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05/19/12
Postal Service's next deadline: Aug. 1
To help itself, Postal Service willing to hurt old friend newspapers
Postal service’s biggest problems are
business plan, management
Revised Network Rationalization: Map &
user-friendly list
05/17/12
Former Southwest Virginia Postmaster gets prison time
Gambling mailman’s luck soured when inspectors caught him
stealing mail
Sen. Collins: USPS To continue operations at Eastern Maine facility, saving
150 jobs
Mid-Hudson mail facility to stay open for now
05/15/12
Postal
Decisions to Be Announced Thursday
Final word on processing plants - The Postal Service will announce changes to its
distribution network Thursday, a representative with the agency tells NewsChannel 5.A self-imposed moratorium on potential closures within its mail
processing network ended Tuesday." Prior to public release of any additional
information, our top priority, as is standard operating procedure, is to ensure
our employees are notified first,” said Tom Rizzo, a Postal Service spokesman.
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GSA Instructs Agencies to Presort Their Mail (PDF)
How Makers, Hackers, and Entrepreneurs Can Save the USPS
Iowa among top 10 states hit by reduced post office hours
Personal data for California home care workers, recipients lost in the mail
05/14/12
NALC
Grieves NTFT Clerks Excessed into Letter Carrier Craft
The 2011 APWU National Agreement created a new
category of clerks called non-traditional full-time (NTFT) clerks. Many of these
NTFT clerks have a regular schedule of fewer than 40 hours per week. Management
has begun to excess some of these clerks into full-time letter carrier jobs. The
NALC believes that a clerk who works fewer than 40 hours can only be excessed
into another part-time regular position, not into a full-time letter carrier
position. |
Postal
Service stalls plan to close 600 urban and suburban stations
U.S. Postal Service spokesman Richard Watkins says
the agency is stalling plans to close 600 urban and suburban postal branch
offices and satellite stations. Watkin’s announcement Monday follows the
agency’s decision last week to halt the planned shutdown of hundreds of rural
post offices, saying they can remain open with shorter hours. The stations
are manned by APWU-represented employees |
What’s
Next on Postal Reform
While the Senate has approved a postal reform bill,
there is no rush in the House, as no postal reform legislation is on the
schedule again this week.And since the House will be taking another 10 day break
at the end of this week, no postal legislation could even reach the floor until
June.Postal Service officials promised another announcement this week - it
wasn't immediately clear whether there would be announcements of shut downs in
mail distribution and sorting facilities nationwide. |
Editorial: Imperfect postal
decision doesn't sit well with Montana delegation
Shame on the Postal Service for playing games with
numbers. Shame on Congress for playing politics with post offices that are
highly important to communities. We think that the Senate bill would do a
sensible thing by getting the Postal Service out from underneath an onerous
multi-billion-dollar requirement to heavily pre-pay health costs. That's not
something that other federal agencies are required to do. Post Office Hour Reductions, Called a “Win-Win,” Feel More Like a Lose-Lose
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Postal Service Offering
$50,000 Reward In Robbery Case
USPS
Incents Commercial Mailers to Combine Mobile Marketing With Direct mail
Ex-postal carrier charged with fraudulently cashing $143,000 in disability
checks
05/13/12
Ill
worker fights postal service over toxic mail
The package, now missing, has created a mystery —
and solving that mystery could be the key to saving Lill’s life. In the weeks
after his exposure to the package, Lill fell devastatingly and inexplicably ill.
He suffers from extreme fatigue, tremors, and liver and neurological problems
consistent with toxic exposure. He has become so sick that he cannot work and
now must be cared for his by mother in New York. Lill’s doctors say they have no
way to treat him without knowing what chemicals were inside the package.All the
while, the Postal Service has refused to investigate, stating through lawyers
that the incident never occurred. But the Florida Center for Investigative
Reporting, in partnership with the Investigative Reporting Program at the
University of California-Berkeley, uncovered related documents and interviewed
two whistleblowers who confirm what happened on Feb. 4, 2011 — showing that the
Postal Service has refused to investigate not only the potential cause for the
illness of an employee, but also what could have been a chemical weapon in
Florida.
OSHA probing former Florida postal worker's illness claims
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Package From Yemen, Questions About Worker Illness and Government Response
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POStPlan
by the numbers
The plan would reduce the total number of operating
hours per day at these 13,000 offices from about 100,000 hours to 57,000 — a
reduction of 43,000 hours or 43%. Over the course of a year, hours of operation
would be reduced by over 11 million hours (43,000 x 260 weekdays — the plan
doesn’t deal with Saturdays).The country has 32,000 post offices. Figuring they
operate eight hours a day (not all do), five days a week, the total operating
hours for the USPS retail network comes to about 66 million hours. POStPlan
would thus reduce that by 11 million hours, or 16%. |
Senator Schumer: The Buffalo Processing Facility Will Be
Open For At least 3 Years -Today,
U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer announced that the Williams Street Processing
Center, which would have been eligible for closure when the current post office
and facility moratorium expires on May 15th, will remain open for at least three
years. Throughout the postal reform debate, Schumer lobbied the Postmaster
General to keep the processing facility open, in order to preserve overnight
mail service in Western New York and the facility’s 700 jobs. |
GOP Votes
Pay Cut For Postal, Federal Workers
The
House of Representatives voted for a 5 percent cut in postal and federal
workers’ pay on May 10 by approving an increase in employees’ pension
contributions. Republican members of the House provided all 218 votes in favor
of the measure, while 183 Democrats and 16 Republicans opposed it. |
Video: Postal food drive intercepted by
thieves
05/12/12
Video:
Postal big rig involved in deadly accident
Editorial: Capitol Hill, Slower Than Snail Mail
Postal workers can only wait, hope
Ohio postal workers accused of embezzling, throwing away mail
05/11/12
More Than 100 Members of Congress Seek Extension of
Moratorium on Mail Processing Facilities -Recently the Postmaster General has said there
won’t be a large number of closures as soon as the moratorium expires, but he
has not agreed to extend the moratorium.But postal workers, along with many
lawmakers and postal customers, are unwilling to rely on his public reassurances
that closures will be handled methodically and will not be disruptive. |
USPS
Moving Forward on Plant Consolidations–Announcement Coming May 17th Although no wholesale closures are immediately in
the works, “we’ll have some consolidations in the summer, the majority after the
first of the year.” Donahoe said. |
Teens Accused of Trying to Rob Postal
Worker in Detroit
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