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POSTAL NEWS FROM PEN
October 2014 News
October 31, 2014
‘Don’t throw traditional stamps into the [postal]
dumpster,’ former USPS committee member warns -
Washington Post
Video: Delivery problems at New Orleans high-rise
resolved after FOX 8 Intervenes - PEN
APWU: Questions and Answers on the 9,000 New
Clerk Craft Jobs - PEN
POStPlan Q&A's - League of Postmasters
- PEN
Indiana letter carrier aids woman who fell
- PEN
IL Postal Employee Killed in Head-on Collision
- Chicago Sun Times
October 30, 2014
Video: APWU Pres. Dimondstein: Don't Let PMG Turn
USPS Into a Museum - PEN
Innovation ‘starting to pay off’ for Postal
Service - PEN
Postal Bulletin: Christmas Pay Procedures for
Rural Carriers - PEN
USPS: Penalty Overtime Exclusion
- PEN
Post Office to Berkeley: Drop Dead!
- Berkeley Daily Planet
Video: Mailman accused of stalking, assaulting
women on his route - PEN
Video: Frenemies: UPS, FedEx & the Post Office
- PEN
Video: Postal worker takes action to put crooks
behind bars - PEN
Kinston, NC postal worker charged with dealing
drugs - WRAL
Congress should unshackle the U.S. Postal Service
while maintaining Saturday mail delivery - Buffalo News
Postal Service expects 14% surge in holiday
deliveries - USA Today
GAO: Montana mail service has suffered since 2011
cutbacks
Ex-firefighter sentenced to two months in jail
for racially charged attack on mailman - NY Daily News
October 29, 2014
APWU: Penalty Overtime Exclusion Period, New
Leave Year - PEN
Postal Service begins expanding into 1500 Staples
- Save the Post Office
Video: How the Postal Service is helping law
enforcement monitor snail mail - PEN
Indiana Postal Manager Accused of Stealing Pain
Meds Mailed to Veterans - PEN
Video: Tireless Columbus Postal Worker Retiring
After 58 Years on the Job - PEN
APWU: Plans Taking Shape for National Day of
Action – Nov. 14 - PEN
Snail Mail Gets Slower: Why USPS Is Missing Its
Own Mail Delivery Goals - GovExec.com
Postal worker ejected in crash
- Standard Journal
Overnight Delivery To Come To An End with Postal
Service Changes - WKMS
October 28, 2014
APWU, USPS Settle Custodial Subcontracting
Dispute - PEN
Will Anyone Care About the Postal Service’s
Metadata Program and
A Follow Up on the Postal Service Metadata
Program - Lawfare (PEN Ed: is USPS spying on people
along with the NSA)
Tracking the Postal Surveillance System
- NY Times
Four postal unions plan Nov. 14 ‘Day of Action’
on new round of service cuts - PEN
USPS Owned Bolger Center Laying Off 261 Employees
- PEN
Senator Carper: Postal Service will be forced to
continue painful cuts if Congress doesn't act - PEN
Feds investigating theft of Dayton mail by
contracted truck driver - PEN
A Bird in Hand: The Importance of Customer
Retention - Office of Inspector General
Postal problems - Bladen
Journal
Customer Care Centers - Office of
Inspector General
Report Reveals Wider Tracking of Mail in U.S.
- NY Times
Extensive U.S. mail monitoring revealed
- Dallas Morning News
PostalOne! Zombie Apocolypse - Errors and Alarms
In PostalOne!® - Intelisent Postal Affairs Blog
Mail truck rear-ended on Rt. 68
- Dayton, OH
October 27, 2014
USPS: This year, health benefits info will be on
LiteBlue - PEN
NAPUS: Elections, Lame-Duck and Retirement COLAs
- PEN
So How Are We Really Doing? -
PostalVision
GAO: Information on Recent Changes to Delivery
Standards, Operations, and Performance - PEN
NALC election results announced
- PEN
APWU Members, Retirees Attend Michigan’s SOAR
Coalition Congressional Breakfast - PEN
Postal unions continue fight plant-closure battle
- Kokomo Perspective
Should the USPS Help Amazon Deliver Groceries?
- eCommerce Bytes
The USPS Studies Potential Income Growth Posed by 3D
Printing Industry - 3D Print
Police: Postmaster stole pills from the mail
Auditor warns of mail delays in Tucson
October 26, 2014
How FedEx is trying to save the business model
that saved it millions - Washington Post
Campaigns look to more cost-effective direct mail
options - Campaigns & Elections
NALC: 2015 retiree cost-of-living adjustment
(COLA) - PEN
Amid criticism, regulators grant USPS grocery
delivery permission - FedScoop
Executive Q&A: Postal Service uses innovation to
increase revenues but also needs Congress - Q&A with
Jeff Williamson, chief human resource officer and executive vice president
for the Postal Service - Wisconsin State Journal
14 letters labeled 'Anthrax' found at post office
- WESH
October 25, 2014
Video: PMG - This is our future - October 2014
State of the Business - PEN
Postal carrier, wearing gloves and mask, delivers
mail to apartment building of NYC Ebola patient Dr. Craig Spencer
- PEN
Postal unions continue fight plant-closure battle
- Kokomo Perspective
October 24, 2014
Video: Mail theft in Denver caught on camera
- PEN
Canada converts 100,000 customers to cluster
boxes, only 4.9 million to go - Save the Post Office
Pit bull attacks postal worker in
Carpentersville, IL
- Chicago Tribune
Postal service truck hits woman in wheelchair
- SoMdNews.com
Postal Service gets green light to test grocery
delivery - Federal Times
October 23, 2014
Fix the U.S. postal service
- Senator Tom Carper and Senator Tom Coburn via USA Today
CONFIRMED: Houston’s rare victory in preventing
post office closure - Houston Chronicle
Lyons Post Office under demolition after it
collapses in Clinton, Iowa - WQAD
Shandon residents say issues with the mail have
gotten out of control - New Times San Luis Obispo, CA
Video: Baby found abandoned in Houston post
office lobby - PEN
Postal Clerk Pleads Guilty To Stealing
Prescription Painkillers From Mail And Burglarizing Post Office
- PEN
APWU: Harvard Isn't Talking; Staples Isn't
Telling the Truth - PEN
USPS: Customers should know the facts about
change cf address (COA) services - PEN
Federal Employees File Petition For Extra
Christmas Holiday - PEN
Man charged who robbed pharmacy, stole mail truck
- Portland Press Herald
Dead Tree Edition: Postmaster General Wins
Dubious Publishing Honor
October 22, 2014
APWU to Harvard President: Stop Staples Deal or
Quit Board - PEN
PMG discusses Election Mail, packages in latest
video - PEN
Canada Begins Phasing Out Door-To-Door Postal
Service; All Home Delivery To End By 2019 -
Forbes
Coburn 'Wastebook' finds $25 billion in
questionable agency spending - Federal Times
Video: Surveillance video released in murder of
Cheverly, MD postal worker Tyson Barnette - PEN
Video: Fumes from package at Humble, TX Post
Office send 7 workers to hospital - PEN
Teens to prison for mail carrier assault
- Appeal-Democrat
Nine ways the government squandered your money,
according to Sen. Coburn’s 2014 ‘Wastebook’ -
The Washington Post
A Bold Vision for the Future of the Postage Stamp
- NBC News
Known Issues - Mailer Scorecard Reports
- Intelisent Postal Affairs Blog
FedEx Expects Epic Santa's Sleigh This Holiday
Season - Investors.com
October 21, 2014
Raw video: Porch camera captures package theft
- PEN
Rippon, WV PMR Sentenced to Probation For
Stealing Postal Funds - PEN
Video: Post Office Apologizes For Declaring Man
Dead - PEN
Despite Indictment, Postal Unions Supporting
Grimm - The Chief
Amazon Wields Seller Defect Rates to Curb Late
Shipments - eCommerce Bytes
Audio: Postal employees hope public pressure
delays or blocks USPS plans to move Roanoke processing to Greensboro
- News/Talk 960-AM & FM-107.3 WFIR
Video: 15,000 postal service jobs could disappear
- Senator Sanders on The Ed Show - PEN
Procurement and Use of Common Fleet Trailers -
Northeast Area - Office of Inspector General
October 20, 2014
APWU: Do You Know Someone Who Needs a Job?
- PEN
NAPUS: LIMITED AREA OF CONSIDERATION (LAC)
POSTINGS FOR PTPOs, EAS 18 POSTMASTER AND EAS VACANCIES
- PEN
Postal Unions Call for National Day of Action
- NPMHU via PEN
USPS Proposing Relocation Of Marina Del Rey
Branch Post Office - Santa Monica Mirror
Sold American: An inventory of USPS disposed
properties, 2009-2014 - Save the Post Office
Dead Tree Edition: Google Loves Print, This We
Know, For Its Guidelines Tell Us So
Batman stamps have "prostituted" the US postal
service, say collectors - Radio Times
Postal clerks jobs uncertain after consolidation
- VC-Star
Six Years and Still Going Strong
- Office of Inspector General
October 19, 2014
USPS: The Health Benefits, Dental, and Vision
Programs are Going Green - PEN
No traditional mailboxes for new subdivisions
- Forsyth County News
DMM Revision: Hold For Pickup Service Expanded to
Additional Products - PEN
ELM Revision: Federal Employees Health Benefits
Program - PEN
October 18, 2014
Video: Baby's life rests in hands of US Postal
Service - PEN
Suspicious package meant to steal mail
- Rolla Daily News
USPS investigation reveals 900 pieces of stolen
mail in Harrison - video - WLWT Cincinnati
October 17, 2014
Congresswoman Norton Wants Postal Service to
Reverse Changes that Lengthen First-Class Delivery and Return Night Time
Delivery Risks to Letter Carriers - PEN
Former Deadwood postal worker sentenced to 15
years for sex with 12-year-old - Rapid City Journal
Former postal carrier admits to stealing from
mail - The Columbus Dispatch
Harrison, OH postal worker suspended; Accused of
stealing mail - WLWT
Tell the Postmaster General, Board of Governors:
Stop Delaying America’s Mail! - PEN
IG: USPS hasn't analyzed impact of plant
consolidation - Fierce Government
October 16, 2014
The Postal Service's Union-Busting Law Firm
- PEN
Supervisors demand facts in Eureka mail
processing center consolidation - KIEM TV
Video: 30-second, $9K-mail theft caught on
surveillance camera - PEN
Video: Mail service stalls in North Slope whaling
village - PEN
Man indicted over anthrax letter to Sumner DA’s
office - The Tennessean
Amazon Hires 80K Seasonal Holiday Workers
- Boston.com
October 15, 2014
Next in postal privatization: Goin Postal
counters in 2,000 Walmarts - Save the Post
Office
PMRs and PMR Annuitants Receive MOU Impact Notice
- PEN
Duluth Rallies Against Consolidation
- PEN
West Virginia letter carrier helps boy get home
- PEN
USPS Hatch Act Reminder - PEN
400 pieces of mail stolen from postal vehicle
- Des Moines Register
$157,196,468 Spent on Union Salaries in FY 2012
- FedSmith
October 14, 2014
Top Ten Reasons Congress Must Act on Postal Reform
- PostCom
Why mail still matters in politics
- Columbus CEO
Post Office Relocations: Having Your Say
- Office of Inspector General
GOP says Democrats abuse nonprofit mailing permit
- Gleaner
Google’s shopping service charges membership fees
- The Technology Chronicles
Lyndhurst mailman charged with theft in
connection with stolen tax return checks -
NorthJersey.com
Meet the mailman who mapped Rio’s slums before
Google could - Grist
Postal Service anticipates the need for up to
10,000 Right Hand Drive delivery vehicles - PEN
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More Postal News
October 13, 2014
Video: Postal Worker Spots International Mail
Fraud Scheme - PEN
Postal worker thanks colleague for turning bad
days into good ones - Fox News
The most expensive postal code in the U.S. — and
nobody knows about it - The Province
Invisible Hands: The Businessmen’s Campaign to
Dismantle the Post Office - Angry Bear Blog
Postal Service calling on retired employees to
help during holiday season - WDSU News Channel 6
Getting to know a small-town postal worker
- Times Bulletin
October 12, 2014
Video: Texas health care worker tests positive
for Ebola - Texas health officials say a health
care worker who provided care for the Ebola patient who died there has now
tested positive for Ebola. - USA Today
Texas rural carrier dies in collision just 2
months from retirement - Leader News
FedEx workers at New Jersey facility reject union
representation - Reuters
Will UPS Blow It Again This Christmas?
- Motley Fool
Third Bush on the Right: USPS Grocery Deliveries
Would Need Lots of TLC from Carriers - Dead Tree
Edition
October 11, 2014
Video: Lafayette, LA postal worker found guilty
of stealing $275,000 in gift cards - PEN
Money order madness -
Philly.com
Postal workers union official (NALC) cleared of
charges after arrest at post office - Chicago
Tribune
October 10, 2014
PMG Expands Staples Dirty Deal – ‘Don’t Buy’
Movement Grows - PEN
Newspaper Subscribers May Be the Unseen Victims
in USPS Plant Closings - Perryville News
Postal Service seeks permission to continue
grocery delivery pilot - FedScoop
How Your Vote in November Could Harm or Help
Children - PEN
Go Postal? - Why a job as a letter carrier may be
the best you'd ever get - Psychology Today
Haz-mat investigating contents of suspicious
package mailed to a business on East Brainerd Road in Chattanooga, TN
- WRCB 3 Chattanooga
Feds Should Keep an Eye on the Race to Replace
Darrell Issa - GovExec.com
Postage mix-up keeps mailed Harris County ballots
at post office for days - abc13.com
Revenue Protection Rules
(PDF) - OIG
Limited Edition Forever Stamps Celebrate the Dark
Knight’s 75th Anniversary - Batman Stamps
Dedication New York Comic Con 2014 - PEN
NAPUS: VACANT PTPO 6-HOUR OFFICES TO BE POSTED
- PEN
APWU POSTAL UNION PREZ TO POSTMASTER: ADIOS
- Politico
APWU: Remedy for Violations of PSE Cap:
Conversions, Not Terminations! - PEN
APWU: ‘Pecking Order’ Set for Filling New
Positions in POStPlan Offices - PEN
Mail stolen from Pittsburgh letter carrier's
vehicle - WTAE
Proposed 2015 USPS Promotions Calendar
- Intelisent Postal Affairs Blog
October 09, 2014
Temple, TX Couple Sentenced To Federal Prison For
Postal Theft Scheme Involving In Excess Of 50,000 Pieces Of United States
Mail - PEN
Report: Postal Service leaves areas in the dark
on changes to 95 facilities - The Washington
Post
USPS workers in Scranton hit with overdue city
tax bills - The Times-Tribune
OPM Announces 2015 Federal Employees Health
Benefits Program Premium Rates - PEN
The Biggest Drug Courier in America Is the U.S.
Postal Service - Vocativ
Former Postal Service Employee Indicted For
Scheme To Defraud The Workers Compensation Program
- PEN
9 suspects snared in sticky-mailbox thefts
- LoHud Journal News
The Post Office Wants to Gorge on Your Groceries
- Motley Fool
Giant Eagle executive chairman nominated to
Postal Service board of governors - TribLIVE
Lindenhurst man killed in repair shop accident at
Hicksville post office - Newsday
USPS OIG: Lack of Service Standard Change
Information in Area Mail Processing Feasibility Studies
- Intelisent Postal Affairs Blog
Delayed upgrades cost Postal Service
- Washington Examiner
McGowan replaced as stamp chief; Tackett acting
manager - Linns.com
October 08, 2014
Video: $50K Reward Offered For Info On Miami
Postal Carrier Robbery - PEN
Video: Post office vehicle parked in handicap
spot, obstructing ramp - PEN
"If You Don’t Ask, You DO Get"
- Must An Employer Accommodate An Employee Even If She Does Not Ask For An
Accommodation?
PRC rule lays out USPS unfair competition
complaint process
- Fierce Government
Postal clerks protest extending services to
Staples stores - Philadelphia Daily News
Union Criminal Enforcement Actions -
August-September 2014 - PEN
Postal Service data called at risk
- Herald Tribune
USPS Preliminary Financial Information, August
2014 (PDF) - PRC
October 07, 2014
Video: Postal worker attacked by dogs in
Schenectady - PEN
Postal inspectors looking for man in Seattle mail
thefts - KIRO TV
Federal workers to see another rate increase for
health coverage - The Washington Post
USPS mail carrier robbed at gunpoint in NW
Miami-Dade
Vigil Planned for Boy Killed by U.S. Postal
Service Truck - Breitbart News
NALC: The cause of a $1.6 billion swing
- PEN
NAPS: STOP THE POSTAL SERVICE’S PLAN TO SLOW DOWN
MAIL SERVICE and DELAY THE CLOSING OF MORE MAIL PROCESSING FACILITIES
- PEN
Video: Hefty Back Tax Bill For Postal Workers
- PEN
Video: Kansas City boy recounts crash with postal
truck that killed his 13-year-old best friend - PEN
USPS Heroes’ Corner – October 2014
- PEN
Agencies show mixed results containing workers'
comp costs - Federal Times -
Read PEN's article covering this subject
Former postal employee admits she stole $55,363
over a nine-month period - Tribune-Review
HOUSTON, TX - Prosecutors say they'll seek the
death penalty against a Southeast Texas man charged
with fatally shooting his neighborhood postal carrier last year. - Chron
Duluth postal employees, residents protest mail
processing center closure planned for 2015 - Star
Tribune
Our View: Amazon's special delivery
- The Taunton Daily Gazette
A post office worker in Philadelphia
has been charged with allegedly stealing nearly $29,000 intended for
customer money orders - Philly.com
Postal carrier, neighbor save house from fire
Delivering the Holidays to Diplomatic and
Military Service Members Worldwide - USPS news
October 06, 2014
"Irate" Boynton post office customer throws box
at worker, police say - Sun Sentinel
Sanger, CA man pleads guilty to stealing 57
vehicle batteries from U.S. mail trucks - 23ABC News
IG: USPS needs to tailor business to customers of
the future - Fierce Government
The New, Improved Generation of Instant Delivery
Services - CityLab
You Have Mail a for-profit alternative to Canada
Post home delivery - CBC
Canadian Union of Postal Workers Condemns
"Vultures Circling" Over End Of Home Mail Delivery -
The Street
IG Calls on USPS to Implement Transportation Route
Tracking Technology - FEDweek
Video: Danville Woman Says Money Was Stolen Out
Of Her Birthday Card She Got In The Mail - PEN
How the Postal Service put your change-of-address
information at risk
- The Washington Post
Future Uncertain as Minnesota Letter Carriers
Rally Today
- Public News Service
Camber of Fairfax won
a contract worth up to $30 million from the U.S. Postal Service for
professional, administrative and management support services.
Totes to Your Door: Do you currently use a
grocery store delivery service (like Peapod, Instacart or Fresh Direct)?
- Office of Inspector General
Mailboxes are Slowly Disappearing
- Delta News Web
OPM: When is Open Season?
October 05, 2014
U.S. Postal Service denies curbside mail in
Palmer, Bethlehem Township development
- Cluster boxes must be installed - Lehigh Valley Live
Postal worker has visited 244 baseball parks, 66
left - Telegraph Forum
Ocala, FL woman sends inmate boyfriend drug-laced
love letter - First Coast News
Video: 13-year-old boy dies in accident with USPS
truck - PEN
October 04, 2014
Police in Bellevue, Washington, say a female
postal worker accused of striking a pedestrian three
times with her marked postal service vehicle while "laughing hysterically"
has been arrested for investigation of assault. - Bellingham Herald
Jury convicts ex-Lafayette postal worker on theft
- Beaumont Enterprise
Economy helps the Postal Service continue to
thrive - Rolando Special to The Desert Sun
Postal customers, workers protest proposed
changes - The Columbian
NLRB Says FedEx Drivers Are Employees, Not
Contractors - Law 360 - Also see:
Kansas Supreme Court: FedEx Ground Drivers Not
Contractors - Forbes
Voyager Card Program – Capping Report
(PDF) - Management Advisory Report - OIG
October 03, 2014
Congress's Research Arm Cites Retiree Fund as
USPS's Undoing - Direct Marketing News
Video - Jack Daniel Distillery Seeks
Commemorative Stamp From USPS - PEN
APWU Backs Retirees’ Demand to Re-Open Social
Security Offices - PEN
Video: USPS Mail Bins Crowd Sidewalks In NYC
Financial District - PEN
Is Amazon Planning a Shipping Revolution?
- Practical Ecommerce
Highway Contract Route Electronic Payment Process
(PDF) - Management Advisory Report - OIG
Dormant Advance Deposit Permit Accounts
(PDF) - Management Advisory Report - OIG
Voyager Card Program for Highway Contract Routes
- Pooling Policy Concerns and Related Overpayments
(PDF) - Management Advisory Report - OIG
Management Alert – Manual Package Counting and
Conversion Factors (PDF) - Management Alert - OIG
October 02, 2014
PMG touts USPS network during TV interview
- PEN
NALC: City Delivery Route Alternative Adjustment
Process - 2014-2015 - PEN
Those Damned Hippies. They Rezoned the Post
Office - The Daily Kos
USPS to Maintain Current Product and Service
Prices - PEN
Amazon's Deal With the United States Postal
Service Could Hold the Key to the Mail Deliverer’s Future
- The Motley Fool
USPS needs to compete better
- Fosters
The Postal Service Giveth, and the Paper Market
Taketh Away - Dead Tree Edition
October 01, 2014
Colorado man wants to bring gun into post office
- San Francisco Gate
Former postal worker sentenced for
misappropriating funds - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
How the USPS can embrace tech and keep physical
mail relevant - FedScoop
Video: Secret Service Director Resigns
- PEN Federal News
Security Controls for USPS Change of Address
Program Are Insufficient - PEN
Video: USPS Amazon Fresh Delivery in San
Francisco - PEN
Video: More than 200 attend US Postal Job Fair in
downtown Tulsa - PEN
Rural post offices bracing for reduced hours,
staffing - WMTW
Denver postal robbers get five years in federal
prison - PEN
Missoulian Editorial: Postal Service needs real
reform - The Missoulian
On the job: Postal worker -
Cecil Daily
With Berkeley set to change civic center zoning,
US Postal Service ponders lawsuit - Berkeleyside
Suitability of Rail Transportation - New Jersey
Network Distribution Center (PDF) - OIG
National Change of Address Program
(PDF) - Security controls over the COA manual processes and NCOALink data
are not sufficient to protect the confidentiality and integrity of
customer information. - OIG
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