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8.27.2009
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8.26.2009
FedEx / USPS Contract Expected to Generate About $8 Billion in Revenue
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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 airc...
RETIREMENT-SEPARATION INCENTIVE MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING
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"...The parties further agree that these incentives will be provided to no more than 30,000 employees in the Mail Handler and APWU barg...
8.25.2009
Postal Retirement Incentive Now being offered
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USPS Offers $15,000 Retirement or Resignation Incentive The United States Postal Service is offering a $15,000 Retirement or resignation inc...
8.17.2009
Union Members Protest Proposed USPS Changes
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"... picketed outside Josh Colin’s home Sunday. Colin is the district manager for the postal service in..." Source: nbc4i.com V...
8.15.2009
Obama Goes Postal about Healthcare Reform
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"... In his own town-hall meeting on Tuesday, Obama stated, “How can a private company compete against the government. If you think abo...
8.12.2009
Plot to kill Post Office cloaked by right wing ‘recess rally’ chaos
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"... Without the legislation the agency says that on Sept. 1 it will have to fire more than 50,000 workers, close down hundreds of post...
PMG Potter Pay
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Losing Billions But Getting A Bonus "... Postmaster General John Potter's base salary climbed to $265,000 last year from $186,000 i...
More attacks on USPS Blue Collar Wages
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Article Title: With Fewer Customers and Fixed Labor Costs, U.S. Postal Service Faces $7 Billion Net Loss in 2009 "...USPS will need to...
The President and the Postal Service
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"... President Obama made what his advisers believe were his first public comments on the U.S. Postal Service on Tuesday, basically kno...
8.10.2009
Your Corner Mailbox Could Be Stamped Out
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"... hundreds of post offices could be shuttered, and mail delivery could be cut to five days a week. And that's not all. CBS News ...
Watch the USPS Senate Hearing of August 6, 2009
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"...Due to the declining use of mail services, the U.S. Postal Service currently faces up to $7 billion in losses this year. Postmaster...
8.06.2009
USPS SERVICES, PAYROLL WILL NOT BE INTERRUPTED
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USPS FACES YEAR-END CASH SHORTFALL "...the Postal Service this fiscal year faces a possible Sept. 30 cash shortfall of up to $700 milli...
8.05.2009
Career Advise - Moving Forward
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Article Title: [PDF] Federal Employees give career advice Snippet of Article: "...summarized what Federal employees perceive to b...
8.03.2009
The U.S. Post Office on Balboa Island
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"... the Balboa Island Post Office has been a mainstay of island life for generations. “It’s one of the few landmarks that we have here...
Postal News - Are Post Office Layoffs a Possibility?
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Stopping Saturday mail delivery could mean layoffs for USPS "... If Congress eliminates Saturday mail delivery to help the cash-strap...
7.31.2009
Senate panel blocks Postal bonuses
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"... why Postmaster General John E. Potter got a six-figure bonus last year even as the Postal Service racked up billions of dollars in...
Help Defeat Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Funding Reform Act of 2009 (S. 1507)
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Postal News Alert! “ If the bill passes as written, it will destroy collective bargaining for postal workers. ” Burrus said. Click here to e...
7.27.2009
GAO Adds Postal Service's Financial Condition to "High-Risk" List
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"... To remove its financial condition from the High-Risk List the Postal Service needs to undertake a number of major structural chang...
7.24.2009
Can the Postal Service Make Payroll? ...nothing more than a rumor?
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Rumors abound on the internet about the USPS being unable to make payroll in October of this year. The Postal Newsgroup , a leader in post...
7.17.2009
Postal worker accused of sexual assaults faces more charges
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"...Authorities were able to charge the mail handler in the older assaults after they matched his DNA samples in a database called CODI...
Postal Jeeps from Postal Pete
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Postal Pete ...#1 Postal Jeep Dealer in the World! "...If you are looking for a postal Jeep there are many dealers specializing in this...
7.16.2009
Firms offer postal discounts
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"... Those companies have Combined Mail Agreements with the post office, as well as some expensive equipment — think $700,000 to $800,0...
7.15.2009
CPI-W for June 2009
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"... The Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) rose 1.1 percent in June, prior to seasonal adjustm...
USPS prepares for five-day delivery
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"...Unions, on the other hand, uniformly oppose five-day delivery; labor leaders have blasted the proposal, saying it would eliminate t...
7.08.2009
Postal workers accused of drug trafficking in Cleveland; selling drugs while on the job
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"...the investigation that took place at the mail distribution center at 2400 Orange Ave., where agents confiscated crack, PCP, prescri...
7.06.2009
Reverend Al Sharpton wants a US postal stamp honoring Michael Jackson
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Michael Jackson Stamp "... According to the Postal Service rules, a stamp honoring Jackson cannot appear until five years after his de...
7.01.2009
Bryan Adams Honored With His Own Stamp
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"... The stamps recognize "talented recording artists who have enjoyed great success in the music industry," says the Canada...
Postal Employee Leads a Sustainable Lifestyle
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LIVING THE GREEN LIFE TRAINING DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST LEADS A SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE "...the past several years, Mulligan and his family...
6.29.2009
Get the USPS USA Philatelic Catalog
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"...A quarterly publication, USA Philatelic is the only official source for the complete line of current issues from the U.S. Postal Se...
6.24.2009
Mailbox kitty adopted by postal employee
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Postina the Kitten "...A kitten found abandoned in a Boston mailbox has been adopted by a postal service employee in New Hampshire, ani...
6.23.2009
APWU on Five-Day Delivery: Don’t Do It!
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"... “This decision is the worst possible response to unusual circumstances that have adversely affected mail volume,” the union presid...
6.17.2009
Huntsville Downtown Post Office evacuated
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Huntsville Fire and Rescue crews evacuated a busy post office Tuesday morning after an employee found a leaking package. ..." Source...
6.16.2009
[APWU] Union Challenges USPS Interpretation of Layoff Memo
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"...The APWU has filed a Step 4 grievance protesting management’s interpretation of the contractual protection against layoffs for APWU...
6.12.2009
FedEx's Anti-Union Drive
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"...Railway Labor Act (RLA) , a law passed in 1926 to prevent disruptions to national air and train traffic. Though many FedEx Express ...
6.10.2009
Postal Service to debut Hawaii-branded flat-rate box on Kamehameha Day
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"... A special Hawaii edition of the U.S. Postal Service's large flat-rate shipping box will make its debut Thursday, on Kamehameha...
Voice your concerns about postal change
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"... Please voice your opinion to the USPS Customer Affairs Manager and oppose the shipping of our mail to Springfield, Ill. The Quincy...
6.08.2009
Mail truck wrecks, blocks I-65
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"...A U.S. Postal Service truck wrecked on Interstate 65 in north Chilton County early Thursday morning, scattering mail all over the r...
Grad builds postal Web site
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"...Baton Rouge postmaster Carl Karnish gave his nod of approval for the site. “Anybody going on this site will be able to navigate thr...
6.07.2009
Cuba Agrees to U.S. Talks in New Sign of a Thaw
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"... Cuba notified the Obama administration it was ready to resume talks on migration issues and to negotiate direct postal service bet...
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