April 30, 2007-
Letter: USPS Omaha MCC Proposal
From PostalReporter Reader:
I'm surprised more people have not commented on the
Omaha MCC proposal. "Contracting out an entire mail
processing plant of this size is a first and affects both
craft and management employees. No one is safe! Did anyone
see the
PowerPoint presentation (PDF) ?" "The purpose of this
procurement is to contract the management and operations of
mail sorting activities at the Omaha Mail Consolidation Center
referred to as "Omaha MCC."
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Arbitrators Selected for Determining Letter Carriers New Contract
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Mail increase a big deal for businesses
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Lost items may await at post office
Man killed in collision with postal truck
Santa Fe couple battles bungled mail delivery
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Auburn, WA
Post Office has a new postmaster
April 29, 2007-
Two
More Postal Districts Added to Phase 2 of National Reassessment
Process
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From PostalReporter
Reader: Phase
2 of the NRP is scheduled to commence in the Westchester NY
and Salt Lake City District (UT) late April 2007, both districts.
All National unions and management associations were notified
on April 10, 2007 of the Implementation of Phase 2.
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Post office: Walk to your mail
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Modesto: REC closing hard to take
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Undocumented migrant workers cleaning flood-damaged post office
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The things he's carried
April 28, 2007-
Update: Mail carrier improving after wreck
A postal official initially stated she was surprised Dobre
was driving from the passenger side of the vehicle on U.S.
30. Postal officials conceded Thursday that it is a common
practice for rural carriers, who use their own vehicles. More
than a dozen current and former carriers e-mailed and called
the Post-Tribune to say they have asked for postal vehicles
equipped with steering wheels on the right for several years,
because of the potential safety issue.
Rural carrier causes concern |
Carriers: Rural driving technique unsafe |
Indiana
Rural Carrier Critically Injured in Crash
- Laura Dobre, 24,
of Lake Station remained in critical condition. She had just
delivered mail when she pulled into the westbound lane.
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Postal Workers will be honored next week
Five local postal workers will
be honored next week in Scranton for doing more than delivering
mail. Jim Clark, Francis L. Kratz III, James Pechulis, Michael
Yashowitz and Michael Zaleskas, along with 10 other postal
workers, will be honored at a luncheon on May 3. All the workers
helped postal customers in need, according to a statement
issued by the United States Postal Service.
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Mail deliver
resumes to area
A mail carrier called to complain
that rocks, a basketball and a bottle of cologne were reportedly
thrown at him by three male juveniles. Stephanie Boudreaux,a
longtime mail carrier said she considered the incident with
the children isolated and believes it was not enough to bring
the mail delivery to a halt. The local postmaster decided
to begin delivery again but would send a companion with the
carrier when delivering to that area. A sheriff’s deputy will
also be in the area during the carrier’s normal delivery hours,
she said. Three of the carrier's colleagues also volunteered
to take the route without being paid overtime but were denied
by the local postmaster.
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Cummings Center
mailman honored with life-size portrait
Post office automated machines isn't without a few glitches
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Co-workers surprise retiring postmaster with party
Postal inspector battled pyramid schemer for 20 years
Letter carriers get a later start |
Elderton giving
retiring postmaster big send-off
Retired Postal
Worker wants to return letter postmarked in '67
Pit bull bites postal worker
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PRC Releases
Rate Opinion and Recommended Decision
Retired Postal
Worker's fitness program really delivers
April 27, 2007-
NALC and USPS Agree on Neutral
Arbitrator
"President
Young announced on April 26 that the National Association
of Letter Carriers and the United States Postal Service have
agreed on renowned arbitrator Richard Bloch as the neutral
arbitrator in the impending hearings on the letter carriers'
national agreement. Bloch and the two other panel members
have set four weeks for testimony: Sept. 10-14, Sept. 24-28,
Oct. 29-Nov. 2, and Nov. 5-9. "Given this schedule, it is
anticipated that a decision on the contract will be rendered
in mid-November," Young said.
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Controversy Over
Postmaster's Return Heats Up
"In the wake of allegations of incompetence and
the arrest of one of his top lieutenants, Far Rockaway Postmaster
George Buonocore has become the center of a controversy over
whether he will once again come back from his special assignment
to run the local post office."
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Burrus discloses USPS plans to issue Slave Contributions
stamp |
See PostalReporter Article
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Postal Bulletin 4/26/07 issue
USPS taking aggressive move toward eliminating
UAA mail
ValPak may be worried about ADVO getting
'sweetheart' deal from USPS
Mail-sorting outfit also to exit Slidell
Postal Contract Truck driver charged in
alleged mail theft
Editorial:
Don't stamp out brainy mags
USPS publishes new DMM with price changes
USPS calls for dog safety
Post office fixes aren't with glitches
Truck slams
Butler post office
April 26, 2007-
Feds Arrest Iowan For Mail Bombs
John P.
Tomkins is a former substitute letter carrier who worked weekends
for the U.S. Postal Service, authorities said. They said he
was not an employee at the time the devices were sent. "Tompkins
is charged with sending pipe bombs and threatening letters
with religious references to investment firms under the signature
"The Bishop." The neighborhood where 42-year-old machinist
Tomkins lives in Dubuque was disrupted Wednesday morning when
more than 100 postal inspectors and FBI agents arrived to
make the arrest."
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Indiana Rural Carrier Critically Injured in Crash
Laura Dobre, 24, of Lake Station
remained in critical condition. She had just delivered mail
when she pulled into the westbound lane. She was struck by
a semitrailer which dragged her car across traffic into the
eastbound lanes. They are postal workers, but they typically
use their own vehicles and are given a maintenance allowance,
said Cynthia Norfolk, spokeswoman for the U.S. Postmaster
in Valparaiso. She said it is not Post Office policy to allow
drivers to operate vehicles from the passenger seat. "I'm
shocked. We in no way condone operating a vehicle that way.
We believe in safety first," Norfolk said.
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DMA Fears Do-Not-Mail Legislation
With the impact of user-generated
content such as blogs and YouTube at consumers' fingertips,
the future of direct mail is still The Direct Marketing Association's
biggest concern. That's because with consumers dictating what
they want to read and when they want to read it, legislation
such as do-not-mail could affect direct marketers more so
than do-not-call initiatives, said DMA chairman Markus Wilhelm.
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USPS works to improve mail processing
USPS: Star Wars Stamp Sheet Available
for Pre-Order
Attacker wore postal uniform
APWU: Twin Falls, Cape Cod Consolidations Stopped
El Paso: Reyes, Bingaman ask Potter for postal evaluation
Deadline passes
for Vancouver couple to appeal fine over historic Native American
Effigy
Flood delivers
major damage to post office
April 25, 2007-
Mail Handlers: Hegarty Blasts USPS Subcontracting
"There
is one crucial and overriding point that I want to emphasize
at this hearing. From all indications, there is a contracting-out
virus that seems to be infecting Postal Service Headquarters.
At a time when the top echelons of postal management should
be focused in laser-like fashion on ways to improve service
and volume, and to ensure proper implementation of the recently
enacted postal reform legislation, management officials are
spending an inordinate amount of money and time on schemes
to privatize our work.
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Judge says contract post offices can't promote religion
A federal judge has ruled that
post offices across the country that are run by churches and
other organizations cannot promote religion through displays
or other promotional materials. The religious displays "put
the church's beliefs front and center, out for the public
to see, endorsing the church's form of Christianity and seeking
outsiders to join the church in its mission," U.S. District
Court Judge Dominic J. Squatrito wrote in a decision handed
down last week. The decision says that the U.S. Postal Service
must give notice to all of its contract postal units that
they cannot promote religion or display religious materials.
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Modesto REC to close this fall
Nearly 350 employees at a Modesto
postal encoding center learned Tuesday that improved technology
has made their jobs unnecessary and the facility will close
this fall. The Modesto Remote Encoding Center will be shuttered
in November, said Augustine Ruiz, USPS spokesman. John Miles,
president of the Modesto Local APWU, said most employees reacted
with "shock" during group meetings Tuesday. "There were some
tears," Miles said, adding that managers let employees have
a 15-minute break to process the news before going back to
work. After the Modesto and Beaumont closures, eight encoding
centers will remain.
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Small Publications Face Crippling Rate
Hike
Security Causing Major Postal Delays
to Congress
Post office closure riles patrons
Las Cruces: Mail worries begin anew
Legless Man Killed By Postal Service Truck In San Francisco
US Postal Service Ramps
Up R&D of New Technologies
Post office stops delivery
to apartment complex
Personalized Mailboxes
- Disappearing Down a Lane Near You
New Forever stamp is called
`lousy investment'
Tiny town will lose post
office, not service
Federal employees selling
transport cards
Full Court to Reconsider
UPS Lawsuit-
On display at UF, the art of war, courtesy of mailman
April 24, 2007-
USPS,
letter carriers at odds
Letter carriers and the U.S. Postal Service are butting heads
over the federal agency's increased reliance on contract workers
in Colorado and elsewhere. Of the Postal Service's 6,483 letter
carriers in Colorado and Wyoming, 623 are contract workers, said
Al DeS
