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POSTAL NEWS FROM PEN
NOVEMBER 2009
November 15, 2009
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Mom of 'proud
soldier' dissatisfied with postal service
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USPS, UPS, FedEx Express and the RLA -
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Summer Sale
Boosted Catalog Mailings, Paper Exec Says
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South side
woman protests closure of post office
November 14, 2009
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Do not be
fooled (Ed: Good article) -
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Mobile post
office will not return to Jersey City
November 13, 2009
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Charges
against Richmond, Va. Postal Workers Official
Indefinitely Dropped -
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New
developments about mail carrier and man accused
of assaulting her
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Man killed by
VP's Secret Service vehicles -
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West Sunbury
woman pleads guilty to Postal Service theft
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Netflix
Spends $600 million on postage yearly
November 12, 2009
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Paducah
postal worker gets 22 years probation on theft
charge -
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PRC
Investigation of Suspended Post Offices
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Mishawaka, IN
man arrested after assaulting mail carrier
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Healthcare
Reform End Game
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UPS to raise
2010 shipping rates
November 11, 2009
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Officials of
Arkansas Postal Workers Local Indicted for Fraud
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Fort Payne,
AL postman accused of mail theft
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US Attorney -
Dozen Defendants (including a postal employee)
Arrested For Passport Fraud -
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Police: Teens
shot paint balls at letter carrier -
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Small-Parcel
Shippers to Get USPS Rate Breaks
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Carrier was
the Right person in the Right place at the Right
time
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Gracious
Montgomery, AL clerk teaches lesson
November 10, 2009
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Missing mail
prompts investigation of former postal employee
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Postal
Service announces mix of price cuts, increases
for 2010
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Mail carrier
delivers help to veterans
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AL’S BACK
November 09, 2009
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OIG:
Disappearing Collection Boxes
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So, Who Drew
the Short Straw?
Do the new benefits approved for FERS employees
give them a better deal than their older
colleagues under the CSRS retirement plan?
Senior Correspondent Mike Causey asked readers
and he got an earful. -
November 08, 2009
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Company
responds to closure fears -
November 07, 2009
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35 Excessing
Notices Go Out to Elmira Postal Workers (VIDEO)
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Postman in
fair condition after collision
November 06, 2009
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CSRS vs.
FERS: Somebody's Got it Made! -
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Andrews: USPS
must explain Logan Twp. closing
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Family of
murdered Alabama mail truck driver searches for
answers
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Post Office
stops mobile service in Jersey City
November 05, 2009
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Annual/Sick
Leave Into TSP Dollars? -
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Mail carrier
found slumped in Boynton Beach stamped with DUI
charge -
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FERS Sick Leave Cure: Rumor vs.
Reality -
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Child Support Company Sued By U.S.
Postal Service -
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Albany, NY Postal Customers Speak
Out -
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How to avoid drowning in Open
Season's flood of choices -
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Caught Like a Burglar With the Goods
in Hand -
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Eight Challenges for a Postal
Business Model -
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More than Stamps: Adapting the
Postal Service to a Changing World -
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2010 Shipping
Services Prices (PDF 2.06 mb)
Effective January 4, 2010 | Also see
U. S. Postal
Service Announces 2010 Shipping Prices
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New Service
Targets the Cost and Customer Service Impact of
Undeliverable Shipments
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GAO: Postal Financial Challenges
Continue, with Relatively Limited Results from Recent Revenue-Generation
Efforts
November 04, 2009
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Who could
replace Potter? -
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Summary of
USPS HQ/Management Associations consultative
meeting on October 28 -
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Mail Truck
Rollover Kills Driver
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IRS Employee
Pleads Guilty to Stealing Mail
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Are 19 L.A.
communities losing their U.S. Post Offices?
November 03, 2009
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Family
battles post office over shredded death
certificate -
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Former Postal
Employee Sentenced For Stealing From Mail
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Postal
carrier charged with littering after dumping
mail -
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Pitney Bowes Asks - What’s next for
the USPS? -
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Dear Mr. Postmaster General, you’ve
started a trend… but… -
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Preference-Eligible Employees Should
Look to the CBA
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USPS to
release Intelligent Mail additions this month
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Wrong to
close efficient postal center
November 02, 2009
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Postmaster
faces man with gun at Post Office
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Family:
Post office job pressures led to threats
PEN Ed: I once worked for this PM when he was in
our city. He was the first supervisor in my
career that
issued discipline for what he called 'extending
time
for personal gain.' -
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Monday
Morning Federal Newscast -
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Are There Other Viable Alternatives
for 6-Day Delivery Operations? -
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The Challenge: Postal Wages and
Discounts -
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Pricing Volume Mail -
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Dead letter - The world's ailing
postal services -
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Postal Service Ends 2009 with $3.8
Billion Loss
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) today filed its 2009 fiscal year-end
financial results, showing a net loss of $3.8 billion for the year —
despite cost-cutting efforts resulting in $6 billion in cost savings and a
$4 billion reduction in required payments for retiree health benefits.-
Fact & Fiction: The US Postal
Service
APWU Web News Article -
Postal service, union officials
disagree on delivery dates
Rocky Mount, NC mail carriers are being misinformed by their supervisors
that the post office is trimming a day from weekly delivery starting next
October, the head of the local postal worker’s union said. Postal
officials deny the allegation. -
NYU prof: It's no longer 'going
postal,' it's 'going Muslim' -
Potter insists on five-day delivery
as part of Postal Service reform
John Potter, postmaster general and CEO of the US Postal Service, used the
open session of the November 13 USPS Board of Governors meeting to press
again for structural reform of the agency, insisting that real reform must
reduce the number of delivery days from six to five per week. -
Postal Customer Satisfaction Score
Reaches Four-Year High -
US Post Office doesn’t keep track of
DUI records of it’s drivers? Umm… (see video) -
Postal Service Price List Effective
January 4, 2010 -
Massa rips U.S. postmaster general,
requests face-to-face meeting -
Supreme Court reviewing former
postal employee's case
“When your supervisor grabs you and tells you he’s going to blow your
brains out and you get fired, we know that in America that isn’t right,” -
Connolly seeks answers on
long-term-care premiums, is skeptical about cuts in mail delivery -
How Does Labor Law Matter for the
USPS? -
How Would You Make Over the U.S.
Postal Service?
With bankruptcy looming, the U.S. post office needs a major fix. Inc.
asked Inc. 500 CEOs how they would approach the problem. -
Congressman Hodes Wants Pay Plan For
Cheated NH Postal Workers -
Also see:
Somersworth postal union head claims
time sheets were altered -
OIG Audit (revisited): Use of COR
For Route Adjustments
While the Postal Service completed 15,634 routes using the COR system
(Carrier Optimal Routing), it did not complete an additional 39,237 routes
in the 32 districts reviewed.2 We also found that in the majority of cases
it did not track reductions in vehicle mileage changes due to COR system
route adjustments. -
Driving the Customer Away
The Postal Service has many problems not of its own making. What it
doesn't need are postal employees creating new ones that could drive its
largest customers away. -
Job Cuts or Wage Cuts
Alan Robinson, President of Direct Communications Group, says "...given
the difficulty of selling eliminating long-standing contract provisions to
their members, postal unions and the Postal Service are likely heading
toward an arbitrated contract agreement where an arbitrator will be asked
to make the choice between jobs and compensation." -
150 plants and 400,000 employees
On November 5th, former Deputy Postmaster General Michael Caughlin
suggested that the Postal Service in order to survive must have a much
smaller footprint with possibly 150 plants and 400,000 employees. He made
his remark in response to a question of Representative Danny Davis at the
hearing of the Federal Workforce, Postal Service and the District of
Columbia Subcommittee of the House Committee on Oversight and Government
Reform. -
Postal Subcommittee Trolls for Data
on New Postal Products
NAPUS Newsletter -
Union President Criticizes USPS For
Lack of Diversity in Executive Staff
“It is inexcusable that women and people of color have been relegated to
such a small role in the managerial structure..."
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View USPS Official Organizational Chart
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View Burrus Letter -
PRC Goldway Wary of Service Cuts
Postal Regulatory Commission Chairman Ruth Y. Goldway has called for a
review of the U.S. Postal Service’s liability and payment schedule to fund
its Retiree Health Benefit Fund (RHBF), according to testimony before a
House Subcommittee. -
At hearing on future of Postal
Service, no dearth of despondency
Washington Post Federal Diary: The sky outside the Rayburn House Office
Building was bright Thursday morning, but it was all gloom and doom in
Room 2154. PEN Ed:
Watch This Hearing -
Read Testimony -
Placement of Non-Bargaining
Employees In An Off-Duty Status
Doug Tulino: VP, Labor Relations -
Postal Service: Rumors of death
exaggerated
JOSEPH BRECKENRIDGE, USPS Communications, Alabama and North Florida: "The
world is changing, but the Postal Service is not going away. Count on it."
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Postal Service eyes options beyond
layoffs and buyouts
Government Executive -
Feds weigh impact of new FERS sick
leave benefit
Federal Times -
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