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POSTAL NEWS FROM PEN
OCTOBER 2009
October 30, 2009
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Mail carrier
wouldn’t pick up ballots -
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Postal
carrier made change that kept mail from
Chesapeake couple -
October 29, 2009
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Ex-Postal
employee accused of pulling gun on former
supervisors -
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Two postal
employees plead guilty in theft of postal items
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Your
Gold-Plated Health Plan -
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Post office
roof collapses
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Patients'
medical records land in man's mailbox
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Social
Security to Host Webinar for Wounded Warriors
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Mailman wins
$50,000 on 'Millionaire'
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Teen arrested
in robbery of St. Louis mail carrier
October 28, 2009
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APWU Urges
Locals to File OSHA Complaints Over Electrical
Hazards -
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Danville man
arrested on charges of shooting at a Danville
mail truck
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Maryland
Woman Pleads Guilty to Mailing Threatening
Letters
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POTTER NAMES
VP, PACIFIC AREA
October 27, 2009
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Taxing Your
Health Premiums -
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Why doesn't
the USPS want a price increase in 2010?
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Grand Forks
mailman accused of drunk driving placed on
unpaid leave, could face discipline -
October 26, 2009
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Former Mount
Pleasant postal worker appeals federal sentence
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Feds On a
Winning Streak -
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Mail is the
workhorse of b-to-b marketing -
- Old Picture
of the Day: Mail Truck
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‘Move your
mailbox,’ residents told
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Reward in
mail carrier robbery
October 25, 2009
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Grand Forks
mail carrier arrested on DUI charge -
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Nor rain, nor
tweet ...Post office fights to survive in the
Internet age -
October 24, 2009
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Postal
facility to close, cost 86 jobs -
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Post Office
sees decline in direct mail service
October 23, 2009
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Unions
Protest As Health Insurers Plot to Kill Reform
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Nebraska
postal worker indicted on embezzlement charge
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Former Mount
Pleasant postal worker gets 33 months
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Return to
sender -
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Ghostly
Postal Employee
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APWU: FY 2010
Casual Exception Period Set | 2009 Penalty
Overtime Exclusion Period Set | 1.2% Raise
Effective Nov. 21, 2009
October 22, 2009
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Federal Times
wants to know "Did anyone take the USPS
buyouts?" -
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MPD Chief's
(postal employee) Brother Arrested
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Council May
Urge Congress to Save Post Offices
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Lawmakers say
Senate health care bill could hit feds with new
taxes
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USPS Mobile
October 21, 2009
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Wednesday
Morning Federal Newscast -
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Postal
Service Goes Mobile
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Postman Aces
Test -
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Byrd,
Rockefeller Defend Post Office -
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Teen flasher
bares it all to letter carrier
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Ex-Postal
Clerk Gets Probation In Theft Of Pain Medication
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Three
Arrested in Connection With U.S. Post Office
Robbery in Effingham County -
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GREENLEE v.
U.S. POSTAL SERVICE
October 20, 2009
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Postal
inspectors take over mail truck robbery
investigation -
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Federal
employees are clock watchers -
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NJ postal
center should be salvaged -
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Jail Time For
Mail Stealer
October 19, 2009
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NJ residents
fear two post offices will close
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Mail truck
crashes into utility pole, injuring driver
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HB rallies to
head off post office closure
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Deltona
Centralizing 2,200 Curbside Mailboxes
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APWU: Pay
Raise Set for November 21
October 18, 2009
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Commentary:
Temptation and the Netflix bandit -
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Fix postal
deficit by getting real -
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5 QUESTIONS
for Dean Granholm, V.P. of delivery and post
office operations for the U.S. Postal Service
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USPS truck
driver kidnapped, robbed
October 17, 2009
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Post Office
cuts off neighborhood after dogs bite mailmen,
twice -
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I Hate Earth
Class Mail's Exorbitant Price Hike -
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Letter
Carriers Honored for Heroism
October 16, 2009
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Ex-mail
handler admits theft of video games in envelopes
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VP Veglianti
On End of Year PFP -
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In Digital
Era, Marketers Still Prefer a Paper Trail
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Okla. man
arrested in central Calif. mail bombing
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JUELS v. U.S.
POSTAL SERVICE
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Mailed Pipe
Bombs Lead To Area Arrest
October 15, 2009
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USPS first
agency to release data on greenhouse gas
emissions
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PMG To Postal Customers - No 2010
Rate Increases On Market Dominant Products -
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Additional
Information on Cross-Craft Reassignments
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Businesses urged to get involved in
USPS restructuring -
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Congress &
Your Health Plan: Bullseye or Misfire?
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Wheeling
Postal Workers Hold Informational Picket
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Postal
Service eyes possible closure of San Antonio
branches
October 14, 2009
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Postal
Workers Protest, USPS Weighs In |
Unions
Site -
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Man learns
tough lesson when insulin delayed in mail
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Burrus Issues Challenge to PMG
Potter -
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“Pay for
Performance” not performing this year
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Pitney Bowes Accuses Zumbox Of
Patent Infringement -
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Post office
refuses to deliver mail after man puts up new
box
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The Courier,
Express, and Postal Business and the Nobel Prize
October 13, 2009
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Postal
Workers Picket at Scottsville Rd. Office
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Investigators
following up on tips in postal worker’s death
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Carrier
suspended; post office investigating
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Offended
contract postal carrier responds
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Postmaster by
day Comedian, Artist and Illustrator by Night
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Problem
Postal Proposals
October 12, 2009
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Timely
delivery: Mail carrier saves man's life
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Federal
agents charge pair with mail crimes
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The Singing
Letter Carrier
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Residents gather to remember beloved
mail carrier
October 11, 2009
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Goshen postal
carrier pleads guilty -
He admitted to hiding mail that had accumulated
in vacant boxes.
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Why Do
Federal Workers Make Twice As Much As
Private-Sector Workers? PEN Ed: Just
thought you may want to add your thoughts
regarding this ignorant article. -
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Would-be Post
Office buyer misses second deadline
October 10, 2009
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Employees
protest closing of N.J. distribution center
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FERS
Sick-Leave Provision In Defense Conference
Agreement - NAPUS newsletter -
October 9, 2009
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Postal
Service Pays Some Workers To Do Nothing
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FERS 'flu'
cure a "done deal" -
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Postal
carrier pleads guilty to mail stockpiling
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The Times Are a-Changin' for Postal
Service -
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Potter Doesn't Want to Hike Postage
Rates in 2010 -
What's Happening To The Post Office?
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Package leaks
mercury at Wichita post office
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Update on
Gamefly Complaint With USPS That Netflix and
Blockbuster Get Preferential Treatment
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Postal
Employee Charged in Netflix Thefts
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Updated list of possible USPS
closures: 371 post offices -
See USPS List
- Also see APWU:
Union Vows Fight to Keep Stations Open
October 8, 2009
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FERS Flu and
Fighter Jets -
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The MSPB:
Administrative Justice for Federal and Postal
Workers Denied Disability Retirement Benefits
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APWU: Unusual
Areas of Agreement
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US Postmaster
General: No More 'Business As Usual'
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Wichita Post
Office Finds Package Leaking Mercury
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Postal
Service announces final list of closures
October 7, 2009
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Section of roof collapses at post office
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Mailers Fear New USPS Reform May be Needed
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Dead Tree Edition: For
Periodicals, The Postal Service’s Math Doesn’t
Add Up
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USPS To Close Philly L&DC
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Council: Don't stamp out
postal plant
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APWU: Minimum Requirements for
Cross-Craft Reassignments (PDF)
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The Postal Service - The Myth of Independence
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U.S. Postal Service offers $100,000 reward in
mail truck driver's slaying in Camp Hill, Alabama
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Andy Rooney on the Postal Service’s woes
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Seven Ways to Fix the U.S. Postal Service
October 6, 2009
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Slower Mail Delivery in
Elmira?
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Interview with Postmaster
General John (Jack) Potter
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OIG: A Penny for Your
Thoughts?
October 5, 2009
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Publisher of N.O. Tribune
cited in freak fatal accident that pinned
postman
October 02, 2009
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Former postal
workers admit theft of gift cards -
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Senate allows
US Postal Service to delay $4 billion retiree
payment -
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Private
postal service not all that attractive
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NAPUS
Newsletter - President Signs Postal Reprieve
Bill -
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Postal Worker
Cleared in Pepper Spray Incident -
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3 cities get
paperless postal service -
October 01, 2009
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Health
Premiums Up, Pay Not So Much! -
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Senate
approves stopgap to keep gov't running
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The Reinterpretation of William
Burrus
Dead Tree Edition -
Postal Service Relies on Incomplete
Data, Discriminates Against Underserved Communities
APWU Testimony on Station Closings -
Victory: FERS Sick-Leave Credit
Becomes Law
APWU Web News Article -
Carrier charged in federal court
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Postal Employee Breaking the law
CNN: PEN Ed: What??? -
The Postal Service's 'get well'
plan? Greeting cards
Washington Post -
Irrational Pricing at the Postal
Service
Courier, Express, and Postal Observer -
Congress Must Fix Funding
Requirement; USPS Must Expand Goals, Burrus Says -
APWU: USPS Policies Threaten Postal
Viability - New Heights – Of Absurdity – In Rate Setting
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OIG: Do you think centralized
delivery should be mandated for new developments? -
Congress in no rush to cut mail
delivery -
USPS seeks change in reporting rules
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USPS: Mystery Shopper Program will
become the Retail Customer Experience -
(Postal employees) Dealing with Fear
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Leave With Pay -
Postal Service CFO Says More
Lobbying Needed -
Labor Problems at FedEx Ground
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KC woman and son indicted for
alleged assault of postal inspector -
Incentive Offer Leads to One-Time
Exception on Casual Cap -
US Postal Service enforces gun ban
in public parking lots -
Read the Courts Opinion
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What OPM isn’t doing to contain
health rates -
Mailers Council's New White Paper
Calls for Legislative Reform to Avoid Postal Service Insolvency
PEN Ed: The Mailers Council (MC) recommends, among other things: Allow
USPS to reduce its head count - USPS needs greater control over
compensation - MC says "An arbitrator should consider the financial health
of the Postal Service when making a decision in the collective bargaining
process." - and, The Postal Service should complete its study of
five-day-a-week delivery and fully present its findings for further
discussion. -
PEN Ed: The Mailers Council, and numerous other sources,
always love to point out that 80% of the Postal Service's costs are
labor costs. We call upon the Mailers Council, or any other qualified
person or organization, to explain to the public, and postal employees,
just how USPS can reduce this cost without drastically reducing
its core operation....SERVICE. When possible deliveries increase at more
than 1 million new addresses per year does the Mailers Council believe
that these new addresses will just choose not to have mail delivery at
their home or business? Listen folks AS OF RIGHT NOW IT TAKES LIVE
WALKING/DRIVING HUMANS TO DELIVER MAIL OR AT LEAST BE AVAILABLE TO
DELIVER POSSIBLE MAIL. What is it that you do not understand about that
or the fact that it is the United States Postal SERVICE?
And no, postal employee salaries cannot and should not be compared to
pizza delivery employees or temporary employees that throw unwanted
sales brochures on porches. Postal salaries are, and should be, inline
with those of UPS, FedEx, etc. If you would like to respond please
scroll to the bottom of this page, hit the Contact link, and explain
this to me and postal employees.
Rick Owens: CEO Postal Employee Network
18,000 sign up for Postal Service
buyouts
Federal Times: About 18,000 U.S. Postal Service employees are expected to
take $15,000 buyouts to leave their jobs this year - far less than the
30,000 originally projected by the agency. -
Bangor postmaster charged with
soliciting 3 girls, 2 women for sex, drugs
As the Bangor postmaster drove around checking collection boxes Tuesday
afternoon, he was also looking for sex and propositioned two women and
tried to lure three girls into his car, he allegedly told police. Gregory
George Schlegel, 53, of 556 Roberts Road in Bushkill Township was charged
Tuesday afternoon after the women and girls -- ages 12, 13, and 17 --
reported the incident. -
USPS' perky benefits
Mike Causey says "...if you are tired of paying high health-insurance
premiums and sick about increases coming next year, here's a tip: Join the
service. The U.S. Postal Service, that is. -
U.S. can't afford pay for no work
Can you detect the pattern? About 15,000 postal workers, including (so
far) more than a dozen in Waterbury, will spend at least part of some or
all of their shifts this year in "standby rooms," where they will collect
their paychecks but will be prohibited from earning them. The cost to the
Postal Service of paying 7 percent of its work force to do nothing will
exceed $50 million this year. -
Postal Service Says Workers' Time
Sheets Altered
Managers at three southern New Hampshire post offices manipulated
employees' time sheets, causing some people to be underpaid, the inspector
general of the U.S. Postal Service said. Also see
Congressman Paul Hodes -
Why Potter Is Freezing Postal Rates,
And What It Means For 2010 - Dead Tree Edition -
Also see:
USPS Has ‘Extreme Prejudice’
Against Raising Rates Next Year
EDITORIAL: Postal privatization
[PEN Ed: another blindly written article]
The best solution would be to get government out of the mail business.
Privatize mail delivery, just as many European nations and New Zealand
have done successfully, and end its legal monopoly on first-class mail
delivery, opening it up to competition. That ultimately will result in
lower costs and better service for customers - and give the USPS a
fighting chance to survive. -
Mailing Industry Executives Tell
Workers to Sacrifice
APWU: It was shocking, however, to read that the president of the
Association for Postal Commerce suggests that “the
time has come for postal employees to start sharing some of the
sacrifices.”
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PostCom Responds to President
Burrus
Why attack PostCom? Because it's the one association with the brass to
say "mailers have had enough" of postal rate increases, cost-shifting to
mailers' shoulders through an ever-increasing variety of postal
regulations and operational rules, postal inspectors pressuring mailers
to pay penalties for violations where none exist, and a whole laundry
list of issues that stem from the Postal Service's being ham-strung by a
cost structure that's still--after all these years--80% labor-related.
Labor contracts and outmoded work rules that fail to comport with
today's economic reality have condemned the Postal Service on the road
to perdition. -
Postmasters Vote Not to Support VOE
Survey -
Sick Leave Phase In...
Under a phase-in plan okayed by Congress, FERS employees who want to get
full credit for unused sick leave will have to wait until January 1, 2014
to retire. They can leave earlier than that, but if they do, they will get
only partial credit toward retirement under the phase-in rules. -
GameFly pushes USPS on Netflix
favoritism
GameFly last month filed a motion to compel the postal service to answer
questions about photos showing "Netflix only" mail slots at two California
post offices. The postal service has denied giving Netflix special
treatment. -
Postal Service now a 'high risk'
government agency with $10 billion in debt
When post offices in West Palm Beach, Lantana and Boca Raton wound up on
the U.S. Postal Service's endangered list, supporters were alarmed enough
to sign petitions and call lawmakers for assistance. But the Postal
Service is in such desperate straits that closing those three branches -
among a potential 371 nationwide - hardly begins to plug the money drain.
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Mail Carrier: Stress Led To Jail
Trip -
Veteran Carrier Is Accused Of Assaulting Bosses
USPS' Potter urges 'public dialogue'
on future of Postal Service
Federal News Radio: Today, Oct. 9, 2009, the U.S. Postal Service is
expected to release its final list of post offices and other postal
facilities that it plans to close across the country. Its all part of an
effort by the USPS to close an estimated 5 billion dollar budget shortfall
forecast for this year.
See USPS press release -
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