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Bills Introduced To Provide “Free-Mail-To-Troops” Postage Benefit

Troubled USPS eyes help from Congress |

USPS: Available For Duty Tool Drives Improvements In Attendance  |
Ask President Burrus: Will USPS Have Sufficient Funds To Make Payroll?  |
NAPUS: House GOP Leadership Proposes Federal Retirement Cuts
National Listing And Costs Of Leased Postal Facilities
USPS Notifies APWU Of Retail/Delivery Units Being Considered For Consolidation Or Closure
APWU: Burrus Calls on Labor Department to Reverse Bush FMLA Rules
USPS OIG Audit: High-Risk Contract Postal Units
USPS Bay-Valley District To Implement Phase 2 of The National Reassessment Process

The OIG Wants to Know How You Feel about Sick Leave  |

Was Postal Manager Justified in Having Police Escort Supervisor Out of Facility?
Oakland APWU May Sue USPS Over Improper Involuntary Reassignments
USPS: Organizational Changes And VERA Timelines Updated 
MSPB Affirms Firing Of Postal Worker With No Prior Discipline For Irregular Attendance
San Francisco Passes First ‘Do Not Mail’ Resolution in Nation
USPS Loss $658 Million In February 2009 (PDF)
USPS Closing Six Districts, Eliminating 1,400 EAS Positions And Offering Early Retirement
USPS To ‘Outsource’ Change-of-Address Program?
PMG Potter Responds To Inquiry Sent By Lawmaker Regarding DBCS Machines
PRC Annual Report: Postal Execs Compensation

LATEST POSTAL NEWS  

Letter Carrier Shot In Face Trying To Stop Robber

Kim Yates, spokeswoman for the U.S. Postal Service in Indianapolis, identified the wounded man as Robert Norman, 54, a letter carrier with 29 years of experience.  Norman was in stable condition Thursday . (7/2) |

Senior VP of Operations Galligan Ends 39-Year Career

Bill Galligan, senior vice president of Operations since 2005, will retire at the end of this month, ending a career that began as a New Haven, CT, letter carrier in 1970.  (7/2) |

USPS Meets With APWU On Plans To Consolidate Or Close Stations - At a meeting at USPS Headquarters on June 23, the Postal Service briefed APWU Clerk Craft officers about plans to consolidate operations in large stations and branches. Managers also provided the union with an updated list of 3,243 stations and branches in Level-24-and-above installations that are being reviewed. At the briefing, postal officials said that 740 already had been identified as candidates for consolidation and/or closing. Residents start petitions as USPS plans national review on consolidating branches | 13 Post Office Branches On the Line in Connecticut (7/1) |

Gun-wielding post office robber kicks in back door, locks clerk in room - The robber kicked in the back door at 1 p.m., pointed the weapon and locked the lone employee in a back room, said Josh Shandler, a U.S. Postal Service inspector. The clerk wasn't injured, Shandler said.   (7/1) |
What's your hurry? Grand Rapids-area post offices collect mail only once a day - This revelation comes as the U.S. Postal Service is streamlining its operations by collecting mail once a day from its local sites, city Postmaster Chris Tinkham said. Many people believed that dropping off their mail earlier in the day -- particularly at the main post office on Michigan -- meant it would be processed earlier. Postal Service bumps up collection times  (7/1) |

Postal Carrier's Letter Ignites Complaints

A recent letter sent out by one postal carrier stated that residents needed to have their curbside mailbox put up “so there will be no delay in your mail’s delivery to your home.” The letter stated that due to the down economy, the postal service waited six months for the residents to comply with this request. It also stated that the curbside boxes would help the letter carrier deliver mail more efficiently. But Postmaster Julius Jones said the letter sent out by a carrier, which he did sign off on, miscommunicated the situation. (7/1) |

USPS Workforce Continues To Decline

The US Postal Service has reduced its career complement in the last twelve months from 669,372 to 633,046--a difference of 36,326. The clerk craft suffered the biggest reduction -- 197,966 to 182,592 (15,374). The other career employees categories also suffered a reduction from this same time last year such as the city carriers - 11,435 (202,971)  (6/30) |

Union Battles USPS Over Ergonomic Hazards

Locally Filed OSHA Complaints and a National Unfair Labor Practice Charge are among the actions taken by the APWU in our ongoing battle with the Postal Service over ergonomic hazards on the Delivery Bar Code Sorter (DBCS).The NLRB Regional Director has scheduled a hearing on July 20, 2009, on the allegations in the formal complaint filed May 1, 2009.  (6/29) |

USPS OIG: What’s the Right Level of Financial Reporting?

  How can the Postal Service provide you and other stakeholders with the most appropriate financial information?   (6/29) |

Postman doesn't even ring once

Patterson woman can't get home mail delivery because of distance rule
"Under the quarter-mile rule, (the U.S. Postal Service) exempted itself from providing carrier delivery service to customers who reside within a quarter-mile of noncity delivery post offices.." 
 (6/29) |

Calendar/ Postal Holidays:

Most Post Offices will close at 12 noon on Friday, July 3, 2009

 

- 2009 Pay Periods and Holidays

What's New/Updates

OPM Updates Benefits Checklist Upon Death of a Federal Employee

 

USPS FERS Annuity Estimates Are Too Low Between MRA and age 62

 

 

 

 

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7/2/09

• Documented Work Stress Patterns Implemented and Enforced: A Thesis - How the Ongoing Violation of the Guiding Principles of the United States Postal Service is Creating a Toxic Work Environment

 

• Peoria n arrested after shooting at postal truck

• Editorial: Postal predicament

• Mail-sorting operations to move off Staten Island, officials told

• Video: Post offices might be closing up shop

• Postal employee Ron Skovron retires

• MI : USPS targeting Jackson Distribution Center for possible closure

• Postal Pick-Up Slip Lists Number for Sex Hotline

• Chicago Mail Handler charged in sex attacks

• Postal worker pleads guilty to tossing mail into dumpster

 

7/1/09

• Internet, e-mail cuts big into post office business

• Postmaster retires after 27 years

• Post offices stamp out stamp machines

• South Carolina Carrier Robbed at Gunpoint

• Ark-La-Tex post offices may close

 

6/30/09

• Postal service says five-day delivery only a rumor

• Dozens of Delaware Post Offices to End Bulk Mail Service Tuesday
• Postal employee guilty of opening mail
• Former Postal Worker Facing Prison Time
• Residents of Florida Town Upset by Possible Post Office Closure
• Possible Closures for OK Post Offices

• Talk of closing Nashville post office riles patrons

• Public speaks out against post office closure

• Mail damaged by fire; post office seeks assistance

 

6/29/09

• Three Louisiana Postal Employees Sentenced For Making False FEMA Claim And Delay Of Mail

 

• APWU: Latest List of USPS Facilities Targeted for Consolidation || Local Consolidation Web Sites

 

• High-tech mail service raises $30M

• Quebecor World: Has the Stalked Become the Stalker?

• Veteran letter carriers get national award for safety

• Idaho: Backcountry mail pilot helps preserve way of life

• Postal Cutbacks in Age of E-mail

 

6/28/09

• Small Post Offices Serve As Community Link

• Stamped for extinction
• Mail priorities

 

6/27/09

Friends rally to keep popular window clerk’s job

Peter Avallone, who has worked for the Postal Service since 1988 and in Brookside since 2003, said he was informed two weeks ago by Postmaster Rita Schmidt, that the Postal Service wanted to move excess employees from other branches to work at Brookside. Because Avallone has part-time status, his job was in jeopardy and he was given the choice of either being a mail carrier or having his hours cut, potentially to only one hour a week.  |

 

Postal Union Officials Charged With Embezzlement, Theft

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) recent criminal enforcement data  |

 

• Mail Carrier Robbed at Gunpoint
• Mail Carrier Finds Newborn Wrapped In Plastic at Abandoned House
• Temporary' post office to change - 25 years later
• Locals react to possible loss of mail delivery
• Carwash company accused of bilking USPS

• Senators Urge Congress, Postal Service to Protect Oregon's Vote-by-Mail
• PRC Seeks Commission Secretary/Chief Administrative Officer

 

6/26/09