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July 10, 2014
APWU: Maintenance Craft Settles Dispute on Custodial Staffing; Will Convert
More Than 3,150 PSEs -
The APWU and USPS signed a major settlement July 9 that resolves
a long-standing dispute over custodial staffing and results in
the conversion to career of all current Maintenance Craft Postal
Support Employees, Maintenance Craft Director Steve Raymer has
announced.
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Nebraska Letter Carrier found not guilty of theft
Korey Reiman, called it the case of the missing case: a box
with $25,000 intended for an Ogallala bank.
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U.S. Postal Service Filling More Than 100 Vacancies in Northern Virginia
Connecticut Lawmakers applaud USPS decision not to reroute mail from
Southport Post Office
Postal worker saves mail from burning vehicle
USPS to
Downsize College Point Mail Sorting Facility
Seagrove fights to keep post office
Many uptown Lake Placid businesses lose direct mail delivery
North Carolina: USPS POST Plan meetings set this week
Mail Madness for Vicksburg Postal Customers
Quite the Accomplishment: 45 years without an accident for Greenfield letter
carrier!
July 9, 2014
Postmaster caught on camera taking long breaks in middle of work day
The postal system is in financial
trouble but the CBS 2 Investigators uncovered a boss at the
federal agency who is anywhere but at work in the middle of his
government day. Comments (Count)
Issa Tries to Derail Six-Day Delivery – Again!
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), Chairman
of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, can’t
seem to give up his quest to eliminate Saturday mail delivery.
On July 8, upset that the House Appropriations Committee
restored protection for six-day delivery to a funding bill, the
California Republican tried to employ a parliamentary maneuver
to derail the measure.
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USPS Uses Trickery, Tries to Derail Staples Boycott
“The USPS letter to the APWU makes
it clear: The Postmaster General intends to continue to
privatize postal retail operations, replace living-wage Postal
Service jobs with low-wage Staples jobs, and compromise the
safety and security of the mail,” he said.
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USPS raising PO Box fees for 1,625 locations
Since the original filing, the
Postal Service expanded the competitive service to an additional
location, and is now expanding to additional locations.
Competitive Post Office Box service includes several
enhancements such as: electronic notification of the receipt of
mail, use of an alternate street address format, signature on
file for delivery of certain accountable mail, and additional
hours of access and/or earlier availability of mail in some
locations.
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USPS issues another new policy on travel cards
Talk about a domino effect. In late
2013, the Chairman Of the House Committee (hmmm..I wonder who
can this be) requested a review from USPS OIG on a whistleblower
complaint surrounding travel card misuse. A few months later the
conservative paper Washington Times published story based on
information from a FOIA request on abuse of travel cards.
Since this news
story broke USPS has issued several policies changes to travel
cards.
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A closer
look: New report examines USPS financial condition
Newspaper vendor arrested for stealing mail at Rossville GA post office
Postal Service shoots itself in the foot
Feds tell Postal Service to give more public access to
mural in Massachusetts post office
What if Google ran the post office?
July 8, 2014
NALC President: How low will PMG Donahoe go?
It
offered no relief from the crushing pre-funding mandate that has
devastated the Postal Service’s finances over the past seven
years, and it called for massive service and job cuts while
subjecting the USPS Board of Governors to a humiliating financial
control board. It was a betrayal of the hundreds of thousands of
postal employees—managers and craft employees alike—who have
made the U.S. Postal Service the best post office in the world.
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Editorial: Postal Workers – Divided and On the Fast Track to Being
Conquered
Many years ago, in a now-defunct
comic strip, one of the characters announced, “We have met the
enemy, and he is us.” In several significant ways that is true
for us as postal workers and Union members, as well as the rest
of the working class: Time and again we fail to act for the
greater good or in our best interests.
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Low-Wage Villains of the Week: USPS and Staples
In our new regular feature, we’ll be
taking a look at the villains who are doing their best to prevent
the United States from raising wages for all or some Americans.
In this series, we’re going to look past the usual suspects—for
example, while it is true that too often elected officials get in
the way of a fair economy, we want to dig deeper.
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USPS case makes Top 10 list of ‘most expensive discrimination
settlements’ in 2013
- Inside Counsel, a monthly
magazine exclusively serving general counsel and other top
in-house legal professionals has created a list of the top ten
“most expensive discrimination class action settlements” of
2013. USPS is listed at #6
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USPS: New Passive Adaptive Scanning System (PASS) improves package
processing - The Postal
Service has deployed almost 2,500 new package processing units at
facilities across the nation, part of an ongoing effort to boost
the organization’s shipping business.The Passive Adaptive Scanning
System (PASS) improves tracking at high-volume facilities. An additional
1,600 PASS units are slated to be deployed by mid-October, bringing
the total number of units to more than 4,100.
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Michigan: At least 50 letter carrier trucks
formed procession to accompany late colleague’s hearse to cemetery
- Friends and co-workers
of a Mount Clemens letter carrier who died unexpectedly at his son’s
baseball tournament delivered a special salute for his passing on
Saturday morning.
Stamford, CT board avoids vote on historic post office project
Florida mail carrier
mishandling packing caught on camera
Tulsa, OK mail-sorting
center targeted for closure as early as next year
Former Indiana Postmaster
pleads guilty to child porn charges
Modesto man sentenced in conspiracy to steal
mail for fraud
Florida Retired Postal Worker wins $1 million
in lottery
The Privatization of Greece’s Postal Service
Is Underway
Mail to the Chief: President Obama encourages
letter writing
USPS ‘condemns’ actions of postal employee
who threw packages into ravine
Lawmakers Pressure OPM to Begin Phased Retirement
The Fate of Rural Post Offices
July 7, 2014
National Newspaper Association: USPS Consolidation Plan - A Recipe
for More Lost Business
NNA does not understand how rising prices, slower service and further
concentration of services into urban areas helps our nationwide
mail service to survive Internet competition or any other threat.
...we object to Congress’s having tried repeatedly to use the postage-selling
abilities of USPS as a cash cow. Comments (Count)
Updated Information on the July 8th LAC Posting
for Impacted Postmasters
The letter also states that Postmasters
who were formerly in a POStPlan post office and took a voluntary
reassignment to their current 6-hour RMPO or PTPO position are included
in the incentive offer to separate by resignation, voluntary early
retirement, or optional retirement.
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PRC Reviews USPS FY 2013 Performance Goals
and FY 2014 Plan
The Commission’s report addresses and
makes suggestions related to the Postal Service’s four performance
goals: 1) Service, 2) Customer Experience, 3) Financial Results,
and 4) Workplace Environment. Below is a summary of the Commission’s
findings.
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San Antonio postal customers locked out of
their mail
Woman Had Medical Issue Before Crashing Into
Oshkosh, WI Post Office
OIG: If It Prints, It Ships: 3D Printing and
the Postal Service
Super Mailman:
Rural Carrier saves mail after LLV catches fire
Rooftop fire shuts down south Las Vegas post
office
Canada Post seeks feedback on community mailboxes
Why the Postal Service Should Offer Banking
Services
Why Postal Service
Banking Is a Bad Idea
Abilene Mail Processing Center Slated for
Consolidation
Postal Service has
spent $190,000 on unopened office
Postal Service to Cease Operations at Petaluma
Facility
Real World Economics: The USPS, a Bypass and
a Little History
While Amazon Dreams
Of Drones And Phones, Google Attacks With Trucks And Bucks
July 6, 2014
Senate schedules hearing on nominations of
Miller, Crawford, Bennett, Kennedy to USPS Board Of Governors
Chairman
Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Ranking Member Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) will
hold a public hearing to consider the nominations of Hon. James
C. Miller III, Stephen Crawford, David M. Bennett, and Victoria
Reggie Kennedy to be Governors of the
U.S.
Postal Service on Monday, July 14, 2014 at 3:00 p.m. in room 342
of the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. Katherine
Tobin who was also nominated for USPS Board of Governors in 2012
is currently a member of the USPS Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee;
See bios of each nominee
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USPS Board Of Governors May Have Only 3 of 11 Members By End Of
Year - Currently there are
five vacancies on the USPS Board of Governors. By the end of this
year it could possibly be EIGHT vacancies (not counting the PMG
and DPMG) due to Senate inaction.Now we know the Senate is holding
up most of President Obama's nominees for no other reason than to
make him look bad. But there is another underlying reason as to
why the Senate has failed to confirm 5 nominees to the USPS Board
of Governors. Can we say "temper tantrum"..read on. Both the USPS
Board of Governors and the PRC are lead in numbers by Bush appointed
Republicans. The 5 nominees awaiting confirmation: 4 Democrats,
1 Republican. Also, the PRC is short 2 Commissioners out of 5.
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Editorial: The most insane law by Congress,
ever? Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006
- Most Americans have never heard of the Postal Accountability and
Enhancement Act of 2006. The mind-numbing title alone sounds like
it could put a hardcore insomniac to sleep. The truth is, it’s one
of the most insane laws Congress ever enacted. Comments (Count)
Another fight looms over Saturday mail delivery
The Hill- GOP efforts to limiting Saturday
delivery have hit a pair of snags in recent weeks, with Republican
lawmakers representing rural districts balking along with Democrats
- illustrating that such a plan doesn’t appear to have the votes
to make it through the House. Those problems have also raised even
more doubts that a postal reform measure could pass this year, after
years of fruitless negotiations. Comments (Count)
USPS ramps up
efforts to reduce local service
USPS Sources Sought For Material Handling
Services
July 5, 2014
Boycott Staples! AFSCME Supports Postal Workers
In a July 2 letter to Staples Inc.
CEO Ronald L. Sargeant, AFSCME Pres. Lee Saunders and Sec.-Treas.
Laura Reyes said “we are asking our members, friends, family members
and colleagues to take their business elsewhere.”
National Postal Heritage Day Celebration and
Birthday Party at Berkeley, CA Post Office
- BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City of Berkeley continues to
oppose any and all efforts to dismantle and diminish the United
States Postal Service so that all communities can continue to enjoy
the universal service that binds us together.
Editorial: Congress
fails to deliver on mail woes
July 4, 2014
Senator Murkowski Gets FedEx to Rethink its Rural P.O. Box Policies
Waiting for days to get prescription
drugs. Trips to the post office to find an empty box where your
business-critical supplies should be. After hearing these and other
rural Alaskans’ frustrations about FedEx delivery problems that
occur when FedEx hands packages over to the United States Postal
Service in Anchorage for the final miles of delivery, Senator Lisa
Murkowski’s efforts led FedEx CEO to reconsider its protocols.
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Senator Hoeven Working
to Keep Minot, ND Area Mail Processing Facility Operating
Senator John Hoeven today spoke with Drew Aliperto, United States
Postal Service (USPS) vice president of area operations for the
western area, to press for the continued operation of the Minot
Area Mail Processing facility.
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Postal customer shocked at hangman’s noose
displayed in Worchester, MA PO
Mr. Watkins
said he confronted a postal worker and asked for an explanation.“I
asked the worker … if he knew what it represented, and he looked
at me and acted as if he didn’t hear me
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Classroom
Supplier Staples Provokes Ire of Teachers' Unions
Do You Want
To Pay for USPS Shipping With Cash Or Bitcoin?
The post office
isn’t a dead letter
Postal Service Plan To Shift Operations To
Greensboro, NC
July 3, 2014
Video: Ex-husband who
shot Missouri Postmaster dead from self-inflicted gunshot wound
- The ex-husband who allegedly shot an acting postmaster at a Carroll
County post office Wednesday afternoon has died.
Missouri Postmaster shot
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South Dakota Newspaper Group issues statement
objecting to USPS consolidation plan
- The delivery of newspapers and other
publications to our subscribers would be delayed even
further. More importantly, rural communities would be harmed by
yet another degradation in mail delivery and service. We cannot
afford to lose a another processing plant as it will have a major
impact not only for our newspapers, but our subscribers throughout
the country.
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U.S.
Conference of Mayors Endorse Postal Banking
At its June
20-23, 2014 annual meeting, the US Conference of Mayors (USCM) adopted
a pair of resolutions endorsing postal banking, co-signed by eight
mayors from six states. Their goal is to bring $1 trillion of job-creating
economic stimulus primarily to low-income neighborhoods, over the
next decade, at zero cost to taxpayers..
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USPS: In the driver’s
seat – Employee input sought for next generation of vehicles
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The Postal Service’s surging package volume and aging fleet have
prompted the organization to begin developing ideas for newer, better
vehicles.
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Video: Birmingham postal worker resigns after
getting caught throwing packages into a ravine
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There’s a video making its way around Birmingham social media that
appears to show a shocking thing: a postal worker standing outside
his delivery van launching packages into a kudzu-covered Southside
ravine.
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UK
Royal Mail pilots Sunday hours, delivery
The pilot
program is slated to begin later in the summer. Most Royal Mail
delivery offices are open six days a week. -
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Former Portland,
OR postal worker pleads guilty to taking mail
Focus on growth: USPS is making changes, but
it needs congressional help
How Big Data
And The Internet Of Things Will Change The Postal Service
Paducah's Mail Processing Facility Set to
Close, Could Lead to Longer Delivery Times
July 2, 2014
Sen. Franken to Postal
Service: Closing Mail Processing Centers Will Hurt Minnesota Communities
- In a letter to the Postmaster General sent Wednesday, Sen. Franken
said that shutting down these facilities is a shortsighted, irrational
plan that will ultimately degrade customer service and cause more
harm than good.
Senator Carper
statement on USPS plan to consolidate up to 82 mail processing plants
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APWU: Arbitrator Rules Excessed Employees
Must Meet Minimum Qualifications Before Reassignment
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The APWU won an important arbitration award on June 24, when Arbitrator
Stephen B. Goldberg ruled that the Postal Service must determine
– prior to excessing employees across craft lines – that the employees
meet the minimum qualifications for the new position.
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Neopost
USA Receives Overwhelming Response from Americans Celebrating National
Postal Worker Day
- Neopost USA encouraged Americans to answer one simple question:
What's the nicest thing a postal worker has ever done for you? This
simple request received an overwhelming response; heartfelt comments
of praise for the important ways postal workers affect the communities
and individuals they serve:
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NALC: Distribution of campaign literature
by e-mail
Video: Miami family beset by mail theft
Video: Man takes plea deal after postal worker
attack
Why I still cling to the mailman
Lost letter
finally delivered after 83 year
Problems Ahead for Elkland Post Office
Staples Boycott Grows
Buy Priority
Mail Postage Online, or Face USPS Rate Hike
New Postal Service Announcement Has Roanoke
Sorting Facility Closing, For Now
USPS: Center's Closing Shouldn't Cause Layoffs,
Untimely Delivery
July 1, 2014
APWU: Arbitrator Denies Union’s Grievance
Protesting PVS Conversion to Highway Contract Route
Arbitrator Shyam Das has denied a national-level grievance that
protested the subcontracting of Postal Vehicle Service (PVS) operations
in Columbus, OH.
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USPS plans to raise Priority Mail prices,
reduce rates for high-volume mailers
The United
States Postal Service today filed notice with the Postal Regulatory
Commission (PRC) to change Priority Mail prices, including a reduction
in prices on average for businesses and other customers who use
Commercial Plus and Commercial Base online shipping services. The
price change will include a modest increase for Priority Mail prices
at Post Offices and other postal retail outlets.
USPS takes steps
to grow package business
-The Postal Service plans to adjust Priority Mail prices
in the fall, including reducing rates for high-volume mailers.
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NAPS reiterates opposition to USPS Plant Closures
NAPS opposes
the Postal Service’s plan because it will slow down the nation’s
mail service, further dismantle the distribution network and eliminate
middle-class jobs. The plan will largely eliminate local overnight
First Class mail delivery currently the national standard for all
local deliveries. Veterans also will be hurt
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USPS
has adjusted retail operating hours of 9,166 Post Offices under
PostPlan
- The Post Plan timeline has been extended — with the program now
being finalized in early January 2015.
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USPS
offers postmasters early retirements ahead of RIFs
The Postal Service is offering buyouts and early retirement options
to more than 3,000 postmasters before it proceeds with a reduction-in-force
(RIF) in early 2015.
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USPS OIG: Monitoring of Government Travel
Card Transactions
Closure of Eau Claire postal distribution
center to slow delivery
Post Office to close 4 Wisconsin distribution
centers
TSP Continues Growing in June
Groping mailman sentenced to six years in
prison
How people in rural
Alaska get their groceries: Courtesy USPS
Is Postal Reform
Becoming One Big Clusterbox
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