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5/23/13
Man Arrested
in Probe of Ricin-Laced Letters
Kansas postal worker faces embezzlement charge
SUV, LLV collide in Rhode Island
Postal Service reverses decision to deny direct mail delivery
to $300,000 homes
5/22/13
Emotions run high at Redlands CA post office meeting
USPS finding new homes for Post Office art
Video: Postal employees say mail delivery will take longer with
East Texas Mail Center closure
Mail carrier injured when vehicle overturns
Letter pilfering letter carrier to get drug treatment,
attorney says
Postal worker sentenced to probation for stealing money from
Mobile mail route
Federal affidavit details shooting death of Coldspring TX
postal worker
Arrest Made in Illinois Mail Carrier Robbery Case
California Legislature Opposes Sale of Berkeley Post Office
USPS Semi Crash Destroys Mail
5/21/13
Postmaster General in talks with
StampNews.com
Video: Company Promises to Make All Snail
Mail Digital
Post Office Assures Service Standards At Long Beach Mail
Processing Facility Will Remain High
North Texas postal worker facing serious
prison time after admitting to stealing $75 in gift cards
Congressional Support Growing For Postal
Service Protection Act
Retiree raise? COLA not a guarantee
Lew taps government retiree pension fund
Implementing the Right Shipping Strategy
New York’s Greeley Square
Post Office gets a new location: Who knew?
Warwick police: Slain man
was retired postal worker
MTAC Focus Group
Presentations and Action Items Posted
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Presentations from the
USPS Leadership Forum
5/20/13
Oregon's fight for postal jobs
Mankato: Deadline moving up for
first-class mail
South Dakota: Post Office Problems
Oklahoma APWU holds annual convention in
Enid
Postal union threatens disruption over
Royal Mail privatization
Britain's post offices tell Government:
'Don't sell off Royal Mail'
Cayman Islands: Postal service develops
'Watch for Request' system
5/19/13
FedEx Express extends same-day service to Boston
Apartment raided in ricin investigation
5/17/13
A letter carrier's life-saving visit
Bride-to-be's invitations likely among mail destroyed in fire
Pasco WA mail center likely will close June 28
Ask the Ethicist: Does the Postal Service Owe Me Money?
5/16/13
5/15/13
Another Ricin Incident Hits Spokane, WA
Preliminary lab tests indicated the
presence of ricin on two suspicious letters in Spokane WA, the Postal
Service told the APWU on May 15. The letters are being analyzed and
tested further for hazardous material.
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USPS makes changes to its expedited product lineup
USPS is making changes in its expedited
products to add to their value and make the Postal Service more
competitive in the shipping marketplace. Comments (Count)
Video: Knee replacements keep postal
carrier at job she loves
Florida postal worker imprisoned for
stealing $62.71 from mail
USPS launches ‘Premier Post Office’
certification program
USPS has plans to cut Madison
mail-handling jobs
USPS Releases Top Dog Attack City Rankings
Former postal carrier gets
probation for stealing mail
EDITORIAL: Postal move demands
answers
Postal worker assaulted with knife
5/14/13
USPS OIG
Blog: Money Orders 2.0
Colorado governor signs mail-ballot and voter-registration bills
Illinois: Peoria postal workers stop sex offender in alleged attempted kidnapping
‘Sacred’ ashes of Ancaster mother missing in postal journey to U.S.
5/13/13
Burrus: Thanks, But No Thanks
In addressing the
serious financial losses by the Postal Service and the lack of
political courage to permit 5 day delivery the Board of Governors
arrived at the brilliant conclusion that the unions be requested to
reopen negotiations. The Mail Handlers have publicized their
response to the USPS request and as expected, they politely
declined. The date of the Donahoe letter was April 16, 2003 and it
can be expected that similar letters were mailed to the other
unions. There is no possible positive outcome for the unions to
reopen negotiations which would certainly lead to arbitration so one
can certainly assume that the other unions likewise declined the
invitation. .
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Video: Food donation mistaken as suspicious package at post office
A campaign by the post office to fight
hunger may have accidentally led to a bomb scare in Youngtown.
Someone thought they spotted a suspicious package at the post office. Comments (Count)
Retire?! Are
you nuts?
Confessions of a NYC ghetto mailman
5/12/13
Stock up now, because snail mail may be about to get
more expensive
5/11/13
Postmaster Facing Choice of Flouting Laws to
Stem Losses
With the service on pace to almost run
out of operating cash in October, Donahoe may have to decide whether
to make unilateral changes without congressional consent, said Evercore’s George Ackert, lead adviser to the Postal Service on its
turnaround plan.“It will reach a crisis point and then the Postal
Service will have to choose from various illegal alternatives,”
Ackert said. “They’ll say it’s illegal to go from six delivery days
to five, well it’s also illegal to not deliver the mail, so you’re
talking about choosing amongst various bad outcomes.” Those potential
changes include ending Saturday mail delivery and closing post
offices and sorting centers. Donahoe has already shown he’s willing
to ignore a law. He hasn’t paid the cost of prefunding future
retirees’ healthcare for the past two years, something required by
federal law only of the Postal Service. Comments (Count)
New
Jersey: USPS consolidates sorting, letter-carrying operations
from Cranbury to Highstown
Post
office resumes delivery after Pa. drug deal
Hunger Task Force Hosts 2013 Letter
Carrier Olympics
Bizarre Solution to Fix POSTAL SERVICE
Proposed
5/10/13
USPS: Second Quarter $1.9 Billion Loss Highlights Continued Urgent Need for Comprehensive Legislation
The U.S. Postal Service ended the second
quarter of its 2013 fiscal year (Jan. 1 – March 31) with a net loss
of $1.9 billion. The Postal Service continues to grow revenue and
reduce expenses by using the tools available to it under existing
law. However, without passage of comprehensive legislation to provide
the Postal Service with a workable business model for today’s
marketplace, large quarterly financial losses will continue. Chairman
Carper, Ranking Member Coburn Statement on Latest USPS Financial
Losses |
NALC Statement about USPS’ Q2 financial report
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Mail Handlers Union Rejects USPS Request To Reopen Contract Negotiations
“While we are always willing to work
with the Postal Service to achieve cost savings, and to find new
revenue streams, we cannot accommodate your request to reopen
contract negotiations.
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The Future of Flats and FSS
According to Brennan’s presentation,
there would be significant savings with the FSS implementation.
Savings in 2,400 zones running on FSS daily, 38K city carriers
receiving sequenced flats, 4,359 city routes eliminated, an annual
reduction of 10 million in-office sequenced flats and annual
reduction of over 1 million in-office hours. .
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USPS to Conduct Audit on Delivery Unit
Optimization (DUO) Process
Postal workers' struggle spreads across the world
A Petition That Just Might Save the Post Office
Critics blast USPS plan to ship Brooklyn mail to Manhattan first
Erie postal worker avoids jail for misusing government credit card
Postal workers protest planned closure of Newburgh NY mail facility
5/09/13
Donahoe Lays Out the Future of the USPS
MULTICHANNEL MERCHANT - PMG painted a grim picture during his
State of the USPS presentation to attendees at the American Catalog
Mailers Association’s 2013 National Catalog Forum on May 8.
According to Donahoe, with the loss of money, infrastructure goes and
employees are forced to take lower wages and mailers are paying
higher prices.
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Are Federal and Postal Employees Taken For
Granted?
NAPS- The question is; after you finish
reading this, what are you going to do? If you are just going to
continue what you were doing, and get up tomorrow morning for the
daily grind, then I have failed in my effort. Instead, you need to
get on your computer or pick up your phone or maybe even write a
letter to your Member of Congress and tell them that you want them to
stop the sequestration and pass a budget now! Let them know that you
aren’t happy and that you vote too!
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USPS Mail Promotion to Help Marketers Turn ‘Triers’ Into Buyers
If they try it, they’ll buy it. That’s the message the U.S. Postal
Service is sending to consumer packaged goods companies and other
marketers with its Product Samples mail promotion.
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Sequester, Postal Departures Weigh on
Retirement Claims Backlog
Omaha: End of door-to-door mail delivery
for businesses?
SNAPSHOT: Musical postmaster
NC: Postal Service cuts hours at several
area post offices
NALC: Updated list of vacancies
available for transfer opportunities - as of May 8
South Carolina postal worker injured in crash while delivering mail
Berkeley gathers forces to save landmark post office
Postal truck strikes gas meter, causing traffic snarl
When dogs attack: Jackson mail carriers learn what to do when encountering
dangerous dogs
5/08/13
USPS Post Plan initiative reaches 1-year mark
Under the plan, Post Offices may be
transitioned to 2-hour, 4-hour or 6-hour periods of operation each
day. So far, more than 800 Post Offices have been converted to two
hours per day.
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Lawyer: USPS board members risked “removal” over ending Saturday mail delivery
Members of the U.S. Postal Service’s
board of governors risked losing their jobs if the agency persevered
with ending Saturday mail delivery following passage of a final
fiscal 2013 spending bill. That was the warning delivered by an
outside law firm April 5–four days before the board pulled the plug
on the plan. Comments (Count)
Postal Worker
Faces 5 yrs in prison for alleged $20 theft from mail
The charge claims that on Sept. 11, he
removed the money from a first class priority piece of mail in
Tupelo, MS. .
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Make
Mommy Proud: Contribute to the Nation’s Largest Single-Day Food Drive
USPS Backs Off From Price-Hike Gambit
NH
Letter Carrier Risks His Own Life To Save Another From A Burning Building
Defense seeks to ban death penalty for man accused in shootings of Henning
postal workers
Video: Sending out the mail could put you at risk for identity theft
5/07/13
Congressional Attack on Federal Health Insurance
NAPUS- Prior to departing on its recent
one-week recess, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee
introduced a bill that, if enacted, would gut the Federal Employees
Health Benefits Program (FEHBP). The bill would force virtually the
entire federal workforce out of the FEHBP and into health insurance
exchanges created under the Affordable Care Act. Although postal
employees, and federal and postal retirees would be able to stay in
FEHBP, the remaining program would be in shambles. In addition, on
May 3, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) circulated a
memorandum to his GOP colleagues that put forth the House schedule
through the end of July — postal legislation is not on it.
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What's Possible for the USPS? - Actually Great
Things
When conversation comes up about the
USPS, it often seems negative. Likely, it’s the nature of the
business and the fact that we’re living in a technologically
advancing time like no other in history. We take it somewhat for
granted that we can text and get email on smartphones. Customers
expect mail and package delivery and are never surprised when it
happens, but they tend not to forget when it doesn’t. It can be a
thankless service, but it’s a little more complex than that. Comments (Count)
Blade Runner, Terminator, Minority Report and the deliberate sabotage of the Postal Service (The USPS is also home to lots of unionized public employees, and the GOP
lately has decided that unionized public employees are Public Enemy No. 1.
That’s an odd claim — villainizing police officers, firefighters, first
responders, teachers and mail carriers doesn’t seem like an easy or an
obvious task, but that’s the current Republican plan, and the “Postal
Accountability and Enhancement Act” is a part of that strategy.) The PAEA
was designed to bankrupt the Postal Service — to turn a government service
that Americans like into something that could be railed against as
wasteful, inefficient and costly. That’s what the law was meant to do.
That’s exactly what the law is doing, just as planned. It was a deliberate
act of sabotage. And it’s working. The whole point of requiring the agency
today to fund benefits for workers it won’t hire until 2046 was to ensure
that the agency wouldn’t still be around in 2046 to hire anybody. Comments (Count)
Mobile post office vehicle arrives in
Ipswich
Give Mom What She Wants
Rep. Bonamici tells carriers of
need for postal service reform
Long Beach U.S. Postal Service Mail Processing Operations
Consolidation Is Slated For July 1
5/06/13
Postal Employees Salary Information Database for
2013 Updated
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USPS Must Give Employee Test Scores To Union, NLRB Finds
The National Labor Relations Board on
Thursday ordered the U.S. Postal Service to release some employees’ scores
on an aptitude test to a mail handlers’ union, ruling that the union’s
goal of policing the agency’s hiring practices outweighed the test takers’
right to privacy.
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Local letter carriers stick together through Postal Service
upheaval
What is holding up Secure
Electronic Mail
Service Standards changes last July
cause additional delays for non-local mail copies
5/05/13
Postal workers too scared to deliver in crime-ridden Brownsville, Brooklyn
Postmen are too scared to deliver letters and
packages to one of Brooklyn’s most crime-ravaged neighborhoods, a US
Postal Service worker told The Post yesterday. “The neighborhood is bad,”
the worker said outside the Brownsville Station Post Office on Bristol
Street. “I wouldn’t want to go into those buildings.” Snail mail that goes
undelivered finds its way back to the post office, where it can stew for
several days until a carrier decides to deliver it — or residents are
forced to come pick it up.
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5/04/13
Video: PMG Pat Donahoe talks to Bloomberg's Judy Woodruff
Patrick Donahoe talks about the Postal Service’s projected loss,
challenges and the need for legislation in Congress to help the agency cut
costs. Comments (Count)
USPS Letter Canceling The Outsourcing Of Motor Vehicle Services in California
- The following is a text of the letter
from USPS sent
to Omar Gonzalez, APWU Western Regional Coordinator canceling the
'outsourcing' of Motor Vehicle Services in California.
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5/03/13
The Plight of the Postal Service
Ralph Nader via Huffington Post -The United
States Postal Service is in a freefall due to poor management, a starkly
shortsighted, paralyzed Congressional leadership, and the steady march of
right wing ideologues. Congress shares much of the blame for the USPS's plight, as its members take campaign contributions from USPS's
competitors. The USPS was once the symbol of reliability, punctuality and
efficiency. Its defining mission is "to bind the nation together." Much of
that reputation has been damaged by the threat or actual rural post office
closings, cuts in service (including the on-again off-again threat of
ending Saturday delivery), and diminishing revenue due to the recession,
an uneven playing field with UPS and FedEx, and the expansion of the
digital age. Comments (Count)
Lettrs Sends USPS Mail from Your Smartphone
Lettrs allows you to send long-form messages to a friend’s inbox or to a
real-world mailbox, directly from your iPhone or computer. It’s somewhat
like the eCard sites and apps that now let you send cards via the USPS.
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Postal worker sexually assaulted on her lunch break in Silver Spring, MD
Police are looking for the person who allegedly sexually assaulted a U.S.
Postal Service employee at knifepoint in Silver Spring as she was on her
lunch break Thursday. Comments (Count)
U.S. Postal
Service Salutes the American Flag
Postal Reform: What will it take?
Washington Heights Post Office Relocation, Downsizing Draws Jeers From Postal
Workers Union
Ralph Nader: The Plight of the Postal Service
USPS: No mail delivery until "Moose" the pit bull goes
Update: More affected by Abington PA mail thefts
5/02/13
Postal Loss Seen at $6 Billion as Donahoe Asks U.S. Congress Aid
The U.S.
Postal Service is projecting a loss of as much as a $6 billion for the
year as it keeps pressure on Congress for help, Postmaster General Patrick
Donahoe said. The government agency that’s supposed to support itself
through postage sales lost about $3 billion in the first half of its
fiscal year, from Oct. 1 through March 31, Donahoe said in an interview
airing this weekend on Bloomberg Television’s “Conversations With Judy
Woodruff.” That decline is projected to double by the year’s end, which is
Sept. 30, he said.
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Video: Rural mail carriers violating Florida's seat belt law
Local 6 cameras caught carriers in Orange County neighborhoods driving
from the passenger seat with one hand on the wheel and one foot straddled
across the console to handle the brake and accelerator. The drivers were
never wearing seat belts. José Alberto Ucles of the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration says the mail drivers have no federal
immunity to the state’s seat belt law.
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New App Brings Back Handwritten Cards:
Signed, Sealed, Delivered–All From Your iPad
No timeline set on restoration of Ipswich postal
facility
Georgia: Postal vehicle flipped in Evans crash
Berkeley
post office activists look at legal strategies
Contract
driver for USPS avoids further prosecution in mail thefts
Congress,
FEHBP and ObamaCare
Postal service to remove mailboxes along Pittsburgh marathon route
Reality TV, the Glitter Tariff, and Other Ways to Save the Postal Service
USPS has data-related issues, say auditors
Michigan postal worker reaches deal, will avoid jail time
5/01/13
APWU Challenges POStPlan, Demands Jobs
“The POStPlan violates the clear language of new provisions of the
contract,” said Director of Industrial Relations Mike Morris. New language
in the 2010 contract stipulates that the work in question must be
performed by craft employees, he testified.
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USPS: The Next Amtrak?
Concerning the future of the U.S. Postal
Service (USPS), one thing is abundantly clear: It is going to change,
sooner rather than later, and in significant fashion.“The postal service
is a dinosaur,” Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) General Counsel Stephen
Sharfman told marketers at the recent Direct Marketing Association 2013
DMA in DC Conference. “It’s still roaming the earth, but the question is
how long it will continue to do so and what role it will play.”
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TSP Funds Stay Positive in April
Lawmakers
join rally to save Postal Service plants from closure
Video: USPS investigates delivery mistakes
in St. Louis County neighborhood
Video: Owner
Of Dog That Attacked Postal Worker Apologizes
Man says post office lost his late wife's ashes
Congressman criticizes Burbank post office closure plan
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