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.
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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
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GOP Oversight and Government
Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz seeks information
from USPS about competitive product assets, revenue,
service performance and other materials.
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Many of the most significant
changes that have negatively affected the Clerk
Craft and the Postal Service are the result of recommendations
made by a little-known group that operates behind
the scenes at USPS headquarters – the Mailers Technical
Advisory Committee, or MTAC (5/17/15)
Comments (Count).
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)
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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)
This week, the final rule
domestic and international competitive services price
change Federal Register Notices for the January 2016 price
change were posted on the Federal Register web site.
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The former postmaster of the
Gates Mills Post Office was sentenced to 10 months in prison
and ordered to repay approximately $57,000 that she stole
Comments (Count)
After 25 years of service,
postmaster says mailboxes are now too short. An entire neighborhood could soon lose mail service
if they don’t change their mailboxes
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The United Parcel Service is very
concerned that you might be paying too much for a postage
stamp. If you’re wondering why UPS would be worried about
something like that, it has to do with the way postal rates
are set. UPS believes that market-dominant products — First
Class mail, Standard mail, and periodicals — are covering more
than their fair share of the Postal Service’s operating costs,
while competitive products — Priority and most shipping
services — are not paying enough. Hmmm...UPS talking about
customers paying too much?
UPS to pay $4.2 million for false delivery
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The US Patent Trial and Appeal
Board ruled this month USPS has proven a Company’s patent for
an automated system that processes returned and undeliverable
mail should be canceled.
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While the U.S. Postal Service
(USPS) is looking to hire up to 30,000 seasonal workers
nationwide for the holiday period, there are specific job
openings at many locations in Northern California.
he United States Postal Service
says it is hiring additional carriers to handle a big increase
in business, but some carriers and rural carrier associates say
it’s not happening fast enough
Comments (Count)
The APWU won an important grievance
involving Maintenance Craft staffing at Bulk Mail Centers on
Oct. 19, when Arbitrator Ira Jaffe issued a stinging rebuke to
the Postal Service. Comments (Count)
The APWU is discouraging union
members from participating in a voluntary program established by
the Postal Service that creates an online database of their
health records
A USPS letter soliciting APWU
retirees to be a Holiday Clerk Assistant. APWU, USPS signed a
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) last month to reemploy
retirees as Holiday Clerk Assistants during the “peak” season.
Note: Many retirees may welcome returning to USPS for 6
weeks. However, some readers are saying that they never got the
notice. USPS sent out the notie more than likely to the last
known address of the retiree--which may not be valid. USPS did
not post this notice on its website for postal retirees....WHY??
Comments (Count)
A USPS letter soliciting a retired
city carrier to be a Holiday City Carrier Assistant. At
$16.07/hr their pay is slightly more than a regular CCA, which
is $15.63/hr. Holiday CCAs are limited to working 28 days from
December 5th to January 1st.
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First Price Increase In Three Years
for Commercial Priority Mail Scheduled for January 2016 · No
Increase in Shipping Prices Until After the Holiday Season
.
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In 1957, when a movie ticket cost
50 cents, Elvis rocked the jailhouse and Sputnik went to space,
18-year-old Thomas Bulger started working for the U.S. Postal
Service.Fifty-seven years later, he still does. He's 76 and has
the most years with the Postal Service of all active letter
carriers in Ohio
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waterspout roared across
the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Manatee County over the weekend, destroying
a U.S. Postal Service truck in its path. Some flat mail flew out
of the truck; the Postal Service says no packages were missing.
As much of it as possible was retrieved, and is being salvaged and
dried out. However, some mail was unable to be retrieved from the
Bay. Comments (Count)
Pitney Bowes in 2010 paid out $4.2
million to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims
Act by fraudulently obtaining discount postage rates
More than 500 workers from the Culinary Union, the American Postal
Workers Union and the Trump International Hotel lined up on Fashion
Show Drive in Las Vegas, NV to protest the hotel’s no-union policy.
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- Letter carrier pleaded
guilty to a scheme to fraudulently receive reimbursement for travel
expenses for medical care related to injuries sustained on the job.
"I'll miss the people a lot," French said. "I'll
miss the people here in the office. I'll miss seeing kids grow up
and go to college. "It's been fun. I've enjoyed it quite a bit."
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A U.S. Postal Service
employee is seeking $1 million in damages after alleging that she
was sexually harassed by her former married boyfriend, who was her
supervisor in the office where she worked.
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USPS’s and PRC’s reports on delivery performance
are not as useful as they could be for effective oversight because
they do not include sufficient analysis to hold USPS accountable
for meeting its statutory mission to provide service in all areas
of the nation. USPS has stated that such analysis would be costly,
even though it could not provide specific cost estimates.
The mail could be taking even longer than
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The Postal
Service’s goal is to provide world class visibility for its products
and service. However, customers across the country are posting comments
to social media sites about their experiences with Postal Service
carriers.
Comments (Count)
A Cumberland County resident is suing the U.S. Postal Service claiming
that she was unjustly fired and that the union that represented
her allegedly refused to back her claim. But there is one little
problem with her claim.
Comments (Count)
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