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02/06 /12
Detroit: Trial getting under way in mail truck corruption
Post Office locations opening in retailers, run by retailers
02/05 /12
Sen. Claire McCaskill to discuss postal proposals
Shock: Post Office delivers veteran’s ashes to wrong family
Going Postal: A Second Look: From the USPS Closure Files
EquaShip The ‘New 4th Parcel Carrier’
Temporarily Suspending Customer Operations
02/04 /12
HOAX: Robot Detonates Suspicious Package at Five Points Post Office
USPS Mailmen Are Tree-Hating, Clutter-Loving Polluters
Notable Authors Give Snail Mail a Boost
USPS Hiring in Kentucky and Evansville
Carper, Coons, Carney &
Markell Write to PMG Urging Review of Hare’s Corner Proposal
OFF BEAT: Investigators get an eyeful in workers comp fraud case
Operators Lukewarm On USPS '2nd Ounce Free' Offer
3 people freed from car wedged beneath a USPS trailer
Stamps are miniature works of art
02/03 /12
Alabama community finally
gets mail service
Scammers Use USPS Online
Change of Address To Steal Woman’s Identity
Reports: charges dropped in Lance Armstrong/USPS doping investigation.
Free Valentine’s Day Ca rd
Offer at Cardstore.com
The GOP's plan to target federal workers
Postal system's financial woes spark debate in Maine
St. Paul artist
using homemade postcards to help save Postal Service
All Thrift Savings Plan funds post positive returns in January
02/02 /12
OPM hopes to solve retirement claims backlog with more staff
The government’s human resources chief acknowledged
Wednesday his agency does not yet have an information technology plan to
successfully tackle the major backlog of federal retirement claims. Senators
take OPM to task over long wait for pensions
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Portland mail carrier returns to duty after relieving himself in yard
Some
neighbors in Southeast Portland are upset that a postal carrier caught relieving
himself in a backyard was returning to his old route.
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USPS Love
Ribbons Forever Stamps Goes on Sale Before Feb 14th
Fans huddle
up at USPS’s Championship Station In Superbowl Village
Postal carrier reports attack by drunk
Latest postal reform bill would lose money
Texas Letter Carrier Sentenced To 18 Months in Prison for workers comp fraud
CA Postal Clerk Sentenced To 18 Months In Prison For Embezzlement,
Passing Counterfeit Bills
Postal Worker Charged After Allegedly Dumping Mail in Dumpster
Postal Service cutting hours at Jekyll Island and Sea Island post offices
Posts Maintenance Manuals
02/01 /12
CRS: USPS
Financial Condition: Overview and Issues for Congress
A number
of ideas have been advanced that would attempt to improve the USPS’s financial
condition in the short term so that it might continue as a self-funding
government agency. All of these reforms would require Congress to amend current
postal law. The ideas include (2) reducing the USPS’s expenses by a number of
means, such as recalculating the USPS’s retiree health care and pension
obligations and payments, closing postal facilities, and reducing mail delivery
to less than six days per week. |
APWU: Movement on
Maintenance Craft Jobs Memo
Under the terms of the Q-and-A document, the Postal
Service must return custodial duties to stations, branches and other facilities
of an independent installation no later than May 23, 2012.
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Mail Handlers Contract Update: Impasse Declared, Dispute Resolution Procedures
Forthcoming - The Postal Service
also has been working in Congress to undermine the bargaining process, seeking
legislative changes in the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program, as well as
changes in the binding arbitration provisions that ultimately control collective
bargaining.
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Video:
Senator Sanders: Modernize the Postal Service
USPS: ‘Black Women in American Culture and History’
Postal Inspection Service renews violence-prevention efforts
USPS finding success pursuing sales leads
at trade shows
Is private postal center ripping off
customers?
Cape Cottage postmaster looks back on 66
years on the job
USPS finding success pursuing sales leads
at trade shows
US
regulators refuse to speed up review of USPS network cutbacks
You're not going to love this: the USPS
screws up Valentine's Day
Oscar Ballots Are in the Mail -- For the
Last Time?
USPS Tries To Scare Boomers Away From Online Banking
Post Office Opens Inside Nutrition Warehouse
Maine postal worker gets 3 months for stealing veterans’ pain medicine
New York Rural Carrier Arrested over
Alleged theft of mail
Plan to sell La Jolla post office upsets locals
Paperless Post Offers E-Valentines for Stationery Lovers
01/31 /12
Niles post
office launches pilot test for new process of delivering mail
Niles Star (Michigan) The Niles Post Office is one of several post
offices across the nation participating in a pilot test for a new process of
delivering mail. Sabrina Todd, of postal service public relations, said the test
would last six months and begin sometime in February. For the pilot test, mail
carriers will no longer case the mail. Instead, another person will take the
mail and put it in the order of the route in which it will be delivered. The
carrier would only have to pick up the mail, which had already been cased, and
deliver it. |
The synergy of losses: How much will downsizing really save?
Save
the Post Office - Imagine it’s Wednesday and you want to mail
something, and you’re used to seeing that mail delivered the
next day. But things have changed. You can’t get to
the post office until Thursday because yours has closed and the
nearest one is too far away to make the trip today. The
next-day mail now takes two days because 250 mail processing
plants have closed, so your mail won’t be delivered until
Saturday. But now there’s no delivery on Saturday, so your
mail won’t be delivered until Monday (if it’s a holiday, make
that Tuesday). |
USPS to propose repeat mobile barcode
promo
Congressman Carter Calls for Post Office Closings Review
01/30 /12
Senator Sanders said he hopes
postal reform legislation will
protect 100,000 jobs in jeopardy
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Sanders
said he hopes legislation slated to come
before the Senate next week will protect
100,000 jobs that are in jeopardy under
a plan to close facilities around the
country, including 15 post offices and
two mail sorting centers in Vermont.
Sanders also wants Congress to preserve
overnight delivery of first-class mail
and maintain Saturday mail service, both
of which could fall under the budget ax
as a result of drastic cost-cutting
measures the Postal Service is
considering.
NAPS: Senate May
Consider Postal Reform Bill Feb. 6
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reform legislation is likely to be
considered on the Senate floor very
soon, possibly as early as February 6.
NAPS is concerned that the bill approved
by the Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs Committee (S. 1789)
is defective in critical ways. |
IRS decision costs
the Postal Service millions
Seldom does one federal agency save
money at another’s expense. But
that’s how it’s looking more than a year
after the Internal Revenue Service opted
to stop delivering millions of income
tax forms by mail.
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CBO Report on S.1789 Could Kill Postal Reform in the Senate
.. without
a path to fix S. 1789, its prospects and
for that matter the prospects of any
postal reform passing the Senate look
increasingly dim. It may be time for
Postal Service employees and postal
customers to begin developing
contingency plans for a shutdown in
September.
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NPMHU
Responds to USPS City Letter Carrier Position Job Posting
The
Postal Service recently solicited all Mail Handlers with a message to consider
transferring to a city letter carrier position. The message outlined how you
could transfer to carrier and enumerated the advantages.
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Six Years Ago - The Goleta Post Office
Massacre
USPS Cuts 50 Full-Time NCED OU Employees
Grove postmaster arrested on rape,
strangulation charges
Postmaster in "shock" over unexpected post
office closure
UK: Private-sector TNT to go head-to-head
with Royal Mail
Kuwait Postmaster Convicted of Stealing
$565,000 in Money Orders
Delivery dilemma
End is near for North Palm Springs post office
Saying goodbye
to downtown California post office
A Surprise Leader in the Print-Media Bankruptcy Sweepstakes
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