easier
for business customers to know the whereabouts of their mail and
packages.
Comments (Count)
The APWU is part of a group of 50 postal
unions, management associations, and mailers that has asked Congress
to help the agency during the current nationwide financial difficulties
Comments (Count)
U.S. Senator Gary Peters (MI) today
joined his colleagues in introducing legislation to improve
rural mail service and delivery and provide protections for post
offices and postal employees
Comments (Count)
A “meet and greet” was held at the
office of the American Postal Workers Union this evening between
more than 40 U.S. labor leaders and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT),
who is running for president.
Comments (Count)
In response to a lawsuit filed by the
APWU, the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) has coughed up 231
documents that shed new light on the secretive deal between
Staples and the Postal Service. Comments (Count)
OPM recently discovered two separate
but related cyber-security incidents that have impacted the data
of Federal government employees, contractors, and others
Comments (Count)
, The final rule states that agency
implementation of this program is not mandatory; rather, implementation
is discretionary for each agency. Agencies choosing to implement
the program decide whether phased retirement will be available
Comments (Count)
the National Association of Letter
Carriers (NALC) has entered into a voluntary agreement with OLMS
to conduct a new officer election for the position of NALC director
of retired members, under OLMS’ supervision .
Quick thinking, fast feet save child
Florence, MS, Rural Carrier Charles Anderson recently stopped by
a store after work and saw a woman running through a nearby field.
She looked upset and flustered, and Anderson soon realized why:
The woman was trying to catch a small child. t.
USPS mail carriers are getting a “panic
button” The unofficial U.S. postal creed says neither rain, nor
sleet, nor heat, nor gloom of night will keep carriers from their
rounds. Thieves and vicious dogs, however, may be another matter.
So the Post Office is delivering a solution. Comments
(Count)
Postal Retiree finds some notable differences
between the two operations--distinctions that seemed to speak about
important differences in these candidates' campaigns and, perhaps,
in the candidates themselves.
Comments (Count)
A Florida 17 year city letter carrier
was arrested Wednesday after police said he hit a 55-year-old woman
in the face in a fit of road rage. Comments
(Count)
In a major blow to the Postal Service’s
deal with Staples, Region 5 of the National Labor Relations Board
(NLRB) has issued a complaint charging that the USPS illegally subcontracted
work to the office-supply chain Comments
(Count)
While Brennan talked of potential closures
in facilities and upgrades to equipment to increase capacity at
other locations, she also affirmed the need to have predictable
two- and three-day service. Comments
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