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July 2006 Postal News

Monday - July 31, 2006
- Postal consolidation to Frederick tailored to corporate interests
- Post office changing its tune on donations NV
- Japan Post Plans World's Biggest Bank
- Too-light usage leads to vanishing mail dropboxes

Saturday - July 29, 2006
-
Gallaher sentenced for post office supervisor's murder
- Man Gets 22 Years In Post Office-Check Scandal
- Postal official forced to strip gets trial on lawsuit she filed
  Also see: Postal worker settles civil lawsuit
- UW-L study finds most jobs don’t provide enough exercise
- Postman's quick action aids elderly man

Friday - July 28, 2006
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GAO Says USPS Delivery Standards, Reporting Need Improvement
- UPS Vows to Kill Bill Over Single-Piece Parcels NAPUS Newsletter PDF
- The Postal Customer Always Rings Twice
- Trenton Update: AI & ATHS Excessing Update
- Lockheed Martin system to speed sorting of Postal Service packages
- Dog Attacks Have Postal Carriers On Alert

Thursday - July 27, 2006
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APWU: Union Launches Ad Campaign to Combat Consolidation
- Improprieties Surface Regarding USPS Executive Azeezaly Jaffer
- Retirement Seminar - Kansas City
- Postal employee who killed brother gets nine years
- HIT & RUN TAKES POSTAL DELIVERY TO NEW EXTREME
- Investigation clears Indian River County postal worker over gun
- Mail Carrier Loses Leg In Hit-And-Run

Wednesday - July 26, 2006
- Talking Trash or Serious Threat?
  See Barber v. United States Postal Service
- $50,000 reward for tips on man who robbed postmen
- Mail Bound For Mass. Lost In New York Flooding
- Peerflix Teams with USPS to Provide Online DVD Tracking
- Postal review good move for Aberdeen

Tuesday - July 25, 2006
- Postal boss acknowledges Philadelphia problems
- Volume mailers look for service agreements in postal bill GovExec.com
- Customers: Help is spotty
- Postal service says mistake led to embargo on mail to Israel
- Postal Service HR system moving to Web BusinessWeek
- Return to sender with many regrets: Postal gaffe puts $90,000 in wrong hands
- Postal Service collects food for flood victims
- Mail carrier saves elderly man
- Some Card Issuers Turn Away From Direct Mail
- Survey Says Summer Schedules, Rising Fuel Prices Make
  Consumers Buy from Home

Monday - July 24, 2006
-
Postal workers back verdict in lawsuit PA
  Read the original story here > Fired Postal Worker Wins Reinstatement
- Engel demands regional postal service lift embargo on mail to
 
Israel, Lebanon
- Post office reports progress in Las Cruces
- City's slip could lead to $10M fall in injury lawsuit by former postal employee
- Study: Local Retailers Missing Opportunity In New Residents
- Direct-mail credit card come-ons may decline
- USPS gets a lift

Sunday - July 23, 2006
-
Dog days of summer for mail carriers

Saturday - July 22, 2006
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Unresolved Deals Continue to Stifle Deal  NAPUS Newsletter - PDF
- Changes Causing Postal Woes for Newspapers
- Homeless Man Returns Lost $21K in Bonds to Postal Worker
- Plea hearing in postal supervisor murder case rescheduled
- National Postal Museum Seeks Direct Marketers' Support
- Are you willing to pay $1.39 for a stamp?

- Union Rep Gets Roughed Up Attempting to Investigate Hostile
 
Work Environment

Friday - July 21, 2006
- Bill targets postal service
- USPS Glover Settlement Agreement Brings Change in ELM
- Mail center plan advances PA
- Report says bypass mail is major cost burden

Thursday - July 20, 2006
-
Burrus Update: Anti-Labor Provisions Threaten Postal ‘Reform’
- Harkin provision to halt closure of mail center
- Post Office Comments Create Backlash For Natarus
  Also see: Post Office Responds To Alderman's Comments
- USPS Feels DMers' Pain in Campaign
- Postal Service cashes in on superhero craze
- Summertime Blues for Postal Reform

Wednesday - July 19, 2006
-
Snake prankster faces fine, jail on fed charge MI
- Suspicious package detonated at Georgia Federal Courthouse
- Postal reform bill talks stall over labor costs
- Mail Service Disrupted by Mail Bombs
- Company offers to get rid of junk mail
- Letter carriers feeling the heat | Zebulon Postal Workers Feel Heat After
  Cooling Malfunction | Postal workers left powerless
- Canada Post fails to hand over future plans

Tuesday - July 18, 2006
-
Lower 9th finally gets mail delivery New Orleans
- USPS Forms New Global Organization
- Postal supervisor killed in accident involving high-speed chase FL
- 2 Postal Workers Injured, Handled Unknown Powder FL
- USPS unveils contract candidates

Monday - July 17, 2006
- Postal Service Transforms Human Resources to Meet the Demands
 
of the Information Age
- Postal closing riles townsfolk
- USPS Gives OK To Change Express Mail Classification Language
- What Are YOU Thinking!
- USPS Expands Relationship with Harte-Hanks
- Delivering more than the mail
- Letter: Questioning customer service

Sunday - July 16, 2006
- Sharing, Stealing $3.2 Million
- Postal service wants to limit number of mailboxes
- Berlin Postal Worker Caught with Thousands of Letters
- Restoring lost art of pen and paper

Saturday - July 15, 2006
-
NALC: Postal Reform In Jeopardy! Also see: NPMHU: Postal Reform Takes Dramatic Turn For The Worse | eNAPUS: Postal Reform Tripartite (PDF)
- APWU Joins Workers' Rights Demonstration at NLRB Headquarters
- Accused mail carrier out of jail
- Pine Brook gets mobile PO after crash NJ

Friday - July 14, 2006
-
Man Arrested In San Rafael Post Office Bomb Threat
- Postal worker gets year in prison
- RE: ‘Fed up with spam’ Also see: Having problems with Fallbrook Post Office
- Many oppose post office switch
- PRC Eyes Deal on USPS Paid Circ Proposal
- Suspicious Letter With White Powder Found in 'NY Times' Mailroom
- Lupton City Residents Start Petition To Get Post Office Back
- New Stamps Honor Baseball Sluggers
- Post Office Might Close In Elmwood District CA

Thursday - July 13, 2006
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Pay-for-performance plan boosts managers’ salaries
- State cops collect on delivery, bag 4 mailmen on drug counts
- Feds Indict Former Mail Carrier Accused of Stealing Gift Cards TX
- Subway Saw Attack Victim Released From Hospital
- Postal employee enters no plea at hearing on murdering his supervisor
- Residents won’t be told if mail will be affected
- USPS Extends Exclusive Contract With RELM Wireless
- Japan postal package vehicles to lose parking law immunity

Wednesday - July 12, 2006
- Former Postal Worker Sentenced for Dumping Mail
- Elyria post office to eliminate 8 routes
- Saline County Mail Carrier Arrested for ID Theft AR
- The Cape, Lee's largest city, has rural postal routes FL
- Raged and Confused
- DM News: Is E-mail Truly Reliable?

Tuesday - July 11, 2006
-
APWU President Condemns USPS Plans to Privatize AMCs
- Rep. Stupak Won't Allow USPS to Minimize Service
- Man, 20, arrested in postal carrier stun gun attack
- Postal Service Reopens Bywater Station
- USPS Offers Final Rule on EVS for Parcel Select Mailings
- PictureItPostage Launches Search for Cutest Baby Photo
- Pentagon plans military mail reform
- Post office delivered
- Mailbox bombing reports on the rise this summer

Monday - July 10, 2006
-
USPS Generates Net Income of $6.2 Million in May
- More Reasons for US eBay Sellers to Love the Postal Service
- Postal Employee Found Guilty of Theft in Missing $275K Coin
- GOVERNMENTWIDE FACILITY PROTECTION MEASUREMENT NEEDED
- That’s what it’ll take to return a post office to Surf City

Saturday - July 8, 2006
-
Investigators: Some Las Cruces mail seven months late
Read the Las Cruces, New Mexico Delayed Mail - OIG Report

- See Other Recent OIG Reports (PDF):
 
USPS Cost Burdens | Management of Delivery Vehicle Utilization
  Postal Service's Injury Compensation Programs - Controversion and
  Challenge Process in Selected Areas | Controls Over Noncompetitive
  Contracts Awarded to Former Postal Service Employees | City Letter
  Carrier Operations - National Capping Report -

-
APWU: Our Action Plan to Fight Consolidation
- NALC: Tide may be turning in USPS power struggle
- Postal worker pleads guilty to Netflix thefts
- Postal worker hurt when dogs attack
- The slow death of personal letter writing
- Residents' postal demands met by new mailbox

Friday - July 7, 2006
-
Postal worker survives saw attack in NY subway
- All That Junkmail is Costing You Money
- USPS Proposing to Change Temporary Forwarding Regulations
- USPS May 2006 Financial Report
- Postal Service nears full strength with east NO, Bywater openings
- Defense Department seeks input on military mail overhaul

Thursday - July 6, 2006
-
Mail Handler President Blasts USPS on Latest Contract Initiative
- Madison, AL men indicted for post office scheme Follow-up
- Food Drive Day Could Have Been Better
- Valassis Buys Advo for $1.2 Billion
- Retired postal employee and wife found slain in Michigan
- Villa Park letter carrier in the right place at the right time IL
- USPS Introduces Shipping Kit for International Business Mailers
- DA's Office drops 112 counts against mailbox bandit NM
- Computer glitch won't allow new ZIPs
- Mail Delivery Not Delivering

Wednesday - July 5, 2006
- Postal Service Ups ID Systems Order
- Delivery failure - New Facility Plagued by Problems
- Package to Zimbabwe caught in global snag

Tuesday - July 4, 2006
-
Letter Carrier Pay
- Postal employee who wrote "Mama Said" for the Shirelles dies
- Postlude to a career
- Streets are empty, post offices full

Monday - July 3, 2006
-
USPS Jaffer Resigns
-
USPS To Avoid $110 Million in Energy Costs
- Postal Service won't push the envelope
- Man's artistry on mail leads to postal project

Sunday - July 2, 2006
-
Postal Service no Pony Express during the flooding
- Douglas F. Carlson: USPS Overcharge for Electronic Return Receipt
- Postal Employee Saves the Day - Act of Kindness

Saturday - July 1, 2006
-
Audit isn't final word on postal consolidation SIOUX CITY
- USPS: Wireless AMBER Alert program launches
- Laws, zip codes changed at midnight

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