Andy Rooney speaks about the trouble the U.S. Postal Service is in. He also talks about possible changes that could help them financially. Ending delivery on Saturday not answer for USPS (3/15) |

USPS OIG: The Postal Strike of 1970

"March 18 marks the 40th anniversary of one of the most momentous events in postal history � the postal strike of 1970. The night before, postal workers in New York voted 1,555 to 1,055 to go out on strike in protest of a House committee vote to limit their wage increase that year to 5.4 percent on the heels of a 41 percent increase in Congress�s own pay. The wildcat strike and picketing were effective in shutting down postal operations in New York and quickly spread to about 30 other cities. Within days about 152,000 workers in 671 locations were on strike. It was illegal for federal workers to strike, or even to advocate a strike, but union officials said they had no control over the action." (3/15) |

Who Is Kidding Who On the Cost of Labor At USPS?

Lets get real. For the past many months we have been hearing how the Postal Service is going down the toilet financially. The people at USPS headquarters continue to put much of the blame on the cost of labor and the need to reduce expenses. They brag about the numbers of employees who have left the service, either by retirement, resignation, or removal. So, would it not be appropriate to look at employment figures and see who is taking the brunt of the decline in employees, and who might be speaking out of both sides of their collective mouths? (3/12) |

Some competitors hope to capitalize on proposed cessation of Saturday mail delivery - Although FedEx Corp. and the United Parcel Service of America Inc., the Postal Service�s two largest competitors, are keeping mum, Testa believes they could capitalize on the Post Office�s troubles by emphasizing Saturday delivery, among other ways. He suggests, for instance, they could offer a product similar to the Postal Service�s popular flat-rate boxes. (3/13) |

Postal service chief: Our business model as outdated as the newspaper industry's - John Potter, United States Postmaster General, cited changes in technology and channels of communication as justification for a revamp of the Postal Service's delivery schedule and pricing system."Twenty years ago we would laugh at the notion that a newspaper would ever embrace the idea that maybe the channel of the future is electronic and that you may have to change your business model," Potter told a group of reporters at a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor. Postmaster General: focus on customers, not struggling downtowns (3/12) |

Postal Service Seeks To Change Classification of Some PO Boxes
The U.S. Postal Service today is filing a request with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) to change the designation of some Post Office Boxes from monopoly to competitive designation � a move to allow greater flexibility to meet the needs of customers. (3/12) |

Letter to the Editor: USPS Employees Are Overworked

Hiring freezes have stopped the Osceola Post Office, as well as all others around the country, from securing the manpower to deliver mail. What happened to the employer caring for its employees and their well-being? Why must a person wait for over two years to receive help doing their job? If a private enterprise ran its company the way the postal service is being run, it would have been out of business a very long time ago. (3/11) |

USPS should engage public more when closing offices, PRC says

The Postal Regulatory Commission, in an advisory opinion released today, didn't contest that the Postal Service needs to close retail facilities � but it urged the agency to review how it chooses those it targets for closure. The PRC complained that now, postal customers get short notice of post office closures, and sometimes have only 10 days to comment on a proposed closure.APWU: Commission Sharply Criticizes USPS Station Closure Plans | PRC Issues Advisory Opinion Affirming Customer Rights in USPS Retail Office Closing Decisions (3/10) |

NALC Fact Sheet: Demand Fairness in USPS Pension and Retiree Health Funding (PDF) - Three steps to ease USPS financial burden: Congress can take three steps to put the Postal Service back in the black. A new NALC fact sheet explains how. (3/10) |

Editorial: Congress is running out of time to save the Postal Service

Given the state of technology, privatization is probably the only long-term solution for the USPS. But it is so saddled with legacy costs that no investor would touch it. If Congress gives management the tools it needs to meet the crisis, and if management uses them effectively -- two big ifs, we admit -- the Postal Service will have a chance to get its house in order and one day attract private capital, as European postal services have done. Otherwise, it may wind up as a burden on taxpayers, like another iconic business with an aging workforce, high legacy costs and an outdated product line: General Motors. (3/10) |

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3/15/10

� Marketers Digital Spending to Overtake Print for First Time Ever

� Mail loses ground to digital post-recovery
� Census Bureau explains pre-census postal blitz
� Direct Marketing Assn spent $250K lobbying in 4Q

3/14/10

� Kalamazoo: No timetable yet for decision on mail-plant consolidation
� Some support end to Saturday mail delivery
� Netflix downgraded on share price, postal worries

3/13/10

� South Carolina Man Sentenced For Burning Postal Van Carrying Mail

� Louisiana Man Indicted For Assaulting Letter Carrier

� 4 incendiary devices found in eastern Texas mail
� Jackson postal workers want answers about move of mail-processing operations to Lansing
� More stories stories of missing mail in Vermont
� Federal Disability Retirement under FERS and CSRS: Revisiting "Accommodation"

� PRC March Monthly Meeting Audio (MP3)

� Dog that attacked carrier gets death sentence

3/12/10

� Senate vote endangers Seneca mail-order cigarette business
� Taxpayers Might Have to Fund the U.S. Postal Service
� Montana mail bags still missing
� What's Missing from the Postal Service's Action Plan
� The Works of 10 Abstract Expressionists for Under $5 - Courtesy of the USPS
� Missing mail a mystery for Vermont woman
� Changing an Institution: The U.S. Postal Service
� Turmoil in Magazine Land: Did Folio Diss Bosacks?
� USPS to sell Bethesda MD post office
� MD, chiropractor indicted in alleged health care fraud scheme
� Mailman accused of delivering, using drugs held without bond
� Timeworn Canada Post labours to reinvent itself
� Woman goes postal to help incarcerated hubby

� Father, son sentenced for assault on postal worker

3/11/10

� Surgeon Tried to Get Easy Money in the Big Easy

� U.S. Postal Service Honors Abstract Expressionists

� Direct Marketers , Catalog, Mailer Groups Pledge to Work Together on Postal Issues

� Sex offender with mail carrier job reassigned

3/10/10

Postal Worker Accused of Identity Theft

Illegal immigrant stole identity and got a job with USPS - Douglas County investigators said they don't know the suspect's real name but they said after she obtained U.S. citizenship using Afolobi's name, she was able to get a job with the postal service as a mail carrier in Paulding County. Investigators said while she was employed with the postal service, she stole the identities of people on her mail route. |

Theft, Fraud Charges Filed Against Postal Employee/Gym Owner
A mail carrier who claimed she was injured and collected nearly a quarter of a million dollars in worker's compensation has been accused of fraud after allegedly spending her time launching a career in mixed martial arts. Check out YouTube video |

� When will the Postal Service start telling the whole story?

� Top postal service official addresses shortfall, rivals

� CA: Olivehurst Mail Plant To Close

� Is the end of an era near for the Postal Service?

� No Saturday mail delivery? No problem for some

� Postal Employee Indicted For Cashing More Than $41,000 In Money Orders

� PRC: On Rolls and Paid Employee Statistics

� Seven Misconceptions About the Postal Service's Action Plan
� Editorial - Saving the Post Office
� USPS: How to Be Successful With Intelligent Mail Full Service
� 2010 USPS Financial Performance
� USPS: Known Knowns, Known Unknowns Unknown Unknown

� USPS Issues Final Rule on Catalog Droop Test

3/9/10

Postal 'Reform' Created the USPS� Financial Plight

Bill�s Author Can�t Change the Facts: In a continuing effort to rewrite history, the author of the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) has attempted to refute the Postal Service�s contention that the 2006 law is responsible for the Postal Service�s current financial difficulties. But the author of the bill can�t change the facts: Postal �reform� legislation has forced the Postal Service to the brink of insolvency, APWU President William Burrus noted in an Update for union members. |

� Opinion: USPS Bent On Destroying Itself

� Mailman robbed, stabbed on route

3/8/10

Federal Times: Postal Rescue Plan Faces Impossible Odds

postal leaders last week pleaded with stakeholders � unions, Congress and customers � to support drastic reforms: a sharp rate hike next year; the end of Saturday delivery; widespread post office closures; changes to the Postal Service's formula for financing health care benefits for retirees; and deep staffing cuts. But few of those measures now appear likely to win approval � leaving the Postal Service with no clear fallback plan for closing its mammoth deficits. The U.S. Postal Service is Officially in a Panic (3/8) |

APWU Urges Members to Support Six-Day Mail Delivery

The APWU is asking union members to contact their U.S. Representatives and encourage them to co-sponsor House Resolution 173, which urges the Postal Service to continue to provide mail delivery six days per week. |

OIG Blog: Will Postal Service bosses go undercover in the future?

�Undercover Boss,� a CBS show that began airing in February, follows Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) as they go undercover to work primarily in lower-level positions in their own companies. Beyond its entertainment value, the episodes have exposed a significant disconnect between senior management and employees. Postal employees often say their managers fail to communicate various corporate policies to them, fail to listen to their comments and suggestions, and fail to understand how corporate policies ultimately affect field operations. |

Post Office Worker's Request For Work AEDs Denied

On June 9, 2009, Greg Danner arrived to his job at the downtown Minneapolis post office and noticed his co-worker Art Tilson was looking pale. Little did he know it would be the last time he would see his friend alive. Approximately 30 minutes after he started the work day he collapsed of a heart attack," said Danner. Danner's efforts to get Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) into the post office have been denied, even after fellow employees made the requests in December and an organization offered to donate them for free. |

Former USPS BOG chairman is named to head DHL Global Mail board

S. David Fineman, a former chairman of the U.S. Postal Service board of governors, has been appointed chairman of the Americas region for DHL Global Mail, the small-package courier service unit of Germany-based Deutsche Post DHL. |

FedEx Is Again USPS�s Largest Supplier For Seventh Straight Year

For the seventh straight year, FedEx is the Postal Service�s top supplier. FedEx transports Express, Priority, and First Class Mail, and earned postal revenues of $1.4 billion in fiscal 2009 � more than triple the amount of the next largest supplier. While at the top of the list, FedEx�s postal revenues declined from a high point of over $1.6 billion. Another postal competitor, United Parcel Service, is also one of the Postal Service�s top suppliers, netting $83 million in revenue and holding the 18th spot. |

Editorial: Reinventing The Post Office

What would be lost, for example, by delivering first-class mail perhaps three times a week, and advertising and magazines only on, say, Mondays? Could post offices better serve their customers as communications centers, providing public Internet service? How can the government make better use of the unparalleled contacts that letter carriers have with every resident and business in the nation? |

� USPS and U.S. Postal Inspection Service To Mark National Consumer Protection Week March 7-13

� USA Today: 'Something has to give'

� At the post office: Town welcomes permanent postmaster

� Mailboxes removed for lack of use

� 'Waste' mail is part of the rising cost of the 2010 Census

� Millvale Post Office will remain open with service cuts

� 3rd Pueblo postal carrier admits theft

� Postal Service letter carrier indicted for workers� comp fraud

3/7/10

USPS Presentation On Proposed 5-Day Delivery Operations

Reasons for moving to five-day delivery: Decreasing mail volumes; Increasing delivery points; Mail mix now yielding larger volumes with lower contribution margins; Existing cost cutting programs not enough . |

USPS Update On Flats Sequencing System

Installation schedule of machines 51 � 75 in development; 50 FSS installations complete by end of July;20 FSS locations. |

Congresswoman Emerson: Five-Day Postal Delivery Hurts Rural Areas

U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson (MO-08) responded to an announcement that the U.S. Postal Service will seek to drop one day of home delivery in an effort to offset budget shortfalls. Emerson, who represents the mostly-rural Eighth Congressional District in Southern Missouri, says the reduction of delivery days would adversely affect residents of her part of the state. |

� Postal Service worker injured in collision in Fall River

� Residents hoping to save their threatened post office

3/6/10

Poll: Most Americans think a mail-free Saturday sounds fine

a new Rasmussen Reports poll this week indicates that while an overwhelming majority of Americans (70%) have a favorable opinion of the Postal Service, a substantial majority (58%) are good with not getting 15 to 20 pizza flyers and pre-approved credit card offers on Saturday. In fact, some folks suggested that to save even more money, the Postal Service eliminate mail delivery Monday through Friday and just bring it all by on Saturday, so it can be thrown out at once. |

� Economy Can Handle Fewer Postal Workers
� PRC Examination of Post Office Suspension Abuse Drawing to Close
� Failure in Postal Commentary
� USPS Communications Issues Continue - 8125 Checklist
� End Saturday mail: U.S. Postal Service can save billions, join the 21st century
� Postal carrier helps injured Swannanoa resident
� Help the U.S. Postal Service: Only Congress can ease postal service expenses
� Postal Service Urged to Weigh Three-Days-a-Week Mail
� Bats bring postal service to screeching halt
� Why the Mail Should Come Every Other Day

3/5/10

Is the Postal Service Destined to Fail?

The Minyanville column suggests that the Postal Service will Fail because the legislative and regulatory process will not move fast enough to allow the Postal Service to handle a wave of change that is similar to what has already devastated newspapers and magazines. This viewpoint is not without merit as the Postal Service's proposal is similar to other proposed policy changes designed to transform an industry in that the benefits are diffuse (i.e. all businesses and households that would use a universal mail delivery network in 2020), and the costs are concentrated (i.e. job cuts, higher postage rates, changed retail presence). |

California Community Concerned By Sex Offender Mail Carrier

54-year old mail carrier's is pictured on the Megan�s Law website. It says the mail carrier committed a lewd or lascivious act with a child under 14 years old. He also, according to the website, lives near Morning Creek Elementary school. Holly says she met with a postal service investigator in December. �The investigator told me that if they tried to change his route that they could be sued by the postal workers union..." USPS Plans To Root Out Sex Offenders |

� Will end of USPS Saturday delivery kill Netflix?

� Postal Service Urged to Weigh Delivering Mail Three Days a Week

� Mail Delivery Times Changing in Cedar Rapids

� Will Difficult Decisions Wait Until 2010?

� Postal workers accused of drinking in lot near post office

� Post Office fund-raising ban slows down soldier support

3/4/10

Post Office Teams With Target To Save Money

Facing a projected $7 billion loss this year, the United States Postal Service is hoping to shut down some locations and reopen in drug stores and grocery chains to save money. In North Texas, Target has already launched a joint venture with USPS designed to give its customers more in-store convenience. USPS planning to add kiosks to retail stores and consumer sites |

� 'The Path Forward' of the Postal Service

� Technology Could Deliver USPS From Debt

� Confessions of a Former Station Manager 2010 (PDF)

� Body of missing Postal Worker found

� USPS to test a repurposed electric vehicle fleet

� Supreme Court Upholds Order to Remove Religious Materials From Contract PO
� Bill calls for feds who owe taxes to be fired
� TSP: Getting Bigger & Better
� Postal Service Preparing Double Whammy for Publishers
� Direct Marketers, Catalog Companies: We Can Adjust to Five-Day Postal Week

3/3/10

APWU Rejects USPS Call For Five-Day Delivery, New Business Model

Calls For OIG Investigation into USPS expanding role of subcontracting - APWU President William Burrus condemned USPS proposals to reduce mail delivery to five days per week, saying, �It would be the beginning of the demise of the Postal Service. �Postal management has intensified its financial problems by offering excessive worksharing discounts to major mailers and by subcontracting work at exorbitant costs,� Burrus said. �We call for a thorough investigation by the Office of the Inspector General into the expanding role of subcontracting and the inflated costs associated with them,� he said. |

Postal Service Plans to Use More Part-Time Employees

Dead Tree Edition: The U.S. Postal Service plans to rely more on part-time employees as it adjusts its operations for declining mail volume.� Annually, approximately 5 percent of employees are eligible and expected to retire. It would not make sense to replace them with full-time employees if demand is moving in a direction better suited to a part-time workforce,� the USPS says in its �Action Plan for the Future� �Over the next 10 years, over 300,000 employees � more than half the current workforce � will be eligible to retire. This will provide an opportunity to make the workforce even more efficient by increasing use of flexible and part-time employees.� |

� Linda Welch Named VP, Southeast Area

� Confessions of a Former Station Manager 2010 (PDF)

� PRC Initiates Review of USPS Pension Liability

� Audit Report - Highway Contract Route Transportation - Greater Chicago (PDF)

� Postal Service Requests PRC Review of CSRS Liabilities (PDF)

3/2/10

NALC opposes cutback in mail service; urges Congress to give USPS �financial breathing room� - �I do not believe that weakening our commitment of six-day service to the public will enhance the long-term position of the Postal Service as a critical element in our nation�s economic infrastructure,� Rolando said. �In view of the January report released by the postal Inspector General that showed that the USPS was overcharged by $75 billion for postal pension costs, Congress instead should take immediate steps to correct the error.� |

Postal Service Outlines 10-Year Plan to Address Declining Revenue, Volume Facing unprecedented volume declines and a projected, cumulative $238 billion shortfall during the next decade, Postmaster General John E. Potter today outlined an aggressive plan of cost cutting, increased productivity, and an array of legislative and regulatory changes necessary to maintain a viable United States Postal Service. Establish a more flexible workforce that is better positioned to respond to changing demand patterns, as more than 300,000 employees become eligible to retire in the coming decade. Postal Service to shed another 30000 jobs |

� Postal myths- is Potter right?

� OH: Bomb threat prompts search of post office
� USPS Confirm EMD Gets Another Stay of Execution

3/1/10

Postal Service Expected To Announce 'Significant Changes'

The U.S. Postal Service will release projections Tuesday that confirm for the first time the suspicion that mail volume will never return to pre-recession levels. In response, the agency is pushing anew for a dramatic reshaping of how Americans get and send their letters and packages. In an effort to offset some of the losses, Potter seeks more flexibility in the coming year to set delivery schedules, prices and labor costs. The changes could mean an end to Saturday deliveries, longer delivery times for letters and packages, higher postage-stamp prices that exceed the rate of inflation, and the potential for future layoffs. Officials will also seek greater flexibility in forthcoming union negotiations, including addressing ballooning health-care costs, Potter said. A Message From PMG Jack Potter: Envisioning America�s Future Postal Service | Previewing the Postal Service's Proposal | USPS is pushing for a radical reshaping |

Could Longer Lines Be Coming to Your Local Post Office�Lottery Lines?

USPS OIG: According to a representative on the Postal Regulatory Commission�s staff, a Postal Service-run lottery �could offer the potential for substantial profits for the Postal Service and utilize its current retail infrastructure with its 36,000 retail outlets.� Popular lottery formats in many states include drawings and instant lottery tickets. The claim is that running a national lottery could help the U.S. Postal Service close its multibillion-dollar budget gap. It could also build foot traffic to post offices, increasing retail sales of postal products. A lottery might bring in a lot of revenue, but would it also bring more problems. |

Postal Service to Add Self-Service Retirement Feature to LiteBlue

The Postal Service will add a new feature (eRetire) to LiteBlue which will provide employees the option of using self-service to begin the retirement process. |

Tree Crushes Mail Truck

A Westport postal worker is injured but lucky after a tree crushed a mail truck on Monday. Postal Worker : "I Lucked Out" ) |

� TSP Funds Flourish In February

� Coca-Cola PepsiCo and the USPS

� Crews search forest for missing mail bags

� Going green, Postal Service expands recycling

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