POSTAL NEWS FROM PEN
July 2010
July 31, 2010
How the
U.S. Postal Service can really save itself
Washington Post -
OIG Audit
Report – Flats Sequencing System: Program Status
and Projected Cash Flow -
USPS Said
No To White House on 5-Day Test
Dead Tree Edition -
The Strike
That Couldn't Happen - Part One of Two
- Also see
The Strike
That Couldn't Happen - Part 2 of 2
- APWU Communications at YouTube -
Panels
vote to maintain six-day postal delivery
schedule
GovExec.com -
Postal
clerk gets year in prison - admits embezzling
more than $240,000 -
July 30, 2010
IS USPS A
BUSINESS? -
U.S.
Lawmakers Push to Block Postal Service Plan to
Cut Saturday Delivery -
Bloomberg -
APWU: Two
Congressional Panels Support Six-Day Service
-
Congressman Chaffetz Introduces Bill Designating
12 Postal Holidays -
Price
increase can’t be only solution to shortfalls
E. Williams: USPS BOG Member -
Postal
Service cannot survive as currently operating
Thomasson - To put it (USPS) on solid financial
ground would take a willingness of the federal
government to assume far more expense than is
now the case to preserve an institution older
than the country and to make drastic changes,
including downsizing the work force dramatically
and cutting deliveries even further than five
days. -
Pay &
Pension Checks: Going Down?
In order to avoid taking what amounts to a
take-home pay cut next year, feds, postal
workers and retirees are going to have to do
some serious health insurance shopping starting
in November. [PEN Ed: guess why this is
happening?] -
Don't put
all the blame on postal service workers
-
House
Ethics Subcommittee Unveils 13 Charges Against
Congressman Rangel including
conduct in violation of Postal Service laws and
Franking Commission regulations -
Cremated
Remains of Phoenix Woman -- Lost by U.S. Postal
Service -- Recovered -
DMA
Statement on Postal Service Rate Hike Request
-
July 29, 2010
OSHA Fines
USPS $420,000 For Violations at Vermont Facility
-
APWU:
Competing Interests, Diverging Views
-
APWU:
Arbitrator Issues Decision in Dispute Over
Two-Tour Initiative -
The Nat.
League of Postmasters informs
us - "We are in receipt of a July 28, 2010,
letter from Postal HQ stating effective
immediately, all hiring, promotions and
placement of non-bargaining employees at
Headquarters, Areas and Districts are suspended
until further notice. Selections received by
COB 07/30/2010, will be processed by HR Shared
Services but the postings have been placed on
hold. We are communicating with Headquarters
for more information, updates will be provided
as they become available."
Click To
Read Letter -
Some
senators expected to block Postal Service's
proposal to limit mail delivery
- Washington Post -
Unusual
bunch of foes to postal rate increase unites as
Affordable Mail Alliance -
Washington Post -
To increase revenue: USPS renews
focus on employee engagement programs -
A retired
postal employee faces five years in prison,
a fine of $250,000 or both - A federal jury
convicted Dennis M. Capriotti, 54, of Pittsford,
of six counts of making false statements to the
U.S. Department of Labor -
Access To
Your USPS Official Personnel Folder
-
TX mail
carrier attacked on duty -
You and
Your Cadillac Health Plan -
OIG Blog:
Cast Your Vote via the Postal Service?
-
July 28, 2010
Sen. Jon
Tester says the lawmakers who
oversee the budget of the post office will block
a proposal to reduce mail deliveries to five
days a week. -
The
company you keep
Rag Content -
Mail
carrier mauled by two pit bulls in Minneapolis
-
Rural
carrier killed by freight train
-
Louisiana
postal employee shot -
Arbitration Decision: USPS Failed to Give Full
Consideration To Employee’s Request For
Voluntary Transfer -
July 27, 2010
APWU:
Locals Rally to Save Saturday Service
-
Postal
Employment in the Federal Government
Courier, Express, and Postal Observer -
Ex-postmaster charged with embezzlement
-
The
Biggest Threat to Direct Mail: The U.S. Postal
Service -
For
Intelligent Mail, Occasional Failure Is An
Option
Dead Tree Edition -
Former
postal employee well armed
An Auburndale man (former postal
employee) accused of randomly shooting motorists
along U.S. 92 had an additional 95 rounds of
ammunition and a large knife in the backseat of
his car, Polk County Sheriff's Office
investigative reports show. -
Letter:
Don’t tar all the postal employees
-
Group asks
Carper to help prevent postal rate hike
-
SENATOR
COLLINS AGREES WITH ARGUMENTS IN MOTION TO BLOCK
PROPOSED POSTAL RATE HIKES
Senator Collins states "As the author of the
2006 postal reform law, I completely agree with
the
Affordable Mail
Alliance that the Postal
Service's proposed exigent rate increases are
not justified under law. "Let me be clear. The
authority to increase rates under an exigent
case can only be used in extreme and unforeseen
instances - such as terrorist attacks, natural
disasters, and other events that would cause
significant and substantial disruptions in
service. The law was not meant to be used to
remedy poor economic performance or to offset an
ongoing marketplace trend, such as the increased
use of electronic over traditional mail." -
Also see:
Mailer
group wants postage rate request dismissed
- Washington Post |
DMA Files
Motion to Dismiss USPS Postal Rate Hike Request
-
Postal
worker convicted of assault was accused before
-
Post
Office Admits Error in Sending Out Personal
Information -
OIG Blog:
Cast Your Vote via the Postal Service?
-
July 26, 2010
Supervisor
stabbed multiple times at Atlanta postal
facility - A postal worker
was arrested late Sunday night after allegedly
attacking and stabbing a supervisor at a mail
processing facility in northwest Atlanta.-
Putting
the Subcommittee Vote in Context
Courier, Express, and Postal Observer -
APWU union
member to Burrus "I would
like the National Executive Board to reconsider
its stance on participation in Voice of Employee
surveys." -
US Postal
Inspector In Maine Batting 1,000
-
Postal
Service can save itself, learn from Kodak, GM
-
Post
Office Suddenly Shut Down -
DO CONGRESS AND THE POSTAL
REGULATORY COMMISSION AGREE ON THE USPS'S ABILITY TO REQUEST AN "EXIGENT"
RATE INCREASE? - by Experian Postal Products and
Affairs Vice President Steven Lopez -
July 25, 2010
NAPUS:
Postal Subcommittee Overwhelmingly Approves
Postal Retirement Equity Bill -
Tupelo
voices: USPS decision 'stupid', 'wasteful'
-
Plan to
scrap Saturday mail delivery could hurt rural
Americans most -
Heroic
actions by postal carrier leads to two arrests
-
July 24, 2010
Congressional Mandates Account for Most of
Postal Service’s Recent Losses
-
Economic Policy Institute
- by Frank Clemente and Tom Kiley - Loss of
Saturday delivery puts 80,000 jobs at risk. This
proposal could also harm businesses and
consumers and accelerate customers’ migration
away from physical mail delivery, harming the
Postal Service’s financial condition. -
OIG:
Revenue and Volume Increases Reported by USPS
for Summer Sale May be Misleading
-
The
Complicated Economics of a Postal Increase
Wall Street Journal -
Former
Rutland, VT postal clerk charged with mail theft
-
Feds
Question Supremacist For Threatening IL Carrier
-
Letter
Carrier Pleads Guilty to Stealing Public Money
-
Former
Franklin letter carrier given probation for
drugs on Postal truck -
Black
Postal Worker for the Tea Party
-
July 23, 2010
How the
U.S. Postal Service can save itself
Washington Post - The debate over potential
changes at the U.S. Postal Service is like a
fight over the dessert bar on the Titanic.
Raising first-class postage rates and
eliminating Saturday delivery won't matter much
when the Postal Service hits the iceberg. -
If UPS can
do it why can't the USPS
Courier, Express, and Postal Observer -
Baton
Rouge USPS - United States (Lack of) Postal
Service -
YouTube Video -
APWU: Facts Don’t Lie: Chart Shows
True Picture of Postal Service’s Financial Health -
USPS said its drivers can't make
left-hand turns, which is why it is denying home
delivery to some people who live on a busy street in Griswold, CT -
What would you give up?
(to save USPS)
Your Postal Blog -
Fed up
mailman sues after being attacked by dog, twice
-
Heat sends
mail carrier to the hospital
-
July 22, 2010
USPS CSRS
Reform Clears First Hurdle -
USPS
Positioned for a strong finish in FY 2010?
-
Getting
compensation shouldn't be so hard for federal
workers hurt on the job -
Washington Post -
Account
Management
GovExec.com -
Mailman
Accused Of Using Cocaine To Be Sentenced
-
Reward
offered in mailbox blasts -
A former
part-time Iowa letter carrier
accused of mailing dud pipe bombs and
threatening letters to investment firms and
others to scare them into forcing up stock
prices asked a federal judge Wednesday to allow
him to represent himself. -
Post
Office employee from Bridgewater charged with
stealing mail -
How New
USPS Periodical Content Rules will Affect
Publishers -
Meet Your
Postmasters initiative aims to improve customer
experience -
July 21, 2010
Postal
worker murder investigation leads St. Louis
County police to Mississippi
-
Princeville, IL man charged in attack on mail
carrier -
Postal
Service emphasizes value of catalogs to Internet
retailers - DM News -
Markup of
USPS Retiree Benefits Bill
Courier, Express, and Postal Observer - On July
21st at 1:30 pm, the House Federal Workforce,
Postal Service and District of Columbia
Subcommittee of the Oversight and Government
Reform Committee will hold a mark-up of H.R.
5746, United States Postal Service's CSRS
Obligation Modification Act of 2010. -
Video:
Postal worker delivers mail, saves lives
Washington Post -
Oran, MO
man sentenced to 5 years probation for
destroying mail -
Former
mail-processing clerk gets probation for opening
letter -
APWU: Join
the Fight to Make Wall Street Pay!
-
H. R. 5746
To amend the provisions of title 5, United States Code, relating to the
methodology for calculating the amount of any Postal surplus or
supplemental liability under the Civil Service Retirement System. -
July 20, 2010
Postal
Service worksharing outgrows its intention
Mohammad Adra is the Assistant Inspector
General, Risk Analysis Research Center in the
Office of Inspector General at the Postal
Service. His office found that worksharing has
grown within the Postal Service so much that the
program
might need to be changed. -
Bloat?
What Bloat? Postal Service Tells Mailers
Dead Tree Edition -
Update
from the U.S. Postal Service
-
Citizens
Against Reckless Middle-Class Abuse (CARMA)
Claims
against USPS exec expose clash of public-private
rules
- Federal Times -
OIG Blog:
Making “Sorry We Missed You” a Thing of the Past
-
APWU: Union Praises House Bill To
Restore USPS Financial Stability -
Black
Postal Workers Brace For Proposed Cuts
National Public Radio -
Return to
Sender: Stolen Mail Truck Ditched, Suspect
Arrested - Letter Carrier
Carjacked While Making His Rounds -
July 19, 2010
Mail loss
could sting S.D.
Argus Leader: Dropping Saturday service would
hit rural areas especially hard -
Public
trusts post office, not Justice Dept. according
to survey - Atlanta
Journal-Constitution -
Wrinkles
found in Postal Service pact
Washington Times - When the U.S. Postal
Service's top marketing officer agreed to hire
Goldman Sachs nearly two years ago without a
written contract, top executives inside postal
headquarters scrambled to make the unauthorized
deal square with postal procurement rules. -
USPS
Sunday Funnies Stamp Series Debut
-
Six postal
workers decontaminated at the Bulk Mail
Distribution Center in Indian Orchard section of
Springfield -
OSHA
Launches New Whistleblower Protection Site
AFL-CIO Blog -
www.whistleblowers.gov
-
Maryland
lawmakers say they want answers by Monday from
the U.S. Postal Service about its plans for an
Easton processing center
Sens. Barbara Mikulski and Benjamin Cardin and
Rep. Frank Kratovil say they will file Freedom
of Information Act requests or ask the Senate
Government Affairs Committee to intervene if the
information isn't received by Monday. The
lawmakers say proposed cuts could significantly
affect a half million Eastern Shore residents. -
July 18, 2010
What Your
Mail Services Won't Tell You
Wall Street Journal -
East
Cleveland resident asks court to block change at
post office -
July 17, 2010
Postal
worker: I don't have to answer to Chicago cops
Neither rain, nor sleet, nor gloom of night . .
. maybe. But the Chicago Police can, indeed,
stay at least one courier from the swift
completion of his appointed rounds. -
Fixing the
Retirement Liability Calculation
Courier, Express, and Postal Observer -
T-6
carrier charged with stealing mail
-
Postal
services stuck at a crossroad
-
July 16, 2010
MAIL
HANDLER POSITIONS ARE CURRENTLY AVAILABLE AT THE
PITTSBURGH NDC - Use
eReassign For These Positions -
Rep. Lynch
Introduces Legislation to Correct CSRS
Retirement Funding Obligation by USPS
- Also see
eNAPUS
Newsletter on this topic -
Letter to
TC Palm: U.S. Postal Service's operating deficit
is the union's fault -
Lawmakers
Demanding Answers On Easton Postal Study
-
Man armed
with handgun robs Atlantic County post office
-
A 8-Point
Plan to Save the Postal Service
Courier, Express, and Postal Observer -
Six-Day
Delivery Supporters Finally Speak Up To PRC
Dead Tree Edition - What a difference a month
makes! More than 92% of the comments submitted
to the Postal Regulatory Commission in June
regarding the number of mail delivery days
favored six-day delivery. -
USPS
buffeted by technology, weak economy
Pacific Business News -
Senate OKs
'Go, Cubs, Go' Musician Post Office
-
APWU:
Union Urges Affected Workers To Complete NRP
Questionnaire -
What if
Congress does nothing on September 30?
Rag Content - The postal fiscal year is quickly
drawing to a close. September 30 will be here
before we know it and so will a $5.6 billion
bill from the U.S. Treasury to the USPS. -
July 15, 2010
Why Offer
30% Discounts on a 'Money-Losing' Product? Tough
Question #3 For USPS - Dead
Tree Edition -
The next
time you see an American flag flying half-staff
on a U.S. Postal Service facility, it just might
signify the further demise of our nation’s
once-proud post office -
Tribune Democrat -
Cutting
Delivery One Day a Week
Courier, Express, and Postal Observer -
July 14, 2010
Chicago
resident sentenced to federal prison for buying
USPS stamps on closed bank accounts
-
USPS
mailman sues homeowner over lack of stair rail
-
Union rep
fights postal changes
Kevin Boyer is a hulking man with tattoo-covered
arms, a shaved head and a bushy goatee. But this
Harley rider gets downright emotional when the
subject turns to the future of the U.S. Postal
Service. “I don’t want this to be a career that
lasts until I retire,” he said. “I want it to be
here long after I’m gone.” -
Congressman Dennis Kucinich leads way to honor
postal worker killed on the job
-
Postal
Service: Cut delivery, don't hike rates
-
Postal
Service tech investigated for selling $500K
worth of stolen government goods on eBay
-
Rasmussen
Reports: 68% Favor Cut in Mail Delivery To Keep
Stamp Prices Down -
Future of
U.S. Postal Service
C-Span Video - Ruth Goldway talked about the
future of the U.S. Postal Service, and she
responded to telephone calls and electronic
communications. -
APWU: More
Hypocrisy as Big Mailers Decry Rate Hike
-
Akron:
Mail carrier saves life during route, for second
time -
Woman
pleads guilty in theft of cash and stamps
-
COURT
OVERRULES OPM DENIAL AND AWARDS POSTAL WORKER
OPM DISABILITY -
July 13, 2010
Another
USPS Fine: OSHA Proposes $272,000 In Fines
Against USPS at Capitol Heights, Md., Facility
-
USPS rate
increase not the answer -
Mold
Problem Stops Mail Delivery -
Backers
Give ‘Son of Sam’ Image Makeover
-
OIG Blog:
New Business Mail Acceptance and Verification
Process - Friend or Foe? -
July 12, 2010
Second
Postmaster Sentenced -
PRC Chair:
Magazines Have Been Under-Paying Postage
Min Online -
TRIBlive
reports - "At least Robert
Bernstock no longer is president of shipping and
mailing for the U.S. Postal Service. An
executive who reportedly did outside business on
USPS' dime, steered no-bid contracts to former
corporate buddies and had postal staff make
arrangements for private travel is no asset --
especially to such a financially strapped
organization." -
Nearly 200
Pitney Bowes employees in
Atlanta will lose their jobs, the mail
processing and information technology firm
announced Monday, apparent victims of U.S.
Postal Service consolidation. -
Should
Businesses Be Run Like the Post Office?
The New Republic: the post office doesn’t get
the credit it deserves. -
Community
pharmacists call fears of postal cuts
‘overstated’ -
Secretary
Locke and U.S. Postmaster General Potter Sign
Agreement to Boost Exports -
Senator
John Thune says the post office should look to
cut overhead and day-to-day operational costs
first -
Carla I.
LaGreca v. U.S. Postal Service
A PEN reader informed us of this MSPB decision.
Apparently the MSPB appellant, LaGreca, was held
responsible for errors made by her
representative Debby Szeredy.
Szeredy is a
candidate for APWU Clerk Division Director.
-
Postal
Commentator, Murray Comarow, Questions PRC
Chairman's Remarks Regarding Five-Day Delivery
-
The U.S.
Postal Service is under a congressional mandate
to be self-sufficient.
Unfortunately, while Congress wants the post
office to act like a business, it has widely
restricted its ability to act like one. -
Lansing State Journal -
July 11, 2010
Split over
ending mail on Saturdays -
12-year-old boy taken to hospital via helicopter
after being struck by mail truck
-
Postmaster
Receives Five Years Probation
-
Post
Office: Radical surgery needed
-
Postal
Service exec prone to excess
-
July 10, 2010
Postal
Service Gets Break, Union Officials Get Paid,
Workers Get Shafted -
Shifting
position on driving for mail carriers
Postal Service defends operating vehicle from
passenger seat as legal for carriers, but even
judge finds practice surprising. -
USPS
paints Social Networking as a big fat ruse
-
Postal
Service Rated Among Best in Diversity
-
“The
Decision Part II”
Big Fat Marketing Blog -
Washington
Briefs: Postal rate hikes will cost jobs
Phoenix Business Journal -
Major
Mailers Go Ballistic Over Rate Increase
-
USPS May
Split Role of Letter Carrier By Creating "100%
Street" Routes - Dead Tree
Edition -
From
PostCom - "This Week In Postal".........the
latest podcast posted now! "Mad as hell!!"
-
Deficit
hawks take aim at Postal Service
-
July 09, 2010
Does
Anyone At USPS HQ Listen To What They Are
Saying? -
Labor
Department jolts Postal Service over electrical
work-safety violations -
Washington Post -
Postal
hike not a solution
Journal Standard -
The
Portland Press Herald says "Let other firms
compete with postal service"
-
PEN Ed: Here's just one of their incorrect
statements - "...(USPS) is a system built
to handle 300 billion pieces of mail a year that
is currently handling 170 billion. That seems
like a lot, but considering that package and
message delivery services like FedEx and UPS
handle more (???), and could certainly pick
up letter delivery as well, the postal monopoly
seems more than a bit antiquated." -
Gay postal
worker can now cover her partner under her
health insurance coverage -
Also see
Federal
gay marriage ban is ruled unconstitutional
-
USPS
Management’s Grievance Strategy: Defer and Delay
-
NALC says
fixing pension errors will solve USPS' financial
woes -
Va.
Congressman Gerry Connolly
joined Federal News Radio today to discuss the
USPS OIG report that found $75 billion in
overpayments. -
Department of Labor Safety Complaint
Underscores Widespread, Systemic Violations -
Sen.
Grassley says cutting Tuesday mail delivery
might be an option -
U.S. Mail
Monopoly Wants Rate Hike
Tad DeHaven - Cato Institute
PEN Ed: Just passing it on folks. -
Which will
it be, unions: pensions or jobs?
PEN ED: Just FYI
PEOPLE v.
DISANDRO (a rural carrier)
It seems the carrier was given a ticket for
speeding and having her vehicle loaded with too
much stuff (mail?). -
What a
mess the USPS has made with a combo filing
Rag Content -
July 08, 2010
Former OK
postmaster sentenced in thefts
A former Tonkawa, OK postmaster was sentenced to
five years of probation and 180 days of home
confinement Wednesday for stealing money
produced by stamp sales. -
Oversight
body to make decision on Postal Service rate
changes by October 4 - DM
News -
The U.S.
Postal Service’s Financial Condition: Overview
and Issues for Congress -
Congressional Research Service via PostCom -
USPS Asks to Eliminate Saturday
Delivery; Congress Still Has Questions - Institute for
Research for On The Economics of Taxation -
Netflix Supports Proposed Postal
Rate Hike
Home Media Magazine -
PRC to
Review Postal Service Exigent Rate Adjustment
-
OIG:
First-Class and Standard Mail Workshare
Discounts -
Walmart vs
the U.S. Post Office
When business slows a bit at Walmart, the giant
retailer typically drops prices to help get
customer traffic in the stores back up. On the
other hand, the U.S. Post Office has a very
different strategy. When its customers go
elsewhere and losses mount, the Post Office
raises prices. -
NY Judge
Extends Hold on Mail-Order Cigarette Law
-
USPS price
change request expected to generate $3 billion
in FY 2012 - Source: USPS -
How Postal
Rate Hikes Foretell America’s Future
U.S. News -
Talkin’
about the box: PO Boxes offer revenue
opportunities - Source: USPS
-
OIG Blog:
Is the Price Right? -
Labor
demands USPS reform electrical safety
Federal News Radio -
Postal
Service fires back over Florida Times-Union
story -
Inflated Federal Pay: How Americans
Are Overtaxed to Overpay the Civil Service - The
Heritage Foundation (PEN Ed: who else would it be) -
U.S. Postal Service Wants Some
Change
NBC Washington -
July 07, 2010
Senator
Carper Statement Regarding USPS Price Increase
-
Pay,
Pensions Facing Firing Squad?
Federal News Radio -
So Much
For Encouraging Publishers To Mail Efficiently
Dead Tree Edition -
Price
Changes Coming and New Forever Stamp
-
Is The
FSS A Boondoggle? Tough Question #2 For The USPS
-
Dead Tree Edition -
Postage
increase would prompt changes for poor,
nonprofits in Utah -
Affordable Mail Alliance: Proposed
Stamp Price Increase is a “Tax” Hike - Political Hotsheet
- Postal Affairs Blog -
USA Today tells us
- Sen. Susan Collins, the ranking Republican on the committee that
oversees the agency, said, "The Postal Service's plans to hike rates so
substantially … may well produce a death spiral of fewer customers and
ever declining volume." -
July 06, 2010
US
Department of Labor Files Worker Safety
Complaint Against USPS - The
U.S. Department of Labor’s solicitor today filed
a complaint against the U.S. Postal Service for
electrical work safety violations. The
complaint, which asks the Occupational Safety
and Health Review Commission to order USPS to
correct electrical violations at 350 facilities,
marks the first time the department has sought
enterprise-wide relief as a remedy. -
Postal
Service to Seek January 2011 Price Change
|
U.S.
Postal Service Proposes 2-Cent Rise for
First-Class Mail
|
Post
office announces new rate increase
|
Group
calls U.S. postal rate increase a 'tax hike'
|
Request by
USPS to PRC -
OIG Audit
Report – Grievance Settlements and Payments
| Also see
OIG Audit
Report – Flats Sequencing System Operational
Issues
-
OIG Report
says the Los Angeles District
"used approximately 26 minutes more per
day than the national average for each carrier
route, as compared to the standard for that
route. -
Huntington
Council, Administration Supports Local Postal
Workers -
McConnell
v. U.S. Postal Service, EEOC Case
NRP Class Action: Representing Workers Affected
by the USPS National Reassessment Process -
More union
disclosure woes
Politico - ...from the start of 2005 to the most
recent filing for the first quarter of 2010, the
letter carriers union has omitted the required
list of “specific lobbying issues” on its forms.
Also see
Second
Labor Union Failed to Disclose Lobbying
Activities -
Sides Form
Over Threat to Saturday Mail Service
New York Times - Dissension over ending Saturday
mail delivery -
Cash-strapped post office announcing plans for
rate increase, likely to top inflation rate
-
July 05, 2010
"What
About Bernstock?" And Other Tough Questions for
Postal Execs - Dead Tree
Edition -
OIG:
Workforce Flexibility - Would it Work for the
Postal Service? -
US Postal
Service - Office of Inspector General Where?
Guy Nohrenberg -
U.S.
Postal Service considering drastic changes in
wake of reduced mail use -
A
Prospective Raise in Postal Rates Riles
Magazines
N.Y. Times -
Nat.
League of Cities Weighs in on Postal Service
Cost Cuts -
Postal
employee received $840 for her energy bills
An Illinois U.S. Postal Service employee earning
$80,000 per year reported zero income and
received $840 for her energy bills. “Times are
tough and I needed the money,” she told
investigators in the GAO report. She saw “long
lines” of applicants and wanted the “free
money.” -
July 04, 2010
The
President of the National League of Postmasters
has said "...my testimony focused on post
offices, their importance to America’s
communities and the misconception that they are
primarily retail “outlets”.
Read his
testimony -
USPS The
Household Diary Study 2009:
Mail Uses & Attitudes in FY 2009 (4.19 MB) -
Release date: 7.02.2010 - The purpose of this
report is to measure the mail sent and received
by U.S. households, provide a means to track
household mail trends over time, and make
comparisons of mail use between different types
of households. -
Cutting
Saturday mail service could hurt remote areas
most
- Honolulu
Star-Advertiser -
Safety
issue divides town, post office
Selectmen and the U.S. Postal Service have
started a debate about whose safety is more
important: the person walking to the mailbox or
the carrier delivering the mail. -
July 03, 2010
Replace a
broken USPS
Washington Times by W. L. JOHNSON - Commander,
Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps (retired) -
PRC Affirms USPS Overpaid $50
Billion to Retirement Fund OPM Must Reconsider Calculations
-
John P. Sanchez v. United States
Postal Service
MSPB finds problems with the USPS National Reassessment Process (NRP) -
says USPS must try harder to find work for partially recovered injured
employees. Also see:
Luna v. USPS |
Vazquez v. USPS -
5 Day, No Way -
Could the Postal Service Lose its
Niche in Parcel Delivery? -
Courier, Express, and Postal Observer -
The New Quad/Graphics Still Has The
Blues -- and Soul, Too - Dead
Tree Edition - I realize this is not exactly a postal story, but note the
irony of when Quad's stock will start trading publicly. -
Postal Service to Announce Price
Changes
Postal Affairs Blog -
July 02, 2010
Postal
boss (Bernstock) was not sent packing
Washington Times - "I've moved on and the Postal
Service has moved on," Mr. Bernstock said.
- Also see
Report
says USPS exec did outside work -
Is the
Postal Service owed $50B or $75B?
Washington Post -
Slowly out
of sorts: Lima postal center phase-out begins
July 01 marks the beginning of the end for the
Postal Service's Lima processing center and its
more than 80 jobs. -
Mail
Handler Charged With Theft of Mail and Opening
of Mail By a Postal Employee
-
“Those who
don't remember the past are condemned to repeat
it.” - Rag Content -
Rural
carrier associate enters 'not guilty' plea
-
Alaska and
Hawaii Senators Disappointed
that No Field Hearings on Postal Service
Five-Day Delivery Proposal Will Be Held in Their
States -
APWU:
Unemployment Compensation And The National
Reassessment Process (NRP) -
Keep 6 Day Delivery
Portland-Area Postal Workers Protest Prospect of
Five-day Mail Week |
Medford
postal workers rally against eliminating
Saturday service |
Area
postal workers picket plan to eliminate Saturday
delivery -
July 01, 2010
Federal
Times says USPS should pay billions less into
pension -
The
Washington Times states that
"the former $232,500-per-year president of
shipping and mailing for the U.S. Postal Service
(Bernstock) regularly worked on outside
corporate business while in the office, even
enlisting his postal staff to schedule meetings
and arrange for his private travel, postal
investigators have found. (PEN Ed: If they would
research this they could possibly find many
others doing this same thing) - Also see
Washington
Post article and
DM News
article -
Sen.
Carper Statement on PRC Report Identifying $50
Billion Discrepancy in Retirement Benefits Paid
to Former Postal Employees -
Same-sex
partners of federal workers (including postal
employees) can start applying for benefits next
month -
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