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9.26.2012
Recycling priority and express mail packaging
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USPS recycling policies hypocritical says one big-time shipper "... Representatives from the USPS refused to discuss the matter on-cam...
9.21.2012
As USPS crashes, they ask you not do the same
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Postal Service Begs Floridians To ‘Please Stop Crashing Into Post Offices’ "... Even the U.S. Postal Service thinks Floridians are bon...
9.17.2012
POStPlan problems begin immediately following implementation
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Consternation and confusion: Putting POStPlan in place "...The Postal Service began implementing POStPlan a couple of weeks ago, and i...
9.07.2012
Mobile meth lab goes postal
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Cleveland postal carrier discovers smoking package "... A postal employee working his regular route came across something unusual Thur...
9.05.2012
Valassis deal could divert no less than $1 billion in advertising revenues from newspapers
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Junk mail boon: Postal Service giveaway hammers newspapers "...newspapers around the country are informing their readers about a rate ...
8.31.2012
1988-1989 Alabama Duck Stamp artist
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"... John Warr began his art career in 1980 concentrating mainly on wildlife. Over the next ten years Warr worked with many wildlife or...
8.29.2012
Audit: Atlanta NDC inefficient at unloading trucked mail
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Audit: Major waste of resources at Atlanta postal distribution center "... efficiently moving the trailers. According to investigators...
8.28.2012
Postal Service: What's the real issue
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10 things the post office won’t tell you "...some in the postal industry say that declining mail is just an excuse: “There is red ink,...
8.25.2012
Paul Ryan economic ideas inspired by Hayekian philosophy
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Prime Time for Paul Ryan’s Guru Works of F. A. Hayek "...Hayek also believed that the government should not have a monopoly on any ...
8.24.2012
Residents Furious Over Postal Sub's Excuses For Not Completing Appointed Rounds
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Postal Worker’s Vacation Causes Halt In Mail Delivery For Some In Jersey City "...what happens when a mail carrier goes on vacation. R...
8.22.2012
United Parcel Service (UPS) and Paul Ryan
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Janna Ryan, Paul Ryan's Wife, Lobbied For Cigar, Nuclear, Pharmaceutical Industries "... Ryan and her then-boyfriend's work ap...
Unique Post Offices
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Top 13 must-see US post offices "... From a boat that delivers mail along the docks of a 29-mile stretch of river, to aircraft that f...
8.14.2012
Cresco Post Office Mural
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Have you seen this post office mural? "...In 1936 Richard Haines completed an oil-on-canvas mural for the Cresco Post Office and it wa...
8.10.2012
Excessing: Protection Against Layoffs
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Arbitrator Rules on Protection Against Layoffs "...Arbitrator Stephen B. Goldberg ruled on Aug. 1 that employees represented by the AP...
8.03.2012
FedEx and UPS have a vested interest in Postal Service survival
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Why FedEx and UPS Want the Postal Service to Survive "...For starters, FedEx earned $1.495 billion from the Postal Service last year a...
7.27.2012
Article: "...POStPlan is a fraud being perpetrated not only on rural America but on all America""
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"A half-vast plan": A postmaster comments on POStPlan "... The cumulative effect of the changes the Postal Service has offer...
7.23.2012
Wife shot retired postal worker husband
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Browns Mills woman, 76, charged with murder in husband's death "...Valpa Rosa was an Air Force veteran and a retired postal worker...
7.20.2012
Post Office closure appeals rise
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Post office closing appeals skyrocket "... From 2007 to 2009, there were exactly two such appeals. As of mid-May, the year-to-date tot...
7.17.2012
FedEx could lose huge Postal Service contract
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FedEx Fights UPS to Keep $1 Billion Postal Service Deal "...FedEx warned in a regulatory filing this week that it may lose the contrac...
7.13.2012
Postal Service default on health benefits fund for future retirees likely
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USPS default on Aug. 1 appears likely "... The cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service is within weeks of defaulting on a legally required $...
7.02.2012
Postal Service’s unilateral determination to disallow the exercise of retreat rights a violation
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Arbitrator Das Sustains APWU Grievance on Denial of Retreat Rights "...Arbitrator Das determined that the Postal Service’s unilateral ...
6.28.2012
Postal Workers Continue Hunger Strike
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Postal Workers Start Third Day of Hunger Strike to Save USPS "... “Corporate America is trying to steal your postal service,” said Jam...
6.21.2012
Join over 400 community groups, clergy, citizens, and postal workers endorsing hunger strike
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Turning up the heat: The DC Hunger Strike "... On June 25th, a band of protestors will travel to Washington DC to stage a four-day hun...
6.15.2012
Senate bill could save some postal processing centers
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U.S. Senate bill could save Quincy postal processing site "... U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., inserted a provision into an appropriati...
6.14.2012
Postal Service should follow federal preservation laws when considering disposal of these buildings
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Historic Post Offices: An Inventory of the Legacy "... Among the Trust's main concerns is the way the Postal Service has been hand...
6.08.2012
Hunger strike over the Postmaster General sending the postal service into a death spiral
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Hunger strikers protest end of first class overnight mail delivery "... “The Postmaster General is sending the service into a death sp...
6.05.2012
Send your opinion on POStPlan to the PRC now!
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The PRC wants your opinion on POStPlan, but does the Postal Service want the PRC's? "... You can send your comments to the Postal ...
6.01.2012
POStPlan: Some Post Offices upgrade to Level 18's with Postmaster pay raises
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POStPlan: New lists, maps, financials, and more "... Why 4,600 post offices needed to be upgraded — and their postmasters given at lea...
5.25.2012
Early Retirement and Buy Out Incentives Are Offered to Postal Mail Handlers
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Mail Handlers to be offered retirement incentive "... Mail Handlers who are eligible should be receiving a package in the mail from th...
5.18.2012
Social Security Benefits & Taxes
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Social Security Benefits & Taxes "... So after years of paying income taxes on your “contributions” you are ready to retire and co...
5.16.2012
No postal facility closures this summer
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USPS Announces ‘Modified Consolidation Plan’ "... “The Postal Service is working with its unions regarding an employee incentive offer...
5.10.2012
Buyouts for Postmasters
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USPS to offer buyouts to 21,000 postmasters "... Postmasters that accept the buyout will receive $20,000, split equally between two pa...
Fox News Inaccurate About Postal Service Again
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Fox News, Wrong Again! "... The piece is clearly designed to drum up support for a discredited House bill (H.R. 2309) sponsored by Rep...
5.08.2012
Postal Closure Moratorium Best Option
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Rockefeller, Manchin ask USPS to hold off on closures "... "Despite our concerns about the legislation, we do believe that extend...
5.04.2012
Postal Service should extend moratorium on closures and consolidations
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Manchin urges USPS to extend moratorium "...He has also suggested cost-saving measures to the USPS to achieve savings in ways that wou...
5.03.2012
Postal Service total cost saving estimate drops far below plan
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Revised Estimates for Network Rationalization: Where have all the savings gone? "... With the gross savings reduced by $500 million, t...
4.27.2012
Postmaster General may still rush to shutter mail processing centers after May 15
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Postmaster general: No closing frenzy after May 15 "... The Postal Service, which has lost billions of dollars in recent years, could ...
4.25.2012
No two-year moratorium on plant closures, no supportt from Senator Manchin
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Senator Joe Manchin attempts to save the Postal Service others play politics as usual Senate passes postal bill that would end Saturday mai...
4.23.2012
Purposeful Postal Service Destruction?
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Is Congress killing the USPS? "... this appears as if some in Congress are actually trying to destroy the postal service. Heaven help ...
4.17.2012
Will Senate save some mail processing plants and let some states suffer?
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Senate seeks to salvage U.S. Postal Service "... Left out of the bill was a proposal to raise the price of a first-class postage stamp...
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