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4.28.2010
Speak your mind on Postal Changes or sit back and take it!
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USPS Public comment needed Contact the PRC with your comments on saving the USPS. Provide your suggestions and help protect your job and you...
4.19.2010
Postmaster general says USPS could cut its workforce
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"... cut Saturday mail delivery, raise postage rates and potentially close or consolidate thousands of post offices. The proposal also ...
4.08.2010
FEHB Program Expected to Cover Dependents Until Age 26
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"... The effective date of this provision is the first day of the plan year that is six months following enactment of the law. For th...
4.05.2010
USPS asks public opinion on eliminating Saturday delivery
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"...Members of the public are invited to share their views on the commission website at www.prc.gov by clicking the “ contact PRC ” ta...
3.31.2010
USPS VP: It’s Time to Implement Five-Day Mail Delivery
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"... Assuming the PRC and Congress approve the plan, Pulcrano said it would take about six months to implement five-day mail delivery....
Plane crashes into UPS building in Virginia
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"...happened at a freight facility near the Roanoke Regional Airport. ..." Source: www2.wnct.com Visit Our Homepage
3.26.2010
OIG Investigation Uncovers Abuse in Filing Expenses for Postal Workers OWCP Benefits
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"... OIG special agents were involved because most of the patients at a clinic where the three worked were Postal Service employees wh...
3.24.2010
Obama administration:2011 budget would not eliminate Saturday mail delivery
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Although the Obama administration is quoted in a govexec.com news story that, " The proposed fiscal 2011 budget would not eliminate Sat...
Postal Service Outline Five-Day Delivery Proposal
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"...The U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors today approved management’s request to move forward with its five-day delivery proposal...
3.23.2010
What is the pay for the USPS Board of Governors?
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"... Each Governor receives $300 per day for not more than 42 days of meetings each year and travel expenses, in addition to an annual...
Next Postal Service Board of Governors Meeting is March 24
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WASHINGTON — The Board of Governors of the U.S. Postal Service will meet in open session March 24 at Postal Service headquarters, 475 L’Enf...
USPS Management Ethical Conduct and Labor Relations?
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"...All new supervisors receive administrative training on topics such as safety, labor relations, ethical conduct, and time and atten...
3.22.2010
Post office payoff
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"... “Robert F. Bernstock, the U.S. Postal Service’s $232,500-per-year president of the shipping and mailing services division, endorse...
3.06.2010
USPS option could affect Times
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"...Should this cut come to fruition, we’ll have to figure out a way to continue to service our readers while operating within the new ...
3.04.2010
Postal Service Outlines 10-Year Plan to Address Declining Revenue, Volume
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"... The Postal Service examined revenue, volume and consumer trends; analyzed revenue and product opportunities employed by foreign po...
3.02.2010
Layoffs in the future for Postal Employees?
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"... How does an individual running a failing organization rate such high pay while the working class continue to provide the same grea...
Postal Service expected to announce 'significant changes'
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"... could mean an end to Saturday deliveries, longer delivery times for letters and packages, higher postage-stamp prices that exceed ...
3.01.2010
Union claims Dover post office shorted workers on pay
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"...The investigation found managers of the Milford branch and Manchester's South and West stations altered employee time sheets, c...
Postal Service must pay sculptor
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"... for an image on a 37-cent stamp, a U.S. appeals court has ruled. Frank Gaylord, who designed the stainless-steel models, claimed t...
2.23.2010
Pot mailer sent to jail for package sent to him
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"... White — who mailed himself between 2 and 10 pounds of pot from Texas — as almost a split personality. On the one hand, White is a ...
2.22.2010
'Mauritius' play about dark side of stamp collecting
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Players’ ‘Mauritius’ plumbs dark side of a simple matter "... Stamp collecting isn’t the easygoing, innocuous avocation you imagine. In...
Passion fuels champion stamp collector
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"...Stitzel estimates that his own collection is about 85 percent U.S. stamps, not including his rather extensive collection of Hawaiia...
'Postal prisoner' commits suicide in cell
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"... Jean-Pierre Treiber, who once posted himself out of jail in a cardboard box, hanged himself in his prison cell at the weekend.......
2.20.2010
Muncie man's basement resembles an old post office
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"... The spirit and commitment of the U.S. Postal Service beats within Aubrey Rogers' heart. It's also within his basement. ...
2.15.2010
Postal Service financial woes will continue in 2011
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"... In a Feb. 1 question-and-answer session hosted by YouTube, Obama said he has no plans to privatize USPS because of its commitmen...
2.14.2010
Alleged Ala. shooter linked to mail bomb attempt
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[Photo courtesy Madison County, AL] "... University of Alabama professor accused of shooting three colleagues and an attempted mail b...
Elgin postal workers help young boy achieve a dream
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"... Joel, who was autistic, lived out his dream Friday when he was sworn in as a U.S. Postal Service carrier by Elgin Postmaster Susan...
Anyone here work for the U.S. Postal Service?
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"... i’m thinking about applying for a U.S. postal service. i’ve been doing some research on the subject of the various postal exams. a...
2.10.2010
USPS suspends mail delivery in 5 states and DC
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"... 2:55 p.m. ET: The U.S. Postal Service suspended deliveries and collections in Washington, Maryland and..." Source: usatoday...
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...
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