If you've seen the recent
Dead Tree posting related to USPS' hiring binge, it
should cause you to ask, "Why would any company that
is losing total volume each year and has supposedly
consolidated more than 300 facilities in the last couple
years need to hire 125,000 new workers
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In a memorandum to all
Local Presidents, NPMHU President Paul Hogrogian and
CAD Manager T.J. Branch disseminated information relative
to the NPMHU's National-level grievance over the possible
subcontracting of sorting and processing Non-Machinable
Outside (NMO) parcels.
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Trucks
on fire: USPS Long Life Vehicles outlive their lifespan
- Save The Post Office
- Most LLVs are Right Hand Delivery (RHD) vehicles that
were purchased between 1987 and 1994. They weren’t
built to last forever. In fact, they were designed
to go for 24 years, and many of them are already well
past their expected lifespan. Comments
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Although USPS financials
were widely reported in mainstream media and postal
related news websites –nothing was reported about USPS
executive’s pay or the new policy for PMG and DPMG
After USPS consolidated
and/or closed mail processing facilities service standards
were not met in the second quarter of fiscal year 2015
(January through March), despite the fact that the standards
were lowered. Comments
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The first segment of the
USPS field-testing will require that letter carriers
drive the prototype vehicles over simulated and actual
delivery routes. The route testing will
include all aspects of the driver’s daily routine
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Should a carrier deviate
from his or her designated geographic zone during street
delivery, an alert is sent to the supervisor in an email
or text message. Comments
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For the thirteenth
(13th) 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 2015 – more than triple
the amount of the next largest supplier.
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If you've seen the
recent Dead Tree posting related to USPS' hiring
binge, it should cause you to ask, "Why would any
company that is losing total volume each year and
has supposedly consolidated more than 300 facilities
in the last couple years need to hire 125,000 new
workers
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A National Labor Relations
Board (NLRB) hearing on charges that the Postal
Service illegally subcontracted work to Staples
resumed on Feb. 24 – after months of procedural
wrangling – and finally got to the substance of
the dispute. Comments
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National President
Paul V. Hogrogian gave the Union’s opening statement,
formalizing the start of national negotiations with
the United States Postal Service.
NALC, USPS formally open bargaining talks
-It deserves
mention that now, thanks to you, the NALC and the
Postal Service are working together—with APWU, the
rural carriers, the mail handlers and a coalition
of mailers—on a legislative program that includes
our negotiated solutions. That’s all to the good.
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Same-day delivery startup
Deliv Inc. is getting a funding boost from an unlikely
source: United Parcel Service Inc. The company fetches
goods from brick-and-mortar retailers to bring them
to customers’ homes nearby Comments
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U.S. Senator Heidi
Heitkamp, a member of the Senate committee overseeing
the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), today launched a
new Fix My Mail urvey to gather feedback from North
Dakotans about challenges with mail service.
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The National Labor
Relations Board invites the filing of briefs in
order to allow parties an opportunity to address
the issues raised in complaint filed against USPS.
An administrative law judge closed
the complaint over objections of NALC Branch 256.
USPS is fighting to keep remedy restricted to
the postal facility named in complaint. NALC
is arguing USPS is a repeat offender which warrants
the remedy to apply to all facilities. In addition
the ALJ settled the case without a mutual agreement
between the parties. NLRB
investigating claim of USPS discriminating against
Penn Rural Carriers for union activity
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It is the NPMHU's position
that the Postal Service’s current plans to close
or consolidate 82 mail processing facilities during
2015 are based on untimely AMP processes resulting
in essentially meaningless AMP studies and reports.
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With arbitration for
a new contract set to begin on Wednesday, Feb. 17,
the union’s negotiating team, attorneys, economists,
workers and other experts are busy making last-minute
preparations. Comments
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The U.S. Postal Service
hopes to bring on 125,000 new employees this year,
continuing a recent hiring binge caused by the agency's
blossoming package-delivery business. An e-commerce-driven
surge in package deliveries, plus the addition of
such new services as Sunday delivery, are fueling
the hiring binge and employment growth. It’s a huge
turnaround for an organization that cut an average
of 21,000 workers annually between 2000 and 2013
and rarely had to hire new ones. And it runs counter
to government and news-media reports predicting
further USPS cutbacks.
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This article was accidentally
left off of front page. The Clerk Craft recently
settled four disputes as part of a pre-arbitration
review process that was agreed upon
In April of 2015, the
Postal Service consolidated mechanized letter and
flat processing from Erie into Rochester, according
to Tad Kelley, Postal Service Public Affairs Communications
for the Western Pennsylvania District.
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Mail Delivery Contractor
pleaded guilty to bribing a former contracting officer
with the U.S. Postal Service in exchange for favorable
treatment in connection with the awarding of contracts
to deliver the mail. The former USPS official was
sentenced to prison.
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City Carrier Assistant
hired in 2014] received an honorable discharge from
the U.S. Marines following a controversial incident
that cost him a rank, CNN produced a feature on
his new business, But there was one problem with
postal worker who was injured on the job running
his side job. . Comments
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A disabled veteran
in Sevierville is faced with a new hardship. He
was told six days ago the mailbox in front of his
home has to be moved half a mile away
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Deputies with the Ascension
Parish Sheriff’s Office is searching for a woman
who tried to rob a post office in Sorrento, LA Tuesday
morning
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USPS and the National
Rural Letter Carriers’ Association (NRLCA) have
reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year
labor contract.
(2/10/16)
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A 73-year old letter
carrier was flown by helicopter to UNC Hospitals
in Chapel NC on Tuesday after his truck was struck
from behind by another vehicle Comments
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As expected, last quarter’s
numbers reflect continued growth in package delivery
and show the Postal Service with higher profits
than we’ve seen in a long time thanks to a strong
holiday season. But behind these positive numbers
lie longstanding financial burdens that threaten
the Postal Service’s future. Shipping
and Package revenue grew 13.5 percent over the same
period last year, and was particularly strong during
the holiday shipping season
NALC President: USPS’ $1.3 billion quarterly operating
profit is not a fluke
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When the U.S. Postal
Service's first remote encoding center, or REC,
opened in Salt Lake City in 1994, The Salt Lake
Tribune reported that it was expected to operate
for 10 years. Wichita's closure in 2013 made
Salt Lake City's REC not only the nation's first,
but its last — the goal of the REC's leadership,
ever aware of its mortality, when it opened in 1994.Yet
current employees say they don't expect it to shutter
anytime soon. To the contrary, said manager Barbara
Batin. They're hiring.Comments
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American Postal Workers
Union Reaches Out To EU Allies as Companies Attempt
to Save Stalled Effort to Create Office-Supply Monopoly
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To try to survive,
the post office is consolidating and cutting services
fast: which some say is giving a whole new meaning
to snail mail.
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Rep. Richmond (LA-02)
reintroduced a bill that would expand access to
basic financial services to millions of Americans
and provide USPS an opportunity to generate billions
of dollars in revenue. Comments
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A Mount Pleasant TX
postal worker contacted the Tribune late last month
about concerns of asbestos in the post office building
According to that report, employees that worked
in the building had been complaining of coughs and
respiratory problems. Monday, officials from OSHA
reported they had not received a report of asbestos
in that building, and had not worked with the postal
service on investigating such reports.
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According to one review,
the station “could easily be the slowest, dirtiest,
and worst managed post office in the entire country.”
Others said “it’s disgusting” and this post office
“gets an F–.” Comments
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A former Evansville
postal service employee has received three years
of federal probation for stealing mail with prescription
painkillers intended for military veterans.Comments
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Postal Supervisors
come to blows after name-calling, cops say Two U.S.
Postal Service supervisors exchanged blows at Allentown,
PA facility
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Postal Employee Impact
Expected at CFS Sites - In a letter dated Jan. 29,
2016 the Postal Service notified the APWU that it
plans to activate Flats Postal Automated Redirection
Systems (FPARS) in 17 locations. Comments
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The bandit who wore
an a plastic mask resembling “Inspector Clouseau”
from the “Pink Panther” movies while robbing a bank
and two post offices in Philadelphia is now headed
to prison.
Santa Monica, as well
as many other offices, is understaffed and the Postal
Service is diligently working on the challenge,
constantly hiring and training new workers,” he
said. “It is a physically demanding job and many
new hires do not last, either not meeting USPS standards
or resigning.” Comments
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Western Area VP Drew
Aliperto will retire from the Postal Service, effective
March 1. He began his career as a St. Paul mail
handler in 1978
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Postal Worker was convicted
of diverting mail believed to contain clothing,
marijuana and other items to addresses that he and
his co-defendants controlled for their personal
gain.
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Federal prosecutors
have dropped criminal charges against Brooklyn,
New York postal worker who was arrested in
[2014] after investigators found 2,500 pounds [40,000
pieces] of mail stashed in his home and car.Comments
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Information provided
by the Postal Service reveals numerous management
errors in the initial payment of a $56 million settlement
to employees Comments
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Eric Goertz works from
home and said he was surprised by what showed up
on his doorstep during a down pour. A soggy priority
mail package was left in a puddle. Comments
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