"...Postal Service awarded 359 contracts without competition to employees who left the agency between October 2006 and September 2009. It covers 100 percent of senior executives' health premiums. And it could not say how many contracts it had awarded without competition ..." 
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"... All affected employees will be reassigned in accordance with applicable collective bargaining agreements...."
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"...The community's name is an acronym for National Association of Letter Carriers Retirement, Education, Security and Training, as it was designed by and continues to be operated by the Nalcrest Foundation, Inc., a branch of the National Association of Letter Carriers, the union representing United States Postal Service city letter carriers. It was the brainchild of William Doherty, the first United States Ambassador to Jamaica and NALC President from 1941–1962.
Construction began on the community in July 1962[1] and the community opened in 1963.[2] Initially, due to HUD regulations, residency was open to both NALC members and others, but when the mortgage was paid in 2002, the HUD restrictions were removed and residency is now limited to NALC retirees in good standing only. ..."
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"...New Information on DUO Postmaster Downgrades ..."
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"... Three masked robbers subdued a U.S. Postal Service contractor on the loading dock of the Silverdale Post Office Friday evening and escaped with bags of money...."
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"... When you're in need of your mail order prescription or catalog order, be it in Minot, N. D. or Port Huron, don't you really want it delivered the same day it should have arrived at your post office? Your letter carrier wants to provide you that service...."
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"... While the Post Office has announced that 144 employees would be given positions at mail distribution centers in Edison and Teterboro, nearly 165 clerks and maintenance staff are unsure of their future, Dougherty said...."
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"...allegedly exposed himself while one of the employees was lowering the American flag. On other occasions, he reportedly exposed himself after opening his mailbox ..."
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"... There may not be a more a bizarre tale for this city than what took place this month in 1922, when Postmaster Clifford H. Dickson, upon greeting federal postal inspectors George Seaton and Ernest F. Sharp..."
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"... USPS is hoping to pare its full-time workforce and expand the use of part-timers while also earning concessions on wages, health benefits and working conditions. ..."
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"... They have ruined overnight delivery entirely as you can't send a card to your neighbor and expect it to be there before three days. Even if letters are mailed to be delivered in Oshkosh they have to be sent to Green Bay first. ..."
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"... There will be an opportunity to those eligible to apply for a VERA to take a VERA with an effective date at the end of 2010. ..."
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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 distribution center has now been slapped with a $350,000 fine for similar violations in New Hampshire...."
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"... And Arbitrator Sherrie Rose Talmadge said in her December 2, 2009 decision that “[USPS] Management’s violations were so egregious over a period of many years that punitive damages were awarded to deter the service from further clock ring violations.”..."
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"...Mr. Bernstock resigned earlier this year before an inspector general's report concluded that he awarded no-bid contracts to former business associates, failed to report information on a financial disclosure form, and used Postal Service staff and resources for private business activities. The U.S. attorney's office in Washington declined to press charges. ..."
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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 Fed Ex. (I’m leaving UPS out of this comparison for the moment. And let it be noted that I’m very pleased with the level of service I get from all my carriers at UPS, USPS, Fed Ex, and Fed Ex Ground)...."
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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 protect their information and privacy. USPS is perennially named in surveys as the most trusted federal agency and is consistently ranked in the top ten of most-trusted businesses.
More than 1.2 million customers visit usps.com each day-where they can use Click-N-Ship to print postage and labels from any computer. Automated Postal Centers in retail lobbies and Carrier Pickup have made mailing and shipping with USPS easier than ever. And this year's census mailings were the largest in history...."
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"... the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued fines of more than $3.7 million for “willful and serious” electrical safety violations at 17 USPS facilities since January. Inspectors found that the Postal Service failed to provide employees working on electrically energized machinery with adequate training and protective equipment. The violations expose workers to the risk of severe electric shock, burns, or death, OSHA concluded...."
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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 the airport to postal stations, often before sunrise. But long before he joined the ranks of mail truck drivers ..."
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Take a look at the USPS employment search to find jobs all over the nation.
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"...a lifelong post office employee who vanished at work and turned up dead at a dump ..."
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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, the cost for each additional ounce would go up a penny to 18 cents. The cost to mail a postcard would go up 2 cents to 30 cents...."
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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 complaint a month later, the employee wrote the situation had only worsened despite a mediation hearing set up by the Postal Services' EEO office. "I was screamed at so bad..."
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"...The former Columbia postmaster, arrested in March on suspicion of attempting to steal clothing and sunglasses at a Columbia department store, has pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor stealing. Joyce M. Herron, 55, of Mexico ..."
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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 our job to find a way around the obstacles we face.” Contract negotiations are scheduled to begin on Sept. 1; the current Collective Bargaining Agreement expires Nov. 20. ..."
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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 Chicago between July 2008 and January 2010. Davis applied for unemployment benefits and allegedly claimed to be unemployed by the USPS for "lack of work" when, in fact, she was employed but had been suspended without pay; she then returned to work full time a week after submitting her application ..."
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"...When an agency imposes removal under a zero tolerance policy without giving bona fide consideration to the appropriate Douglas factors, its penalty determination is not entitled to deference. In such a case, the Board will independently weigh the relevant Douglas factors to evaluate the reasonableness of the penalty. ..."
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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 harassment issues, with workplace environment issues."..."
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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 $2.26 billion. ..."
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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 my Social Security benefits come from my USPS employment, but what about the other 35 years? ..."
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"... Susan Plonkey acting president, Mailing and Shipping Services. Plonkey succeeds Bob Bernstock, who announced his resignation May 12. ..."
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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. Federal retirements haven't been that low since fiscal 2002, when 41,699 employees retired. ..."
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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 December 2009 shooting and hours-long standoff at the Wytheville Post Office. ..."
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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 your pay. This is the time to speak up or let others dictate your career. Stop the postal death spiral and large mailer discounts. Insist on Universal Service Coverage.
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"... cut Saturday mail delivery, raise postage rates and potentially close or consolidate thousands of post offices. The proposal also calls for cutting tens of thousands of jobs through attrition and layoffs...."
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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 the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, that means January 1, 2011. The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is expected to take the necessary actions to comply with the new law by this effective date. OPM will be providing additional information on its website in the near future about this and other changes to FEHBP plans for the 2011 plan year that will occur based on passage of the PPACA, so that mail handlers and other postal and federal employees and retirees will have the necessary information in time for the Open Season, which begins in November 2010...."
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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” tab to access an online service form. ..."
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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. PRC Chairman Ruth Goldway said last week it might take six to nine months for her panel to issue an advisory opinion...."
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"...happened at a freight facility near the Roanoke Regional Airport. ..."
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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 who were receiving workers’ compensation benefits for legitimate, on-the-job injuries...."
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