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April 29, 2009
- USPS Says "AS SWINE FLU INVESTIGATION CONTINUES - PERSONAL HYGIENE IS KEY TO REDUCING RISK OF ILLNESS -
- Chicago will have last 24-hour post office in U.S
- Steven Peak, a former mail carrier in Florida, told deputies during his arrest, “I’ve never done something so stupid before. I just needed $50. I have a good job -

April 28, 2009
- Mail Carrier Indicted On Mail Theft Charges -

- NALC Rap Session draws 1,600 union leaders -
- Letter: If the USPS wants to cut cost, I think they should start with his salary - This writer is talking about Don Marshall, district manager of the USPS Northern Ohio District. -

April 27, 2009
- The OIG Wants to Know How You Feel about Sick Leave -

April 26, 2009
- George Mason University Professor A. Lee Fritschler on Liberating the Postal Service -
- Postal worker arrested after driving, crashing mail truck without a license -
- Chinese postal worker sentenced to death for $265m embezzlement -
- Tulsa leaders fight for post office

April 25, 2009
- Subcommittee will be briefed by the United States Office of Personnel Management -
- Federal Court Orders Postal Service To Reconsider Mailing of Illegal Animal Fighting Magazines -
- As volume of mail decreases, USPS drops collection boxes -
- Postal service truck hits sheriff’s deputy -
- Roving dogs stop door-to-door mail delivery in Bellingham neighborhood -

April 24, 2009
- Murray Comarow, former executive Director of the President’s Commission on Postal Organization, responds to the article Going Postal - The Imminent Death of the U.S. Postal Service?
- Woman Indicted in Post Office Threats -
- NAPUS HOTLINE for April 24, 2009
- Rep. Putnam Calls for GAO Audit On Closing Polk Mail Center
- GameFly Files PRC Complaint Against USPS - Also see Gamefly Accuses Postal Service of “Discrimination” -
- Congress Is Back In Session. Get The Latest Information On H.R. 22.
- Post office's blue boxes not safe at night
- A mid fiscal year assessment - PRC Chairman Dan Blair
- Message to Postal Service: Keep Soho’s branch open

April 23, 2009
- USPS ‘Clarifies’ Some Early-Retirement Deadlines
- APWU: Our Battles Over ‘Tour Compression’ Initiatives
- Postal service offers reward in Detroit letter carrier robbery -
- APWU: Twenty-Two More U.S. Reps Sign Up as Sponsors of H.R. 22
- More Bad Numbers Ahead for USPS? -
- Chrysler May Get Stimulus Funds to Furnish USPS With Electric Vans? -
- Postal Employee Indicted in Fraudulent Tax Refund Scheme
- This type of PI - U.S. Postal Inspectors - delivers the goods -
- Pitney Bowes Launches Click & Mail
- USPS Board of Governors to Meet May
- USPS Unveils Further Details on 'Summer Sale'
- U.S. Postal Service Celebrates Earth Day
- Snail Mail?

April 22, 2009
- GAO Finds OPM’s Modernization Plans Fall Short -
- New Chrysler-USPS Minivan -
- Postal Service moves could cost 150 jobs in county
- Authorities say Muncie trio makes mail theft a family affair
- New Brunswick postal worker accused of using stolen credit card info to steal $7,500
- Postal worker charged with stealing book, $25 -
- Energy Worker, Mail Carrier Robbed

April 21, 2009
- APWU: To Save the Postal Service, Congress Must Approve Legislation -
- Dispute Initiated Over USPS Failure to Furnish Notice of Changes to PS Form 1723 - Read Dispute
- APWU-Led Consolidation Protests Gather Steam, Gain Public Support
- Rep. Rahall seeks to keep 6-day mail service
- Texas contract postal worker accused of theft
- USPS TO REDUCE FLEET BY 10,000 VEHICLES -
- USPS Request for Quote – Identification for Postal Access and Security Standardization (iPass) Card Initiative
- U.S. Postal Service Turns Over a Green Leaf
- Post Office Robbers Caught
- Workers Memorial Day

April 20, 2009
- Authorities searching for Jacksonville post office gunman -
- Intelligent Mail Is Breaking New Ground in Both Technology and Revenue Goals (PDF)
- Going Postal - The Imminent Death of the U.S. Postal Service? -
- Letter: Stamp prices
  PEN says...you tell'em Paul. You too Shelia: The postal service needs to be saved -

April 19, 2009
- Wheeling Postal Employee Named in Federal Indictment -
- Postal service shouldn't need to make money
- Putting It Off - retirement that is -

April 18, 2009
- USPS Sacks Associate Supervisor Program (ASP) - 

April 17, 2009
- Police: Postal worker threw away mail because it was printed on inferior paper -

April 16, 2009
- First-Class Inefficiency -
- POSTAL EMPLOYEE AND CONSPIRATOR INDICTED IN SCHEME TO STEAL STAMPS WORTH OVER $682,000  -
- APWU: ‘Summer Sale’ Will Discount Our Future -
- NY Postal Union Protests Cutbacks and Closings - Also see Postal officials confirm they'll cut 26 jobs on Staten Island
- James A. Farley Post Office to close 24-hour window
- Residents rally to keep post office open
- Mailers Like Postal Discount Idea, Balk at Timing

April 15, 2009
- NALC: Voluntary Early Retirement Update -
- The Sacramento Bee wants to know...How would losing day of postal service hurt you? -
- Despite rally, Postal Service planning to move some processing off Staten Island
- New service will make use of empty miles on USPS trucks -
- Summer Postal Rate Rollback May Make Big Mailers Big Winners
- Fewer post offices will tax themselves for late filers
- The future Zanesville, OH mail

April 14, 2009
- Video: Effort to stop junk mail meets resistance
- More On USPS Bank: Post office could one day double as bank -
- Man convicted in postal robbery
- Postal Service users face bulk mail delays
- More On Killer Turkeys
- E-filing of taxes takes strain off postal service

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April 13, 2009
- Ask President Burrus: Did the Postal Service really give our payroll records to the newspapers? This has many people upset. -
- Stamped Over (USPS) Relocation Program -
- Digital services may foreshadow snail mail’s death
- We in the Postal Service don't use the "J" word -
- Post Offices Won’t Stay Open Until Midnight On Tax Day
- See The Image Too Hot For The Postal Service
- Post Office branch returns to Lakeview in New Orleans
- US Postal Service Changes Insurance Claims-Processing

April 12, 2009
- NALC President: The times are a-changin’ and it’s time for us to act -
- Pinehurst post office hours cause emotional mail storm
- Class action against Canada Post to go ahead - Promise of free Internet for life -

April 11, 2009
- Your next bank: The Postal Service? -
- Former RCA Imprisoned For Identity Theft - Mail Theft
- USPS Playing "Let's Make A Deal"

April 10, 2009
- It's Official - Reservists Pay Safety Net
- FOWL PLAY?: Carriers dealing with aggressive turkeys
- Workers protest move to process Saturday mail in Pontiac
- Mail Shenanigans in District 4
- Check Out Your Postal Blog

April 09, 2009
- USPS: District Organizations Changes - Closing of Competitive Areas - Mail Processing Facilities Reduction Timeline - RIF Avoidance and RIF Process (PDF) -
- REDUCTION IN FORCE QUESTIONS & ANSWERS -
- The Simpsons Stamps - ‘CHECK IT OUT, MAN’ -
- NALC and USPS agree to Modified Interim Alternate Route Adjustment Process - Click Here to Read MOU - Federal Times - New - see Postal Service to slash carrier routes - NALC Bulletin -
- On Proposed 5-Day Postal Delivery - No: Don't deny delivery - Also see Five-day postal delivery should be the last resort -

April 08, 2009
- Postcom President Responds to LA Times Junk Mail Article - Also see LA Times response - Can't deliver a good defense for junk mail - 
- Moving people: Matching resources to workload -
- Organizational changes and VERA timelines updated -
- Pay-for-performance faces new scrutiny -
- USPS Refuses to Mail Anchor Bay’s ‘Look’ Postcards
- Postal Service looks to consolidate city carrier routes -

April 07, 2009
- APWU Asks Members to Contact Congress
- Latest postal casualty: wilderness airmail -
- U.K. mail carriers could face fines for littering -
- Postal union leaders propose solutions to save service, jobs

April 06, 2009
- SF leads California Do Not Mail push -
- 30 Virginia postal workers picket to save Winchester jobs -
- NAPUS: Postal Relief Bill Support Hits 252 -
- Small post offices: A dying breed?
- Going Part-Time - Federal News Radio

April 05, 2009
- Delivering the Mail Moment -
- Flats Sequencing Hits Some Bumps -
- MSPB Affirms Removal of Mail Handler for Unacceptable Attendance -

April 04, 2009
- The folks at DO NOT MAIL say...
that USPS is saying "Our complete failure of a business plan must be protected at all costs." What do you think? Also this site says "Digital age, economic woes: can the post office survive?"  -

- LEAGUE President Update to Recent Postal Hearing on Hill, Retirements, NPA - National League of Postmasters -
- Postal disservice -
- Dog Causes Postal Delivery Disruptions In Springfield Neighborhood
- Tulsa postal closure defies customer survey results
- Postal Service to trim 30 jobs across region - Providence, RI

April 03, 2009
- USPS Agrees to Slow Down District Consolidations and More - Also see USPS Revised Timeline, 04/02/09 -

- NALC-Backed Legislation to Improve FERS, TSP Benefits Passed by House - PEN Ed Note: Ever noticed how the NALC is always a day or two late in posting news or updates? Why is that NALC? | See update here -

- APWU: Reinstatement of Grievances Withdrawn Pursuant to 2006 MOU

- Postal financial reform and beyond -

- U.S. Postal Service to leverage excess truck capacity, sell available space - Also see this article

- White Powder Sparks Anthrax Scare
- Congress must let Postal Service change
- Woman charged with punching out postal worker -
- F.Y.I. - APWU: Excessing and Article 12 - Also see: When Excessing Occurs... Know Your Rights and Benefits
- Postcard Mailed In 1950s Finally Arrives

April 02, 2009
- APWU: House Confirms Support for FERS Sick-Leave Credit See update here -

- Postal Service to eliminate 1,490 jobs in 3 states. -
- USPS Closing Charleston Remote Encoding Center -
- USPS Award Winning Postmaster Indicted -
- Delivered -
  Ken Hale: Long Island District Mgr.

- Postal commentator says USPS should handle and price business reply mail as a bulk rate service - Also read this commentators article "IT'S TIME TO PUT ON THE THINKING CAPS" -

April 01, 2009
- House Approves Bill To Give Sick-Leave Credit to FERS Retirees -
- San Francisco Passes First 'Do Not Mail' Resolution in Nation -

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