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1.31.2010

Postal inspectors issue warning about mail box break-ins

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"...Recently, criminals have targeted the collection boxes, breaking into them at night looking for mail customers deposited after the...
1.25.2010

Postal sector crucial to Haiti’s post-quake recovery – UN

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"...“Setting up efficient postal services in Haiti will contribute to stimulating the economy and alleviating inhabitants’ difficultie...

Postal Service offers reward for info leading to mailer of 'Black Death' letters from Idaho

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"... The U.S. Postal Service is offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person ...

Higher Health Premiums: Just Wait!

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"...If you think the most recent FEHBP open season was a nightmare of high premiums and bad choices, just wait a couple of years! ......

FMLA Changes - New Rules Increase Time Off for Veteran, Active-Duty Relatives

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"...The law, signed late last year by President Obama, allows employees to take up to 12 weeks of paid or unpaid leave per year under ...
1.19.2010

Ex-W.Va. postmaster sentenced on theft charge

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"... former U.S. Postal Service official in West Virginia will spend time in prison for ..."   Source: www.phillyburbs.com Vi...
1.18.2010

Area mailboxes broken into, but no one’s talking

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"...never reported as a theft by the post office. Because of that, the case is not listed as a mail theft (postal authorities can’t pr...

Former postal worker accused of stealing mail since '93

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"...bitowich, 39, is now facing several charges including mail theft and possessing mail that is known to be stolen. A joint investiga...
1.08.2010

Mailman covers route on foot in spite of frigid temperatures

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"... The cold isn’t stopping Decatur postman Steve Hood from his appointed rounds, even if he has to walk historic downtown Decatur.....

Arsonist Torches San Francisco Mailboxes

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"...investigating two fires set inside USPS mailboxes ..."   Source: sfist.com Visit Our Homepage
1.06.2010

Workers in Small Offices - The APWU Wants to Hear From You

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"...Postal employees in small offices whose hours have been reduced while managerial hours have been increased are being asked to comp...
1.02.2010

Bomb squad called to El Sobrante post office

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"... post office was shut down for more than three hours Saturday following a report of a suspicious package...."   Source: abcl...
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...