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POSTAL NEWS FROM PEN
November 30, 2007
- Postal worker robbed
- ABC News: Is Netflix Costing the Post Office Millions? -
- Postal Service won't toy with collection
- Two postal workers charged with not delivering the mail
- Driver Who Killed Mail Carrier Sent Back To Jail

- In Digital Age, Real Mail Delivers
- NALC: Flexible Spending Accounts deadline

November 29, 2007
- APWU: PTFs in Large Offices Eliminated as of Dec. 1
- DVD rentals costly to Postal Service -
- Connecticut post offices ban toy collections -
- Postal officials deny city's use of safety reports -
- USPS Contract Semi-Driver Shot On U.S. 550 in New Mexico
- Pity the postman when catalog season comes

- Posted: Paint mailbox or else
- Calif Supreme Court denies FedEx appeal on drivers

November 28, 2007
- USPS Debuts Site for Postal Retirees - Keeping Posted
- Burrus Issues Stinging Rebuke To USPS Inspector General -
- Carrier gets fine, probation for dumping bulk mail
- USPS Seeking Contractor(s) for VOE Surveys -
- Mailers applaud rate caps
- Postal Service Begins Delivering 20 Billion Pieces of Holiday Mail

November 27, 2007
- Strategies for 'dead letters' -
- Mail trucks vandalized at North Austin post office
- Alaska mail hub move proposal by USPS being examined
- Operation Santa Information and FAQs

November 26, 2007
- "Know Thy Neighbors" (more service gripes) -
- Cooking up ideas that tip scale of gratitude
- Postal carriers ready to wing it
- USPS gets it mostly right
- Residents Want Haines City Address
- Randalia soldiers on without its post office

November 25, 2007
- Post Office Dismissals Come As Shock To Workers -
- How does your mail get from here to there?
- More On The LetterLogger
- Clinton plant rolls out 11 billion stamps a year

November 24, 2007
- Myth: FSS Will Get Carriers To The Street Earlier
  from Don Cheney - Auburn, WA
It is a MYTH that machines like the Flats Sequencing System will get carriers out to the street earlier. It didn't happen with Delivery Point Sequence letters and it won't happen with FSS. It would only be true if you had enough machines and facilities to process that much mail in a very short time. That solution would be very expensive and isn't going to happen. The fact is despite their speed...continued -

PEN Editor Note:
You can find information regarding FSS - HERE
USPS says the FSS will be FLAT-OUT Efficient -

- ELM Revision: Observation of Work Practices
  New tool of harassment is now official
Effective November 22, 2007, the Employment and Labor Relations Manual (ELM) 812.5 is revised to include a requirement for supervisors to use two new Postal Service™ forms. PS Form 4588, Observation of Work Practices - Delivery Services, and PS Form 4589, Observation of Work Practices - General, will be used by supervisors to document their observations of employees’ work practices. -

- Bill Introduced to Require Bargaining On Large-Scale Subcontracts
- Christmas Pay Procedures for Rural Carriers -
- Open Season Date Corrections
- “PO Box Locator” Launched on USPS.com
- With no plans for new office, USPS teams up with private sector

November 23, 2007
- NALC leaders chart "The Road Ahead" -
- U.S. Postal Service opens third training center
- More on Volunteer Santa's having to sign a clause
  Also see: Lawyers prompt USPS to tighten its Santa letter rules
- Postal Service is shaping up

November 22, 2007
- ARBITRATOR EISCHEN DENIES “FLETTERS” GRIEVANCE
   Read the award -
- GPS Letter Logger promises to keep tabs on mail
- Postal Abuse: More on fired worker that was awarded $258,000 after suffering verbal abuse from the Medford postmaster -
- Donors say 'bah, humbug' to USPS Operation Santa rules
- "Spy Box" records journey through the postal system
- Former postal employee awarded almost three hundred thousand dollars in damages in harassment suit
- 20 Billion in 30 Days - Today’s Holidays Need Today’s Mail - USPS News Release
- Remarks Of Postmaster General - Meeting Of The Board Of Governors Washington DC

November 21, 2007
- Chicago worst again in mail service -
- Man admits to stealing from mail
- Pit bull owner charged with felony - dog attacked carrier
- Post office closes; $19,000 missing -
- USPS proposes scaled-back processing facility in Aliso Viejo
- USPS Receives Aberdeen Achievement Award for Technology

November 20, 2007
- Congressman Updates Montgomery Co. On Postal Concerns
- Money missing at postal station
- Chicago mail delivery improves, study finds -
- Nonprofit Postal Rates Capped At Inflation Rate
- US Postal Service proposes smaller facility in Aliso Viejo
- Insurance: Paying 72 Percent More . . . And Loving It!

November 19, 2007
- Driver insists he fell asleep before hitting postal carrier
- Postal Service to mark 'Year of the Rat'

November 18, 2007
- Mail is a big deal in remote area
- Attic Salt - Postman Arrives Later and Later
- Warning - If You Are a Letter Carrier USPS Will Try To Step on Your Christmas Cheer! PEN takes a look at customer gifts to letter carriers during the Christmas season. -
- As holidays near, USPS pressed to deliver prompt service, too
- UK Postal Workers Unhappy With CWU Pay Deal

November 17, 2007
APWU-Backed Bill Introduced in Congress  -
- Mailman Accused of Attempted Kidnapping
- The Watchdog: The lowdown on postal pickup

November 16, 2007
- Chicago mail carrier recounts getting shot on route
- USPS Instructs Managers to Comply With Contracts -
- US Postal Service revenue fell short in October
- Postal Service expects stamp price increase in ’08
- Pitney Bowes to Cut 1500 Jobs
- Calabash, NC Post office set to shut down
- US Post Office, Eagan near accord
- The Smithsonian Envisions 20 More Years with the Postal Service

November 15, 2007
- Disabled vets claim job harassment by postal service -
- AT&T Delivers 5,400 BlackBerrys To USPS -  
- OIG Says USPS Contributes Too Much Toward Employee Health Benefits: OIG says that the postal service should reduce the share it pays toward employee health insurance.
- USPS Threatens To Cut Service To San Antonio Apartments
-
Happiness Is Being Single - Mike Causey of Federal News Radio.
- Eagan / Once again, a suburb fights the post office
- Misdirected mail maddening

- United States Postal Service Is Selling My Email Address

November 14, 2007
- Carrier shot in Chicago for delivering mail 'too late' -
- Job security still eludes some postal employees
- White House Executive Order: Improving Government Program Performance  -
- APWU: Nonprofit Guide Rates APWU Health Plan at the Top
- SteelCloud 'Delivers' for the U.S. Postal Service
- Letters to Santa Helping Toys for Tots
- 'Til Death Do You Part - Mike Causey writes about health plans
- Mail Service Slow To Catch Up With Relocated Family

- Small hamlet post office evicted
- Tracking packages as easy as A2B at Yokota post office

November 13, 2007
- Personal use of postal equipment, specifically, personal computers -
- USPS on passports - says no gouging or overcharging
- Taking the middle class off the endangered list
- Decision Time for Federal Workers

November 12, 2007
- Outsourcing Your Mail: USPS plans to use private contractors to deliver mail in Kansas City -
- Postal carriers' plight more than a cliche
- I'll miss the postmark on Detroit mail

November 11, 2007
- B.C. mail scandal 'was just flawed' -
- 41-cent stamp doesn't guarantee quick delivery -
- Dog bites cause economic pain
- Sticker Shock: Health insurance premiums rising up to 25%  -
- Employee Post Office Records End Up in Dumpster
- Open Season Video Message from NALC
- Indianapolis Post Office Fire Causes Power Outage
- Scammers can't deliver Postal Service jobs

November 10, 2007
-
New Employee Observation Work Practices Forms
PEN READER QUESTION: It seems, from the instructions for these forms, no one observes contract carriers - why? -
- NLRB: FedEx Home Delivery Drivers ARE Employees NOT Independent Contractors -
- Lockport, NY supervisor faces felony charges for falsifying female employees time records -
- Homeowners look to lock up postal security
- Thousands of political mailings are said to have been delivered late or not at all
- Postal Service honors veterans
- Employees urged to weigh a switch in health plans

November 9, 2007
-
Ex-postal employee gets 14 months for stealing $128,000
- Commentary: Privatize the U.S. Postal Service
PEN Note: Read Montanyes' article Going Postal: Regulatory Reform for the Digital Age -
- Burrus Outlines Ambitious Agenda at All-Craft Conference
- Postal employee convicted - lied about disability
- Event salutes postal employees
- Woman gives police 5 fake postal money orders
- Postal worker pleads guilty to misappropriating $112,000

More Postal News
November 8, 2007
-
Postal Service worker busted for stealing veteran's meds
- Slain deputy had left postal service at 55 to begin second career
  See NALC Press Release
- Employee benefits open season begins Nov. 12
- Find available PO Boxes online
- Canada Postal workers’ union says proposed changes could hurt rural service
- PRC’s ruling to change pricing for mailers
- Rillito postal worker wins national award

November 7, 2007
- Bill Clinton Tells APWU: 2008 Election Belongs to You -
- Thousands of federal and postal workers are hit with ED
- Postal service to honor 25 workers
- Postal service sends consumers a holiday greeting

November 6, 2007
- Northeast Residents Complain About Opened Mail - TX
- Is a direct mail crackdown looming? -
- NALC: Health benefit Open Season guides have misprint
- Popular Website Craigslist.org Misused by Cyber-Criminals, Woman’s Murder now Tied to Free Site

November 5, 2007
- President Bill Clinton To Address All-Craft Conference Today -
- New Netflix plan: Nothing but Net
- Letters extinct in digital age -
- Neither moose nor squirrel shall stay this courier ...
- With Costa Rica's mail, it's address unknown
- Marshall Islands: Return to Domestic Mail Services a "Great Victory"

November 4, 2007
- Catalog Choice - Eliminate Unwanted Catalogs Through The Mail
- Bill would stamp out Internet cigarette sales and delivery
- Editorial - Passport price gouging is unacceptable  -
- A Nigerian court has sentenced a university student to 34 years in jail for forging US Postal Service money orders
- Rural mail success was spelled RFD

November 3, 2007
- Postal Service Says Killing Small Periodicals is a "Win-Win" -
- NAPUS to Submit Testimony at Senate GPO/WEP Hearing
  PEN Editor: If You're CSRS - You Should Be Interested
- Millville Postal worker charged with theft
- Video Catches Brothers, One was Contract Mail Carrier, Faking a Robbery

November 2, 2007
-
OIG Audits Determine Turnover, Vacancies, and Lack of Training Contributed to Windy City Mail Delivery Woes -
- Postal Service halts vehicle buys -
- Postal carrier bit by pit-bull believes her attack could have been avoided -
- Charges are pending against a contractor caught mishandling mail
- Senators: US gouges travelers over $97 passport fees
- OIG: City Delivery Vehicle Mileage – Base Versus Actual

November 1, 2007
- Postal Worker Had Bomb-Making Materials -
- Police arrest postal carrier on indecent exposure accusations
- APWU Condemns USPS Invitation to ‘Ignore Agreements’
- Mailman saves woman’s life during route
- Mailman saves woman’s life during route
- GAO Report: Agencies Distribute Fund-raising Stamp Proceeds and Improve Reporting
- Pitney Bowes Praises Postal Regulatory Commission
- Unemployment Checks Missing Due To 'Postal Error'
- ACMA to USPS: Be Very Concerned About Catalog Circ Cuts

October 31, 2007
- Former contract carrier pleads guilty to destroying Indian artifacts -
- Postal clerk loses bid for injunction
- Get paid for unused sick leave?
  See related story: Use It and Abuse It  -
- Congressman wants space set aside in post offices for photos of military personnel  -

- Postal officials seek those behind explosive device in Michigan
- Publications want lower postal rates

October 30, 2007
- APWU: USPS Could Lose Millions in Proposed Deal
- NALC and USPS agree to extend negotiation period for local implementation
- New Postal Service Rules Delivered Ahead of Schedule
- Inmate sues MCI, Postal Service for better rates
- Editorial: U.S. Postal Service delivers for who?
- USPS Stolen Laptop Held Hawaii Employee Information
- Will Increased Postal Rates Put Mailers out of Business?
- Stamping Out Detroit Postmark Irks `Michigan Metro' Residents
- Postmark is small price for greater efficiency
- DELIVERING DELAYS?

October 29, 2007
-
POLS GOING POSTAL OVER MAIL PLAN
- Wildfire Victims Express Appreciation for Mail Service
- Open Season Information
- Mail for Most Relocated San Diego District Post Offices Back in Communities on Monday, October 29
- Biggest loss in mail move may be city's postmark  
- Postal Saving note is no good

October 28, 2007
- Royal Mail Security In Shambles -
- Detroit Postal workers resist facility consolidation
- More on town rallying behind postal clerk

October 27, 2007
-
Granite State – Latest Do-Not-Mail Battleground
- Reasons vary for late mail deliveries in Baton Rouge
- Mailmen Take Hard Line To Dog Bites
- Waterbury residents fight to keep postal clerk  -
- Canton, OH mayor fights postal change

October 26, 2007
-
Does MSPB Order Supersede Union Agreement?
 
Read the Court Opinion -
- Canton, OH postal jobs could move
- Postal workers protest reduced hours -
- NALC Health Plan relaxes requirements for California wildfire victims
- 'Snail mail' a 3rd-class term to postal worker
- Postal Inspectors Warn: Don't Get Burned by Charity Scams Claiming to Assist Fire Victims
- Commemorative Stamps Keep America in Stitches
- USPIS Presents: Work@Home Scams: They Just Don't Pay!

October 25, 2007
- Beware Buddies Bearing Buyouts -
- Mail Missing From Stolen Mail Truck -
- Assistance for postal employees
Postal employees can apply for assistance and make donations through the Postal Employees’ Relief Fund at: www.postalrelief.com
- How California fire victims can pick up their mail
- I.D. Systems Delivers for the United States Postal Service
- Going Postal For Tulo

October 24, 2007
- USPS California wildfires update
- Mailman pleads guilty to sexual abuse of 86-year-old
- RUMOR HAS IT . . . WRONG -
- Post office aims to leave yesterday's image behind
- Postal workers picket over cut hours

October 20, 2007
-
Paso Robles Post Office forced to strip wall of local soldiers' photos -
- Blind Man Says Postal Clerk Didn't Help Him -
- MISC Deduction on Your Earnings Statement -
- 'It's not a place to post things or make displays'
- Vanished gem + postal mix-up = $673 gone
- Slowed down by the Postal Service
- Keep the USPS posted

October 19, 2007
- Former postmaster pleads not guilty to felony theft -
- Former postmaster is sentenced for drug transactions -
-
Top Secret: Postal Service situation continued ...  -
- USPS Executives say "To increase efficiency USPS should: manage sick leave and overtime better, better utilize transportation and maximize use of non-career employees. -

- Pickets hope to stop Postal Service plan
- Postal carrier rescues child struck by truck
- From dogs to catalogs, mail carriers deliver original view of neighborhoods
- Postal workers back Edwards
- America Voted and the U.S. Postal Service Will Deliver

October 18, 2007
- What does the U.S. Postal Service have to hide? -
- Boston cops: Postal worker got punchy -
- Camas lobbies leaders for return of its post office
- Postal service woman and her wolf deliver into the wild
- Post Office Closing Signals Small Town Trend
- In the face of changes, Postal Service cuts back

October 17, 2007
- Residents bear brunt of mail dispute -
- Appeals court rejects Jewish postal worker's bias claim -
- Rural Carrier Guarantee Period
- Santa Ana District Manager Speaks Out
- Is That a Gap Or a Hump?
- Owner of dog that bit mailman seeking haven
- We need a box that tells when it is full of mail - Opinion

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