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8.29.2010
USPS Has More 'Shocking' Problems
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"... The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) already facing a $420,000 worker endangerment fine for faulty electrical work at a Vermont mail dis...
Check your Clock Rings for...
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"... And Arbitrator Sherrie Rose Talmadge said in her December 2, 2009 decision that “[USPS] Management’s violations were so egregious ...
8.27.2010
Postal officials gave varying accounts of ex-executive's perks
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"...Mr. Bernstock resigned earlier this year before an inspector general's report concluded that he awarded no-bid contracts to for...
8.25.2010
USPS vs Fed Ex
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Comparing the US Postal Service with Fed Ex "... Allow me to share a couple of delivery experiences that I have had with the USPS and ...
8.23.2010
USPS institutes cost-cutting practices
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"... On-time delivery of First-Class Mail has steadily increased during the decade to record-high levels. Customers trust employees to ...
8.06.2010
Department of Labor Files Motion To Consolidate USPS Electrical Safety Charges
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"... the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued fines of more than $3.7 million for “willful and serious” elec...
7.26.2010
Negro Leagues stamps also honor postal worker
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"...Cleophus Brown, 76, of Birmingham, Ala., clocks in every morning at 3:30 a.m. and drives a USPS tractor trailer full of mail from t...
Who says the Postal Service is not hiring?
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Take a look at the USPS employment search to find jobs all over the nation. Source: www.usps.com Visit Our Homepage
7.11.2010
Postal Employee Slain, Thrown in Trash
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"...a lifelong post office employee who vanished at work and turned up dead at a dump ..." Source: sfgate.com Visit Our Homepag...
7.07.2010
How much is a stamp? Stamp increase again...
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Stamp prices going up again - 46-cent rate asked "...Under the proposed increases, in addition to the 46-cent rate for the first ounce...
6.18.2010
Postmaster targeted by complaints
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"...In a preliminary complaint filed March 9, one worker wrote that a confrontation with Griffin led to an anxiety attack. In a second ...
Ex-postmaster pleads not guilty to stealing
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"...The former Columbia postmaster, arrested in March on suspicion of attempting to steal clothing and sunglasses at a Columbia departm...
APWU Preparation for Contract Negotiations
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"...Rank and File Bargaining Advisory Committee at their first meeting on June 16. “Negotiations may be difficult,” he said, “but it is...
6.14.2010
USPS Employee Charged for Fraudulently Obtaining Unemployment Insurance Benefits
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"...she was not entitled to receive while employed as a Postal Service letter carrier at the Pilsen and Roseland postal stations in Chi...
6.11.2010
MSPB: USPS Zero Tolerance Policy Violation Is Not Automatic Grounds For Removal October 18, 2009 by Lu
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"...When an agency imposes removal under a zero tolerance policy without giving bona fide consideration to the appropriate Douglas fact...
Washington region Postal Service boss out of a job after incident in Sterling
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"... In an April interview, Postmaster General John E. Potter said, "I’m proud of what we’ve done with equal employment, with har...
6.07.2010
USPS sees $382M net loss in April
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"...The US Postal Service saw a net loss of $382 million in April, bringing its seven-month total net loss for its 2010 fiscal year to ...
OWCP and Social Security
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"...Can I receive payments from Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs and Social Security at the same time? I know that 15 years of ...
6.04.2010
Acting President, Mailing and Shipping Services, Named
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"... Susan Plonkey acting president, Mailing and Shipping Services. Plonkey succeeds Bob Bernstock, who announced his resignation May 1...
5.25.2010
Federal retirements hit seven year low in 2009
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"...OPM said 43,649 full-time permanent employees retired in fiscal 2009 — 27 percent fewer than OPM had projected would retire. Federa...
5.19.2010
Man pleads guilty in Wytheville Post Office standoff
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"...A Tennessee man with a violent criminal past and a beef with the federal government pleaded guilty on Friday to five charges in a D...
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...
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