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July 2007 POSTAL NEWS
Tuesday - July 31, 2007
- Mail carrier helps police nab suspects
- Postal workers say: 'We're fighting back - join us' - UK
- Postal service paralyzed in Sri Lanka as postal workers report sick

Monday - July 30, 2007
- Burrus To Senate: USPS on Path to Privatization
- Postal increases hit hard at small publishers

Sunday - July 29, 2007
- Young Testifies to Congress On ‘Contracting Out’ Issue
- Tentative agreement being readied for rank-and-file ratification vote
- Carriers In Brooklyn Accused of Littering Streets With Rubber Bands

Saturday - July 28, 2007
- Oakland post office employee gets one year for punching two postal police officers in their face  -
- Congressional Postal Hearings – No Sparks, But Small Fire
 - Dog attacks on postal carriers frequent, damaging
- Spidey Goes Postal, But Marvel Needs a Lickin'
- Postal sorting stays in Jackson

Friday - July 27, 2007
-
GAO Report: USPS Progress Made in Implementing Mail Processing Realignment Efforts, but Better Integration and Performance Measurement Still Needed
- Private Contractor Delivery in Vegas -
- The Postal Service: Planning for the 21st Century
- Postal Service Employee in Court for Taking Iroquois Artifacts
- USPS Releases Photos Of Letter Carrier Mauled by pit bull

Thursday - July 26, 2007
-
APWU: Texas Consolidation Plan Shelved
- QC postal carriers deliver thank-yous to returnees from war zone
- West Tisbury postal worker charged in theft of $13,000

Wednesday - July 25, 2007
-
Rural Letter Carriers' Assoc. official admits stealing $59,000
- Indianapolis mailman busted on crack-dealing charge
- Explosion halts mail
- Postal worker indicted for stealing stamps
- Waco postal distribution center will not close, officials say
- Postal Truck Stolen On Milwaukee's Northwest Side
- Postal Service delays Georgia utility bills
- St. Charles bulk deliveries draw complaints
- New 13-Ounce Mail Rule to Take Effect July 30
- Fumes force evacuation of post office
- Postal Logistics is the first to earn USPS OK to co-palletize

Tuesday - July 24, 2007
- USPS contract carrier allegedly embezzled $13,172.93 -
- USPS steps up after 5 weeks of no mail for residents -
- Shuler steps up support of Mills River post office
- Bosses help workers beat the heat

Monday - July 23, 2007
- Service and efficiency in postal service -
- Ask President Burrus: How does the contract the National Association of Letter Carriers recently negotiated compare to the APWU Collective Bargaining Agreement?
- Postal Worker Survives Gunshot to Head
- USPS streamlines sorting to keep up with growth

Sunday - July 22, 2007
- Contract delivery must be limited
  Scroll down for article - TampaBay.com -
- Erratic mail dizzies Pleasant Hill resident

Saturday - July 21, 2007
- Burrus Tells Congress:
  Compel USPS to Bargain Over Subcontracting - Also see: Union seeks mandatory bargaining over mail delivery contracting -

- Oshkosh-to-Green Bay Consolidation Study Cancelled
- Ask President Burrus: How does the contract the National Association of Letter Carriers recently negotiated compare to the APWU Collective Bargaining Agreement?
- Outsourcing Hearing Generates Sparks – But No Fire
- Former Dalbo, MN postmaster charged with felony theft
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Some homeowners left longing for door-to-door mail service
-
Oldest-serving female postal worker here in So. Ohio
- Potter's magic primed, packaged and ready for delivery
- Mail stolen at post office CA

Friday - July 20, 2007
- BOG VC Alan Kessley Testifies Regarding Contract Delivery -
- Man sought in shooting of mail carrier in Cal City
- USPS to meet with residents on post office that includes barbed wire fencing and bulletproof glass
- Street's Mail Service Cut Due To Terrorizing Pit Bull
- U.S. Postal Office Robbed At Gunpoint

Thursday - July 19, 2007
- Postal carrier shot in Calumet City, Illinois -
- Inquiring Minds Want to Know: What is the Postal Service Contracting Out? -
- Man reindicted in crash that hurt postal worker -
- Postal Employee Assaults Cop -
- Postal service to offer Flight 93 postmark
- Runaway mail carrier put on home detention
- Rattlesnake mailed to ex-boss
- Cooling a postal hot seat in Monticello
- Is postal service suffering?
- It's a red-letter day for sender as mail from 1981 returns home

Wednesday - July 18, 2007
- Postman who vanished is charged in federal court -
- Did We Mention That You Aren't Welcome in Omaha? -
- Letter Carriers Official Song AFTER Contract -
- Peoria Woman Going Postal Over Mail Pick Up
- PMG Addresses National Assoc. of Secretaries of State
- Cost increases aside, Postal Service still bargain

Tuesday - July 17, 2007
- Editorial: Don't cut Waco postal service -
- Ex-postal workers accused of mail misdeeds -
- Check's in mail, but not in box. -
- Publish and Perish? -
- Dental Benefits: Are You Smiling Yet? Federal News Radio
- Save Businesses that Depend on Catalogs - The Secret's Out!
- Cops save teen stuck in mailbox
- Postal workers in walk-out over pay UK
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Periodical rate hike worries small mailers
- Suicidal woman - a former postal employee - had history of mental illness
- Harry Potter postage stamps released UK

Monday - July 16, 2007
- Mailman found, but questions remain
More on carrier that was lost - then found - then arrested. -
- Postal service studying changes to local delivery - Waco, TX
- A place of postal Zen
- Tighter Standards for Addresses Prompt New Look at Mailing Practices
- Rural post offices more than mail

Sunday - July 15, 2007
- Mail carrier missing 3 days found safe in Columbus
  Arrested on weapons charge after being found. -
- Going postal may not pay when seeking stamps
- Petitions to call for coal miner stamp
- An opportunity lost--in the mail
- Delivery's rural, free, at present anyway

Saturday - July 14, 2007
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Former postal employee faces fraud charges
- Efforts to Reduce Ergonomic Injuries Showing Positive Results
- Postal Service can survive competitors - Op-Ed
- Bulk mailers, catalog business hit hardest by postal increase
- Officials have suspects in Alabama post office robbery

Friday - July 13, 2007
-
Harkin Includes Postal Service Provision in Bill
- Update: No clues in postman's disappearance
- FedEx Ground battles to keep using contractors -
- Mailing plan outlook: What’s in store for the fall?

 

POSTAL HOT TOPICS
- Is mail delivery on the way out?
  Editorial: Cincinnati.Com
Facing rising costs, greater competition and lessening demand, the Postal Service may be just months away from historic changes in the way it operates, the Associated Press reported Friday. Mail delivery may be cut to three times a week or once a week, or recipients may have to go to the post office to pick it up - or pay extra for delivery. Also see: Wait a minute, Mr. Postman - don't go  | Death of the mailman? | Mail service's future debated -

- NALC: Tentative agreement reached on new contract
The NALC reached tentative agreement today with the USPS on a new five-year National Agreement for all 222,000 city delivery letter carriers throughout the nation. The pact, which includes new limits on contracting out of city letter carrier work along with provisions covering wages, benefits, and working conditions, will be submitted to the NALC membership for rank-and-file ratification. Tentative Agreement Highlights | Postal Service scraps plans for private carriers -

- CONTRACTED DELIVERY ALIVE AND WELL UNDER NEW
  NALC CONTRACT
- Editorial by Rick Owens
The NALC recently announced that a tentative agreement has been reached with USPS. The NALC site states "The proposed contract includes new limits on contracting out of city letter carrier work in more than 3,000 city delivery installations." It is my personal opinion that carriers nationwide should immediately demand that either the NALC or USPS, or both, provide them with a complete list of these delivery installations BEFORE ratification is considered. More -

- How, or if, you get your mail could change (a lot)
  Reader comments
"Maybe we can get rid of the U.S. Postal Service? What do we get in our mail that justifies keeping it?" And from the Northwest Herald ...more comments: "Maybe the Postal Service should cut back on $50,000 salaries, five-week vacations, too many paid holidays, matching retirement contributions, super health care insurance and life insurance plans that double and triple an employee's salary, etc. Also, cut back on the number of less-than-productive employees who function at a reduced capacity, due to alleged 'work-related' injuries." Also see What's the future of snail mail? -

- Groups seek end to USPS monopoly on mailboxes
  Federal Times
A group of taxpayer and consumer advocates are calling for an end to the U.S. Postal Service’s monopoly on mailboxes. In response to a Federal Trade Commission request for comment in the May 1 Federal Register, the group questions a rule that bars putting letters or packages in mailboxes without paying a fee to the Postal Service. -

- Letter carrier faked dog bite claim for profit, investigators say: letter carrier was arrested Friday in Freedom, a town near Watsonville, following a month-long investigation by the U.S. Postal Service Office of the Inspector General into allegations that she tried to extort hundreds of dollars from one of her customers. -

More Postal News
Thursday - July 12, 2007

-  Police Seek Info  On Missing Mail Carrier
- Adding contractors for mail makes sense
- Humane Society Sues USPS for Mailing Animal Fighting Materials in Violation of New Federal Law
- Automated postal centers put on hold
- Mitt Romney mails USPS-compatible DVDs
- Postal Carriers Promote Healthy Habit

Wednesday - July 11, 2007
- On new routes, mail delivery is passing to private contractors
- USPS workers to deliver mail; Postmaster says no local plans for contract mail service
- Former Goldman Sachs Employees and Former Postal Employees Face Scrutiny In Threat Investigation
- OPM modifies retirement compensation benefits for feds on workers' compensation
- McHugh bill would stop mail-order cigarettes
- Magazines brace for higher postage

Tuesday - July 10, 2007
- Former postmaster admits guilt -
- Union wary of Postal Service's plans for KCK center
- APWU: 2007 Joint Contract Interpretation Manual Available
- Postal carriers save time since sorting moved to Albuquerque
- Mailers react to $29M House cut
- Postal services set for second strike UK

Monday - July 9, 2007
- Congress must work to ensure a reliable, efficient postal system
- Fairbanks postal workers' jobs shift to answer shortages
- Repositionable notes extended for additional year

Sunday - July 8, 2007
-
Viewpoint: Postal Delivery Should Not Be Outsourced
- APWU alleges mail moved to Traverse violates AMP -
- Postal van collides with truck in Mesa rollover
- NAPUS Newsletter: No Dog Days This Summer
- Post office orders 'green' packages

Saturday - July 7, 2007
- What's Next for the US Postal Service?
- Tension and contention for postal world increases
- $525000 house, no mailbox? Revisited
- Goldman threat mailed to News
- Stolen Mail Raises Fears of Stolen Identities

Friday - July 6, 2007
- Berlin (NY) postmaster admits stealing $70,000
- Gone postal: Health concerns close Boneville Post Office
- Please, Please, Mr. Postman, Come Back. And He Did
- Post office scores big

Thursday - July 5, 2007
- Jail time for postal carriers
- ZIP-PITY HOO-HA - CUSTOMERS LOSE GLITZY 10021 ZIP
- Shuler wants post office in Mills River
- The 15-minute tip: Should check go in the mail?
- Mail delivery won't change to contractors - yet
- Fireworks Prank Destroys US Mailbox Along with 100's of Mail Pieces
- $10k reward offered for mailbox destruction

Wednesday - July 4, 2007
- Hoods in Mailmen's Clothing - scroll for article -
- Policy Leaders Call for Lifting the USPS Mailbox Monopoly -
- Schumer joins fight against fortress-like post office -
- Mail competition; bottled water - Kansas City.com Opinion
- USPS Trying To Track Down Missing Social Security Checks
- From APWU: APWU, USPS Reach Tentative Agreement for Operating Services Workers | DHL Found Guilty of Unfair Labor Practices | Labor Department Study Affirms That FMLA ‘Is Working as Intended’

- Authorities investigate bombs in mailboxes

Tuesday - July 3, 2007
- Postal clerk gets prison for stealing movies -
- PRC Wants FTC to Watch USPS -
- World War II-era photo arrives in mail
- Mail destroyed in collection box fire

Monday - July 2, 2007
- The postal workers’ battle: Public service or maximum profit? UK
- Clients of Blue Cross to get billed for bills -
- Postal workers rally in Silk City
- House passes appropriation bill minus postal funding
- USPS 18-wheeler crashes and burns in Florida - 1 killed

Sunday - July 1, 2007
- Talk Therapy for Postal Rage
- Striking UK Postal Workers say "WE WILL WIN!"
- Uncertain future for 99757

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