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10.31.2009
USPS now offering Hallmark greetings
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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 P...
10.22.2009
USPS WAIVER WAVE-OFF REMINDER — SIGNATURE MAY NOT BE REQUIRED
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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...
10.21.2009
[APWU] Incentive Offer Leads to One-Time Exception on Casual Cap
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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...
10.20.2009
Mail Handlers Union Prevails in National RI-399 Arbitration
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APWU APPEAL DENIED IN ALL RESPECTS "... In a national award rendered on September 7, 2009, National Arbitrator Joseph M. Sharnoff deter...
10.19.2009
More USPS Executive Positions? What about craft programs...
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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 ...
10.13.2009
FERS Sick-Leave Credit Included In Defense Authorization Bill
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"... The compromise legislation also includes a provision that would make it easier for federal agencies, including the Postal Service...
10.10.2009
Wichita Post Office Finds Package Leaking Mercury
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"... the mercury contaminated 170 nearby small packages, which have been isolated and withdrawn from processing due to safety concerns...
10.08.2009
Postal Service announces final list of closures
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"... expected to release its final list of post offices and other postal facilities that it plans to close nationwide. ..." So...
10.03.2009
Post office stab suspect believed dead; cops say he likely committed suicide
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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. Guti...
9.25.2009
Should the Postal Service Eliminate Sunday Mail Processing Operations?
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"... One area for consideration is the elimination of Sunday mail processing operations. In many Processing and Distribution Centers a...
9.22.2009
USPS Jobs Don't Exist, Agency Says
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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 b...
9.19.2009
U.S., Cuba Mull Direct Postal Service
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"...Havana put special emphasis on the importance of eliminating the United States "blockade," as the embargo is known by Cu...
9.18.2009
Jackson postal facility to close, displacing 50 workers
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"...Workers at the distribution center were urged to start looking for other jobs as letter carriers, take a voluntary early retiremen...
9.15.2009
Postal Employee Unscheduled Leave Call-In Phone Number
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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 someo...
9.14.2009
Advocates of Postal ‘Reform’ Attempt to Misdirect the Public’s Attention
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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...
Postal Service called federal crown jewel
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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 pos...
Time running out on NSPS, sick leave, postal rescue bills
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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. B...
9.01.2009
Workers Comp fraud
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"...surveillance videos shown to the jury depicted [ name removed ] at a UTEP football game, painting his house, and throwing tires an...
OSHA calls for nearly $60,000 in penalties against Eau Claire USPS
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"... the agency says proper training was not given to employees who were spotted operating forklifts unsafely. ..." Source: www....
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...
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