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12.31.2010
Understanding Workers Comp
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"... It covers everything from how a policy is written and what a policy covers to proof of coverage and understanding the basics of pr...
12.27.2010
Oldest postal retirees get most costly of payouts
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"...More than 100 U.S. Postal Service employees over 90 years old are collecting workers compensation - a fact one U.S. senator calls t...
12.24.2010
Track Santa with NORAD
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"... If you want to track Santa, you can use the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Santa Tracker. The NORAD Santa Tracke...
12.23.2010
Parcel bomb explodes at Swiss embassy in Rome, injuring one
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"...one diplomatic employee was seriously injured when a parcel bomb exploded in the Swiss embassy in Rome ..." Source: www.nj....
12.20.2010
93 year old driver backs car into Ormond-by-the-Sea post office
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"... A postal worker, however, did receive a minor scratch on his head...." Source: www.cfnews13.com Visit Our Homepage
12.17.2010
U.S. Postal Service Ready for Busiest Mailing Day
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"... Monday, Dec. 20, marks the Postal Service's busiest mailing day of the year with more than 800 million pieces of mail expected...
12.16.2010
FedEx's special delivery: Better worker pay
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"... Fedex is paying its workers more. Most notably, salaries and employee benefits increased 10% from a year ago. ..." Source:...
FedEx Profit Down
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"... FedEx chief financial officer Alan Graf said the company expects margins to improve in the second half of fiscal 2011 ..." ...
Freeze on excessing of some postal employees
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APWU, USPS Announce Freeze on Excessing "...The APWU and the Postal Service have agreed to a freeze on excessing while contract negoti...
12.14.2010
Ex FedEx Workers Jailed for Deception in Hong Kong, ICAC Says
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"... The two were convicted for understating parcel weights and depriving their company courier fees..." Source: www.businesswe...
12.13.2010
Post Office Robbed At Gunpoint
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"...Colorado Springs police are just releasing information about a robbery that happened at a post office. ..." Source: www.kkt...
12.12.2010
2010 North Pole Postmark
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"... This is an excerpt from the US Postal Service on obtaining a North Pole Postmark..." Source: northpolepostmark.blogspot.co...
12.07.2010
Postal Shooting
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Search continues in postal worker shooting "...MIAMI -- Authorities in Miami continue to search for the person who fatally shot a post...
Counterfeit Stamps
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Counterfeit Stamps Giving Postal Service a Lickin’ "... one of the 10 biggest threats to Postal Service revenue, according to the 2009...
12.06.2010
Like health care reform? Consider the U.S. Postal Service
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"... I went to my local post office branch recently because I needed to buy some stamps using cash. I discovered that the stamp machine...
The Post Office and the Community
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We were a name, not a number "... Once in a while one of us kids got to go in and get the mail out of the box. On occasion the Wyoming...
12.03.2010
Postal Service seen 'vital' to U.S. economy
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"...calling the Postal Service the second-largest civilian employer in the nation (Wal-Mart ranks first), said, "Our survival is v...
12.01.2010
Charges of luring a child into a motor vehicle dropped for Bangor Postmaster Gregory Schlegel
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Luring charges dropped against suspended Bangor Postmaster Gregory Schlegel "... Gregory G. Schlegel, 54, of Bushkill Township, initia...
11.30.2010
Postmaster General’s retirement package ridiculous
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Chaffetz calls Postmaster General’s retirement package ‘ridiculous’ "... Rep. Jason Chaffetz called the $5.5 million retirement packag...
Proposed federal pay freeze will not affect postal workers
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Analysis: What the pay freeze means to feds [Federal News Radio] "... The proposed freeze will not affect military personnel, postal w...
11.29.2010
Holidays are no vacation for postal workers
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"...the Postal Service predicts Dec. 20, the Monday before Christmas, will be the busiest day. ..." Source: www.dailycomet.com...
Best Cyber Monday Deals Online For 2010
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Best Cyber Monday Sales, Deals Online For 2010 "... put together a guide to finding details on Cyber Monday sales. Note that some reta...
Post office wasting $94M on FedEx deal
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"... WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- The United States Postal Service has wasted $94 million on its contract with FedEx, an internal audit...
11.27.2010
USPS Execs get their pay increase, now time to change the rules
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USPS to tie pay, bonuses to finances "...approved contract with Paul Vogel, the $245,000-per-year president of shipping and mailing se...
11.26.2010
FedEx Radioactive Package Misplaced and Found
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Missing FedEx box with radioactive material found in Knoxville "... A hospital shipped the boxes from Fargo, N.D., to the East Tenness...
11.24.2010
APWU Contract Extended to Dec. 1, 2010
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"... “The union’s strategy has been to offer proposals that will also benefit the Postal Service,” the union president said. “Returning...
11.23.2010
Postal Service told to pay $11.6 million for crash
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"...lost control when a Postal Service truck pulled in front of him, and that the car struck a fence, causing a board to strike her in ...
11.21.2010
Amid changes on Capitol Hill, Postal Service faces uncertain future
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"... "There are too many postal workers, too many distribution centers, too many post offices and a reluctance to make those chang...
11.19.2010
Cypress Post Office
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"...Before e-mail, text messaging and Skype, and even before telephones, people communicated over long distances through letters. The l...
Outgoing postmaster general's golden parachute
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"...Postmaster General John E. Potter could earn about $5.5 million in deferred compensation, retirement benefits and accrued annual le...
11.18.2010
Washington mail processing facility damaged in storm
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"... about 190 people were in the Curseen-Morris Processing and Distribution Center in the Brentwood area of northeast Washington early...
Royal engagement celebrated with commemorative stamps
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Isle of Man post office "... The post office has issued a miniature sheet with two stamps of Prince William and a picture of the coupl...
Bluefield Post Office cited for safety violations
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"...A mail-processing facility in Bluefield has been cited for several workplace safety violations for allegedly exposing workers to el...
11.15.2010
Postal documentary set for public screening
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Murder By Proxy: How America Went Postal "...A Congressional committee that investigated the shooting found McIlvane had been harassed...
11.12.2010
FedEx sees 11 percent rise in holiday shipments
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"...expects the biggest growth to come at its FedEx SmartPost venture, which ships packages to the U.S. Postal Service, with quasi-gove...
11.11.2010
Reward offered in killing of Arlington postal worker
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"... A $10,000 reward was offered today for the arrest and indictment of a gunman who fatally shot an Arlington postal employee as he w...
11.10.2010
Postal Workers Frustrated by Secrecy of Oshkosh Facility Study
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"... frustrations are growing among union workers as the study remains undisclosed. At a union meeting Tuesday afternoon, postal worker...
More Discounts for Large Mailers
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"... United States Postal Service is looking to introduce a series of discounts for companies that send high volumes of direct mail to ...
USPS recommends consolidating mail and distribution operations
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"...The United States Postal Service (USPS) is recommending consolidating mail processing and distribution operations in Oshkosh with t...
11.08.2010
Postal deliveries in Finland are returning to normal after workers and employers reached a contract deal on Sunday evening
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"... The two-year deal includes a one-percent pay rise next year. ..." Source: www.yle.fi Visit Our Homepage
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