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- USPS Cost for Funding Retiree Health Benefits
APWU, NALC, USPS and others have said that the requirement of USPS to pre-fund future retiree healthcare costs is just too costly and must be changed. Here's a breakdown of that cost - see 3-a

- Council president faces court date -
- The Men and Women Behind the Eagle
- USPS Proposes to Give OFAC Information on Mail to Iran

May 12, 2009
- Postal employee stole $20,000 in stamps for mortgage -
- 3rd Circuit: When Serving Post Office, Don't Rely on Mailbox Rule -
- U.S. POSTAL SERVICE LAUNCHES NATIONAL ENFORCEMENT INITIATIVE AGAINST BUSINESS MAILERS -
- Tulsa Excessing Letters received
- Appeals judges rule against plaintiffs in Jewish community center shootings and murder of letter carrier Joseph S. Ileto

More Postal News
May 11, 2009
- Obama Admin Halts Plans To Alter USPS Workers' Benefits -
- NALC President Young Says Frequent Postage Increases Can Be Avoided -
- USPS Needs To Cut Salaries, Not Raise Stamp Prices -
- The Post Office strives to survive -
- USPS can afford to buy $1.2 million home? (revisited) -
- Monkeying Around with Postal Pallets
- 3,500+ sign petitions supporting Plant City, FL post office
- Local Political Campaigns - The Forgotten Mail Volume Generator

May 10, 2009
- Post Offices Closes, Town Mad -
- Man plows into East Anchorage post office
- Postal workers praise donations for food drive

May 09, 2009
- UPDATE: USPS Agrees To Pay Insurance Claim On Lost Laptops
- Postal workers in Tombstone help find missing child
- Picketers Protest Possible Post Office Closing In New Castle -
- Lower mail volume forces Postal Service to regroup -
- H.R. 22 Gains Support from Twenty-Five More U.S. Representatives
- APWU: Dispute Initiated Over Revisions to Contract Postal Unit Handbook

May 08, 2009
- The Simpsons Get ‘Stamping Ovation’ To Tune of 1 Billion Stamps -
- District Organizational Changes, Closing of Competitive Areas, and Mail Processing Facilities - Reduction Timeline — RIF Avoidance and RIF Process / 2009 -
- PRC Approves First USPS Market Test of an Experimental Product
- USPS: Your Five New, Insured Laptops That We Lost Are Worth $74 -
- DMANF, US Monitor to track delivery of non-profit mail
- Postal Service backs off ending wilderness service
- Congressional Budget Plan Recognizes Postal Challenge, But
- PO Box Fee Increases Reviewed
- USPS mulls cost-cutting plan to sort letters in East New York
- Postal Service rate hike may not end funding shortfall

May 07, 2009
- PMG's Letter to Congress -
- USPS: Ve Haf Vays of Making You Use Our Barcode
- Employee Notice and Call-in Procedures
- Mail carrier requires medical attention after being attacked by a dog
- Nation’s letter carriers prepared for 50-state Food Drive Saturday

May 06, 2009
- ‘FMLA Restoration Act’ Introduced
- USPS Ends Second Quarter with $1.9 Billion Loss - Also from Federal Times - Postal Service suffers more losses in second quarter -
- Postal workers allege supervisor treats them 'inhumanely' -
- USPS Notifies APWU of Flu Guidelines -
- GAO: Intelligent Mail Benefits May Not Be Achieved if Key Risks Are Not Addressed
- Raising the stakes - APWU Local 227 to Picket Friday
- USPS HCR Driver - No Accidents and No Vacation Since 1941 -

May 05, 2009
- NALC President Young Announces Pending Retirement -
- U.S. Postal Service sends junk mail -
- Redplum mailer lets marketers dissect why some mail practices are not ideal
- Postal detectives crack the case of messy, missing addresses
- City Attorney Sues Postal Service on Behalf of SRO Tenants
- Drunk (UK) mailman threatens mayhem, grounded for half decade

May 04, 2009
- First-class rip-off: News experiment finds pricier priority mail isn't faster than 42-cent stamp -
- No one at fault in mail carrier's death -
- Obama's Federal Suggestion Box -
- Family rallies around pit bulls -
- As mail dwindles, post office struggles

May 03, 2009
- Federal Administrative Judge has Harsh Words for San Francisco USPS Management
- Postal Service Struggles Under Recession
- Request carriers stay off the lawn -
- Irritation rises at old stamping grounds

May 02, 2009
- Are Postal Workers Being Sickened by Paper Pollution?
- PRC Opens Comment Period On USPS 'Summer Sale' -
- Pit bulls put down day after Norwich attack on mail carrier -
- Canada Post urged to review home delivery
- Postal Worker Admits Stealing Money From Mail -
- New Wedding Stamps on Sale May 1

May 01, 2009
- NALC: Jointly issued details of MIARAP agreement now available: A training document jointly developed by the NALC and the Postal Service (M-01703), which details the parties' mutual understanding of the provisions of the Memorandum of Agreement, Re: Modified Interim Alternate Route Adjustment Process - 2009 (M-01702), is now available. M-01703 -

- Calif. postal worker opened cards, stole money
- Mail carrier caught with meth
- Washington Post: The Postal Service, whose carriers could be needed to deliver medications in a pandemic, has no antiviral medications stocked. -
- Arbitrator Grants Postal Nurses Raises, Job Security -
- Rep. Waxman asks postmaster general about mailbox removals in LA -
- APWU FMLA Forms Revised | APWU's revised FMLA Forms
- Mail carrier hospitalized after pit bull attack in Norwich
- Red Cross honors mail carrier for saving Grandville family's dog from fire
- Go postal on buttleggers: Congress must shut down mail-order cigarette tax cheats
- USPS Probes Security Breach
- APWU: Slide Show Boosts Labor’s Top Priority
- St. Louis man suspected in mail carrier shooting committed

April 30, 2009
- Phase 1 RIF avoidance postings now on eCareer -
- California carrier pleads guilty to burglary, possessing stolen property
- Jobs won't leave even if mail is sorted off Staten Island, postal workers told -
- A day in the life of a USPS mail carrier
- New Castle mail processing center under scrutiny by U.S. Postal Service

April 29, 2009
- USPS Says "AS SWINE FLU INVESTIGATION CONTINUES - PERSONAL HYGIENE IS KEY TO REDUCING RISK OF ILLNESS -
- Chicago will have last 24-hour post office in U.S
- Steven Peak, a former mail carrier in Florida, told deputies during his arrest, “I’ve never done something so stupid before. I just needed $50. I have a good job -

April 28, 2009
- Mail Carrier Indicted On Mail Theft Charges -

- NALC Rap Session draws 1,600 union leaders -
- Letter: If the USPS wants to cut cost, I think they should start with his salary - This writer is talking about Don Marshall, district manager of the USPS Northern Ohio District. -

April 27, 2009
- The OIG Wants to Know How You Feel about Sick Leave -

April 26, 2009
- George Mason University Professor A. Lee Fritschler on Liberating the Postal Service -
- Postal worker arrested after driving, crashing mail truck without a license -
- Chinese postal worker sentenced to death for $265m embezzlement -
- Tulsa leaders fight for post office

April 25, 2009
- Subcommittee will be briefed by the United States Office of Personnel Management -
- Federal Court Orders Postal Service To Reconsider Mailing of Illegal Animal Fighting Magazines -
- As volume of mail decreases, USPS drops collection boxes -
- Postal service truck hits sheriff’s deputy -
- Roving dogs stop door-to-door mail delivery in Bellingham neighborhood -

April 24, 2009
- Murray Comarow, former executive Director of the President’s Commission on Postal Organization, responds to the article Going Postal - The Imminent Death of the U.S. Postal Service?
- Woman Indicted in Post Office Threats -
- NAPUS HOTLINE for April 24, 2009
- Rep. Putnam Calls for GAO Audit On Closing Polk Mail Center
- GameFly Files PRC Complaint Against USPS - Also see Gamefly Accuses Postal Service of “Discrimination” -
- Congress Is Back In Session. Get The Latest Information On H.R. 22.
- Post office's blue boxes not safe at night
- A mid fiscal year assessment - PRC Chairman Dan Blair
- Message to Postal Service: Keep Soho’s branch open

April 23, 2009
- USPS ‘Clarifies’ Some Early-Retirement Deadlines
- APWU: Our Battles Over ‘Tour Compression’ Initiatives
- Postal service offers reward in Detroit letter carrier robbery -
- APWU: Twenty-Two More U.S. Reps Sign Up as Sponsors of H.R. 22
- More Bad Numbers Ahead for USPS? -
- Chrysler May Get Stimulus Funds to Furnish USPS With Electric Vans? -
- Postal Employee Indicted in Fraudulent Tax Refund Scheme
- This type of PI - U.S. Postal Inspectors - delivers the goods -
- Pitney Bowes Launches Click & Mail
- USPS Board of Governors to Meet May
- USPS Unveils Further Details on 'Summer Sale'
- U.S. Postal Service Celebrates Earth Day
- Snail Mail?

April 22, 2009
- GAO Finds OPM’s Modernization Plans Fall Short -
- New Chrysler-USPS Minivan -
- Postal Service moves could cost 150 jobs in county
- Authorities say Muncie trio makes mail theft a family affair
- New Brunswick postal worker accused of using stolen credit card info to steal $7,500
- Postal worker charged with stealing book, $25 -
- Energy Worker, Mail Carrier Robbed

April 21, 2009
- APWU: To Save the Postal Service, Congress Must Approve Legislation -
- Dispute Initiated Over USPS Failure to Furnish Notice of Changes to PS Form 1723 - Read Dispute
- APWU-Led Consolidation Protests Gather Steam, Gain Public Support
- Rep. Rahall seeks to keep 6-day mail service
- Texas contract postal worker accused of theft
- USPS TO REDUCE FLEET BY 10,000 VEHICLES -
- USPS Request for Quote – Identification for Postal Access and Security Standardization (iPass) Card Initiative
- U.S. Postal Service Turns Over a Green Leaf
- Post Office Robbers Caught
- Workers Memorial Day

April 20, 2009
- Authorities searching for Jacksonville post office gunman -
- Intelligent Mail Is Breaking New Ground in Both Technology and Revenue Goals (PDF)
- Going Postal - The Imminent Death of the U.S. Postal Service? -
- Letter: Stamp prices
PEN says...you tell'em Paul. You too Shelia: The postal service needs to be saved -

April 19, 2009
- Wheeling Postal Employee Named in Federal Indictment -
- Postal service shouldn't need to make money
- Putting It Off - retirement that is -

April 18, 2009
- USPS Sacks Associate Supervisor Program (ASP) -

April 17, 2009
- Police: Postal worker threw away mail because it was printed on inferior paper -

April 16, 2009
- First-Class Inefficiency -
- POSTAL EMPLOYEE AND CONSPIRATOR INDICTED IN SCHEME TO STEAL STAMPS WORTH OVER $682,000 -
- APWU: ‘Summer Sale’ Will Discount Our Future -
- NY Postal Union Protests Cutbacks and Closings - Also see Postal officials confirm they'll cut 26 jobs on Staten Island
- James A. Farley Post Office to close 24-hour window
- Residents rally to keep post office open
- Mailers Like Postal Discount Idea, Balk at Timing

April 15, 2009
- NALC: Voluntary Early Retirement Update -
- The Sacramento Bee wants to know...How would losing day of postal service hurt you? -
- Despite rally, Postal Service planning to move some processing off Staten Island
- New service will make use of empty miles on USPS trucks -
- Summer Postal Rate Rollback May Make Big Mailers Big Winners
- Fewer post offices will tax themselves for late filers
- The future Zanesville, OH mail

April 14, 2009
- Video: Effort to stop junk mail meets resistance
- More On USPS Bank: Post office could one day double as bank -
- Man convicted in postal robbery
- Postal Service users face bulk mail delays
- More On Killer Turkeys
- E-filing of taxes takes strain off postal service

April 13, 2009
- Ask President Burrus: Did the Postal Service really give our payroll records to the newspapers? This has many people upset. -
- Stamped Over (USPS) Relocation Program -
- Digital services may foreshadow snail mail’s death
- We in the Postal Service don't use the "J" word -
- Post Offices Won’t Stay Open Until Midnight On Tax Day
- See The Image Too Hot For The Postal Service
- Post Office branch returns to Lakeview in New Orleans
- US Postal Service Changes Insurance Claims-Processing

April 12, 2009
- NALC President: The times are a-changin’ and it’s time for us to act -
- Pinehurst post office hours cause emotional mail storm
- Class action against Canada Post to go ahead - Promise of free Internet for life -

April 11, 2009
- Your next bank: The Postal Service? -
- Former RCA Imprisoned For Identity Theft - Mail Theft
- USPS Playing "Let's Make A Deal"

April 10, 2009
- It's Official - Reservists Pay Safety Net
- FOWL PLAY?: Carriers dealing with aggressive turkeys
- Workers protest move to process Saturday mail in Pontiac
- Mail Shenanigans in District 4
- Check Out Your Postal Blog

April 09, 2009
- USPS: District Organizations Changes - Closing of Competitive Areas - Mail Processing Facilities Reduction Timeline - RIF Avoidance and RIF Process (PDF) -
- REDUCTION IN FORCE QUESTIONS & ANSWERS -
- The Simpsons Stamps - ‘CHECK IT OUT, MAN’ -
- NALC and USPS agree to Modified Interim Alternate Route Adjustment Process - Click Here to Read MOU - Federal Times - New - see Postal Service to slash carrier routes - NALC Bulletin -
- On Proposed 5-Day Postal Delivery - No: Don't deny delivery - Also see Five-day postal delivery should be the last resort -

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