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12.29.2009

High winds strafe region; cause death of Bethlehem postal worker

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"... U.S. Postal Service employee Barbara Satula, 52, of Naugatuck, died at the scene in Bethlehem on Tuesday morning when the winds a...

Postal Service Brings Augmented Reality Down to Earth

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"... seems the US Postal Service has deployed an augmented reality tool on their PriorityMail website that overlays a 3D box onto the ...
12.28.2009

USPS Return Service - Returns at Ease

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"... The U.S. Postal Service offers a selection of convenient returns services. Find the returns or label-printing program that best c...

Less junk mail means cuts for U.S. Postal Service

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"... Faced with dwindling revenue thanks to the economic recession and something called the Internet, the U.S. Postal Service is cutti...
12.27.2009

Four Suspects Arrested in Pot Mailed to Ohio Case

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"...Clovis Police and U.S. Postal Inspectors say they were involved in an interstate drug operation ..."   Source: abclocal.go.c...
12.26.2009

Hostage: Post office gunman was angry at government

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"... Taylor, who has a criminal record and was registered as a sex offender in Florida, had no apparent connection to Wytheville, a to...
12.23.2009

Post office hostage taker caught

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Police have apprehended a gunman who took five people hostage in a post office in the US, according to local media reports. "... Poli...

Receiving 14 pounds of marijuana in mail

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"...contacted by agents with the United States Postal Service about a large shipment of marijuana that was being delivered to ......

Postal Service Internet Change of Address is Accurate, Secure and Green

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"USPS no longer displays hardcopy change-of-address (COA) forms at its retail locations. Hardcopy COAs — part of The Mover’s Guide —...
12.21.2009

Report Finds 'Imprudent Spending' At Postal Service

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"... Among the purchases were crab cakes, beef Wellington and scallops at an installation ceremony for one of several postmasters in t...

Postal Service union fights consolidation

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"...Jim Alexander, the president of the Southern Oregon Area Postal Workers Union, argued Saturday that closing one of the county'...

Paying More to Send U.S. Mail at U.P.S. Stores

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"... At some U.P.S. Store franchises in Manhattan, however, clerks do not always tell customers that they may be paying a Grinch-like ...
12.14.2009

Postal Service Employees Owed $300M in Taxes, IRS Data Shows

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"... it's "important" to consider that the percentage of those owing taxes at the postal service is "relatively sma...
12.13.2009

USPS Responds to Postal Workers Claims

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United States Postal Service Statement regarding the Proposal to Consolidate Mail Processing from Elmira to Rochester "... The Postal...

AT&T Government wins VPN contract extension from USPS

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"... U.S. Postal Service has just signed, sealed and delivered a four-year, $120 million network contract extension to AT&T......

Mail carrier attacked in Dorchester, USPS offers award

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"... Dorchester letter carrier was hospitalized yesterday after she was knocked to the ground and slashed by an armed thug who tried t...
12.03.2009

Clemmons investigated by drug enforcement authorities after he moved

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"... the U.S. Postal Inspector Service investigated Clemmons for a case involving shipments of marijuana between Seattle and South Dak...
12.02.2009

USPS Fantasy Land

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"...Because workshare discounts are a joke, as president of the APWU, I can extend the following offer: APWU members will perform all ...
11.30.2009

Postal Service future gets input from First Coast

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As delivery bundles shrink, experts seek possibilities to keep the agency afloat "...after spending a career with the Postal Service, s...
11.25.2009

USPS/NAPS Announce New Interim Supervisor Selection Program

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"... NAPS and the Postal Service have collaborated in the establishment of an interim program to identify and select initial level sup...
11.23.2009

Postal Service employees will receive pay raise in December

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"...Postal Mail Handlers unions will receive a 1.2 percent pay raise. Members of the National Rural Letter Carriers' Association a...

Economy, Internet mean lighter load for post office

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"... Last week the U.S. Postal Service announced that it lost $3.8 billion in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30. It delivered 26 bil...
11.20.2009

Four Memphis post office branches still on possible closure list

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"...Sixteen Tennessee post offices remain on the list, including one in Knoxville, three in Nashville, four in Chattanooga, three in C...

U.S. Postal Service reinstates Santa Claus letter program

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"... The U.S. Postal Service announced Friday it would reverse a decision to cancel its annual Letters to Santa program because of secu...
11.19.2009

USPS: The Grinch who stole Santa's letters

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"... Postal Service is dropping a popular national program begun in 1954 in the small Alaska town of North Pole, where volunteers open...
11.17.2009

the Suncoast Scoop: a blog designed for all Suncoast District Postal Employees

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"... The "Scoop" is a way to spread the word about the special people, events and life as Suncoast District postal employees...

North Pole Postmark 2009

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"... Get the North Pole Santa Postmark for your Santa Claus letters. Check this out to get your free North Pole Postmark. Also you can...
11.08.2009

Guess This Tool Revealed: The Graphotype

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"... Patented in 1917 as a "Machine for Making Printing Plates",the Graphotype was a mainstay of the mass mailing industry u...
11.05.2009

Ouch! Health Care Premiums Take Huge Jump

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Take a look at the huge increases in the Postal Premium Rates for the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program for the Fee-for-Service Plan...
11.01.2009

Smith Electric Vehicles to partner with AM General on USPS EV

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"... AM General is building the chassis for the prototype and Smith is providing the electric powertrain. In the urban and suburb...

Man detained for killing his wife

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"... on the day of the attack Mrs Davidson, who worked in Penrith's Crown Square Post Office, had asked her husband to leave after ...
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...