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02/03 /12
Reports: charges dropped in Lance Armstrong/USPS doping investigation.
Free Valentine’s Day Ca rd
Offer at Cardstore.com
The GOP's plan to target federal workers
Postal system's financial woes spark debate in Maine
St. Paul artist
using homemade postcards to help save Postal Service
All Thrift Savings Plan funds post positive returns in January
02/02 /12
USPS Love
Ribbons Forever Stamps Goes on Sale Before Feb 14th
Fans huddle
up at USPS’s Championship Station In Superbowl Village
Postal carrier reports attack by drunk
Latest postal reform bill would lose money
Texas Letter Carrier Sentenced To 18 Months in Prison for workers comp fraud
CA Postal Clerk Sentenced To 18 Months In Prison For Embezzlement,
Passing Counterfeit Bills
Postal Worker Charged After Allegedly Dumping Mail in Dumpster
Postal Service cutting hours at Jekyll Island and Sea Island post offices
Posts Maintenance Manuals
02/01 /12
Video:
Senator Sanders: Modernize the Postal Service
USPS: ‘Black Women in American Culture and History’
Postal Inspection Service renews violence-prevention efforts
USPS finding success pursuing sales leads
at trade shows
Is private postal center ripping off
customers?
Cape Cottage postmaster looks back on 66
years on the job
USPS finding success pursuing sales leads
at trade shows
US
regulators refuse to speed up review of USPS network cutbacks
You're not going to love this: the USPS
screws up Valentine's Day
Oscar Ballots Are in the Mail -- For the
Last Time?
USPS Tries To Scare Boomers Away From Online Banking
Post Office Opens Inside Nutrition Warehouse
Maine postal worker gets 3 months for stealing veterans’ pain medicine
New York Rural Carrier Arrested over
Alleged theft of mail
Plan to sell La Jolla post office upsets locals
Paperless Post Offers E-Valentines for Stationery Lovers
01/31 /12
USPS to propose repeat mobile barcode
promo
Congressman Carter Calls for Post Office Closings Review
01/30 /12
Six Years Ago - The Goleta Post Office
Massacre
USPS Cuts 50 Full-Time NCED OU Employees
Grove postmaster arrested on rape,
strangulation charges
Postmaster in "shock" over unexpected post
office closure
UK: Private-sector TNT to go head-to-head
with Royal Mail
Kuwait Postmaster Convicted of Stealing
$565,000 in Money Orders
Delivery dilemma
End is near for North Palm Springs post office
Saying goodbye
to downtown California post office
A Surprise Leader in the Print-Media Bankruptcy Sweepstakes
01/29/12
NAPUS: Senate
Postpones Consideration of Postal Bill
Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid announced
that the Senate would take up the “Stock
Act,” rather than postal reform
legislation during the week of January
30. At this point, there is some
uncertainty about scheduling Senate
consideration of S. 1789,
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Congressman
Hinchey calls for a moratorium on the
closing studies
Save the Post Office
- New York
Congressman Maurice Hinchey has written
a letter to Postmaster General Patrick
Donahoe asking him “to place a
moratorium on the USPS's current
discontinuance studies until the USPS
resolves the numerous problems the PRC
identified in the RAIO. “ Hinchey is
circulating the letter in Congress,
looking for others to sign on with him.
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Why Mail Matters: Political
Attack Ads Can be Tougher
Hares Corner closing lacks backup evidence
Protesters rally to keep Rockford’s mail
center open –
With a Postal
Service like this one, we need e-textbooks
New Postal
Service Program Could Mean More Junk Mail
PMG:
Situation "Unsustainable"
Postcom: The
Challenge of Good Legislative Execution
Rumor: Netflix Shipping
Center Layoffs Because of Declining DVD Shipments?
Post Office Photo Collection
Temple residents fight to
keep post office open
Arkansas and
Its Post Offices
Postal Worker Helps Nab
Sheboygan Drug Dealers
01/28/12
Editorial:
USPS, NALC and Mail Handlers’
Negotiations
Burrus
Journal - The issues
involved are more than likely the USPS’
health care cost and NALC craft
jurisdiction. The pot of gold at the end
of the rainbow for the Postal Service is
not in employee hourly wages, but in the
enormous cost associated with health
care funding, including that of
retirees. One way of addressing this
staggering cost would be a health plan
covering every letter carrier,
controlled fully by the Postal Service
and NALC.
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Letter
Carrier Convicted of Delaying the Mail
Video:
Moonshine sparks evacuation At Florida Post Office
01/27 /12
OWCP Issues Statement Regarding USPS,
Align Networks Partnership For Physical
Therapy Services -
"Recent
communications from the United States
Postal Service and Align Networks have
caused confusion regarding the process
for securing authorization for physical
therapy for treatment of approved
conditions under the Federal Employees’
Compensation Act (FECA). Under 5 U.S.C.
8103 and its implementing regulations
and procedures, only the Department of
Labor’s Office of Workers’ Compensation
Programs has the authority to determine
what medical care will be authorized."
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NALC: Senate Will Not
Consider Postal Bill Next Week
S. 1789 will not
be brought to the Senate floor next week. We
were successful in delaying a floor vote on S.
1789 because letter carriers called their
senators and urged them to oppose the bill in
its current form.
Congressional
Budget Office Analysis of Senate postal
reform bill - For the purposes
of this estimate, CBO assumes that S. 1789
will be enacted early in calendar year 2012.
The bill would affect outlays of the Postal
Service Fund, which is off-budget, and of the
PSRHBF, CSRDF, and FECA accounts—all of which
are on-budget. CBO estimates that the net cost
to the unified budget would total $6.3 billion
over the 2012-2022 period.
APWU Members Must Take
Action NOW! |
Video: PMG Donahoe On
Future of the Post Office
In
a CNBC interview, Postmaster General Patrick
Donahoe responds to comments made earlier this
week on “Squawk Box” by Rep. Darrell Issa
regarding the Post Office and its reforms. "If
we make any changes it probably won't be in
effect until next year, probably January time
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USPS, NAPUS and League Agree to Postmaster Pay Talks Extension
An agreement has
been reached between the Postal Service and
the two Postmaster organizations (NAPUS and
the League of Postmasters) to extend
Postmaster pay talks until February 29, 2012.USPS, Postal Supervisors Extend Pay Talks
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Congressman Lynch Joins Higgins in Fight
Against Closing of Buffalo Mail Processing
Facility
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Congressman
Stephen F. Lynch (MA-9) is joining Congressman
Brian Higgins (NY-27) in asking the U.S.
Postmaster General to remove the Buffalo Mail
Processing facility from the list of those
slated for closure.
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USPS and France’s La Poste to Honor Miles Davis and Edith Piaf on Forever Stamps
U.S. Postal Service Launches Express Mail Flat Rate Box
Retirement Planning: Life Insurance Basics
Former postal worker gets probation in theft
Faith restamped in Postal Service
New 45-cent commemorative stamps unavailable to many post offices
01/26 /12
Petition: Fire the PMG
Postmaster
General Donahoe is forging ahead with his
plans to dismantle the Postal Service by
lowering service standards and overnight
delivery. His plans have NO support from the
public, the employees and most elected
officials. Yet he forges ahead like a
dictator. As Postmaster, he should be looking
for ways to grow the business, not decimate
it. The closing of thousands of Post Offices
and Processing Plants around the country will
put the Postal Service on the road to ruin.
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Postal Service’s Overfunding of Pension Plans
Grows to $13 Billion
Why is the Postal
Service consistently overfunding FERS? What is
going on in CSRS pension plan? Take a close
look at why the assumptions have changed so
dramatically and determine if the Postal
Service’s employee population is significantly
different from the rest of the federal
government. Then, adjust the assumptions, and
the plans, accordingly. But most importantly,
take these funds out of the political process.
Why have we tied proper fund management to the
larger issue of reforming the nation’s postal
system? We should not let the important work
of shaping a new business model for a
communications infrastructure get bogged down
in issues around fund management.
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APWU Discourages Members from Participating In
Align Networks Physical Therapy Services
-I t is our
understanding that as a contract provider,
Align Networks and their therapists can share
information with the USPS that would otherwise
be protected by doctor-patient
confidentiality, including information that is
unrelated to workplace injuries.
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Democrats Oppose
Additional Cuts to Federal Pay and Benefits
Federal workers
have already made significant sacrifices to
help reduce our government’s budget deficit. We therefore urge
you to reject provisions such as those in the
House version of H.R. 3630 that would require
an additional one-year extension of the
federal pay freeze initiated in 2011; impose a
1.5% increase in federal employees’ retirement
contributions over a three-year period; and
eliminate the Federal Employees Retirement
System (FERS) Social Security supplement for
most federal workers.
AFGE Statement on
Federal Employee Retirement Hearing
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Fired letter carrier Testifies
About Hitting Supervisor With Car In Attempted
Murder Trial - A former letter carrier
for the U.S. Postal Service admitted in court
Tuesday that he was upset at his former supervisor
for firing him and that he rammed the man with a
truck near the supervisor's home in Albany two years
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Postal Employee And Four Others Indicted
For Stealing And Cashing U.S. Treasury Checks
Video shows mail carrier
allegedly stealing prescription medicine
USPS Board Of
Governors Sets Agenda For February 9 Meetings
01/25 /12
Rep. Lynch: Hearing On Reducing Retirement
Benefits is Really Attack On Federal Workers
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Congressman Stephen Lynch (D-MA) says hearing on
strengthening retirement pensions is nothing more than
eliminating federal pensions. Rep. Dennis Ross, R-Fla.,
on Wednesday introduced a bill that would
increase how much federal employees pay toward
their retirement and steeply reduce pensions
for new employees. HR 3813, the Securing
Annuities for Federal Employees Act, would
raise contributions for current Civil Service
Retirement System (CSRS) and Federal Employees
Retirement System (FERS) employees by 0.5
percentage points per year for three years,
beginning in 2013. This would make FERS
employees contribute 2.3 percent of each
paycheck toward their pensions, and require an
8.5 percent contribution from CSRS employees.
Legislative Attacks On Federal Retirement
Compensation Is Based On Misguided Assumptions
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PRC Announces Simplified, More Transparent Rules For
Post Office Closure Appeals - The simplified rules will,
among other things, ease requirements for persons who file
appeals but do not or can not use the internet; allow
interested persons to file comments without first formally
intervening; and grant participants extra time to respond
to Postal Service motions and briefs. The rules streamline
the Commission’s review process as well.
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Chairman Issa Really Wants the Postal Service to Cut It’s Workforce by 225,000
Yesterday’s post, Chairman
Darell Issa Says USPS is Committee’s Priority; USPS Should
Cut 260,000 Employees, implied that the Chairman’s
statement overstated the head count reduction that he felt
is needed at the Postal Service. At the time, I thought
he was talking only of full time employees and the number
of full time employees is less than the 660,000 he
mentioned and therefore the job reduction would be less as
the number of Postal Service full-time employees is less.
A conversation with a member of the House Oversight and
Govnerment Reform Committee majority staff clarified
Chairman Issa’s comment. The Chairman was actually
talking about a reduction in total full-time and
part-time.
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NAPUS: Senate Poised to Consider Postal Bill
It appears likely that Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) will call up S. 1789,
the Lieberman-Collins-Carper Brown postal relief bill
sometime next week.
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Dead Tree Edition: We Already Have A Veterans Job Corps — Its Called the Postal
Service - Hours after a leading
Congressman urged massive job cuts at the largest civilian
employer of military veterans, President Obama proposed
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USPS Giving Away Leftover Letter Carrier Bobbleheads
We have a box of Letter
Carrier bobble heads left over from several years
ago.Here's your chance to win one. What does mail
mean to you?
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USPS Offers New 2nd Ounce Free for First-Class Mail Automation and Presort
Letter Mailers - Effective
this week, businesses mailing First-Class Mail automation,
presort letters using “2nd Ounce Free” pricing can mail
letters weighing up to 2 ounces at the 1-ounce postage
rate.
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Former Georgia postal worker
sentenced to prison
A contracting officer with
fiscal responsibility
engaged in two schemes to defraud the U.S. Postal Service.
He used Government-issued credit cards and purchased over $19,000 in
luxury gifts for himself and his family. Welch used the
credit cards to purchase the gifts through online
retailers, which included a golf cart and boat motor.
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VA data
breach may have affected more than 4,000 veterans
Ex-Postal Employee Pleads Guilty to
Attacking Postmaster
01/24/12
Issa Says USPS Needs to
Slash 260,000 Jobs and End 6-Day Delivery
Despite a mandate to avoid
deficits, the post office loses up to $15 billion a year, Issa
told CNBC during an informal gathering of senior House Oversight
and Government Reform Committee members.
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72-Year-Old Postal Employee Makes Shocking
Confession to FOX 26
While postal inspectors gathered evidence,
72-year-old Karen Samford sat in a folding chair, wondering what
was to become of her 36-year career with the US Postal Service.”People
can have mental issues,” Samford said. “It doesn’t make them crazy;
it doesn’t make them insane. It makes them stupid.”For the past
10 years, Samford has been stealing bulk mail, mail that was going
to be destroyed anyway, from the Pearland Post Office. She said she
stole enough mail each year to fill up a big box truck.It all came
to light about a week ago when her supervisor noticed mail sitting
in her office.”Well, they asked me, ‘Besides in the office, do you
have it anywhere else’?” she said. “Well, they asked me so I told
them." She told her boss they could find undelivered bulk mail in
storage spaces she rented and at her Friendwood home.
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America’s message to Congress: We want first-rate mail delivery service, six
days a week
- NALC - The American people
want Congress to take action to save the service network. As
President Rolando states in his letter, Congress should take
action to “strengthen and build the Postal Service, not weaken
and slowly destroy it.” As Congress debates the future of the
Postal Service, it should pause and take into account the will
of the people.
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Dayton, N.J. Mail Carrier arrested and charged in connection with
fraudulent tax refund scheme -
Press Release -A U.S. Postal Service worker was
arrested today and charged in connection with his role in a
scheme to provide, in exchange for payment, addresses to be used
to file fraudulent tax returns and divert refund checks from his
mail route,
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Invisible Hands: The
Businessmen’s Campaign to Dismantle the Post Office
Save the Post Office - The leaders
of the Postal Service have made no secret of their plans for
reforming the postal system. They have issued white papers,
given speeches, presented “optimization” programs, and appeared
before Congressional committees.
The plans are clear: eliminate the layoff protections in
union contracts; cut the career workforce by nearly half while
tripling the number of non-career workers; reduce service
standards for first-class mail; do away with Saturday delivery;
give management control of workers’ benefit plans; consolidate
away over 250 processing plants; and close 15,000 post offices.
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Hacker Valley WV celebrates post office victory
Year Of the Dragon: Lunar New Year Celebrated on Commemorative Forever Stamp
USPS shoots for $1 billion in annual Every
Door Direct Mail sales
Man finds
dumpster full of mail
Poll: Postal Rate Increases - Did you even
know about it?
Rep. Offers Proposal To Help the USPS
Battle Deficit
How UPS, FedEx Move 25 Million Packages a Day
01/23/12
Congressman Jason Chaffetz and Sen.
Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) have authored bills that would force federal
agencies, the U.S. Postal Service and congressional offices to fire
employees who purposely avoid paying taxes. Exceptions would be
made for employees suffering from family turmoil or working to correct
significant financial hardship. Sen. Claire McCaskill [D-MO]
is a co-sponsor Coburn's bill
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Six Day Delivery
and H.R. 2309
On Friday, the National Association
of Letter Carriers (NALC) announced that a majority of the House
of Representatives signed on as sponsors of House Resolution 137
(H.R. 137) which expresses the House’s support for 6-day delivery.
As such, the resolution only expresses the sense of the House. It
does not have the power of law to prevent the Postal Service from
implementing 5-day delivery.
NALC: A bipartisan
majority in the House backs six-day mail delivery
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USPS Issues Clarification On Public Disclosure
Policy and Lobbying Restrictions
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It’s important to note that the law only applies to the “use of
postal resources.” The law prohibits employees — acting in their
official capacity — from encouraging stakeholders to intercede with
Congress. |
Federal/Postal Coalitions asks Congress not
to finance payroll tax holiday on backs of federal and postal workers
US Postal Service, A New Year, An Old Failure
Truck loaded with mail burns north of Waycross
US Postal Service, A New Year, An Old Failure.
Holiday gift goes missing at US Postal Service
for more than a month
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