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POSTAL NEWS FROM PEN
March 31, 2008
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Postal Service offers $50000 reward
in contract worker robbery -
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Despite Protest From Postal Workers,
Red Bank Restricts Parking On Hudson Ave
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Chicago postal worker critical after
West Side crash
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Port St. Lucie grows into its own mail
service
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MDA: Letter carriers deliver for three
important letters
March 30, 2008
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Jackson postmaster on leave during
probe of alleged rules violations
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A reason to respond a bit faster
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APWU: Make Your Voice Heard! Object to
Proposed FMLA Regulations that Threaten Medical Privacy, Other Protections
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Incorrect change-of-address card causes
nightmare
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Vets' mail was in limbo - It took three
weeks for delivery to the VA's outpatient clinic -- because there was no
mailbox
- PEN Reader Question
Q: I noticed that news that appears daily at PEN also appears on a few
other sites. Does PEN offer a news feed or are other sites copying your
headlines?
A: No, PEN does not have a news feed and yes, there are a few sites that
cut and paste our content. PEN content is often copied... knock-offs are
easily made but just aren't the real thing. PEN Editor.
March 29, 2008
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APWU: FMLA: Here We Go Again
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USPS tries to foil dog attacks
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Revision Of Handbook M-41 - City
Delivery Carriers Duties and Responsibilities Duration of Address
Changes -
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PS Form 3971, Request for or
Notification of Absence Revised
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New USPS Campaign Targets
Unscheduled Absences -
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FBI Focusing on 'About Four' Suspects
in 2001 Anthrax Attacks -
- Found on the Internet
CHEERS: To President Bush for pardoning a former postal employee now
living in Jefferson who was charged with the federal crime of "unlawful
detention, delay and secretion of mail" in 1958. The man, George Bauckham,
forgot about a box of mail. See related story:
President Grants Pardon to Former
Postal Employee
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What percentage of my retirement
annuity or amount must I select in order to provide for my nonfederal
surviving spouse to continue receiving health benefits after my death?
March 28, 2008
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Update: Reward offered in North Side
shooting of letter carrier
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Background Checks of Contract Employees
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USPS will install mailbox units in all
new Casper developments
March 27, 2008
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Letter carrier shot in holdup attempt
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Dublin: Postal Service not meeting
demands -
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Commission, Postal Service agree to
talks
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Aspinwall postal station won't reopen
March 26, 2008
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Postal Service Can't Account for
Millions, Audits Say -
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Chicago Postal worker dies in Bedford
Park crash -
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Truck of mail caught fire near San
Marcos - TX
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Postal Service can be maddening
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Postal employee injured when woman
drives car into post office
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USPS Moves to Improve Address Quality
for Mailing Industry
March 25, 2008
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PRC Ruling Exposes Unhealthy
Relationship Between USPS and Influential Mailers
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PRC: Postage Hike Exceeds Limit on
Worksharing Discounts
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President Grants Pardon to Former
Postal Employee -
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Postal Carrier, Others Busted In ID
Theft Scheme
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Postal worker pleads guilty to
delaying, hiding mail
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Competition a good thing for postal
service market
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Will The Real Fed Please Stand Up
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USPS emphasizes responsible use of
sick leave -
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Woman drives car into post office
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LOST IN THE MAIL: POSTAL WORKER SPOTS
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1 in 10, including Postal Service, fail
to pay stormwater fees
March 24, 2008
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Banking On A Sick Leave Bank -
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Postal Operators - A Global Decline In
Mail Volume
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Question: As the cost of first-class
postage continues to rise, have the volume of first-class mail and the
number of postal employees increased or decreased?
March 23, 2008
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Resolutions in support of labor action
against the war -
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Doctor Says Brain Tumor Made Rural
Carrier Throw Mail Away -
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Officials: dogs becoming real problem
for postal carriers
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Stephen R. Erkins v. United States
Postal Service
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Residents Blame Post Office For Jail
Time, Late Fees -
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ELM Revision: Restoration of Annual
Leave and Forms Required for Back Pay Claims
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Handbook EL-312 Revision: Medical
Suitability
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Student Fights To Move Post Office
March 22, 2008
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Former Postal Worker Implicated In ID
Theft Ring
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National level grievance filed on 2008
rural mail count
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Postmasters head for the Hill
- FedEx
Watch - Submitted by PEN Reader
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Postal employee taken to hospital after
collision in mail truck
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USPS mailbox blown up on Chicago
Northwest Side
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You may think it's junk mail, but we
postal employees know it's our paycheck
March 21, 2008
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Ex-postal worker denies disability
fraud charges -
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Report: Junk mail is "lifeblood" of the
Post Office -
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Canada Post looking for new
technological solutions to deter dog attacks
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USPS brings sexy back to the recycling
game with "Mail Back"
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PRC verifies USPS rate increases
March 20, 2008
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Gloom of night mail draws complaints -
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Ex-postal official sentenced to prison
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Also see
Ex-Postal Manager Sentenced In Sex
Assault Case
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Postage going up to pay for HBO ad?
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Talks aim to reopen Liberty postal
station
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Nortel picks up Postal Service
extension
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Get ready: More U.S. postal changes en
route
March 19, 2008
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Former postal supervisor sentenced
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Letter carrier charged with throwing
away mail -
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Inspector General: USPS Wasted $17.8
Million on FedEx Contract
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Efforts to Block Junk Mail Slowed
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Pipe Creek Post Office suffers under
workload -
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Healdsburg downtown post office closure
resisted
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It’s
not nice to fool the Postal Service
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Homewood mail delivery restored
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More than 18000 sign petition for post
office
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The Check's (Almost) In The Mail!
- Mike Causey
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Harper residents fight to keep post
office open
March 18, 2008
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USPS: No material in or on mailboxes
without stamps -
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Another Junk Mail Editorial
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Clover Technologies Joins USPS for
E-waste Program
March 17, 2008
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List would slow flood of junk mail
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Don't Go Postal - Michigan and Florida
Democrats are wise to steer clear of mail-in ballots -
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We pay the price for a postal policy
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Postal official: USPS has had no
problem with unemployment checks
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Residents Angry Post Office Fails To
Deliver
March 16, 2008
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USPS keeping tabs on suspicious mail
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Creative Thief Used Change-of-Address
Forms to Steal ID's -
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It should be easy to stop junk mail -
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Washington agency pays $2.25 million
to L.A. shooting victims -
March 15, 2008
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Mail Network Protection Act Steadily
Gaining Co-Sponsors
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More pressure for do-not-mail
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Postal official: USPS has had no
problem with unemployment checks
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The Postal Service In The 21st Century
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Postal Service goofs on stamp honoring
St. Louis Nobelist
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More Postal News
March 14, 2008
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Over $17 million wasted on FedEx planes
by USPS
See OIG
Report -
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Court Sends Case Back to MSPB For
Penalty Review
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Rewarding The Healthy, But Not Just
Yet! -
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Postal policies hinder service
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Former postal employee sentenced for
burning Iroquois artifacts
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USPS Extends Wireless Vehicle
Management Contract
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Postal Service offers free mail as
publicity stunt
March 13, 2008
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Retired USPS Executive Addresses News
Story "Postal Service Feels Weight of 'Junk Mail,' "
Retired executive states... Maryland Del. Karen S. Montgomery
(D-Montgomery) revealed astonishing shortsightedness with her "do not
mail" bill. -
PEN Editors Note:
In the above article retired USPS executive Terry
Carter states "The Postal Service does not create advertising mail;
businesses do." Generally Mr. Carter is mostly correct. However, USPS
maintains address databases that are furnished to large businesses for
their use in addressing what many postal customers refer to as junk mail -
USPS calls it standard mail - we like to call it advertising mail. The
USPS address database is largely maintained and updated through what is
referred to as an Edit Sheet. Letter carriers across the nation are
required to maintain and update these route edit sheets almost daily or as
soon as needed. Without this address information mass mailers may not have
access to your home address - meaning...your mailing address may not be in
their database. Therefore, in a round about way Mr. Carter, USPS does
create advertising mail - they may not actually print it, but they furnish
the mailing address that gets the piece to ones home. -
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New Orleans Times-Picayune Editorial -
Slow Delivery
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What Went Wrong with the Postal Rate
Hike?
March 12, 2008
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Postal Service freezes hiring at
headquarters -
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Postal worker charged in stealing
Netflix DVDs -
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New Postal Shipping Rates Set
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USPS Pricing to Change in May
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Meet the new price leader!
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Postal Reform: A Rate Hike Every May
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Forever Stamp Sales Up Sharply
March 11, 2008
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Legislation would allow more feds to
cash out sick leave at retirement
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Legislation Introduced to Force USPS to
Keep Stamp Vending Machines in Post Offices
- Read Recent MSPB Cases: -
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Anthony J. Adams vs. USPS
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Michael P. Randazzo vs. USPS
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Jack Neuman vs. USPS
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Potter to deliver major statement to
employees on shipping services
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In rural England, the mail's bad news
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Postal Sidewalks Lawsuit Makes Progress
March 10, 2008
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Mass mailers try to lick rising postal
rates
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Mailer for CDs/DVDs Reduces Postage for
Non-Profits by 60 Percent
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Residents resist move to addresses in
Elkins
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Postal Service announces usps.com Week
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Postal inspector warns Mansfield
residents not to fall for mail scams
March 09, 2008
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USPS Contract Carrier Arrested
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Letters turn up 80 years later
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Officials Investigate Whether Bombs
Wrecked Mailboxes
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USPS worker gets award for special
delivery
March 08, 2008
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Midpoints: Going postal -
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Postal Service relents; church sign
can stay at coffee shop
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P.O.'d AT THE P.O. - Jersey City
wants branch open, and won't take 'no' for an answer
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Neighborhood With No Postal Service -
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It's Open Season for the Government
to Snoop on Your Postal Correspondence -
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Postal rates need not be raised on April 15
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Post office woes
March 07, 2008
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'Do Not Mail' Proposal Hits Postal
Resistance
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PostCom says - The U.S. Constitution states...The Congress
shall have power...To establish post offices and post roads - "You
don't need to be a lawyer to be able to read AND understand clearly
written English. This is NOT a power that has been delegated to the
states. STOP THE STATE "DO NOT MAIL" MADNESS....NOW! " Additionally, read
"MAD AS HELL!" at
PostCom -
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Letters Seem to Claim Responsibility
for Times Square Blast - Also see
'We Did It' letters eyed in NY bombing
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Former Tomé postmaster sentenced for
taking $16,000
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2 post offices opening in New Orleans
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USPS Prohibits the Mailing of Replica
or Inert Munitions
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Mail-order scam could cost couple
thousands
March 06, 2008
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Union Activists Urged to Fight
Proposals to Gut FMLA -
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Law enforcement requests for postal
info granted
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Postal Service Feels Weight Of 'Junk Mail' -
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Postal supervisor takes plea
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Detroit letter carrier accused of
trashing mail from his route
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Public mandates, market pressures
squeeze Postal Service -
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Pedestrian struck and killed by postal truck in NYC
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These Ads Send a Message — by Mail, Of Course
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U.S. Postal Service to lose $1 billion
- OR, maybe this article is correct in projected 2008 loss >
US Postal Service plans $1 billion
in cost cutting
March 05, 2008
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Omaha teenager pleads guilty to
shooting mail carrier
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The Postal Service's Digital
Delay
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NATIONAL OFFICE CONDUCTS FMLA TRAINING
- NPMHU
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Crofton, MD post office "dark and
unwelcoming"?
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Drill Determines Whether P&DC Could
Handle Anthrax Attack
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Award of Excellence Presented to
Portland, OR USPS District Manager From National Newspaper Association
March 04, 2008
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Gunman Robs Post Office
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- Recent
USPS MSPB Cases
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Retirees and Rebates
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Postal worker pleads guilty to stealing
cash from mail -
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U.S. Economic Woes Hit USPS
- NAPUS Newsletter -
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Indiana inmates to fix postal service
transmissions
March 03, 2008
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US Postal Service plans $1 billion
in cost cutting -
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Did You Know That USPS Retirees Have
Post Employment Restrictions? Well, They Do
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OPM losing hope for passage of bill
allowing annuitant rehiring
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DMM Revision: Automation Compatibility
Requirements for Enhanced Carrier Route Letter-Size Standard Mail
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Postal possibilities
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Federal Agencies Settle Underground
Storage Tank Violations
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USPS: CARS Indicia
March 02, 2008
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Prince Harry blasts the UK Army
postal service -
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USPS: National Consumer Protection Week
March 2-8 -
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Sanitary and safety issues close
Childwold Post Office
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Gun Lawsuit Reinstated in Killing of
Postal Employee Joseph Illeto
March 01, 2008
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Former postal employee charged with
witness tampering -
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Ask President Burrus -
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Carrier Shot with BB Gun
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USPS pushes back Intelligent Mail
barcode implementation
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