September 30, 2006 - NALC : Postal Reform Falls Short as Congress Adjourns for Election Recess -"Last night, and in the early morning hours of today, we came within an eyelash of accomplishing our goal of enacting meaningful postal reform, at least in the Senate. In the final analysis, letter carriers could not support the bill that Senator Susan Collins was pursuing because it would have established a three-day waiting period for injured letter carriers before they could go on continuation of pay.  NALC sought to hold up the Senate bill because of the COP issue... No conference committee was ever established and the bill that nearly passed the Senate was essentially a new version of the bill that none of our allies in the House, Democrat or Republican, had even seen. Indeed, few members of either the House or the Senate ever received a final version of the bill. Neither did the NALC or any of the other interested stakeholders  |   

September 30, 2006

OIG Audit: USPS Actions to Locate and Track Employees After Hurricane Katrina

Mailman saves house

Automated Postal Center Will Be Relocated
Colorado: Postal Inspectors Find More Threatening Letters
Seven Airlines Awarded USPS Contracts

Preparing for the Postal Rate Hike

September 29, 2006 - USPS Integrated Financial Plan 2007 - Workhour Reductions
"The FY 2007 plan reduces workhours by 40 million from the estimated FY 2006 total in spite of adding 1.9 million delivery points. The FY 2007 planned workhour reduction target is equal to approximately 20,000 full-time equivalent employees. The workhour reductions are a product of process improvements, capital investment programs, and a projected volume decline. The FY 2007 workhour plan follows seven consecutive years of productivity improvements." USPS Transformation Plan 2006-2010- "The Postal Service continues to use comprehensive studies of bargaining and nonbargaining unit jobs to establish and maintain wages and benefits comparable to the private sector, which is in keeping with its statutory mandate. In negotiations with unions, the Postal Service has applied the principle of moderate restraint of wage growth in seeking to address wage rates that exceed comparability standards."  |

September 29, 2006 - Jaffer Scandal Just Won’t Go Away

While much of the report is rather sensational, detailing instances of Mr. Jaffer’s alleged excessive drinking and inappropriate behavior toward female USPS employees, a far more interesting picture of USPS corporate culture emerges from between the lines. Mr. Jaffer’s reckless spending and “lack of candor” should be viewed as part of the operational culture of the USPS. Azzezaly Jaffer was just living large because he had swallowed the prevailing party line. Maybe the USPS does operate like a Fortune 100 business. Just like Enron, Fannie Mae, or Tyco.  |   

September 28, 2006 - APWU Sets Oct. 26 for Nationwide Day of Picketing

In accordance with a resolution adopted by delegates to the union’s 18th Biennial Convention, the APWU National Executive Board has selected Oct. 26 for a nationwide day of picketing to protest ill-advised postal consolidations. The coordinated informational picketing is intended to highlight the potentially damaging effects of the USPS consolidation plan, and to expose how Postal Service policy panders to major mailers. The Oct. 26 date was selected to give local unions the opportunity to seek support from elected officials and candidates prior to Election Day, Nov. 7.    |   

September 28, 2006 - NALC May Withdraw Its Support for Postal Reform Bill

Bush administration's demands could destroy Postal Reform - We learned this week that the White House is still aggressively pursuing contentious changes in the Senate version of the reform legislation. The Bush administration’s proposed changes, if adopted, would leave NALC no choice but to actively oppose passage of the pending Postal Reform. I am deeply troubled that the Bush administration appears determined to destroy the strong bipartisan consensus surrounding comprehensive postal reform. NALC has worked long and hard for reform, but we will not support a bad version of the bill. Indeed, we must be ready to do everything we can to defeat any bill that financially cripples the Postal Service or threatens our collective bargaining interests.  |   

September 28, 2006 - NALC: Critical elections may change direction of the nation (PDF) With the 2006 mid-term elections just a month away, the NALC is mobilizing its resources in an unprecedented way to help elect pro-letter carrier candidates across America. Working people—letter carriers included—know that something has gone wrong in the U.S. economy and the current leadership in Washington is not even trying to fix it. “Over the long haul, only a stronger labor movement, fighting to protect workers and get a better deal from the bosses, can turn this situation around,” NALC President Bill Young said. “But if that is going to happen, a change in political direction is essential.” Mail Handlers: Message On Voter Registration   |   

September 28, 2006 - Tampa APWU President Questions USPS Decision to Close REC  - ...the U.S. Postal Service’s recent announcement to employees that they have made a decision to close the Tampa Remote Encoding Center (REC) no later than March 2, 2007. This decision will impact almost 600 employees; including data conversion operators, maintenance technicians, and supervisors. But why Tampa? Why now? The Tampa REC site has been here since 1995, and was one of the original 55 sites nation-wide. It is one of the most productive facilities in the country, and the employees there have keystrokes-per-hour and error rates far better than Postal Service’s national standards. Why toss out a highly skilled, knowledgeable, and experienced staff in Tampa today, only to relocate and hire new untrained recruits somewhere else - and spend millions of dollars in the process?  |   

September 27, 2006 - Finally Polo Shirts for Window Clerks Beginning November 18th - The American Postal Worker Magazine -  The American Postal Worker Magazine - Vendors will be allowed to take orders on this style of shirt early in October, and they will be allowed in the workplace beginning Nov. 18. They are, of course, covered by the National Agreement, and can be purchased using the Sales and Service Associate uniform allowance. While the exact cost of each shirt has not been announced, we expect them to be in the $30-$35 range. (click picture for larger view) The article doesn't address if the issue of wearing polo shirts everyday was resolved. Also, several readers have noted:  window clerks uniform allowance has increased only $50 over the last 25 years.   |   

September 26, 2006  - Postal Service Curbs Mail Carrier's Good Works

Star Press readers showered Kathy Bland with cards, $10 checks and boxes of dog bones after a recent article revealed the 21-year mail carrier had saved close to 800 neglected and abandoned animals along her route, paying with her own money for them to be rehabilitated and placed in loving homes. The United States Postal Service had a less positive reaction. It sent one district-level and one regional official to discuss "safety issues" with Bland on Monday morning in Yorktown. The verdict of the two-hour meeting, said Bland: no more media interviews in her post-office uniform, no more candy for the neighborhood children, no more temporarily stashing needy strays in the office break room.

September 26, 2006  - Postal Worker Pleads Guilty to Searching, Reviewing Child Pornography on USPS Computer - Morris E. Hall, 58, a window clerk from Jamestown, Kentucky pled guilty on September 6, 2006 to one charge of receiving child pornography.  According to an Affidavit filed at the time of Hall’s arrest, federal agents became aware of Hall’s unlawful activities as a result of routine monitoring of USPS computers beginning in October 2005 at the Jamestown, Kentucky, Post Office. To determine if Hall was actively searching the internet for child pornography, web logs for Hall’s account number were pulled and reviewed. In addition, investigators used the web logs to determine the amount of time Hall spent using the internet through his Postal Service assigned number.   |   

September 26, 2006  -

September 25, 2006  - Commitment to injury-reduction programs paying off for USPS

The U.S. Postal Service is steadily becoming a safer place to work. Last year, slightly fewer than 64,200 injuries were reported by Postal Service workers, down from 71,433 in 2004 and 79,514 in 2003. Workers’ compensation payments for 2005 injuries also fell to about $60 million, about half the amount of payments for new injuries of the previous year, and down to a level not seen since 2003, according to Labor Department statistics. The change is due to several programs and improvements the agency has initiated in the past several years... For all their recent efforts, however, the Postal Service appears frustrated by one mail-sorting machine it introduced in the early 1990s and which, at least according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), poses a risk of injury to those operating it. The Postal Service has spent millions on the machines and it is committed to its use,” said [Loyd] Reeder, a frequent blogger on the DBCS topic. “So what should be done now is follow the recommendations that NIOSH has made for the machines’ use.”|   

September 25, 2006 - Burrus - Enough of Excessive Postage Discounts for Mailers

While mailing-industry spokesmen wage a constant propaganda tirade against the salary and benefits received by hard-working postal employees, behind closed doors these phonies demand continued excessive discounts in order to pad their own profits. This is hypocrisy at the highest level. Some of these discounts are so extreme that if postal employees were paid the same value for the work we perform, our wages would surpass $75 per hour! am disappointed that the postmaster general has joined forces with these private, for-profit entities at the expense of the American citizens who employ him. As a member of the USPS Board of Governors, he is bound by its credo, which states, “The Governors are chosen to represent the public interest and cannot be representatives of special interests.” |   

September 25, 2006  - Students fault safety of Dear Santa letter program
A student group at Brien McMahon High School says that the nationwide Dear Santa program, though well-intentioned, exposes children to danger.  |   

September 23, 2006 - New National League of Postmasters President Seeks Better Postal Pay - Barely one month on the job, the new president of the National League of Postmasters is gearing up for consultations with U.S. Postal Service headquarters about pay, benefits and budgeting. This year for the first time, the league will enter those consultations jointly with the National Association of Postal Supervisors and the National Association of Postmasters of the United States, said the new league president, Charles Mapa. The consultations — not the same as union “negotiations,” since postmasters are part of management — are mandated to begin within 30 days of completion of talks with the largest union, which are set to end no later than November  |   

September 22, 2006 - USPS Honored for its Pay-for-Performance Program - The Performance Institute, a non-partisan government research group, presented USPS its “Excellence in Human Capital Management Award” for 2006 yesterday. The annual award recognizes federal departments and agencies that use innovative approaches to harness the energy and ideas of their employees. USPS earned the award for its Pay-for-Performance program, which provides financial awards to 75,000 postal employees who attain management goals. The Performance Institute said the Pay-for-Performance program helped increase USPS net income by $11 billion, offsetting 24 years of previous losses.   | 

September 22, 2006 - Letter Carrier Celebrates 47 years of Delivering Mail

In 1956, Charles Sinclair joined the Army and was trained to be a Morse code interpreter and interceptor. He returned to his hometown in 1959 and took a job with the post office, and rest is history. Sinclair, 67, who recently marked 50 years as a federal employee with 47 of those years in the postal service delivering mail in Framingham. And he's worked plenty of long hours. In fact, one particularly long shift in 1962 is infamous in the Framingham post office. "I once spent 30 straight hours on the clock," he said.  Sinclair is not the longest serving mail carrier in the postal system. A man in Worcester has been delivering the mail for 64 years and Sinclair has no aspirations to challenge that man's mark  | 

September 21, 2006  - NRLCA President Donnie Pitts' Statement  on Opening Day of Contract Negotiations - More than ever, we want a collective bargaining experience that works. We want to have an open and honest dialogue about the issues that confront us from this day forward. We want to be frank with you and we expect no less from the Postal Service. We recognize that much is at stake. We are cognizant that the Postal Service will be negotiating four separate contracts simultaneously but we cannot let that fact detract, in any way, from the commitment we give to you, and expect in return, to make every bargaining session, every meeting a productive one. I was comforted, Mr. Potter, by the words you shared with those in attendance at our National Convention in Charleston. I know you want a negotiated agreement, too. And I sensed -- and hope I am right on this -- that you will give your chief negotiator and spokesman the leeway to go the extra mile to make a negotiated agreement a reality.  | 

September 21, 2006 - UPS and Teamsters Meet Two Years Before Contract Expirations
Trying to avoid a repeat of a 1997 strike that hobbled the United Parcel Service for two weeks, UPS management gathered in a Detroit hotel with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which represents 238,000 of the shipping company's drivers and other ground-delivery employees. Among the most pressing issues on the table: employee pension plans and healthcare benefits. Investor worries over rising labor costs at the company have hurt UPS share price of late and are a major concern for management during the negotiations. For the teamsters, union president James Hoffa had the following to say regarding the negotiations: "This is our most important contract, one we want to work on without the pressure of a strike. You don't want to be doing this under the gun."   | 

September 21, 2006

September 20, 2006  - Former Union Steward Arrested For Representing Postal Employees in Legal Cases?? - From PR reader: "Steven Millard is a former union steward. While employed by the Postal Service he began representing postal employees in MSPB and EEOC cases. He continued doing this after he left the employ of the Postal Service. Earlier this year, he was arrested for allegedly violating 18 USC 205 and 18 USC 1001. These statutes were designed to prevent the conflict of interest inherent in having an attorney employed by the government sue the government in federal court on behalf of a third party. The untold story here is the impact of his arrest on his clients. The federal judge ordered Mr. Millard to cease all contact with his clients. This means not only that Mr. Millard could no longer represent these people, but also he could not even tell them what had happened. Even so, under current MSPB and EEOC case law, Mr. Millard’s clients are held responsible for Mr. Millard’s failures and, as a result, many such cases have or will be dismissed."  | 

September 20, 2006 - National APWU Slapped With Unfair Labor Charges

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), issued a complaint on April 28, 2006, alleging that the American Postal Workers Union, had committed certain violations of Section 8(a)(1) of the National Labor Relations Act when its Executive Vice-President Cliff Guffey threatened and disciplined employees for engaging in activities protected by the Act. The complaint alleges that during telephone calls Guffey threatened employees with discipline if they continued to complain about a terms and condition of employment; threatened employees with discipline if they continued to use the APWU's email system to engage in protected concerted activities; threatened employees with termination if they repeated his comments; and issued oral warnings to employees for engaging in protected concerted activities. On August 31, 2006, a NLRB Administrative Judge ruled that APWU "engaged in certain unfair labor practices."  | 

September 20, 2006  - Congress Request Postal Policies Covering On-Duty Alcohol Use-  Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (R-Va.) who chairs the House Committee on Government Reform, and the committee's ranking minority member, Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), sent a letter to Potter requesting a pile of records linked to Jaffer's case. But they also requested "copies of any polices in effect during the period covered by the Inspectors General's investigation regarding employees on duty alcohol use. They wanted USPS to explain "circumstances under which exceptions or deviations to any of these policies are allowed if such exceptions or deviations are not explicit in the regulations." After Jaffer case, USPS rewrites rules on expenses -The new guidelines limit alcoholic beverage purchases at official postal functions to beer and wine. | 

September 20, 2006 - Rural carrier beats ticket for not being in driver's seat - Myra Lawlor, a 19-year veteran of the U.S. Postal Service, was cited last January after a Bellows Falls police officer saw her sitting in the middle of the front seat of her car as she drove from house to house, reaching through the passenger's side window to put mail in mailboxes. Lawlor fought the $194 ticket, and Vermont Judicial Bureau Judge Stephen Fine ruled last week that Lawlor was exempt from a Vermont law that requires drivers to be directly behind the steering wheel at all times. He said states can't interfere with the "efficient operation" of federal agencies, such as the Postal Service.  | 

September 20, 2006 -

Payroll checks stolen from mail in Maryland

September 17, 2006  - Pedaling the Post - Carriers Delivering Mail by Bicycle

Chris Hubble used to drive an old jeep to deliver mail in Tampa. One day about 10 years ago, he noticed a letter carrier on a route in St. Petersburg delivering mail on a bicycle." That's what I want to do," Hubble said. So he applied for a transfer. Now Hubble, 38, works as a letter carrier for the Open Air Station in St. Petersburg. The downtown post office is the only station in Florida and one of a few in the country to deliver mail by bicycle, according to Open Air Station manager John Phelps. Carriers have used bikes since the Open Air post office opened in 1917, he said. Today there are 23 letter carriers using bicycles who range in experience from five months to 26 years. The station also has six vehicle routes. Many carriers said they wouldn't go back to driving a regular mail truck.| 

September 17, 2006  - Bad form for changes of address

About a year ago, the Postal Service moved to a different forwarding system, one that centralized basic features. It used to be that your change-of-address card went directly to the letter carrier, who quickly knew you were gone. Under the new system, the cards -- or the Web requests -- are often sent to a central forwarding system (CFS, in Postal Service-speak). The forwarding unit in turn scans in the requests for the ``remote encoding center'' (REC) in Selma, Calif., which puts them in the Postal Service's system. As mail comes in, the new address is inked on the envelope. When requests are handled this way, the letter carriers are not the first to know. They're not told where the people are moving. They do get a notice that someone has moved -- and that mail should be forwarded. So the Mountain View man interviewed several letter carriers at the La Avenida Avenue branch ...  ``I talked to all these postmen who told me how screwed up the whole system was.   | 

September 16, 2006 - NAPUS Leaders Concerned About USPS Plan to Cut  Workhours  "NAPUS leaders are very concerned about the surprise announcement this week on how the Postal Service plans to cut $1.1 billion from the budget. The biggest concern is the announced plan to decrease the work hour budget by 40 million hours. Postmasters nationwide are already facing unrealistic budgets in their offices and further cuts could only worsen the current staffing and work hour shortages that many offices are facing. NAPUS National President Dale Goff will discuss the proposed cuts with USPS officials as soon as a meeting can be set up."  | 

September 15, 2006 -  Mail Handler Contract Update #5 - The Postal Service’s financial condition often is a key factor in bargaining, and there are both positive and negative indications about the Postal Service’s financial health. Moreover, the Postal Service likes to disparage its financial prospects as bargaining heats up, by highlighting the negative and ignoring the positive. One thing is certain, however: given all of these claims by the Postal Service, another tough round of bargaining can be expected.  | 
 

September 15, 2006 - North Carolina: Growth in Town Strains Postal Service
"The population of the northwest Raleigh community Brier Creek has skyrocketed over the last year, and it is putting a strain on the post office. Brenda Fox says mail service in the Brier Creek area is sloppy. She says her calls to the U.S. Postal Service did not help. Residents suspect a parade of temporary carriers is not familiar with the names and numbers. The postal service says they have no trouble filling positions, but they also say they are always hiring."  | 

September 14, 2006 - APWU: USPS Rate Proposal Shifts More Costs From Major Mailers to Individual Customers - Testimony submitted on Sept. 6 (to PRC) shows that new rates requested by the Postal Service would increase excessive discounts to major mailers who presort their mail, and, as a result, force small businesses and individual customers who do not presort their mail to pay more. As a result of the Postal Service’s flawed methodology, Kobe says, the proposed rates would provide corporate presort mailers with vastly inflated discounts relative to the costs the USPS avoids. The Postal Service has predicted that 18 billion letters will be mailed at these discounted rates in 2008. If not corrected by the Postal Rate Commission, this one excessive discount would cost the Postal Service approximately $600 million per year, Kobe said following her testimony.  | 

USPS BOG Approves FY 2007 Plan That Assumes Rate Increase in May

September 14, 2006 - GOP, Dems embrace post office legislation
"Post office naming is now the most common form of legislation, according to the Congressional Research Service (CRS). An analysis by The Hill shows that in 15 years the two parties have achieved parity in the practice. Of the 267 naming bills passed since the beginning of the 102nd Congress, 133 were sponsored by Democrats and 134 were sponsored by Republicans. Since Congress named its first post office after an individual in 1967, it has ignored United States Postal Service guidelines on naming facilities after individuals – specifically that the individual must have been deceased at least 10 years with the exception of deceased U.S. presidents or Postmasters general." It often comes as a surprise to congressional staff that USPS does not have a comprehensive list of those that have already been named for individuals either through legislative or administrative action,” stated the CRS report  | 

September 14, 2006 - About that 75 grand a year

Newspaper Editor Backtracks on Statement about Postal Workers Earning $ 75 grand a year - "We’ve heard from several local postal employees who were angry about my column  “An oxymoron: Government business” that ran on the opinion page Aug. 23. What particularly raised their ire was the statement that postal workers make an average of $75,000 a year. ... let me say right away – no postal worker in the tri counties makes 75 grand a year. But that number, through an extrapolation, was not pulled out of the air. It came directly from Jack Potter, postmaster general of the United States, at a special postal summit called by the National Newspaper Association in Washington just a month ago. I heard it with my own ears. Again, if any reader concluded from the column that your local mail carrier actually makes that kind of money, let me assure you she doesn’t. I’m happy to clear up that misunderstanding."   | 

September 13, 2006 - Couple moving to Minnesota sends all belongings via Postal Service - About 23 years ago, Steve and Barbara Slater moved to Alaska in a unique, and in their opinion, money-saving way. They sent all their belongings via the U.S. Postal Service. Now 23 years later, and about to move to Minnesota, the Slaters are once again doing the same thing. They say they consulted with a moving company, and were told it would cost approximately $17,000 to do the job. Instead of paying that amount, the Slaters chose to use the Postal Service, bringing over two hundred boxes into the downtown Post Office.   | 

September 13, 2006

Jerry Lane Named VP, Area Operations, Capital Metro Area

Postal worker honored for good deed on job
Texas: New postal facility to open
Judge: restitution first, then plea deal for clerk charged with theft
Mixed-Mail & Parcel Sorting Technology Provides New Business

September 10, 2006 - Post office returns mailbox to senders
The Postal Service has reduced 42,000 boxes to scrap metal since 1999. About 295,050 boxes remained standing as of 2005. The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks accelerated the removals. Officials took out scores of boxes around landmarks such as the US Capitol out of concern that explosive devices could be placed inside them. But in most of the areas that have had boxes removed, the issue was less about homeland security than lack of use. In Lakewood, the boxes simply became too expensive to maintain for so little business, Post Officer In Charge Steve Ham said. Not only do mail collectors have to make fruitless trips to underused boxes, but they must also deal with graffiti and random objects dropped inside, he said.  | 

September 07, 2006 - APWU: Postal Service Falls Short in Attempts to Get Public Input on Consolidations - "In testimony submitted to the Postal Rate Commission on behalf of the APWU on Sept. 1, Margaret L. Yao, an expert and senior associate at AmericaSpeaks, sharply criticized the USPS for failing to adequately consult with the public on its network consolidation plan. Yao concluded that Postal Service's Public Involvement Plan was "needlessly flawed" and that the "deficiencies of the current adversarial approach have invited scrutiny, delay, frustration, and cynicism." Yao provided an in-depth report on the five public meetings organized by the USPS in areas slated for consolidation of local postal facilities." | 

September 07, 2006 - USPS July Financial Results Released

"USPS revenues for July were $5.5 billion, or 0.5% under plan and 4.1% more than July 2005. Expenses for the month were $5.8 billion, or 0.4% over plan and 4.3% more than same period last year (SPLY). The net loss was $268 million before the escrow allocation. The net deficiency after the escrow allocation was $518 million. Year-to-date (YTD), revenue through July was 0.6%, or $364 million higher than plan and 3.9% above SPLY. Expenses through July were 0.5%, or $295 million higher than plan and $2.4 billion above SPLY. YTD, mail volume is 0.8% above SPLY." USPS Reports Net Deficiency of $268 Million in July  |

September 07, 2006 - Attacked with saw, he's back

The last time he walked onto a subway platform to go to work, Michael Steinberg was almost killed, the victim of a frenzied power saw attack. Yesterday, the postal worker took a big step back into the Manhattan station where he nearly lost his life - a step he said was vital in trying to get back to normal. It wasn't easy: Steinberg, 64, was hit by a frightening flashback almost immediately.  |

September 07, 2006  - Lack of Postal Reform Leads to Blame Game - With time running out for Congress to approve a postal reform bill, some mailers are questioning whether the Direct Marketing Association—both the leadership and the members—failed to work as effectively as possible to improve the chances of the legislation being passed.

September 07, 2006 - Postmaster Charged In Gambling With Postal Funds - A federal grand jury in Phoenix has returned a one count indictment against a postmaster for misappropriation of postal funds. Lawrence Moreno, 65, of Lakeside, Arizona, was the postmaster for the Whiteriver Post Office, in Whiteriver, Az. During the period of November, 2003 through May, 2004, Moreno removed approximately $66,110 from the Post Office in increments of approximately $50 to $600 a day and did not return the money to the Post Office or deposit the money in the Post Office's bank on behalf of the Post Office. Prosecutors say Moreno ultimately took the Post Office's money to a local casino and lost the money while gambling with it. Moreno attempted to hide the unlawful conversion of the money by maintaining records indicating that the money was in fact in the Post Office in the form of stamp stock and had been deposited in the Post Office's bank on behalf of the Post Office.  |

September 05, 2006 - U.S. Colleagues Aid Injured Mail Carrier
"Anthony Alizio doesn't know Maureen Buscher DePrince. He never met her. But as a letter carrier, Alizio was moved when he heard of the tragic accident in Ventnor that cost Buscher DePrince her legs, and perhaps her sight. "This tragedy touched all letter carriers as we are out in the streets of America daily dealing with all types of hazards," said Alizio, an Arizona mail carrier who found out about the incident during the National Association of Letter Carriers biennial convention in Las Vegas two weeks ago. By setting up a makeshift table at the convention, friends of Buscher DePrince raised $45,000. The association agreed to match it dollar for dollar." Support from around the nation helps. "It's nice to know so many of them care. Postal employees have been very supportive," [Maureen's father, Joseph] Buscher said." |

September 05, 2006  -

USPS Seeks New Vendor for Headquarters Fitness Center |

Uniontown postmaster enjoys community
The postal worker who loved fountain pens
Mail delivery takes stamp and safety
Postal Service plans to unveil Oklahoma stamp
Village readies to reopen PO destroyed by fire

September 01, 2006  - Ask President Burrus: Lost of Seniority Bidding on Jobs Within Sectional Center  - "I would like to see the national union negotiate job bidding within a sectional center, such as in 460-461-462 or 473 or 475. I live in zip code 46038, but I work in 462. There are bids available in 460, but I would lose all seniority to go there. I can understand not allowing nationwide bidding because of local seniority, but bidding within 30 miles does not seem to present a problem."  |

September 01, 2006  - Mail Carrier Injured When Lightning Hits Tree - A postal worker is recovering from a close call after a lightning strike on Thursday. According to witnesses, lightning hit a tree, injuring a mail carrier who was walking nearby. An onlooker saw the incident and immediately called 911. Firefighters arrived within four minutes and began working on the woman. Linda John was taken to the hospital and held overnight for observation.  |