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6/18/13
Man Charged
For Allegedly Punching Ohio Postal Worker, Attempting To Steal Mail Bag
Some notice
delays following Salem mail processing center closure
Postal Reform Bill Riles Unions, Reduces To-the-Door Delivery
What's left to save at the U.S. Postal Service?
North Carolina postal robber remains elusive
Massachusetts mailman accused of stealing debit card and pin, then spending
$4,000
Man arrested in Burbank
CA after allegedly throwing tequila bottle at mailman
6/17/13
Postal Clerk Who Stole Medication From Veterans Gets Probation
Government Snooping Revelations Should Give The Postal Service A Huge
Opportunity
Video: Postal Worker Helps Bust Domestic
Lottery Scam
Postal Service needs to stop ‘strong arm tactics’
USPS OIG: Does a Hybrid Postal Model Have
Merit?
Wall of gopost postboxes gets seal of
disapproval
Postal, book event highlights camels'
Arizona trek
U.S., Cuba to meet over resuming mail
services
Betrayal without remedy: The unwinding of
the Postal Service
Hungary's Postal Service Puts Tracking
Devices on Letter Carriers
How a Postal Inspector Caught a Scam
Artist Red-Handed
The USPS Fights to Survive Under Stifling
Government Regulations
Online Auction To Determine Yankton
Post Office’s Fate
Residents Assured Note To Install Curbside Mailbox Only A
Suggestion
6/16/13
No plans for a new Hanamaulu, HI Post
Office
Death penalty, mental issues to be argued in Henning,
Tenn postal
workers' murder case
Postal Service to boost spending on
sustainable products
6/15/13
Letter Carrier angry about racist
prank gagged by USPS
An Expensive Change at USPS for eBay and
Online Seller Regarding Media Mail
High number of dog bites causes
USPS to consider community mailboxes
Wall honors postal workers who are veterans
6/14/13
USPS says Long Beach mail-processing center closure on July 1 won't impact
service
Man faces
up to 20 years for possession of $1 million in fake money orders
Texas man indicted in postal worker death
6/13/13
Letter carrier is victim of racist prank involving Fraternity at University
of Chicago
Minnesota postmaster indicted for stealing postal funds
Postal mix-up delays IRS payment
Why it's so much harder for the government to spy on your snail mail than your
email
6/12/13
New
USPS Video: Guess How Many Toy Bunnies Can Fit Into Flat Rate Box?
Happy Magic Day! How many stuffed toy bunnies fit in this large flat rate
box? Click and find out Comments
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USPS
making progress cutting mail delays, says Inspector General
The US Postal Service made “significant progress” in reducing the amount
of delayed mail in the most recent peak mailing season, according to the
USPS Inspector General.The latest semiannual report from the IG to
Congress says that in the past mailers have expressed concern about USPS
performance in the autumn mailing season, but this year delayed mail
declined by 56% year-on-year while service performance rose to 90.7%.The
amount of delayed mail was reduced compared to the previous fall mailing
season at the Postal Service’s 43 largest mail processing and distribution
centres Comments
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USPS Initiates Mail Delivery Changes
As part of an effort to reduce delivery
costs, some local postmasters have advised apartment owners and managers
in some states that mail deliveries to new addresses, including apartment
communities, will be made to outdoor “cluster box units” (CBUs) instead of
traditional mailboxes inside the apartment buildings. The notices indicate
the postal service also plans to deliver packages to secure parcel lockers
instead of locations such as leasing offices and concierge desks for
residents to retrieve them.These notices indicate that the local
postmasters have authority to initiate delivery changes through the U.S.
Postal Service (USPS) Postal Operations Manual; however, USPS says it is
not currently planning forced conversions to centralized delivery for
properties with established service. USPS says it will purchase and
install CBUs without charge for apartment communities currently receiving
regular delivery, if they voluntarily request centralized delivery
service.
See letter (PDF) Comments
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Firm chaired by Sen. Feinstein's husband
cashes in on another federal crisis
The real estate giant chaired by Richard Blum, the husband of California
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, is cashing in on a new federal crisis.Just a few
years after the firm now known as CBRE Group collected more than $108
million from a contract to help the FDIC sell foreclosed properties, the
company owned in part by Blum is selling off old post offices under an
exclusive contract with the financially struggling U.S. Postal Service,
records show.Officials for the Postal Service, Feinstein’s office and
Blum’s company say the contract signed in 2011 with CBRE involved no
political influence and was awarded to CBRE after a competitive process
that involved six other firms.Ironically, Feinstein tried unsuccessfully
to block the sale of the post offices before her husband’s firm won the
contract. And the Postal Service says the decision to sell the buildings,
some of them designated as historic sites or located in prime downtown
locations, was purely financial. Comments
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Call
Kurtis: USPS Claims Blank Space Is Signature Confirmation, Customer Says
Jay bought signature confirmation and insurance on the $1300 MacBook Pro
she sold on eBay to a buyer in Berkeley. But the buyer never got it, she
said, and PayPal refunded the buyer in Berkeley his money, leaving Jay
without her money or her laptop. The signature delivery receipt doesn’t
appear to show any signature on it, so Jay thought she’d get her insurance
claim right away. ” But the Postal Service denied her claim, saying the
package was “delivered as addressed” — indicating the blank space on her
receipt was in fact a signature.
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Mail carriers
to picket Laurel Heights TX Post Office
Tony Boyd, president of the San Antonio
chapter of the National Association of Letter Carriers, said management at
the branch has pushed the time carriers begin their shift from 7 a.m. to 9
a.m.Boyd said this, along with the constant changes in delivery routes,
has caused long delays in mail delivery because carriers are not able to
complete their routes by the usual time of 5 p.m.“It's not a
dollars-and-cents issue, this is an issue of providing service,” he
said.Boyd said he has not received similar complaints about other branches
in the city.Some businesses within the area say they often go several days
without mail delivery. Comments
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Video: Rochester, New York man charged
with sale of counterfeit postage stamps
USPS can ask for mailbox move, but can't require it,
spokesman says
Lindsey Graham
Says He Would Suggest Censoring The Mail, If He ‘Thought It
Necessary’
Yankton Post Office To Be
Auctioned Off
Hello Hillsboro: Postal Collection Changes
Having a Wide Effect
Postal Service’s Steven
Wenzel: Madison processing center won’t be closed
USPS only repaints 'defaced'
mailboxes after anonymous 'Captain Cleanup' already covered up
graffiti
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