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April 30, 2006 -
Postal delivery is no easy reach
" Mail
carrier Donna Squier once had a mailbox completely fall off its post when she
was attempting to make a delivery. It's just one mailbox malady that befalls
Auburn-area postal carriers, who can all name a few boxes on their route that
need a desperate makeover. The mailbox improvement committee has devised a decorating
contest with dozens of prizes. More than two dozen entrants will win jewelry,
food, and store gift certificates donated by 21 local businesses. Bringing low
mailboxes up to 42 inches can help carriers avoid repetitive stress injuries.
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April 30, 2006 -
USPS Revamps Retail Training Program -Rob
Strunk, APWU Assistant Director, Clerk Division, released the following memo
on USPS’ New Retail Training Program, "The United States Postal Service has
instituted a new retail training program wherein the classroom training program
has been changed to exclude POS training, which will be solely taught by on-the-job
instructors." On the following page are some basic questions and answers about
the program. |
April 30, 2006 -
Letters: Study does not mean postal plant will close
- "I
am mystified by an article that ran in the April 25 issue of the Oshkosh Northwestern
"Oshkosh postal facility could be closed." Despite meeting with the reporter
face-to-face and emphasizing several times that we were reviewing only one aspect
of our operations at the Oshkosh Processing and Distribution Facility (P&DF),
it was inaccurately reported that we were considering closing the entire plant.
This is simply not true." Robert J. Prahl Plant Manager Oshkosh
Processing and Distribution Facility |
Previous article - April 25, 2006 -
Oshkosh postal facility could be closed -"Oshkosh's
United States Postal Service processing and distribution center is one of more
than 50 such centers around the country undergoing a study to determine if it
should be closed and consolidated with other regional operations, postal officials
said. It is the only center the Postal Service is considering closing in the
Lakeland District, which consists of two-thirds of Wisconsin and Michigan's
Upper Peninsula, said JoAnne Blackburn, of the Postal Service Public Affairs
Office in Milwaukee.
April 30, 2006 -
Great Falls (Montana) postmaster resigns after investigation -
Bruce Gruver was put on administrative
leave January 24th, but postal officials wouldn't say why and still aren't saying
whether Gruver was asked to resign or what the investigation revealed, citing
privacy concerns. Before taking the Great Falls job in December 2004, Gruver
was postmaster in Fort Dodge, Iowa. Gruver began his career with USPS in 1982.
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April 30, 2006 -
Pennsylvania: Oil City letter carrier finishes Boston Marathon -
Luke Riley of Knox, a letter carrier for the Oil City post office, finished
in 429th place out of 22,517 participants last week in his first Boston Marathon.
Riley, who started running about four years ago in an effort to lose weight,
finished the 26.2-mile marathon in 2 hours, 50 minutes and 21 seconds.
April 30, 2006
Metroblogging New Orleans: Going Postal
April 29, 2006
Sioux City: Local, state leaders to meet with Potter
Retired postal workers hold reunion
Bag of mail lost on Heartland
highway
Letter perfect: Postal employee
delivers 40 years of faithful service
Car runs into post office
Going Postal on Main Street
Papers, magazines, ad mail back on N.O. delivery route
April 28, 2006 -
Postal
Worker Fights Off Attackers Despite Being Stabbed
- An Oviedo (Fla.) postal clerk was attacked and stabbed Friday morning.
Now police are searching for the two men who did it. "The employee was sleeping
in his truck an hour before his shift started, when the men pulled him out of
the truck. The stabbed postal service clerk drove himself to the hospital and
the men who tried to rob him have not been caught. For the past 20 years, Maurice
Boetto ( pictured at left) has always arrived at the post office in Oviedo at
least one hour before the start of his shift." Military training. I'm never
late to wherever I need to go," he said. That same military mentality he developed
in the Navy perhaps helped save his life Friday morning."
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April 28, 2006 -
Mendham Township rallies 'round its post office
- A community defined by prosperity and a sense of history was
the unlikely setting of a protest this morning pitting residents against the
U.S. Postal Service. Chanting "no standardization" and waving signs, nearly
two dozen people stuck up for their beloved Brookside post office after an inspector
ordered the removal of pictures, notices and other personal items displayed
on walls inside the 19th Century building." It's a shame to hear this bureaucratic
nonsense coming out of Washington," said township resident Sam Fairchild, a
former Assistant U.S. Secretary of Transportation and advisor to President Reagan.
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April 28, 2006 -
Mail carrier retires, recalls days of two-room post office
- After 32 years of delivering mail to Oakton
residents, Ron Rusnak will make one last round through the Miller Heights subdivision
this Friday and then leave his mail truck at the post office for the next mail
carrier. Then, he said, he will likely go home and begin his retirement with
a cold beverage. This April marks 36 years of service to the government for
Rusnak, including four years in the Army, and he said he had long planned to
make this month his last. "I had just had enough. It was time," he said.
April 28, 2006
Benefit Concert
To Aid Goleta Postal Victims’ Families
eNapus Bulletin:
Perfect Postal Storm Brewing
Credit Card Mail Offers
Grow 16% in 2005
Mean mutt mars mail, many mad
Postal Service's Change-of-Address Filings at Historic Levels
Group wants
cockfighting magazines declared 'nonmailable'
'Junk mail' tax break moving toward approval
Postal
Workers to Deliver Thousands of Signed Letters to Canada
Post CEO
Canada Post uses legal loophole to knock off rival
Angry over shift changes, Canadian postal workers walk off job
April 27, 2006 -
Slow Pace of Bookspan NSA Scares Mailers, USPS Says
"Business mailers
are becoming less interested in working with the U.S. Postal Service on negotiated
service agreements because a recent landmark case is taking too long to be completed,
a USPS official said last week. A Postal Rate Commission spokesman, however,
said the PRC just wants to get the deal right. Negotiated service agreements
are special service and rate arrangements between the USPS and a mailer or group
of mailers. Proponents say NSAs encourage greater volume by rewarding postal
service customers with discounts and premium services."
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April 27, 2006-
Postal
Service Reopens New Orleans Plant
-On Friday, April 28, 2006 at 10 a.m. the U.S.
Postal Service will officially re-open its New Orleans Processing and Distribution
Center, the primary mail-processing facility for mail to and from Louisiana.
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April 27, 2006 -
Tennessee: Gunman holds up Post Office - suspect caught - A gunman
robbed the postmistress of the Lake Cormorant Post Office Tuesday morning, but
he was caught four minutes later by a Walls police officer. Postmistress Cindy
Scott called in an alarm on the holdup at 11:40 a.m., saying she'd just been
robbed of an undetermined amount of cash and blank money orders. Mitchell said
Scott was not injured in the robbery but was threatened by the man brandishing
a pistol. "The Postal Inspectors recovered the cash and money order blanks taken
in the robbery. They also recovered the pistol," he said
April 27, 2006 -
Letter Carrier Delivers laughs in the face of danger
Johnny Pizzi of Saugus, the regular host at the Giggles Comedy Club on Route
1 for 17 years, has been on national TV (''The John Laroquette Show") and played
Las Vegas. That's heady stuff, but nothing compared to his trip this month to
Bosnia and Kosovo. The package included sleeping on cots, eating when you're
told, changing plans on short notice, and taking rides in helicopters while
men with machine guns keep watch. ''It's great to be able to do something in
a small way to help take the troops' minds off of why they're there," said Pizzi.
''This is the ultimate in show business, to be able to do something for them
while they're over there watching our backs." Pizzi, who works full time as
a letter carrier, was disappointed that the Postal Service wouldn't grant him
an administrative leave. But rather than miss the trip, he used vacation days.
''It's my vacation in Kosovo," he said.
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April 27, 2006 -
USPS: Long Grove residents must use RFD address
Long Grove residents used to receiving mail addressed to their street address
may find troubles with delivery because the post office has switched software.
The U.S. Postal Service will no longer recognize street addresses in Long Grove.
Village officials have requested the post office use rural free delivery, or
RFD, addresses for mail delivery. New postal software is not programmed to work
for mail that uses the street address instead of the RFD address.
April 27, 2006 -
Advo Swings the Ax - "Advo shook
up its bulls last week when it cut its second-quarter earnings forecast, citing
soft results in its so-called zone product. To drive profitability in future
periods, Advo said Tuesday that it will close its Memphis production facility
and outsource its graphics and print production operations."
April 27, 2006 -
Co-workers celebrate vets' return - Gil Tatum still has to wear a uniform.
He still has to be able to carry more than 30 pounds of gear. And he is still
required to have a license to drive a government vehicle. But instead of searching
for roadside bombs on the dangerous streets of Tikrit, Iraq, which he did for
nearly a year, the former Army sergeant is doling out mail in Concord. 'I don't
have much chance of getting blown to pieces,' said Tatum, 27. 'I am glad to
be back to a normal life.' Tatum worked as a mail carrier for about five years
before he was deployed to Iraq, where he served for 11 months. The Antioch resident
returned to his job at the post office April 17 -- bringing the number of Iraqi
war vets at the Concord office to four. Co-workers marked Tatum's first day
back and the other soldiers' safe returns with a celebration. They hung a colorful
banner in the lobby with photos of the five vets, including one who served in
the Gulf War.
April 27, 2006
Postal Bulletin 4/27/06 Issue
Postal worker given probation for stealing
House leader won't join Sioux City in postal dispute
Once licked, rare stamp resurfaces
Cayman Islands: APO swamped with undeliverable mail
April 26, 2006 -
Postal
Service asked to hold off on rate increase
"House Government
Reform Chairman Tom Davis, R-Va., is asking the U.S. Postal Service to hold
off on its next rate increase until issues surrounding postal overhaul legislation
are smoothed out. In a letter this month to Postal Service Board of Governors'
Chairman James Miller, Davis wrote that "It would be prudent to delay filing
for the next rate increase" until overhaul legislation awaiting conference "is
closer to resolution." A similar letter was also sent from the chairman of the
Mailing Industry CEO Council, a nonprofit group that focuses on mailing issues."
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April 26, 2006
Dogs are a
painful job hazard for mail carriers
Plague-infested mice, anthrax missing from N.J. labs
Reflections on the Postal Forum
Arizona:
Mail ballots returned for stamps despite USPS pact
Man gets eight
years in prison for 2004 post office robbery
April 25, 2006 -
APWU Asks District
Court to Put Network Consolidation on Hold
The APWU filed a complaint in U.S. District Court on April 21, charging that
the Postal Service violated the Postal Reorganization Act in implementing its
“network realignment” plan, known as Evolutionary Network Development (END).
The complaint seeks a judgment that management violated the 1970 law, as well
as an injunction against future violations. The court filing alleges that the
Postal Service violated Section 3661 of the Postal Reorganization Act, which
requires the USPS to seek an advisory opinion from the Postal Rate Commission
(PRC) “within a reasonable time prior to the effective date” of a proposal that
would change the nature of postal services on a “nationwide or substantially
nationwide basis.” |
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See APWU Requests in Court Case
April
26, 2006 -
Postal
Service asked to hold off on rate increase
"House Government
Reform Chairman Tom Davis, R-Va., is asking the U.S. Postal Service to hold
off on its next rate increase until issues surrounding postal overhaul legislation
are smoothed out. In a letter this month to Postal Service Board of Governors'
Chairman James Miller, Davis wrote that "It would be prudent to delay filing
for the next rate increase" until overhaul legislation awaiting conference "is
closer to resolution." A similar letter was also sent from the chairman of the
Mailing Industry CEO Council, a nonprofit group that focuses on mailing issues."
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April 27, 2006-
Postal
Service Reopens New Orleans Plant
-On Friday, April 28, 2006 at 10 a.m. the U.S.
Postal Service will officially re-open its New Orleans Processing and Distribution
Center, the primary mail-processing facility for mail to and from Louisiana.
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April
27, 2006 -
Tennessee: Gunman holds up Post Office - suspect caught - A gunman
robbed the postmistress of the Lake Cormorant Post Office Tuesday morning, but
he was caught four minutes later by a Walls police officer. Postmistress Cindy
Scott called in an alarm on the holdup at 11:40 a.m., saying she'd just been
robbed of an undetermined amount of cash and blank money orders. Mitchell said
Scott was not injured in the robbery but was threatened by the man brandishing
a pistol. "The Postal Inspectors recovered the cash and money order blanks taken
in the robbery. They also recovered the pistol," he said
April
27, 2006 -
Advo Swings the Ax - "Advo shook
up its bulls last week when it cut its second-quarter earnings forecast, citing
soft results in its so-called zone product. To drive profitability in future
periods, Advo said Tuesday that it will close its Memphis production facility
and outsource its graphics and print production operations."
April
27, 2006
Postal Bulletin 4/27/06 Issue
Postal worker given probation for stealing
House leader won't join Sioux City in postal dispute
Once licked, rare stamp resurfaces
Cayman Islands: APO swamped with undeliverable mail
April 26, 2006
Dogs are a
painful job hazard for mail carriers
Plague-infested mice, anthrax missing from N.J. labs
Reflections on the Postal Forum
Arizona:
Mail ballots returned for stamps despite USPS pact
Man gets eight
years in prison for 2004 post office robbery
April 25, 2006 -
Chemical Scare Sends 23 Alabama Postal Workers
to Hospitals
(see video) A liquid leaking from a package at the Hueytown Post Office
on Tuesday sent the call out to first responders from five agencies, blocked
the area roads and caused the post office to be evacuated and closed to the
public. We expect to be open,” said Postal Inspector Frank Dyer after a package
leaked a substance first believed to be methyl chloride. However,
garlic oil and not the chemical methyl chloride is now being blamed for
the chemical scare. Federal charges could be pursued if investigators find the
substance was not contained properly in shipment.
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Chemical in package sickens 20 postal workers in Alabama
April 25, 2006 -
Oshkosh postal facility could be closed
"Oshkosh's United
States Postal Service processing and distribution center is one of more than
50 such centers around the country undergoing a study to determine if it should
be closed and consolidated with other regional operations, postal officials
said. It is the only center the Postal Service is considering closing in the
Lakeland District, which consists of two-thirds of Wisconsin and Michigan's
Upper Peninsula, said JoAnne Blackburn, of the Postal Service Public Affairs
Office in Milwaukee. |
April 25, 2006 -
Rural Carrier fired 1st day on job after crashing into fence - Eric Larson
had an accident and was quickly fired. But he says it was caused by lack of
training and accuses the post office of not following its own training manuals.
The post office, meanwhile, says though there are hazards to being a rural mail
carrier, the agency emphasizes safety and gives drivers the training they need.
Some people will tell you, no, he should have been given another chance. It
was his first day.
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April 25, 2006 -
Rollingstone post office customers left in the dark - Residents with mailboxes
at the Rollingstone Post Office have had to travel to Winona to pick up their
mail since Thursday due to a dispute between the post office and its landlord.
After receiving warning that the electricity was going to be turned off, Rollingstone
Postmaster Brenda Ties went to Winona’s Post Office. The Rollingstone doors
were locked. Other than a typed note on the door, residents were left in the
dark about why the post office was closed.
April 25, 2006
Former postal carrier pleads guilty to stealing $100,000 in checks
Mail carrier honored for accident-free career
Postal Service supports Breast Cancer Awareness Week
Postal workers ready to stamp out area hunger
Alaska Airlines adds Prudhoe flights to boost bypass mail
Canadian Postal Worker Killed
in Afghanistan
April 24, 2006 -
Ask President Burrus: Union's plan for Conversion
of PTFs
Q: What are the union’s plan to assist with conversion of PTFs in Associate
Offices?
...we begin contract negotiations in August, when we will submit proposals to
address the conversion of PTFs in small offices. One possible solution is contract
language requiring that bargaining unit work in small offices be assigned exclusively
to bargaining unit employees. This would make the hours presently worked by
postmasters and supervisors available to PTFs and create additional full-time
positions.
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April 24, 2006 -
Source: No Rate Case Until May
"Regardless of when the case is filed,
many mailers anticipate a big rate increase. For one, the agency said it cannot
continue to absorb the high fuel and healthcare costs. Also, it might be the
last increase before Congress imposes a rate cap as part of a postal reform
bill awaiting action in conference committee. And others fear the increase will
be large because the postal union and management association contracts expire
in 2006, which could mean a raise in pay that will lead to higher rates."-
As fuel costs rise, so may the price of stamps (Federal Times)
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April 24, 2006 -
Letter: 14 Days From Rockford to Kansas City
"Planet Codes will track
each piece of mail that is sent out. Ever since we started sending out the mail
with Planet Codes we've noticed mail pieces coming through our mail in our office
with mail tracking systems embedded in them as well. This seems to be a bigger
problem than is being talked about. We have noticed that it has taken anywhere
from 14 to 27 days for our Presort Standard mail to have its last scan at the
USPS. In some cases a drive of a few hours from Rockford, IL, to Kansas City,
MO, is taking 14 to 27 days. In one case, we saw it took six to nine days to
get mail to California, and mail from the same mail house that dropped the same
day took 14 days to get to St. Louis."
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April 24, 2006 -
You Say Tomato, I Say Junk
"George Orwell would have
loved the letter I received recently from Azeezaly S. Jaffer, the U.S. Postal
Service's vice president of public affairs and communications. Azeezaly read
my recent column about how tough it's been to stop the junk mail that keeps
coming to my house for my late mother-in-law. Azeezaly wrote: "I had an agreement
with your predecessor and that was that I wouldn't call what falls out of the
center section of my Sunday Post 'junk newspaper' if he would refer to what
he found in his mailbox as advertising mail. Can you and I agree, too?" Oh,
let's agree to disagree, shall we?"-
Jaffer's
Letter to Washington Post Columnist John Kelly
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April 24, 2006 -
PRC Notice: Classification Changes for Express Mail Second Day Service
The
PRC proposes the following clarifying changes to the current Domestic Mail Classification
Schedule
123 Next Day Service and Second Day Service
123.1 Availability of Services. Next Day and Second Day Services are available
at designated retail postal facilities to designated destination facilities
or locations for items tendered by the time or times specified by the Postal
Service. Next Day Service is available for overnight delivery. Second Day Service
is available for delivery on the second delivery day as specified by the Postal
Service.
Consumer Complaint Sparks PRC Case
April 24, 2006 -
Postal Worker honored at Workers Memorial Day service
Michael
Edwards, a postal worker,
died in an auto accident on March 8th of this year as he drove to
work in Mason City, Iowa. On Saturday (April 22, 2006), Edwards was among workers
recognized at the annual Workers Memorial Day service in Mason City.
April 24, 2006 -
Playing politics with your TSP
- Rejected by TSP, real estate lobby turns to Congress
Two years ago, the top lobbyist for the real estate investment industry met
at the downtown Washington offices of Gary Amelio, who oversees the Thrift Savings
Plan, to make a pitch. The $180 billion retirement savings plan, which covers
3.5 million civilian and military employees and retirees, should create a fund
tied to income-producing real estate such as hotels and apartment buildings,
said Steven Wechsler, president of the National Association of Real Estate Investment
Trusts. Adding such an option, called a REIT fund, would enable TSP participants
to get in on the real estate boon that was under way, Wechsler and his staff
argued. Amelio and his staff listened, and even invited the group back for a
second meeting. But they were unconvinced. TSP already included real estate
investment trusts in two of its five funds, which are linked to a broad cross-section
of investments. But unlike those funds, the proposed REIT fund would be tied
to the fortunes of a single sector, which spelled an unacceptable risk to Amelio
and other TSP officials. How could they explain any losses to TSP members if
the real estate market were to plunge, like the once-hot tech sector did some
years ago?
Special interest groups
have targeted TSP before
April 24, 2006
Bundle Prep Rules Hit April 30
Busy Post Office
The Dwindling Fortunes of NIPOST
Iran's postal services to go private
April 23, 2006
Carriers hope bills level postal playing field
GOP Rep to carriers: Push for reform will be rewarded
Post office becomes drive-in
April 22, 2006-
Idaho Congressional Delegation Concerned Over Consolidation of Twin Falls Postal
Center -"A
proposal to merge the mail distribution center in Twin Falls with the one in
Boise faces opposition from the Idaho Congressional delegation. In a letter
to the Postal Service , the delegation expressed concern over the economic impact
of the proposal, timely mail delivery and service availability for the people
who rely on the Twin Falls Center.
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April 22, 2006 -
El Paso: Postal Worker Sheds Light On Problems - For the first
time, an El Paso post office employee talks only with KFOX about what's happening
with local mail delivery For the past few months we have been telling you about
the problems residents are having with mail that's either slow, or never delivered.
The worker we spoke with says perhaps the problem is that often your mail is
laying around and there aren't enough workers to get the job done.
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April 22, 2006 -
Albany post office's flag shows more old than glory
Old Glory, at Zip Code 94706, is true to its first name but not its last. The
much-weathered American flag on the roof of the Albany post office dangles precariously
from its pole, attached only by one corner. In the wind, it looks more like
a star-spangled noodle than a banner. Ray Anderson, longtime Albany resident
and businessman, thinks it shows a deplorable lack of patriotism on the part
of postal authorities. Anderson said he got "the run-around" Wednesday when
he complained to postal officials about the condition of the flag. The Albany
postmaster was on vacation, he said. So Anderson made several calls to an 800
number in Washington, then to the Berkeley main post office. There, he said,
someone told him, "We can't fix it; we don't have the money," and hung up. On
Thursday, two counter clerks at the Albany post office told a reporter to contact
the Berkeley main post office. A supervisor there, Audrey Brooks, said the condition
of the Albany flag, if correctly described, was indeed "offensive." She referred
the matter to Ray Davis, the acting postmaster. Davis' secretary in turn referred
it to Postal Service spokesman Augustine Ruiz in San Jose. Thursday afternoon,
Ruiz sided with Anderson
April 22, 2006
Louisiana: More post offices to hand out mail
Sioux City: Congressional delegation demands meeting with Postmaster General
Sweet deal for post office-- pays only $13,311 a year for lease
Change of address for Yorkville Post Office
Postal Service mascot Owney travels to Utah
April 21, 2006 -
Anthrax Vials Could Be Missing from New Jersey State Lab
"An inventory of samples
stored in a state laboratory came up short a pair of two-inch test tubes containing
liquid anthrax, [New Jersey] state officials announced today. They said it’s
probably a paperwork problem. Those samples were among 19,251 samples collected
between 2001 and 2004 from a postal center in Hamilton Township, where anthrax-laced
letters were processed in October 2001." Meanwhile,
USPS VP Tom Day:
Other agencies unprepared for anthrax threat
-"Some agencies still have
not developed procedures for handling an anthrax attack, the threat of which
“remains credible,” says a frustrated Tom Day, the U.S. Postal Service senior
vice president of government relations. He offers procedures the Postal Service
has adopted as an outline for others."
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April 21, 2006
Trenton APWU Excessing and Early Out Retirement Update
eNapus Newsletter:
It Ain’t Just Rates (PDF) - also: The
Buckeye State Primary
April 21, 2006 -
High Gas Prices Could Stamp Out Postage Prices
The U.S. Postal Service may file a
proposal for another hike in postage rates as early as this month, Postmaster
General John Potter says. Potter says the increase would pay for higher gas
prices, increases in pay and health benefit costs. Since 2002, the price of
fuel and electricity have increased by more than $2 billion a year, Potter says.
There is no word yet on how much the new stamps would cost, but the new price
could take effect in early spring 2007."
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April 21, 2006 -
NAPUS : Pay for Performance Results
According to a statistical summary
report issued by the Postal Service, the average Pay for Performance rating
for full time Postmasters was 8.2. The FY-2005 average salary increase for Postmasters
was 4.45% and the average lump-sum payment was 1.30%.
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April 21, 2006 -
Sioux City: USPS addresses concerns
Thursday's town hall meeting
on a Sioux City Area Mail Processing (AMP) study began with a presentation by
Doug Morrow, manager of the Hawkeye District, and Clem Felchle, manager of the
Dakotas District. They addressed concerns put to them by various entities in
advance of Thursday's meeting. Here are some of the issues they responded to
in a presentation"
Statement from Iowa Senator Tom Harkin)
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Sioux City: Postal Report Shows 47 Workers 'Reassigned'
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Postal official says changes won't affect service |
USPS AMP Proposal (PDF)
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Postal audit isn't public in Aberdeen
April 21, 2006 -
Mailbox at each house OK again - U.S. Postal Service officials
in Alabama are backing off telling developers and builders they must begin using
cluster mailboxes in all new subdivisions instead of putting a mailbox at each
home.
April 21, 2006
Mail delivery problems
still happening in El Paso
Postal Inspector: Street Gangs Cashing In On ID Theft
New Kinston postmaster pushes for major cleanup
Postal Carrier/Guardsman returns to duty
UPS Net
Profit Rises 10 Percent
April 20, 2006 -
Karma catches hero mailman
- The off-duty postal worker helped chase
down a man who allegedly robbed the Van Go Convenience store in Somerville Journal,
MA at knife-point Saturday. Once cops corralled the alleged bad guy, the postal
worker returned to the store that had just been robbed, bought a Red Sox scratch
ticket for $5, and won a $1,000 jackpot. "The last number I scratched-it said
'homerun,'" the postal worker said. "It's kind of ironic.
April 20, 2006 -
Former Postal Inspector
Pleads Guilty to Possession of Unregistered Firearm -Richard
A. Medve, 52, a retired U.S. Postal Inspector pleaded guilty to one count of
possessing an unregistered National Firearms Act weapon, a category of firearms
that includes machine guns, silencers and other restricted guns which require
special registration in order to own and possess. Specifically, he admitted
knowingly possessing an unregistered silencer, one compatible with Uzi-type
machine guns, which was found in his home. As further conditions of his plea,
Medve agreed to surrender his federal firearms license and to forfeit all his
illegally possessed firearms, ammunition and NFA weapons.
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April 20, 2006 -
Mailing error delays GMAC deposits - "The check's stuck in the mail"
is right up there with "The dog ate my homework" in the ranks of famed (and
shamed) excuses. It usually comes from a consumer, though - not from one of
the nation's best-known financial institutions. Yet that was the basic explanation
given yesterday by General Motors Acceptance Corp. for hundreds of uncashed
deposits that were held in limbo - some since late last month, customers say
- at Philadelphia's main post office instead of being delivered to GMAC Bank,
a subsidiary based in Horsham. GMAC says that as many as 500 deposit envelopes
that promised "prepaid postage" were held up because the postage hadn't, in
fact, been prepaid. Spokesman Stephen Dupont blamed the problem on "a third-party
processor" that mistakenly failed to keep the postage account funded
April 20, 2006 -
Mail Service Goes to the Dogs -
When Marta Schwab and scores of her neighbors failed to get mail
for two days last week because a dog bit their carrier, it was the final straw
for the Sunset Park neighborhood resident. After years of complaining about
the mail service, she decided to act. Schwab launched a grassroots campaign
printing off hundreds of letters and leaving them on the doorsteps of her friends
and neighbors throughout the Southeastern section of Santa Monica over the weekend.
April 20, 2006
The Postal Service's
Hotel Wants Your Business (PDF, via PostCom)
Friday, April 28th: Workers Memorial Day
Postal official says changes
won't affect service
Stamp auction revives Canada's
postal scandal
April 19, 2006 -
MSPB Ruling to Benefit Retirees Who Were Injured on the Job
-A recent decision by the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB)
should ensure that employees who work less than eight hours per day as the result
of job-related injuries get their full annuity they when they retire. The MSPB
decision reverses a policy enacted by the Office of Personnel Management in
2002, which declared that employees who were partially disabled due to job-related
injuries should be treated as part-time workers, and their retirement annuities
should be based only on their part-time work hours. The policy excluded hours
for which employees were paid by the Office of Workers Compensation Program
(OWCP) from calculations for retirement annuities, resulting in reduced benefits.
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Hatch v. OPM
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Risk in Going Part-Time Late in Career
April 19, 2006 -
USPS Southwest
Area Vice President George Lopez Retiring
-Southwest Area Vice President George Lopez will retire after 42 years
of government service. Deputy Postmaster General Pat Donahoe, who made the announcement,
said Lopez “has created a proud legacy and improved the Postal Service wherever
he has worked. In each of his assignments, including almost six years as Southwest
Area Vice President. Donahoe said Vice President of Delivery and Retail Ellis
Burgoyne will serve as Acting Vice President, Area Operations Southwest Area,
effective May 1.
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April 19, 2006 -
Woman Threatens Colorado Postal Clerk - Parker police spokeswoman
Sara Walla said officers received a report Wednesday morning that an irate customer
had threatened a clerk. The customer told the clerk she had a weapon but did
not show one. The woman then left the post office. Witnesses did not know which
way she went.
April 19, 2006 -
Sioux City: Postal Report Shows 47 Workers 'Reassigned'
Jim Price, president of
the American Postal Workers Union Local 186 in Sioux City, said he thinks the
"USPS is making decisions to please major customers, including AOL-Time Warner,
its single largest customer. Those customers want their mail processed closer
to FedEx air hubs because FedEx has the contract for all the post office's air
service. "They get discounts if they do their own bar-coding or drop closer
to FedEx hubs," Price said. They've been putting pressure on the post office
for years to change the way they do their mailing."
USPS AMP Proposal
Summary for Sioux City (PDF)
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