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11.30.2012
USPS/Armstrong investigation
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Armstrong/USPS Investigation: UCI names Independent Commission members and lists terms of reference "... A little over a month after t...
11.27.2012
Is move of mail carriers potential source of the trouble?
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USPS disputes Pelham delivery complaints "... family had gone several days without mail, then found their box stuffed. “Delivery isn’t...
11.20.2012
Former Postal Worker arrested for alleged theft
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Postal Worker Charged With Grand Larceny "... It ended with the arrest of Brian Gaborski of Newark, a postal worker who was contracted...
11.16.2012
Postal stamp to rise one cent
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Postal prices to rise a penny "... The Postal Regulatory Commission on Friday approved the proposed rate increase, which raises the p...
11.15.2012
Post Office 'emergency Suspensions' gone wild
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Holler for help: There's no stopping emergency suspensions "... the same cannot be said for several other post offices that have b...
11.14.2012
Get Your Upcycled Mail Sack Products
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Upcycled Mail Sack Pouch "... Handmade from repurposed mail sacks, this graphic pouch delivers style to your daily collection of good...
11.12.2012
Suspicious Package thwarted
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Suspicious Package Intercepted "... Additionally it was discovered that Quiana Walker was in possession of letters written to Catalina...
11.06.2012
Former Postal Service Eelectronics Technician admits stealing mail
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Former NY postal employee admits stealing mail "... an electronics technician at the Rochester Logistics and Distribution Center when ...
11.05.2012
Political sign in mail truck gets postal employee in hot water
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Texas postal worker in hot water over Obama sign "... A postal worker in Texas could be out of a job after complaints about a sign in ...
11.01.2012
NY: certain postal locations will be pick up spots for Social Security checks
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Social Security Check Pickup Locations in Rockaways, Jamaica "... Social Security checks due for delivery on Nov. 1 will be delivered ...
10.29.2012
Hurricane Sandy: postal facility service disruptions
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Posted at 9:21 AM CST Hurricane Sandy: postal facility service disruptions Hurricane Sandy: Preparation for Hurricane Sandy has resulted i...
10.28.2012
Postal Regulatory Commission could help bolster the argument for keeping mail processing and distributing plants open
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Opinion may favor Stewart mail plant "... One assumption the PRC challenged was that larger plants are more efficient than smaller one...
10.26.2012
Buyout: Things to consider
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Buyout Considerations "...Many federal employees are being offered early retirement this year – and many more wish they were. Often, t...
10.23.2012
PRC: USPS can operate at least midway through the fiscal year
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Regulator: No imminent cash crunch at Postal Service "... Despite maxing out a $15 billion line of credit with the U.S. Treasury last ...
10.22.2012
Lance Armstrong items on eBay
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Lance Armstrong items on eBay "... Get your Lance Armstrong items on eBay. There are plenty of eBay items to be found on eBay at the ...
10.07.2012
Postal Service cuts could reach point savings not justified
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PRC Urges USPS To Preserve Overnight Delivery "... In an advisory opinion on the Postal Service’s “Network Rationalization” plan [PDF]...
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...
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