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USPS Resolves Dispute With Unions Over Computer Security Rules

 

USPS Selects Former Halliburton Executive As New CIO

 

Proposed FMLA Rule Changes Would Be Major Defeat For Workers

 

APWU: Proposed FMLA Regulations Threaten Medical Privacy, Other Protections

 

Bush Administration Seeking Changes To FMLA Regulations

 

USPS to Add Surcharge for Express Mail Delivery on Sundays and Holidays

 

Big Pay Increases Approved For Top Postal Service Officers

 

Letter: Expeditor dies after on the job fall in Denver parking lot

 

Postal Workforce Stats At A Glance

 

USPS Retail Cost Cutting (PDF)

 

Postal Watchdog Files Complaint Over USPS Elimination of Bound Printed Matter Rate -

 

Former Postal Public Affairs VP Jaffer Starts Own Consulting Business

 

Former Postmaster Wins Hostile Workplace Lawsuit - But No Money

 

USPS Wants To Automate Road Tests

 

Postal Service Updates Its Transformation Plan

 

EEOC: Postal Worker Has Claim For One-Time Incident of Discriminatory Harassment

 

Postal Worker Fails to Convince Appeals Court to Overturn APWU-USPS Settlement

 

Appeals Court: Evidence of Disability for Disability Retirement

 

NALC’S Young: Good Cop/Bad Cop - Right Here In The USPS

 

Rollout of PostalPEOPLE Initiative Completed

 

Mail Handler Fired After Threatening Behavior Towards Co-Workers

 

Court Upholds Postal Supervisor’s Demotion For Altering Time-Keeping Records

 

USPS Los Angeles District Gets Approval From OPM to Offer Early Outs

 

NALC’s Young Urges Support For Harkin Amendment to Labor-HHS Bill

 

APWU: Casual Issues Disputed At National Level (PDF)

 

Arbitrator Issues Award in Rural Carriers Contract Case

 click here to read the award (PDF)   | A Short Comparison of USPS Contracts With APWU, NPMHU, NALC and NRLCA  |

 

PRC Requests Help In Developing Report on Universal Postal Service And Postal Monopoly

 

Postal Service’s Oldest Employee Still Going Strong At 93

 

OIG Recommends USPS Increase Postal Employee's Benefit Costs

 

Canadian Lottery Scheme Using Fake USPS Checks

 

APWU Questions and Answers on USPS Shared Services

 

Court To USPS: Retire Not Fire Postal Veteran With PTSD

 

Bogus USPS Early Out / Buyout Letter Making The Rounds

 

PMG Potter and USPS Executives Focus On 2008

 

USPS Threatening To Discipline Employees Over Failure to Pay Local Tax ??

 

Postal Worker Gets 2 Years for Stealing Over $400,000 In Money Orders

 

USPS Seeking Info On Automatic Vending Machine Manufacturing

 

Veterans Preference and the U.S. Postal Service

 

Supreme Court to Hear Postal Worker’s Retaliation Case

 

USPS Reports $5.4 Billion Deficit for FY 2007

 

Appeals Court Overturns Postal Worker’s Conviction for Theft

 

Fired Postal Worker Featured in Push to Expand Reservist Job Rights

 

USPS Workforce Size and Employment Categories, 1986-2006

 

Appeals Court Overturns Postal Worker’s Conviction for Theft

 

Fired Postal Worker Featured in Push to Expand Reservist Job Rights

 

USPS Responds to APWU Inquiry Regarding Absences of 3 Days or Less

 

Letter Carriers Ratify New 5-Year Contract

 

USPS Offering Cash Prizes in Automated Postal Center Sweepstakes

 

Postal Inspectors Sue USPS for Overtime Pay

 

APWU Questions USPS Medical Documentation Requirement for Absences of 3 Days or Less  

 

Arbitrator Awards $50,000 for Postal Inspectors Misconduct

 

USPS, Postmasters Reach Agreement on Pay Package

 

Notice: USPS Revised Rule for Conduct on Postal Property

 

Mail Handlers Awarded $13.8 Million for Casuals Violation

 

Company Tests Popcorn Vending Machine at NJ Postal Facility

 

"Kelly Girl" Arbitration Award to Cost USPS Nearly $20 Million

 

USPS BOG Chairman Gets Blue-Collar Name Tag

 

Postal Supervisor Fired For Rewarding Employees Non-Worked OT Loses Appeal

 

Court Excludes AMS Specialist Position From APWU Bargaining Unit

 

Flat Sequencing System (FSS) Strategy

 

USPS: Boston District's New Mystery Shopper Board Game

 

USPS Performance Scores at Record Levels

 

USPS Seeks Private Companies For New Priority Mail Care Package Program

 

Former USPS Contractor Nabbed in NJ Postmasters Scheme

 

Postal Employees Cry Foul Over Alleged USPS Privacy Violations

 

Photo: Semi-Automated Postal Robotic Delivery Vehicle

 

USPS Deployment of Automated Postal Centers Put On Hold

 

USPS Seeks Vendors for Postal Package Processing System

 

Video: USPS Infomercial

 

Postal Supervisor’s Retaliation Lawsuit Dismissed

 

Video: NALC Branch #709: Reno Picket Against Contracting Out

 

New CSRS, FERS Retirement System Goes Online in 2008

 

NALC, NRLCA Presidents Debunk PMG Letter Justifying Contracting Out Mail Delivery

 

PMG: USPS Strongly Opposes the 'Mail Delivery and Protection Act'

 

Photo: Postal Window Clerk and A Very Strange Mail Package

 

OSHA partnership helps reduce ergonomic injuries at USPS

 

USPS Customer Satisfaction Questionnaire Website Launched

 

Court Affirms Enforcement of Unfair Labor Charges Against USPS

 

Senator Collins Introduces Postal Resolution Reaffirming Protections of Sealed Mail

 

NAPUS: Is Mail Service at Risk?

 

USPS Awards Contract to Protect Employee Personnel Records

 

NALC Young: It’s time to stop the ‘run amok’ OIG

 

Postal Service Awards $874.6 Million Contract for Flat Sequencing System

 

Unofficial Transcript of NALC Rap Session

 

Recent EEOC Decisions Involving Postal Employees

 

Postal Employees Know Your Rights  

 

Postal Worker Fired After Second Violation of USPS Zero Tolerance Policy

 

Postal Employees Should Think Twice Before Appealing Case to MSPB

Kenneth Jones vs. US Postal Service, illustrates why postal employees should think twice before appealing their discipline to the Merit Systems Protection Board. 

 

New Book: Beware of Cat: And Other Encounters of a Letter Carrier

Postal Worker Fired After Second Violation of USPS Zero Tolerance Policy

Bush Plan Would Cut Tax-Free Employer-Provided Health Insurance

MSPB Overturns Postal Worker’s Removal for $45,000 Stamp Stock Shortage

Postage Rate Hike in 2008?

Postal Service: ‘Intelligent Mail’ Fully Operational By 2009

Video: Signed, Sealed and Delivered-  Labor Struggle in the Post Office

USPS: New Postal Law-The Financial Impact

Can Bush Open Mail Without Warrant?

 Former Postal Worker Charged in FEHB Scheme to Defraud USPS and NALC

Un-Merry Christmas
Postal Service Terminates Disabled Iraq War Veteran for Unacceptable Attendance

Letter to the Editor - Mismanagement at Royal Oak Carrier Unit

FedEx and DOT at Stalemate in Dispute Over Disclosure of Postal Contract Data -

USPS, APWU Reach $5.3 Million Agreement in Anthrax Travel Grievance

 Postal Worker Fired for Refusing to Work on DBCS Machine

Postal Nurse Charged With Defrauding USPS

Five-Year Postal Employees Stats At a Glance

Big Win For APWU in MS-47 Maintenance Case - "Custodial Jobs Protected"

Emery Agrees to Pay $10 Million for Submitting Fraudulent Billings to USPS -

USPS to Sell Segway Scooters to General Public

 Former Postmaster jailed for stealing over $50k

Postal Worker Sues USPS – Denied Permission to Work Off-the-Clock?

USPS OIG Paper: Postal Officers Travel Expense Guidelines

USPS Mail Processing Facility Faces $44,250 in Fines for Safety Violations

Man Pleads Guilty in Kickback Scheme to Pay Postal OWCP Specialist

APWU Initiates Dispute Over Changes to USPS Computer Security Rules

Postal Worker Injured in Iraq Wins Job Back Under USERRA

USPS to Conduct Search for Sex Offenders on Postal Payroll

 

 

 

 

 

 

March 31, 2008

Alabama post office robbed

MDA: Letter carriers deliver for three important letters

Postal worker charged in hit-and-run wipeout

March 30, 2008

Postal worker critical after West Side crash

A postal worker is in critical condition Saturday afternoon after he was possibly ejected from his postal truck and hit by another truck on the West Side. The postal worker, who is believed to be a 35-year-old man, was making a U-turn when his truck was hit by another vehicle, according to Harrison District police. The impact from the crash possibly caused the man to be ejected from his truck. He was then apparently hit by another vehicle passing by. |

 

Missouri Postmaster On Leave During Probe Of Alleged Rules Violations

 For more than a month, Jackson postmaster Mike Heuschober has been on administrative leave while the U.S. Postal Service conducts an investigation of alleged rules violations. The allegations do not include charges of criminal misconduct, said Richard Watkins, spokesman for the Mid America District of the postal service said. "It was an internal matter in terms of regulations, instructions, processing or mail delivery," Watkins said.  |

 

North Andover residents say post office too slow

Vets' mail was in limbo

March 28, 2008

FMLA: Here We Go Again
Bush Keeps Trying to Chip Away at Workers’ Rights- The headlines last July seemed to say it all: “Labor Department Study Affirms That FMLA Is Working as Intended.” So union activists were dismayed when seven months later the Department of Labor proposed sweeping new regulations for the FMLA. “Business as usual, that’s the only reasonable explanation,” said APWU Legislative Department Director Myke Reid of the more-recent news stories. “It seems like corporate America just won’t give up in its quest to strip workers of their rights."  |

 

New Campaign and Improved Tools Target Unscheduled Absences  - New software will merge ERMS and TACS, creating a more effective tool to pinpoint recurring patterns of unscheduled absences. Every area in the country will have the new tool by the end of May. New PS Form 3971|

 

NY Metro Area APWU Joins May Peace Activism In Opposition to War - The New York Metro Area local APWU will observe a "2-minute period of silence at 1:00 AM, 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM" during all three shifts on May 1st, 2008 - International Workers Day - to show their opposition to the Iraq war and occupation and Bush's threats to attack Iran and Syria.  |

 

Postal Carrier Back On Route Day After Dog Attack
Postal carrier attacked by dog, saved by elderly woman

Retiring postal worker ends service at 79

FBI Focusing on 'About Four' Suspects in 2001 Anthrax Attacks

Mailboxes barricaded for winter
Wyoming: USPS will install cluster boxes in all new developments

USPS reducing Standard Mail barcode discount

Postal Bulletin 3/27/08 Issue

 

March 27, 2008

Mail handler makes his stand about doing 'right thing'

Dublin: Postal Service not meeting demands