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10.31.2023
Purchasing Federal Duck Stamps is easy!
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"... Purchasing Federal Duck Stamps is easy! We offer a variety of methods for you to purchase the annual stamp – whether you need o...
10.30.2023
USPS touts crackdown on postal crime, carrier robberies, with hundreds of arrests
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"... The Postal Service announcement on Wednesday came against a backdrop of rallies by the National Association of Letter Carriers ca...
10.25.2023
Stamp Collecting | World War I Stamps
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"...The "Great War" forever changed the map of the world. Military occupations, postwar mandates, and plebiscites created ...
10.23.2023
WATCH: Postal Service worker says a man allegedly threw an axe at her truck
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"Diondra Weaver says she's lucky the hatchet didn't go through her open window. She drove away with her life and captured it a...
10.22.2023
Connecticut postmaster admits to defrauding USPS through cash bribes and credit card schemes
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"... A former Connecticut postmaster could face 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to defrauding the U.S. Postal Service of $875...
10.18.2023
Alabama | Madison residents frustrated with mail delivery
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"They say they receive their letters from the mail carrier late at night and they fear this leaves an opening for their items to be st...
10.12.2023
US Postal Inspection Service offers up to $150K for info about theft suspects
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"...leading to the arrest and conviction of two suspects who robbed a postal service letter carrier in June. Two men robbed a carrier...
10.10.2023
Carrying on: At age 80, an Anchorage mail carrier has served the same neighborhood for nearly a half-century
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"...Charles Seamans says his U.S. Postal Service job has been like a hobby. His connections to the Turnagain community make thoughts o...
Postal Service to increase stamp prices again in 2024 due to ‘inflationary pressures’
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"... The price of sending mail is about to go up, again. The United States Postal Service (USPS) announced Friday it might increase st...
10.09.2023
USPS will be closed for Columbus Day, no mail will be delivered
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"...On Monday, the United States Postal Service (USPS) will be closed in observance of Columbus Day, a federal holiday. According to ...
10.04.2023
Postal Worker Supports Fentanyl Addiction with Stolen Mail
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"...a case of one postal worker stealing from his customers to support his fentanyl addiction. In January 2022, we received a hotline...
9.21.2023
Suspects in mail carrier robbery arrested at Fort Worth apartment complex, police say
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"... Police from Everman and the U.S. Postal Service, along with other law enforcement agencies, tracked the suspect vehicle to Stalli...
FedEx cites ‘upside’ from UPS labor negotiations and Yellow’s bankruptcy — but Postal Service is giving it a run for its money
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"...Shares of FedEx Corp. rallied after hours on Wednesday after the package deliverer raised its full-year profit outlook, as efforts...
9.19.2023
Two postal workers robbed at gunpoint in two separate Jacksonville neighborhoods
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Article Title: Two postal workers robbed at gunpoint in two separate Jacksonville neighborhoods Snippet of Article: " ...they’ve...
9.11.2023
In Memorial to the Saudi Attack on America Sept. 11, 2001
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Article Title: In Memorial to the Saudi Attack on America Sept. 11, 2001 GOD BLESS AMERICA! WE WILL NOT FORGET! Source: Federal Emp...
9.02.2023
USPS payroll error impacts 45K rural postal workers
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"An “egregious payroll error’ apparently kept over 45,000 rural United States Postal Service (USPS) workers from getting their recent ...
How the new USPS network discriminates against some users of the mail
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"The Postal Service is clearly reluctant to share information about the DFA plan with stakeholders. The Postal Service prefers flashy ...
8.31.2023
US postal workers will now have a clear policy for getting water refills during summer heat, congressman says
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"...SAN ANTONIO — U.S. Postal Service workers have spent more than a month delivering letters in 100-degree temperatures, many of them...
8.26.2023
Ruth Bader Ginsburg stamp to be unveiled at U.S. Postal Service ceremony
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Article Title: Ruth Bader Ginsburg stamp to be unveiled at U.S. Postal Service ceremony Snippet of Article: "The new stamp w...
8.17.2023
Postal Employee, Michael Ashley is a two-time organ donor
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" Michael Ashley , a letter carrier in Rochester, NY, talked about the importance of organ donation... Ashley gave a kidney to a fami...
8.14.2023
Postal Service Mail Handler Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) set at $978
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Mail Handler Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) set at $978 Effective August 26, 2023 (Pay Period 19-2023) , all career Mail Handler craft...
8.10.2023
The Postal Service will release its Life Magnified stamps on Aug. 10.
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"The pane features 20 images that explore life on Earth as few have seen it. Using powerful microscopes and specialized photographi...
8.09.2023
Long Island Postal Workers Organize Spirited Response to Attempted Assault by Manager
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"management failed to take action against a USPS Labor Relations Specialist who attempted to physically assault the local’s vice presi...
8.05.2023
USPS may stop processing mail in Eugene and Medford
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"The United States Postal Service (USPS) is considering moving mail processing for nearly all of Oregon to its new processing center n...
7.05.2023
UPS Labor Talks Stall as Union Balks Over ‘Unacceptable’ Offer
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"...“This multibillion-dollar corporation has plenty to give American workers — they just don’t want to,” Teamsters President Sean O’B...
7.01.2023
U.S. Supreme Court Decision in Groff v. DeJoy is a Win for Religious Accommodation and the American Worker
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U.S. Supreme Court Decision in Groff v. DeJoy RE: U.S. Supreme Court Decision in Groff v. DeJoy (pdf) On Thursday, June 29, 2023, ...
6.12.2023
Post Office Delivers Package 13 Years Too Late
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"...The South African Post Office seems to have adopted an unofficial motto of ‘better late than never.’ A Durban family, the Hanekom...
5.30.2023
Would YOU move 7,500 miles to work as a postman? Post Office advertises jobs on British Overseas Territory near Antarctica (but you'll need to sail 800 miles from the Falklands to get there)
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"...The Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands said: 'An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the team for ...
5.08.2023
Man killed by police after pointing gun at officers in Post Office parking lot
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"...Plant City police said they were forced to shoot a man who aggressively pointed a gun at them. Officers responded to a 911 call o...
5.03.2023
New USPS electric vans delayed until mid-2024, according to court docs
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"...Enthusiasm over the announcement was rapidly tempered, however. The NGDV has been designed to be powertrain-agnostic and can be fi...
4.26.2023
USPS delays rollout of new pay system after data shows major cuts for rural carriers
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"...The Postal Service is delaying the implementation of a new pay system that would currently lead to many rural carriers seeing sign...
4.01.2023
Postal Service just shuttered post offices in several different places
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"The USPS is continuing to close California post offices. ...the agency has been keeping California customers updated on which facilit...
3.30.2023
Tornadoes ravage South | Post Offices in MS, AL close for repairs
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"A Post Office in Camp Hill, AL, sustained water damage from the storm that spawned the tornadoes and has set up a mobile retail unit ...
3.29.2023
Native American Heritage Month begins Nov. 1
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"...the Postal Service will issue a stamp honoring Chief Standing Bear , the Ponca chieftain who won his freedom in court, setting ...
3.27.2023
Cyber breach affects eastern NC postal service
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"The mail service is conducting an investigation, but employees are unhappy with the outcome so far, they said. Larisa Covington, fro...
Readers Digest | What Could Happen if the U.S. Postal Service Stopped Delivering Mail
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"...the United States Postal Service (USPS) is chronically in debt and in danger of being disbanded entirely. This issue has been an e...
3.23.2023
Mail truck driver union members protest reduced schedules
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"Local members of American Postal Workers Union on Wednesday held signs reading ‘stop unfair labor practices’ in front of their employ...
3.22.2023
United Parcel Service (UPS), Teamsters expected to ink labor contract deal no later than June 30
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" A leading parcel industry consultant said Tuesday that he expects a contract agreement between UPS Inc. and the Teamsters union to b...
1.9 pounds of meth, 5.7 pounds of marijuana seized from 6 mail packages
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"One of the packages contained more than 2 pounds of marijuana sent to an address at Jose P. Cruz Street in Talo’fo’fo’, from a sender...
3.21.2023
Postmaster describes ‘disturbing’ rise in crimes against Oakland postal workers
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"The trend of postal worker attacks has not stopped in Oakland. In February, a postal worker in Vallejo was robbed of their keys and s...
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