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7.30.2008
Possible pipe bombs found at 2 Ohio post offices
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"... Two post offices were evacuated Tuesday in southeastern Ohio after the discovery of objects that appeared to be pipe bombs, author...
7.23.2008
Inglewood Postal Employee Shot
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Co-Workers Upset Over Postal Employee's Shooting "... opened the door with a gun in his hand and raised it at them. ..." Sou...
7.18.2008
USPS Customers/Employees to Donate Gear to Pitch In For Baseball
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Postal Service Goes to Bat for Children in Need "...Pitch In For Baseball accepts new or gently used youth gloves, cleats, aluminum bat...
7.16.2008
COLA CPI for June 2008
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Contract COLA: $1,330 "...The actual COLA will reflect the increase in the CPI between January and July 2008. It will be payable the ...
VER... Burrus says don't take it!
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Burrus to VER-Eligible Employees: ‘DON’T GO’ "... APWU President William Burrus is advising union members to delay making a decision as...
7.15.2008
APWU Advises Craft to Carefully Consider Early-Out Decisions
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Employees Would Be Best Served By Postponing Early-Out Decisions "... I ask that eligible employees delay making a final decision on ea...
7.10.2008
APWU President Burrus Meets With USPS On Early-Outs
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. APWU Meets with USPS, Seeks Bargaining Over Early-Outs "... "We do not oppose Voluntary Early Retirements,” he explained, “but w...
7.09.2008
USPS Will Not Offer Buyouts as Incentive
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20,000 postal clerks, mail handlers may get early retirement "...calls for closing airport mail facilities and consolidating bulk mail ...
COLA Update
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May 2008 CPI-W COLA "...The Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) increased 1.0 percent in May 2008 ...
7.08.2008
Mail Center at Cleveland Airport May Close
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Airport post office facility may close by year's end "... Closing of the branch, whose official name is the Cleveland Airport Mail ...
Aspen postal worker files grievance against manager
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"... It states that district manager Shelwyn Epperson “unilaterally changed terms of employment by closing the Sunday operation in seve...
7.05.2008
USPS Early Out
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APWU to Meet With USPS Over Possible 'Early Out' Offer "... six-day delivery are being re-evaluated, which guarantees we will b...
7.02.2008
Article on the Literary Postal Employee
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Going Postal, Literary Style "... William Faulkner who expressed his unhappiness while still on the job. In 1924, the future author of ...
7.01.2008
Mail remains the primary method of delivering transaction documents
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Paper Lives "...Some reasons paper will not die for the foreseeable future. * Internet access is not universal, so mail remains the...
6.27.2008
Colorado Stamp Flaw: Wrong Mountain?
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Exclusive: Wyoming Mountain Depicted On Colorado Stamp? "...Al DeSarro, with the U.S. Postal Service, said that Engeman's artwork ...
6.26.2008
USPS Network Plan
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USPS ‘ Network Plan [PDF] ’ Would Adversely Effect Postal Workers, Service "... Regrettably, postal management has developed a busines...
6.23.2008
Six More U.S. Representatives Co-Sponsor Mail Network Protection Act
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"... The bill would help reduce wasteful, inefficient, and detrimental subcontracting by the U.S. Postal Service by requiring the USPS...
Postal retiree, 93, sends check to post office
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"... Only a few days after the tornado brought destruction to the Town of Windsor, a disabled 93-year-old retiree in Denver thought it ...
Contract Postal Units
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7 businesses have stations "... The stations are called Contract Postal Units and were opened in the city as a response to the popula...
6.22.2008
Change of Address Processing: Melissa Data SmartMover
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get your mailing lists processed for change-of-address updates "... The NCOALink SmartMover web service lets you build a seamless addr...
6.19.2008
Postal Service Hold Prices As Costs Climb
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"...United States Postal Service spokespeople in Birmingham said Wednesday that fuel costs are eating up budgets ..." Sourc...
Postal Workers Aboard RMS Titanic
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The Incredible Postal Workers Aboard RMS Titanic "... The postal workers rushed to the mail room to begin rescuing the mail. It has bee...
6.18.2008
Animals and Stuff Childrens Book Written by Retired Postal Worker
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Retired postal worker Mark Shaber has message for children "...Retired postal worker from Bedford Post Office and summer employee at Sp...
6.17.2008
Ebay Live! 2008 and the Postal Service
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USPS Postal Service Ebay Shipper Presentations If you are an Ebay shipper or desire to be an eBillionaire, you will not want to miss Ebay Li...
6.14.2008
PSE Unveils "Fresh" Stamp Collecting Format and Offers Free "U.S. Design Numbers" Booklet
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"...Entitled, "A Guide to U.S. Design Numbers (USD), 1847- 1947," the new collection-building structure focuses on 435 regul...
6.13.2008
More Riff Over the Term "Going Postal"
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Union Campaign Against Violent Stereotype Greeted with Silence by Postal Management "...The union has learned that the Postal Service h...
6.12.2008
Federal employee Combat Zone Compensation Entitlements
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OPM Reminds Agencies of Additional Benefits for Civilian Employees in Combat Zones Springer outlined a list of authorities currently availab...
Postal Contract COLA Update: $633
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Contract COLA: $633 "...The accumulation toward the third regular cost of living adjustment for letter carriers under the 2006-2011 Nat...
6.10.2008
Retire in Style
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Neither rain nor heat nor gloom of night stops folks from living large at the unofficial retirement community of the National Association of...
6.09.2008
Postal Reform Lobbying
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Slattery discloses list of lobbying clients "...Slattery represented the CT Corporation from 2005-2007 during postal reform debate. The...
Postal Healthcare
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The healthcare bill you don't know about at the Postal Service "...A provision contained in the otherwise modest postal reform bill...
Postal Service technology can be helpful
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Connected: Postal Service technology can be helpful "...the Postal Service has recently installed imaging equipment specifically to exp...
6.08.2008
Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford Urges End to Saturday mail delivery
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Langford, to save fuel, urges an end to Saturday mail delivery "... Langford last week announced a four-day work week for 4,000 Birmin...
6.06.2008
U.S. Economy Continues Slide
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Nation's Unemployment Sees Largest One-Month Spike In Two Decades "...The U.S. Labor Department reported the largest one-month unem...
6.04.2008
Postal employee gets death for skimming $937,000
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Thanh Nien Daily, Vietnam - A court in the southern province of Bac Lieu yesterday sentenced a former treasurer of the local post office to ...
6.03.2008
The next Mail Handler COLA will be...
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The effective date of the next Mail Handler COLA "...the next adjustment will be effective the second full pay period after the release...
6.01.2008
Mail Handler Update: FOCUS ON USPS AFTER POSTAL REFORM
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HEGARTY TESTIFIES: FOCUS ON USPS AFTER POSTAL REFORM "...President Hegarty said, "the Postal Service continues to make plans to r...
5.30.2008
Is there going to be a USPS Voluntary Early Retirement offer?
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This is a good question. There has been no official notification provided to the masses of postal employees. Many are speculating there will...
OPM suspends contract for electronic retirement system
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"...The move came just days before OPM was scheduled to launch wave two of the retirement project for employees at the U. S. Postal Ser...
5.24.2008
USPS Nashville Processing and Distribution Center
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Postal Service to build massive center near airport "...Nashville Post (subscription) - The US Postal Service plans to build a 626000-s...
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