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January 31, 2008
- APWU $48 Million Settlement In MS-47 Handbook Grievance -
- Mailings to Scientology sites probed
- Second anniversary of Goleta postal shooting

January 30, 2008
- Postal Service revenue dips with economy’s downturn
- Chicago mail service improving, but overnight service still among worst in U.S.
- Trying to save their post office
Male postal customer attacks female postal customer
- Don't Go Postal Over This . . .
- Ask President Burrus: .”... (USPS) management claims that labor expenses are the “key drivers of costs.” How much of the costs are for management?" -
- Deal reached on bill to compensate feds for unused sick leave
- Postal Service IG, union president at odds over privacy
- Bomb Intended for Bully Injure Letter Carrier
- USPS Board of Governors elects new members
- Letter carrier rescues man and dog from pit bull attack
- Tallahassee post office responds to downtown mail complaints
- Changes in Domestic Mail Classifications
- Premium Forwarding Service Here to Stay
- FYI: Executive Order: Protecting American Taxpayers From Government Spending on Wasteful Earmarks

January 29, 2008
- Two gunmen hold up postman, steal wallet
- APWU: USPS Management ‘Wallet Card’ on Weingarten Rights Sows Confusion -
- OWCP Claims Processing 101
- The Rotten, Deplorable, Stinkin' US Post Office vs UPS -
- Mail Handlers: POTENTIAL CHANGES AT BULK MAIL CENTERS
- Postal worker finds powder in Grand Chute Substance not hazardous, but carrier falls ill
- Mail Carrier Indicted on Federal Charges
- Express Mail to launch Sunday/Holiday Premium
- PTC kids arrested for bomb that exploded in mailbox
- DMNews: How can the USPS better serve mailers?
- How to stop unwanted magazine subscriptions in the mail

January 28, 2008
- Bush Administration Intends to Change FMLA Regulations -
- APWU: Union, USPS Sign Agreement For Offices Without a Local Union Structure - Read MOU: Local Memorandum of Understanding for Offices Without a Local Union Structure -
- After 30 years, local postal carrier trades foot route for one on French Island -
- Public praises Postal Service, slams FEMA
- Post office addresses environment

January 27, 2008
- (Disappearing) Postal Service As Campaign Issue? -
- Woman Held Captive Pleads for Mailman to Call Police - He did
- Postmaster says Hayden Lake road too dangerous for route drivers; residents disagree
- 'Do Not Deliver' List Would Bar Papers
- 2008 Olympic Games Stamp
- Rapid growth prompts move of postal offices

January 26, 2008
- Cops: Mailman is pot dealer
Also see Jersey City mailmen busted in drug raid
- Cops: USPS clerk stole cards from mail
- Quitting postal service is not an option -
-
USPS custodian cleans up with big lottery win
- Part time postal employee charged in fatal shootings

January 25, 2008
- Post office will (finally) deliver overtime data
PEN Editor: For previous articles relating to this story please follow the links below: -
Blog Post One  | Blog Post Two
- Former Fairplay, CO postal worker faces charges
- Man finds mail dump in an abandoned house -
- Postal worker who took money out of mail is sentenced
- Mailman charged with assaulting cop, hassling cop's wife
- CRIME SHORTS: Mail carrier helps capture suspected thief
- USPS Track & Confirm tool allows man to track his package to nowhere -
- Reward Offered For Postal Truck Robber Clues
- Postal driver robbed

- Postal Service offers $10000 reward for robbery suspect
- USPS Mail Carrier Offers Tips on Keeping Warm

January 24, 2008
- RCA shoots girlfriend, 2 others in western Pa. apartment -
- Cops: USPS clerk stole cards from mail -
- Found on GovExec.com -
- COURTS: Postal supervisor who allegedly falsified records set for trial March 5 -
- Indictment Says: Postmaster Misappropriated $52,678 For His Own Use -
- Former postal employee and husband of day care provider sentenced for abuse -

- Opinion: USPS contributed to burglary try
- Zip codes do a number on new city
- Dallas post office to cut back hours at 24-hour location
- A Smashing Delivery By Vandals In N. Charleston
- Petersburg school system paychecks found at post office
- No list but lots of love in letter to Santa

January 23, 2008
- Big pay increases approved for top Postal Service officers -
- USPS LAPTOP SAFETY ALERT
- USPS to Print Commemorative Stamp Even With Error

January 22, 2008
- APWU Now a Presence At Mailers’ Advisory Panel Meetings
- Spectacular post office robbery shuts down Swedish city
- Postal Service makes play to stay in the game
- Health Safety Nets for Federal and Postal Employees
  Mike Causey - Federal News Radio
- Drowned mail is slowly swimming to the surface
- Breast Cancer Research postal stamp now offered through 2011
- COMMENTARY: Thank You, DMA, for a No Junk Mail List
- Why Canada Post fears this cat

January 21, 2008
- Postal workers face the elements to get the job done -

January 20, 2008
- USPS security manager/employee convicted of stealing -
- Mail Carriers Played Video Poker In Mini-Mart Back Room -
- PO'ed by life without a post office

- MAIL: Road received service for eight years
- Government Looking for More Older Workers

January 19, 2008
- USPS VP says "Limiting advertising mail would cost jobs"
- USPS Will Request Proposals to Outsource Some BMC Activities - APWU -
- USPS LOSES LAPTOP WITH CYNCAR v. POTTER CLASS ACTION INFORMATION -
- Ex-postal worker returning from Florida to face charges
- Study Finds Postal Service Gets No Edge
- NLRB Issues Complaint Against DHL in PA

January 18, 2008
- NALC Files Suit Against OIG To Stop Invasion of Privacy In Obtaining Medical Files - APWU Joins In - See APWU article -
- OIG Blasts NALC Pres. Young for "Untrue" Statements
The OIG says that statements made by NALC president Bill Young in his Good Cop/Bad Cop - right here in the USPS article are mostly "untrue and based on faulty assumptions and incorrect interpretation of facts." -
- Mailman accused of sexually assaulting woman on his route
UPDATE: Belleville postal worker charged with molesting woman is released  -
- Postal workers sentenced for thefts
- Postal rig hits FDNY truck in Queens
- Six post offices facing closure
- USPS Adds Surcharge for Sunday or Holiday Delivery -
- Post Office to Add Larger Flat-Rate Box
- Webcast Alert: United States Postal Service's James Cochrane Discusses - the New Law and How it Affects the Shipping Industry

January 17, 2008
- FTC report rates USPS inefficient in competitive products
  Also see: FTC: Regulations Hamper Postal Service; Some Loosening Needed  -
- Postal workers plead for canine change
-
Mail recovered from plane crash won't be delivered
- Rash Of Mail Thefts Hit Bakersfield
- AT&T unit wins $20M US Postal Service contract

January 16, 2008
- Postal clerk charged with diverting mail
- Semi loses load of letters
- Fired letter carrier stashed mail in car, authorities charge -
- USPS adopts new standards for undeliverable-as-addressed mail from abroad
- Mysterious postcard arrives a little late
- San Jose Post Office Second Most Profitable In Country
- Wall Street Hates Your TSP - Mike Causey, Fed. News Radio
- Postage Stamp Has Small Error in Formula

January 15, 2008
- Twenty Years of Service Didn't Save Carrier's Job
- NALC: Q&A on transitional letter carriers
- TrackingTheWorld Designs G.P.S Letter Logger for U.S.P.S.
- Postal worker paralyzed after shooting - Oakland, CA
- Mail Plane Crashes in Hawaiian Seas
- Stillwater, NJ post offices could be consolidated
- US Postal Service May Shelve Plan To Stop Home Delivery On Guam
- Mail, ID Thieves Have Del. Residents Going Postal
- Support creation of 'do not mail' list - Op-Ed: burlingtonfreepress.com

January 14, 2008
- Opinion: Postal workers have become lazy . -

- Found On The Net
Douglas Caddell, CIO, Foley & Lardner LLP says: Decision I wish I could do over: " I was a letter carrier for the post office after I got out of the Navy. Being a substitute carrier working other people's routes during their days off, as the "new guy," was the most stressful job I ever had." -

- Netflix expands Internet viewing option
- TSP Considers Restrictions on Inter-fund Transfers
- Drug-related mail theft on rise in Ore. county

January 13, 2008
- Malcolm Harris is largely responsible for the cost of your postage stamps
- How much to mail it? -
- Going postal, at least online, in the fight against junk mail
- Postal Workers Still Waiting for Portion of Missing Paychecks

- Postal Service reorganization must consider the poor

More Postal News
January 12, 2008
- 490 Priority Mail Packages Destroyed in Vehicle Crash
- Neither Rain, Nor Sleet, Nor Dark Of Night...
- PRC Commissioner Ruth Goldway Establishes Women in Logistics and Delivery Services Council - SheDelivers.org.
Ruth Goldway, PRC commissioner appointed by President Bush in 2002, is the founder of Women in Logistics & Delivery Services (WILDS) and SheDelivers.org. -

- Former postal employee faces $46K restitution
- NAPUS Testifies Against Do Not Mail Registry - NAPUS Newsletter

January 11, 2008
- 2007 USPS Annual Report -
- Former postal employee pleads guilty to mail obstruction -
- Dog Attacks Mail Carrier
- Make it easy to end flood of junk mail - Time to create a 'Do Not Mail' registry
- Indiana stamped with wrong image
- Fake bomb aids in theft at post office

January 10, 2008
- Burrus Asks Locals, States To Seek Support for Subcontracting Legislation
- Letter Carrier Arrested For Stealing Mail
- Church Hill mail carrier accused of theft

- Postal service database not up to speed on Downtown Fort Worth Station -
- Reward Offered For Fake Mail Carrier Robbery Suspect

January 09, 2008
- USPS plans to save $1B with automation, cost cutting -
- "Vicious" six-pound dog scares the crap out of mailman -
- $25,000 Worth Of Jewelry Missing - Business Owner Suspicious Of United States Postal Service
- Mailbox takes rightful place at new Hilltop post office
- Pitney Bowes Launches Website Focused on Intelligent Mail Barcode Implementation
- Direct Marketing Association (DMA) Unveils Free Online Service
- Britain issues James Bond stamps to mark centenary of creator Ian

January 08, 2008
- Brandon post office accused of ageism -

January 07, 2008
- APWU: They Love to Hate Us
- Do Not Mail Legislation and the Economy
- TSP to Frequent Traders: "Go Play Somewhere Else"
- Lack of postal service a dilemma for some Horizon residents
- SJ Postal Carrier Honored For 50 Years Of Service
- Post-office push gets organized
- Postal Impersonator Arrested At Whitney Estate -
- Implementation of Intelligent Mail Barcodes
- Almost Perfect Delivery
- Light Bulb Shipments Pose Problems for Post Office

January 06, 2008
- Charity fears missing mail means lost donations
- Found On The Net:
Americans should be bothered with useless, unsolicited junk mail so that the USPS can continue to pay otherwise unneeded postal workers to deliver it. Makes sense to me. -
Also see: Don't get tagged as junk mailer

Also see:  Who we're up against: Steve, my mail carrier. -
- Postal Service Balks at Address Changes
- Carolina Shores fights for full post office
- Westrum family has 103 years of postal work
- Lebanon residents want damaged post office restored
- Thieves steal mail from residents

January 05, 2008
- FedEx drivers use IRS review as leverage
- Roanoke postal workers to split lottery winnings
- Mail carrier retires after 57-plus years

January 04, 2008
- IT crucial to USPS’ updated business strategy -
- More on Netflix Plan for TV Movies - Also Here
- APWU: Primaries Offer a Ray of Hope
- Former postal worker cited for mail theft
- Retirees COLAs Reflected In January Checks
- Man says he learned carriers' route and then stole mail

January 03, 2008
- Former postal employee sentenced for defrauding federal workers’ comp -
- Fire damages mail; postal workers endeavor to deliver what was saved
- Netflix Partners With LG to Bring Movies Straight to TV -
- PRC seeks comment on USPS annual compliance report
- Postal Service seeks public's aid

January 02, 2008
-
Advo Gone?
- Letter carrier's book of short stories brings Minneapolis neighborhood to life

January 01, 2008
- Postal Farmouts A Safety Risk, U.S. Rep Says -
- Former APWU President Pled Guilty to Theft of Mail
- No fury like a city shorned -
- Route Count Dates for 2008 and 2009
- PMR and OIC Hourly Rates Effective Jan. 05, 2008 -
- Homeowners discover their mailbox charred
- Gibraltar markets secure mailbox
- Junk Mail Box: Stopping Paper Waste
- USPS FY 2007 ANNUAL COMPLIANCE REPORT

December 31, 2007
- For the Postal Service, 'twas a shining moment
- Nothing prevents local post office from ensuring that residents get those special Christmas packages - postal supervisor works off the clock -
- Ghostwriting for Santa Claus

December 30, 2007
- Neither Rain Nor Snow. But Impatient New Yorkers?
- This 'Opinion' Is Not Worth Publishing, but...
A postal employee in this city wrote a Letter to the Editor of their local newspaper - please click link to read. We do not believe, not for one minute, that the vast majority of letter carriers would say the things this person states was said. This person wants to the paper, and its' readers, to believe his statement... "So, why do the mail carriers accept cash and gift cards when they know they are not allowed? Well, at the post offices where I have worked, they all state they deserve the cash and expect cash gifts. They then give special treatment to customers who tip graciously." We do not and encourage you to submit an e-mail to this papers editor disagreeing with this persons letter.

- Post office loss is another blow to Port Huron

December 29, 2007
- NALC: Some Strains - Some Progress -
- DMA digs in for no-mail fight
- Bullet holes being investigated at Murdock’s postal building
- Postman pulls a slow one on Santa’s helpers

December 28, 2007
- UPDATE: Pair admits killing Washington (postal employee) family: -
- Former postal worker pleads guilty to embezzling pills
- Mail from Congress isn't cheap
- Mailman robbed on city’s East Side
- The Future of Delivering Movies
   Also see: Wal-Mart cancels movie download service
- Festive envelope held offensive message
- Unionists brainstorm on international organizing

December 27, 2007
- Postal employee and family murdered
- Court Refuses to Overturn Demotion of Carrier Supervisor -
- APWU: House ‘Mail Network Protection Act’ Gains Seven Co-Sponsors Prior to Holiday Break
- Settlement Agreement Spawns New Round of Appeals
- Holiday rush, understaffing mean long lines, safety woes at post office -
- Lafayette P.O. shut over 'risk'
- Addressing a problem: Postal patrons laud performance in Conyngham office
- Thieves Steal Holiday Mail From Gated Community

December 26, 2007
- Manistee steams over orders to move mailboxes -
- Postal workers who volunteer for Christmas day duty say they get a special joy out of it - Also see: Postal Worker Enjoys 'Best Day' For Delivery | 'Just doing my job' on Christmas morning  -
- Postal Management Says "Do As I Say, Not As I Do" -
- Opinions regarding the pros and cons of federal-postal unions making political endorsements
- Providing a lifeline to the outside world

December 25, 2007
- Reward offered in kidnapping of postal worker
- $10,000 reward offered for tips in mailbag thefts -
- Neighbors Find Out First-Hand About Mail Thieves
- A busy Christmas Eve keeps those Postal Service Santas and elves hopping
- Carriers share Santa's late hours

December 24, 2007
- Surveillance Photos Of Postal Robbery Suspect Released -
- Postal workers out of network with local coverage
- Retailers Want Their Catalogs in Your Mailbox Whether You Do or Not
- E-Greetings Gain Ground at Businesses This Season

December 23, 2007
- Unions Biggest Problem is Outsourcing -
- Postal workers wrap up busiest week of the year
- Letter carrier finds choice of career delivers every day
- Letter carrier released from hospital after pit bull attack
- People travel from afar for Bethlehem postmark
- Teamsters Applaud IRS Ruling Against FedEx Ground – Company Fined $319 Million In What Hoffa Calls An Illegal Scam 

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