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USPS Districts Currently Under Phase 2 Of the National Reassessment Process
OPM Submits Proposal To Create Short-Term Disability Insurance Program
APWU: Proposed FMLA Regulations Threaten Medical Privacy, Other Protections
USPS Seeks Vendors For National Video Surveillance System
Mystery Shopper Program Guidelines for 2008 (PDF)
USPS Resolves Dispute With Unions Over Computer Security Rules
 Big Pay Increases Approved For Top Postal Service Officers
APWU, NALC Sue USPS and IG for Invasion of Medical-Records Privacy
Former Postmaster Wins Hostile Workplace Lawsuit - But No Money
USPS Wants To Automate Road Tests
Postal Service Updates Its Transformation Plan
NALC’S Young: Good Cop/Bad Cop - Right Here In The USPS
Court Upholds Postal Supervisor’s Demotion For Altering Timekeeping Records
USPS Los Angeles District Gets Approval From OPM to Offer Early Outs
New USPS Voice of the Employee Survey?
Flat Sequencing System Photos, Deployment Schedule By Zip Code and More..
Postal Service’s Oldest Employee Still Going Strong At 93
APWU: Questions and Answers on USPS Shared Services
Bogus USPS Early Out / Buyout Letter Making The Rounds
USPS Workforce Size and Employment Categories, 1986-2006
Arbitrator Awards $50,000 for Postal Inspectors Misconduct
Notice: USPS Revised Rule for Conduct on Postal Property
EEOC Annual Report on U.S. Postal Service Work Force

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APWU: Postal Reform Act Is No Endorsement of Privatization
The passage of the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act in December 2006 did not change the fundamental mission of the Postal Service, an APWU leader testified on Capitol Hill, and should not be perceived as justification for privatizing the nation’s mail system or eliminating its obligation to provide service to all Americans. The U.S. Postal Service, Post-PAEA: What’s Next?” (5/9)|

USPS Workforce Size and Employment Categories, 1987-2007

Congressional Research Service (CRS) Report :This report provides data from the past two decades on the size of the U.S. Postal Service's (USPS's) workforce, the number of persons employed by USPS by employment categories, and the number of persons employed by USPS under time-limited contracts. It also analyzes the most salient aspects of these employment data. USPS employs nearly 786,000 persons. Although USPS's workforce size has changed relatively little from 20 years ago, it has dropped 12% in the past decade. The number of career employees declined 8.8% since 1987; however, the number of non-career employees increased 106.5%. Clerks, who staff retail counters at post offices and manually sort mail, dropped more than 31% since 1987. Rural mail delivery carriers, in contrast, grew 84.9%; and building and equipment maintenance personnel and vehicle maintenance personnel grew 28.7% and 14.9%, respectively.  (5/9)|

Postal Worker Awarded $382,500 In Discrimination Case

 (Des Moines,  Iowa) A federal jury has awarded a black woman more than $380000 in her racial discrimination lawsuit against the US Postal Service. Sheryl Rogers, a former night shift mail sorter at the Des Moines Post Office, testified during the trial that the harassment included chants of racial epithets by her co-workers. (5/8)|

USPS Reports Second Quarter Loss of $707 Million; Economic Slowdown Cited - Despite cost-cutting measures, the U.S. Postal Service ended the second quarter with a net loss of $707 million, driven by a continued decline in mail volume resulting from the current national economic climate. The Postal Service also continues to focus on reducing costs and increasing efficiency. For example, workhours have been reduced by more than 18 million in the first two quarters of the year compared to similar periods in 2007.  (5/7)|

US Virgin Island delegate requests investigation by USPS OIG

US Virgin Islands, Delegate to Congress Donna Christensen has asked the US Postal Service’s Inspector General, David Williams to investigate the unacceptable level of USPS mail service in the territory. In a letter co-signed with the Chairman of the Congressional House Subcommittee on the Federal Workforce, Postal Service and District of Columbia, Rep. Danny Davis, Christensen asked for the investigation; and a return of the practice of the US Virgin Islands processing of its own mail, instead of USVI mail being sent to Puerto Rico to be processed. (5/7)|

USPS OIG Audit: Homeless People Living In Unsecured Postal Equipment (PDF) - "The San Francisco P & DC is leasing an unsecured parking lot near the facility and improperly storing Postal Service owned and leased trailers and mail transport equipment in the lot, thereby placing these assets at an increased risk of loss. Postal Employees "indicated transient or homeless people were using the lot, sleeping in Postal Service trailers, and using Postal Service equipment to improve their encampments. We concluded the unsecured conditions diminished the Postal Service's image, reputation and brand; presented a danger to public safety and security."  (5/5)|

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5/9/08

McAllen, TX postal worker indicted on mail theft charges
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Wounded mail carrier to be released from hospital
FedEx holder sues board over contractor problems

Social Security Checks Go Missing

 

5/8/08

Postal Bulletin 5/08/08 Issue

Boulder Creek mail carrier arrested for stealing from customers

Mail delivery within Chicago shows improvement

Retired New Hampshire District Manager may run for governor

 

5/7/08

Atlantic City, Belcoville post offices make top-10 historic sites endangered list

Retirement Planning Hits Perfect Storm

No more free post office boxes

 

5/6/08

Fighting Junk Mail via 'Do Not Mail' Lists: Devilish Details and Front Groups
New post office causes traffic mess
Man Accused Of Stealing Mail From Boxes

FERS and Social Security: Answers to Common Questions

 

5/5/08

Battle Of the Brands
The largest player in the U.S. overnight package delivery business is attempting to increase its market share in the fast-delivery business next month. USPS is barely holding on to its 32% market share in the business, as FedEx and UPS continue to push the envelope at 31% and 25% market share, respectively. For the first time, shippers using Express Mail, Priority Mail, and several other parcel services will be able to get lower rates for large- and medium-volume contracts, according to the agency. Will UPS and FedEx need to cut their prices further to compete with the USPS? Postal Service Launching Competitive Expedited Mail Prices |

Postal worker gets 5 months for fraudulent jury service

A federal judge has sentenced a former postal worker to five months in prison for fraudulently claiming to be on jury duty for 184 days total on two occasions and collecting nearly $39,000 in pay from the U.S. Postal Service.|

 

APWU: Upgrade Records to Be Updated May 16

APWU: Court Upholds Unfair Labor Charge Against USPS

Postal Service offers troop support advice

How to lick higher postage prices

 

5/4/08

Man gets help following advise from postal employee

Postal Workers Break For Funeral of Co-Worker

Postal Service slow on mailbox delivery

Former postal clerk sentenced

Canada Post set to deliver fatal blow to rural mail service

- Canada Post deems rural delivery unsafe

Price hike to factor in Postal Service revenue

Post office leaves taxpayer steaming

Postal worker faces animal cruelty charge

Family-Leave Plan Is Halved

Postal price hikes now an annual event
Mail Delivery Resumes in Vallejo Neighborhood
 

5/3/08

San Francisco Postal Workers Go Postal With Picket

Local postal carriers say there’s a guy working as a supervisor at the Bryant Annex Post Office in the Mission named Ron Malig who’s simply out of control. This postal boss, they allege, has long abused and discriminated against his underlings, behavior they describe as “obnoxious” from finding ways to punish fellow postal workers he dislikes to claiming certain colleagues are “disrespecting” him. |

 

Substitute Postal Carrier Admits to Stealing Checks to Pay Mortgage

Irving postal carrier who left dog at doorstep arrested for animal cruelty

eNAPUS: Postal Subcommittee Hearing and more (PDF)

Mailers lax on IMB compliance

 

5/2/08

Court upholds labor ruling in Florida post office case

A federal appeals court has upheld a finding of unfair labor practices by the U.S. Postal Service in a dispute stemming from a discovery of white powder at a post office in the Florida Panhandle. A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a decision of the National Labor Relations Board and an administrative law judge that a postal supervisor violated labor laws by threatening reprisal and to sue an employee who filed a complaint over the powder incident. The Postal Service contended that the supervisor was exercising free speech protected by the First Amendment, and acting as a private citizen rather than an agent of the postal service. The court disagreed.   NLRB vs USPS (PDF) |

 

Complaints of undelivered mail, poor service dog Rockaways post office - Postal problems in the Rockaways are piling up like junk mail. Rep. Gregory Meeks is hosting a town hall meeting Friday to address growing dissatisfaction with mail service on the peninsula, and has invited U.S. Postal Service brass from Washington to listen to the complaints. There is so much incompetence and lack of supervision” at the Far Rockaway post offices, said Meeks. The Postmaster has had to “deal with personal medical issues, and is currently on a light-duty administrative assignment,” Trombley told The News. |

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The fastest mailman on skates

Psychiatric Evaluation Ordered for Former Mail Carrier/Sheriff in Mail Case

Postal service no longer leaves mail unattended

APWU: Volunteering for Obama in Indiana

Postmaster makes final delivery

Postal jobs scam?

Popular Cherry Creek North Post Office Closing

Fresno Mail Carrier Retires after 5 Decades

 

5/1/08

Postman saves wheelchair-bound senior from burning home

FTC Report: USPS Needs More Freedom and Less Protection

Postal Service Acquires 261,000-SF Center

TSP trading limits take effect May 1

Rule Calls for Upside Down Addressing

Man breaks postal rules by reusing old box

Unconscious driver crashes into Lincoln Park post office
FedEx wins reprieve in Senate bill

Post office “test mailers” needed

 

 

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