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4.19.2009
Associate Supervisor Program being cancelled?
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Associate Supervisor Program being cancelled? "...On April 10, 2009 Susan M. LaChance, Vice President Employee Development & Divers...
4.17.2009
Herrera Threatens Discrimination Lawsuit Against US Postal Service
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"... “Under the Postal Service’s own regulations,” Herrera said, “SROs are apartment buildings, and they are entitled to the same metho...
4.13.2009
[Letters] Postal service hits resident on his blind side
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"...I then called the postal service and was told that the card was "square" in size (i.e., 5.25 by 5.25 inches) and that cla...
Postal past stamped
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"... The Toowong Postal Service, which has been delivering mail to residents for 136 years, is celebrating with Australia Post as they ...
Minnick moves to save backcountry postal service
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"... Rep. Walt Minnick is asking the U.S. Postmaster to rethink plans to sever the contract that pays a pilot to deliver mail to reside...
4.07.2009
Postal union leaders propose solutions to save service, jobs
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"... “One of the byproducts of this relationship is the preservation of discounts that benefit the mailers at the expense of Postal Ser...
4.06.2009
Post office bomb threats
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"... A Faribault, Minn., woman already on parole for threatening elected officials in Austin, Minn., was charged this week with making ...
Postal Service cancels backcountry air route
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"... U.S. Postal Service is canceling a contract with backcountry pilot Ray Arnold, ending the air mail route to more than 20 ranches i...
Littering postal workers targeted
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"...streets were littered with rubber bands, as well as many private driveways and paths. ..." Source: news.bbc.co.uk Visit Ou...
TWU Launches National Advertising Campaign
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"... national advertising campaign to raise awareness about outrageous bonuses to corporate executives and particularly those awards pe...
USPS possible changes in delivery
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"... Unites State Postal Service is considering all kinds of changes..." Source: www.connectmidmichigan.com Visit Our Homepage
4.01.2009
Suspicious Package Injures Postal Worker
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"... Genesee County say a postal worker experienced eye irritation ..." Source: wsgw.com Visit Our Homepage
consolidation of mail processing operations in its Wilkes-Barre
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Update: Postal Service reschedules public hearing on potential consolidation "... potential consolidation of mail processing operations...
Postal Service to shift mail processing to Tampa; 59 jobs affected
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"... U.S. Postal Service announced today it will be shifting originating mail processing and distribution operations from the Manasota ...
Postal Service Confirms Closure of Lakeland Mail Center
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39 employees affected "...The Postal Service is closing its Lakeland Processing and Distribution Center in the post office on Lakeland ...
3.29.2009
New Postal Voluntary Retirement VER for July 31, 2009
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Postal News Read it here: New Postal Voluntary Retirement VER for July 31, 2009 ALL EMPLOYEES except Electronic Technicians (ET); Maintenan...
3.25.2009
U.S. Postal Service plans deep cuts
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"... The U.S. Postal Service said March 20 it will cut jobs, offer early retirement to tens of thousands of employees and close adminis...
3.24.2009
Downfall of the Postal Service?
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Will "DoNotMail" kill the Postal Service? American mailboxes are inundated with junk mail. More than 100,000,000,000 pieces of jun...
3.23.2009
USPS District Closings, VER...
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On March 20, the US Postal Service announced District Closings, Voluntary Early Retirement, and Reductions. The announcement reads as follow...
3.22.2009
Postal service to trim 3,000 workersS
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"... More than 3,000 U.S. Postal Service jobs will be cut and one-quarter of the USPS workforce offered early retirement, postal offici...
U.S. Postal Service offering early retirement to 150,000 workers
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"... would reduce management staff by 15%, which would eliminate more than 1,400 processing, supervisor and management posts at nearly ...
3.17.2009
Trimming shipping costs with the Postal Service
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"... Commercial shippers can now take advantage of new volume price incentives with Commercial Plus, an up-front price incentive for qu...
Early outs, again?
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"...There is a strong rumor out there that there will be another VER coming soon. At this point it is just that, a rumor, but I wouldn’...
3.09.2009
Postal Service closes West Springfield annex
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"... The move, made effective on Feb. 7, means that letter carriers from West Springfield and Springfield who started and ended their d...
U.S. Postal Service and rising cost of stamps
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Letters to the editor of the Seattle Times "... The U.S. Postal Service just paid $1.2 million for the postmaster's 8,400 square-fo...
3.03.2009
USPS sales campaign blitz
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"... Only one week old, the sales campaign — during which the USPS sales team will spend the next 90 days and 90 percent of its time wi...
2.26.2009
USPS March 2009 COLA - Postal Cost of Living Adjustment
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Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) Update "...After the final month of the six-month measuring period, the fifth COLA under the 2006 Nati...
2.24.2009
Charlotte Post Offices cut evening hours
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"... USPS says it's cutting hours to save money as it faces a record declines in business. But local union president Leroy Moyer sa...
2.23.2009
USPS Delivers High School Graduation Invitation...22 Years Late
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"... The letter, which had been opened, carried 22 cents in postage and a June 2, 1987, postmark...." Source: www.ktvl.com Visi...
2.21.2009
SLIDESHOW: Mail must get through
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"... Two decades ago this month, the United States Postal System opened its 72-acre National Center for Employee Development east of 24...
2.20.2009
Postmaster General Gets Pay Bonus as Agency Falters
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"... In all his total compensation -- salary, bonuses, retirement benefits and other perks -- topped $850,000, a spokesman with the U.S...
2.15.2009
A Postal Employee Retirement Community - Nalcrest, Florida 33856
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"... Where does a postal employee go to retire? Some postal retirement seekers look to Florida for retirement living ...and where bette...
Postal workers seek help to keep work
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"... stop the U.S. Postal Service from deciding to move postal cancellation and some mail processing to Akron. Such a move would affect...
Rare misprint US airmail stamp to be auctioned in Warwickshire
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"... The 1918 US airmail stamp depicts the Curtiss JN-4 Jenny aeroplane flying upside down...." Source: www.birminghampost.net V...
2.13.2009
Laid off postal hero gets new job offer
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"... Isaac Fish, 21, of Coeur d'Alene, says he has agreed to come back to work for the postal service, but at half the pay with no ...
APWU Denounces USPS Rate Proposal
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"... “The USPS response to its financial crisis has been to cut work hours and consolidate postal facilities,” Burrus said, “and servic...
2.12.2009
Spiraling down, 2 cents at a time
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"... First class postage stamps will go up another 2 cents in May, the Postal Service said Tuesday... ...stock up on Forever stamps. .....
FERS Sick-Leave Bill Introduced
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"...The “FERS Sick Leave Equity Act” (H.R. 958), introduced by Rep. Jim Moran (D) and Frank Wolf (R), provides Federal Employees Retire...
2.11.2009
Postal Service to conduct area mail processing study
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"... consolidating some operations of the processing and distribution facilities in Utica and..." Source: www.wktv.com Visit Ou...
Post office to remove several collection boxes
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"... Indianapolis - The United States Postal Service is removing 55 mailboxes on streets across the city..." Source: www.msnbc.m...
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