tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639656917735575492009-11-08T10:31:28.604-06:00Postal News: A postal news resource. Not affiliated with the USPS..noreply@blogger.comBlogger385125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263965691773557549.post-69161341373493368502009-11-08T10:31:00.000-06:002009-11-08T10:31:28.616-06:00

"... Patented in 1917 as a "Machine for Making Printing Plates",the Graphotype was a mainstay of the mass mailing industry until the 1960's. This machine and its partner, the Addressograph, were developed and manufactured by the Addressograph company of Chicago, IL (and later the Address-Multigraph company of Cleveland, OH)...."   Source: www.popsci.com Visit Our Homepage

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Take a look at the huge increases in the Postal Premium Rates for the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program for the Fee-for-Service Plans (FFS) in 2010. For example, one of the largest increases in the fee-for-service plans comes from the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Service Benefit Plan, second only to an increase in the Mail Handlers Benefit Plan. The increase in the Blue Cross and Blue

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"... AM General is building the chassis for the prototype and Smith is providing the electric powertrain. In the urban and suburban environments where the LLV..."   Source: green.autoblog.com Visit Our Homepage

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"... on the day of the attack Mrs Davidson, who worked in Penrith's Crown Square Post Office, had asked her husband to leave after finding out he had failed to apply for state benefits...."   Source: news.bbc.co.uk Visit Our Homepage

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"...Postal Service has begun a yearlong program testing the sale of Hallmark greeting cards in about 500 post offices, including the Port Columbus station in Columbus and the Zane Street station in Zanesville. ..."   Source: www.columbusdispatch.com Visit Our Homepage

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"... USPS is reminding employees that a mailer can instruct the Postal Service to deliver an Express Mail Next Day Delivery or Express Mail Second Day Delivery item without obtaining the signature of the addressee or the addressee’s agent...."   Source: liteblue.usps.gov Visit Our Homepage

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"... No employees may be excessed from an installation while the relaxation of the casual restrictions is in effect. Casuals in excess of the cap must be terminated prior to March 2, 2010. ..."   Source: www.apwu.org Visit Our Homepage

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APWU APPEAL DENIED IN ALL RESPECTS"... In a national award rendered on September 7, 2009, National Arbitrator Joseph M. Sharnoff determined that certain assignments on the Small Parcel and Bundle Sorter (SPBS) machines were properly assigned by the USPS to the Mail Handler Craft...."   Source: www.npmhu.org Visit Our Homepage

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"...The Corporate Succession Planning (CSP) Open Season is well under way. Employees EAS 22 and above across the country are applying ..."   Source: liteblue.usps.gov Visit Our Homepage

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"... The compromise legislation also includes a provision that would make it easier for federal agencies, including the Postal Service, to rehire retirees (for a limited time) without forcing them to take a cut in their annuity checks. “This provision will help eliminate the USPS objections to APWU’s efforts to return postal retirees to employment,” Burrus said. “If the bill is passed, the union

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"... the mercury contaminated 170 nearby small packages, which have been isolated and withdrawn from processing due to safety concerns. The Postal Service is currently working with local health departments, as well as private companies certified to work with hazardous materials, to determine whether the affected packages can be decontaminated and delivered. Virtually all of the packages were

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"... expected to release its final list of post offices and other postal facilities that it plans to close nationwide. ..."   Source: www.federalnewsradio.com Visit Our Homepage

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"... Kelly said the two men bumped shoulders and walked past each other, but kept exchanging words, then stopped and squared off. Gutierrez, 20, took off his jacket and assumed a fighting stance, Kelly said. McCaulla then strode toward him, brandishing a knife at his side. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/09/30/2009-09-30_post_office_stab_suspect_took_own_life_cops.html#

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"... One area for consideration is the elimination of Sunday mail processing operations. In many Processing and Distribution Centers around the nation..."   Source: blog.uspsoig.gov Visit Our Homepage

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"... "We are not hiring any full-time workers at the U.S. Postal Service," said Kim Yates. "Those ads are not endorsed by the postal service, nor representative of what we do here." She said the USPS does not post job positions in newspapers, and that all of the information included in the study guide is offered for free at Indiana libraries...."   Source: www.theindychannel.com Visit Our Homepage

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"...Havana put special emphasis on the importance of eliminating the United States "blockade," as the embargo is known by Cubans so as to reestablish direct postal service under the norms set out by the Universal Postal Union to which both countries belong. ..."   Source: www.cbsnews.com Visit Our Homepage

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"...Workers at the distribution center were urged to start looking for other jobs as letter carriers, take a voluntary early retirement offer or consider the early-out incentive program that offers employees $15,000 to retire or quit by Oct. 31, Zarebski said. Zarebski said many workers might be forced to look for work in areas that are 500 to 1,000 miles away from Jackson. ..."   Source:

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   Are you sick and have lost the telephone number for the USPS Postal Employee Unscheduled leave Call-Out number? Here is a cute site someone is providing that you should bookmark for those rare times you are suffering from an illness and need to use unscheduled sick leave. Source: Postal Employee Unscheduled Leave Call-In Phone Number Visit Our Homepage

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"... The most egregious omission in this blame game is the silence on postal rate policies that forgive postage in amounts as high as 10.5 cents per letter for mailers to perform the exact functions that would be performed by underutilized postal employees. The very workers who process mail at a cost of less than one cent per letter are replaced by 10.5 cent workshare discounts, yet pundits

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"... Now the U.S. Postal Service: I have traveled to Europe, Canada, Mexico and South America, and I can tell you we have the best postal service in the world — and the cheapest. Americans are spoiled and take the postal service for granted...."   Source: www.knoxnews.com Visit Our Homepage

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"... As Congress tries to wrap up its work this fall, the problem is clear: too many high-priority bills to move and too little time. By December, lawmakers aim to complete work on 13 federal spending bills, health care reform, a climate change bill, and a Defense authorization bill...."   Source: www.federaltimes.com Visit Our Homepage

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"...surveillance videos shown to the jury depicted [name removed] at a UTEP football game, painting his house, and throwing tires and other debris into a dumpster, all with full use of his arm. ..."  Source: www.claimsjournal.com Visit Our Homepage

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"... the agency says proper training was not given to employees who were spotted operating forklifts unsafely. ..."  Source: www.wqow.com Visit Our Homepage

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"...FedEx Express will continue to fly over 4 million pounds of U.S. mail every business day - the equivalent of 40 wide-body DC10 aircraft using existing aircraft and facilities. ..."  Source: www.redorbit.com Visit Our Homepage

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