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11.27.2008
Economy impacting postal deliveries
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"... Carlsbad's U.S. Postal Service employees get to keep their jobs, but extra help for the fast approaching holiday season and be...
Area postal plant could be closed [Sarasota, FL area]
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"...Postal Service is conducting a study that could result in relocating operations from 850 Tallevast Road to a consolidated mail proc...
Make your own holiday stamps with Stamps.com
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A customized stamp is perfect for holiday mailings or as personalized gifts. Yes, PhotoStamps from Stamps.com are valid U.S. Postage, based ...
11.26.2008
APWU Union Files Unfair Labor Practice Charge Over Elimination of Tour 2
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"...The APWU has filed an Unfair Labor Practice charge against the Postal Service [PDF] , alleging that management failed to bargain ov...
11.24.2008
A mailman who didn't deliver
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"... Hero or criminal? Steven Padgett, a mailman in North Carolina, stacked years of junk mail in his garage and buried some in his yar...
11.22.2008
Obama orders plan to create 2.5 million new jobs by 2011
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"...Obama said he intended to put people back to work rebuilding roads and bridges, modernizing schools, building wind farms, solar pan...
USPS hits the Trade Show Circuit
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TRADE SHOWS PRODUCE RESULTS "... As the program begins its 11th year, it has targeted its most diverse combination of events ever. Amon...
11.18.2008
Husband dies, wife critical after motorcycle collides with mail truck
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"...When the USPS truck turned left, the motorcycle collided with the truck. Currently, the collision is under investigation. ......
Postal, Federal Employees Can Now Wear Election Gear
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"...With the national election concluded, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel has issued instructions [PDF] that allow postal and feder...
Mail Handler NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
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"...opportunity for regular craft members of the National Postal Mail Handlers Union, and members of their immediate families, to apply...
DHL Customers Should Switch to U.S. Postal Service
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"... If you’re a DHL Express customer concerned with recent announcements about its changing business, the U.S. Postal Service is ready...
INAUGURATION DAY COMMEMORATIVE
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"...In addition to select Post Offices, the product will be sold on usps.com and through 800-stamps24. For more information, contact Mi...
Approximately, how many permanent employees are employed by the U.S. Postal Service?
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Answer: The Postal Service employs about 685,000 permanent workers. Visit Our Homepage
11.13.2008
Oldest operational post office in the state of Alabama
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Mooresville Post Office "... It is the oldest operational post office in the state of Alabama and has served the community from the s...
USPS - Small Parcel Bundle Sorter dumpers dumping
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"...The HUGE "dumpers" which dump mail onto the conveyor belt. (Small Parcel Bundle Sorter). ..." Source: Video Found...
11.11.2008
Postal stamp from 1868 auctioned for $1,035,000
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Rare Stamp Nearly Sets Record at Auction "... sold to an anonymous telephone bidder for $1,035,000 as part of a three-day sale at ......
Postal Service Looks To Cut 40,000 Jobs In First Layoff In History
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"... Updated: Nov 7, 2008 11:10 PM - SHREVEPORT, LA (KSLA) - "We lost 2 billion dollars and like any other business we have to sta...
11.09.2008
Wearing or Displaying Presidential Candidate items after the Election
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"... Even though Senators McCain and Obama will still be Presidential candidates until January 6, 2009, we do not believe that wearing ...
11.08.2008
Postal Examination Openings for California
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"... Postal Examination Openings for California City/State Announcement No. Exam No. Exam Title Opening Date Closing Date..." So...
11.06.2008
Mailing Marijuana through the U-S mail
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Mail Shipment of More Than 22 Pounds of Marijuana Lands Two Alabama Residents in Jail "... Authorities said the marijuana, valued at al...
11.05.2008
GIS Gives United States Postal Service a Crime-Fighting Edge
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"... The United States Postal Service (USPS) Bank Service Act (BSA) Compliance Office is taking advantage of geographic information sys...
11.04.2008
USPS Guidelines for Election Mail
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United States Postal Service Mail Guidelines "...The Federal Post Card Application (FPCA), the back-up Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot...
AMERICA IS COUNTING ON US: VOTE BY MAIL REACHES RECORD NUMBERS
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"...the Postal Service must be ready to provide reliable service and delivery for time-sensitive ballot mail. Here’s what you need to d...
11.03.2008
Postal Service won't close Sioux City mail center
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"... After careful review and weighing all of the factors and input from the public, we have decided not to implement the Area Mail Pro...
11.02.2008
Authorities seize postal parcels contain antique coins
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"...Protecting Antiquities and Cultural Possessions in the General Authority for Antiquities and Museums..." Source: www.sabanew...
10.30.2008
BMC Task Force Meets in Washington, DC
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"...This group held its first meeting at the AFL-CIO Headquarters in Washington, DC on October 22-23. The Task Force is comprised of r...
Post office plans to privatize bulk mail
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"...join postal union leaders to protest plans by the United States Postal Service to privatize bulk mail centers across the country, w...
10.28.2008
USPS Emergency Meeting?
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"...Has there been an emergency meeting of the USPS scheduled in Chicago on October 28, 2008? If so, does anyone know what is to be ......
Substance In Mail Box Raises Alarm
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"...Investigators tell us the individual who sorts mail for AIG, felt a burning sensation on her hands after handling some of the mail....
10.27.2008
Following the Herd? TSP Investors Moving Billions into the G Fund
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"...millions of dollars have been transferred to the safety of the G fund--after the market started going down. Usually, the largest am...
10.26.2008
USPS announces staff cuts at its headquarters
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"...Frey said employees who currently occupied positions that were eliminated are still working, “doing generally the same work they we...
10.24.2008
2008 USPS Christmas (holiday) Stamps
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"...The theme of the Christmas stamp has been the Madonna and Child since 1978, but the 2008 design feature has an added twist with the...
Job seekers turn to government
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"... Al DeSarro, a spokesman for the USPS in Colorado, said the post office and postmasters are receiving a higher number of applicants...
10.22.2008
UFO hits car at Postal Parking Lot
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No, it didn't fall from sky "...mysterious chunk of metal that smashed into a rental car Monday morning at a U.S. Postal Service bu...
Powder-laced letters mailed to Chase branches in 9 cities
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"...More than 30 letters containing a suspicious powder were mailed to Chase bank branches and federal banking regulators' offices ...
10.21.2008
The Theory of Dollar Cost Averaging
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With the markets bouncing up and down as they are, many TSP participants are jumping ship from the riskier C and I funds. For those of you t...
10.20.2008
Postal service puts its stamp on Wildwood's '50s Weekend
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"...celebrated America's love affair with the automobile by serving as the venue for the unveiling of five classic-car stamps. The ...
10.16.2008
USPS Layoffs, Early Outs, and Voluntary Early Retirements
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Follow the latest chatter form your fellow Postal Employees "...If you desire to keep informed of the latest talk from the floor or on ...
10.15.2008
Postal worker finds rattlesnake on road
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"...NORTH BARRINGTON, Ill. (WLS) -- A postal worker in the northwest suburbs says he came across all kinds of strange things on his rou...
10.12.2008
USPS Only Federal Agency on Hispanic Business' DIVERSITY ELITE 60 List
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Postal Service One of Best Companies for Hispanics "...Hispanic Business magazine has again named the U.S. Postal Service to its annual...
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