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- Postal Service set for big shift
People used to getting mail from the same postal carrier at the same time each day may be in for a surprise. Across metro Detroit and the nation, the U.S. Postal Service plans this month and in February to shift thousands of carriers and delivery times as a cost-saving measure. It may be the largest single batch of such changes in Postal Service history, said Dan Orton, spokesman for post offices in Macomb, Oakland, St. Clair and other counties. -

- The FERS is Flying -
Federal News Radio

January 04, 2009
- Smoking mail brings out bomb squad -

- Stamp's 'unknown musher' is quite well known, actually -

January 03, 2009
- NALC: Route Adjustments Extended to February 20th
The NALC and USPS have agreed to extend to February 20 the deadline for finalizing adjustment packages pursuant to the Interim Route Adjustment Process.  -

- Vallejo postal route changes may mean new delivery times -

- Maine’s Mail Marathon -
- Asbestos threat closes U.S. Post Office near Westport in St. Louis County
- U.S. Postal Service Beefs Up RIBBS Website
- Alcohol issue addressed: Lingleville to keep post office

January 02, 2009
- Hearing Held In Postmaster’s Death -

- USPS: Changes to the Rehabilitation Act
Effective January 1, 2009 the definition of an individual with a "disability" was expanded. Important information here. -

January 01, 2009
- PostalEASE Enrollment Period For FEHB, FSA Extended -

- Ex-mail carrier expected to plea to federal charge
Former carrier stole and stored mail - resigning in August 2008, she allegedly stored the undelivered mail at Fowlerville Mini Storage and told investigators she intended to keep paying rent on it "until the day I died." -

- Video: Here's UPS...in a big hurry! -
Thanks to Mike Sandusky of NALC branch 53 for this link.

- Postal customer states "I've spoken many times with postal officials, including the local postmaster. It's like listening to an endless recorded message." -
- Postal Service pledges to remove 8,000 pounds of lead
- Carrier is 'a hard act to follow'

December 31, 2008
- Post Offices across Wisconsin swapping routes
The post office is making route changes around the state, but, in the Village of Clinton, people are worried where that might lead. -

- USPS 2008 Annual Compliance Report -
- Give post office a break: We can wait a day -
- Bomb scare ends at Federal Way bulk mail facility
- Service suspended at Claremont, SD Post Office
- USPS to expand operations in SC

December 30, 2008
- USPS VOLUNTARY EARLY RETIREMENT UPDATE -
Interesting numbers here.

- Delivered mail found to be tampered with -
- USPS issues new proposed mailing standards -
- APWU Secures More Space For Inaugural Assembly, Invites NALC -
- Charges filed after dog bites mail carrier
- Changes coming for AK bypass mail program
- USPS Previews 2009 Commemorative Stamp Program

December 29, 2008
- Forget dead letters; worry about a dead USPS
Top officials of the U.S. Postal Service and the American Postal Workers Union are monitoring the serious mail problems in Philadelphia. But William Burrus, national president of the APWU, warned of an even worse problem on the horizon than "just the delay of the mail." With a nearly $3 billion loss in fiscal '08, and a projected deficit of up to $5 billion in the current year, the USPS is "close to not being able to sustain a national postal-service system to the public," Burrus said. -

- THE PEOPLE SPEAK: Why this is happening to customer service
Paul E. Evans, president Muskogee Area Local 007, state president for the Oklahoma Postal Workers Union provides opinion regarding service to USPS customers. -

December 28, 2008
- Subcontracting Practices Contribute to USPS Woes
The Postal Service is eager to contract out our work whether it will be cost effective or not. -

- Rough Rides Along the Network Realignment Trail
Unable to come up with a way to justify the plan to reward corporate mailers at the expense of local business owners and citizens, the USPS decided to allow the Sioux City Processing & Distribution Facility to continue with its normal operations. -

- ‘NCED No-Show’ Fee Dispute Resolved
In response to an APWU protest, the Postal Service has instructed field-level managers to bill USPS scheduling offices – rather than employees – for any costs associated with an employee’s failure to attend scheduled training sessions at the National Center of Employee Development. -

December 27, 2008
- Thinking outside the mailbox on Staten Island
PEN Ed - This news article reads very much like many others we have been reading lately. It seems USPS has developed a blanket statement to provide the media when asked why mail delivery is so late, etc - their favorite response now is that they're attempting to match the number of staff with the amount of mail...say what? We will not address why this method just won't work, we'll leave that up to you. -

- US Postal Service wants its crates back
- Mail delivery by Monday? For many, that's the wish

December 26, 2008
- Late night mail delivery frustrates customers
“Like any business, we’re trying to match our staffing to our workload,” said (PM) Rash, who noted that eight letter carriers have retired in Davenport during the past year and not been replaced. As a result, post offices nationwide are scrambling to create evenly divided routes. -

- With holiday card sending way down, is the Post Office the next to crash? -
- Postal Workers Deliver Holiday Cheer
- For late gift senders, Postal Service makes their day
- Mail carrier lauded for helping fallen elderly man
- Letter: Priority mail delivery unsatisfactory

December 25, 2008
- For a Va. Neighborhood's Dogs, Santa Arrives on a Mail Truck

- Action News Team Victimized By More Mail Theft
For the second time in less than a month, Action News anchors, Kelli Saam and Jerry Olenyn report that their personal mail has been rifled, and money apparently stolen. In both instances, birthday cards to the couple's 4-year-old son were opened. -

- PRC Treads Carefully on Universal Service and Postal Monopoly -

- Could Federal Furloughs Save the Economy? -

December 24, 2008
- APWU Complaint About Falsified Reports Prompts OIG Audit of Philadelphia P&DC -

- NALC: Extension for finalizing adjustment packages
NALC Executive Vice President Fred Rolando has announced that the NALC and USPS have agreed to extend to February 20 the deadline for finalizing adjustment packages pursuant to the Interim Route Adjustment Process. -

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- USPS Financial Relief?
In a letter addressed to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the District of Columbia Subcommittee Chairman Danny Davis (D-IL) and Ranking Minority Member John McHugh (R-NY) said:

"We are writing to request that the text of H.R. 7313, introduced on December 9, 2008, be included in the economic stimulus package currently being developed. This bill would assist the U.S. Postal Service to address its serious financial constraints and would serve to protect existing Postal Service jobs. Source: PostCom -

- Burrus On Potters' Salary - "I do not begrudge him a salary commensurate with his responsibilities." -

- Child Dies Bringing Cookies To Mail Carrier
Kentucky state police say an 11-year-old Breckinridge County girl who was bringing cookies to her mail carrier was hit by a truck and killed. -

- The Christmas Season and hard working US Postal Service!
- Bad Holiday Delivery in SW Philly
- 3 Florida Lawmakers Plan Push For Free Mail To Troops
- Christmas Miracle
- Uncle Sam to Smoking Employees: Quit, Leave or Take the Bus

December 23, 2008
- Former Postal Worker Admits Stealing Mail -
- USPS SOME POST OFFICES WILL CLOSE EARLY ON CHRISTMAS EVE -
- Postal employee hit with a stun gun while off duty -
- Come rain, sleet or snow, Diecks family keeps mail flowing
- Snow keeps mail carrier from appointed rounds
- 'Neither Rain, Nor Snow, Nor...' Wait - Delete That Snow Part

December 22, 2008
- The Role of the United States Postal Service in Public Safety and Security - Implications of Relaxing the Mailbox Monopoly from The RAND Corporation -

- Operation Santa Returns, Scaled Down for Safety -
  Also see: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO ... LETTERS TO SANTA : Yes, Virginia, they still do exist

- Thinking Outside the Postal Box -

- South Jersey printer negotiating reimbursement from Postal Service after mailings ruined
A South Jersey printer says 3,365 envelopes he mailed to Medicaid subscribers last month were destroyed and returned three weeks later in hampers along with a withered orange, a bottle of joint ointment, a videotape wall-rack, books, trash and unrelated mail. -

- APWU: The Issue That Looms Large in ‘Article 1.6.B Offices’ -
- VER UPDATE; the irrevocable date for your decision has been changed from January 16, 2009 to February 9, 2009 - For Postmaster, field EAS, Field PCES, or Area Office EAS & PCES
- The Day After Christmas Is A Work Day for Postal Employees -

December 21, 2008
- Tips on tipping: Who deserves it? How much?
Canton City Councilwoman Mary Cirelli would like to give her mail carrier a $20 bill, but she has heard that is not permitted. You’re right, Mary. No cash gifts allowed, says Ann Frank, customer relations supervisor at the Main Post Office branch on Cleveland Avenue NW. And nothing else worth more than $20. PEN Ed Note: It is our opinion that this practice by USPS should have ceased years ago. Their flimsy reasoning that carriers could/would provide superior service to tipping customers does not and has never held water. Carriers provide the same service to each and every customer - if the customer believes that their carriers service is exceptional and desire to tip him/her ANY amount then that should be their business...not a worry of USPS. It is also our opinion that PFP pay for USPS management is nothing more than a 'tip' from USPS for reaching certain service goals that, in reality, have been reached by their craft employees...not management. Every Christmas USPS seems so thrilled to inform the populace and media regarding rules on tipping postal employees. Employees...if you get a tip then keep this information to yourself. -

- APWU: Moving machines will hurt mail service -
- Cold as ice

December 20, 2008
- Santa thwarts sicko, continues distributing letters
Operation Santa Claus is back on, following a brief suspension after a pervert in another state tried to get in on the Postal Service's gift program. -

- Check in the mail for 'Mailman Steve'
The former Raleigh mail carrier who became a cause celebre this year for a public irritated by junk mail has received a surprise of his own in the mail. A $3,011 check came to his attorney’s office to pay a court-imposed fine. -

- Report: Keep postal monopoly in place
The Postal Rate Commission urged Congress on Friday to keep an eye on postal finances, which have been suffering in the current economic climate, in case changes become necessary. The commission, an independent agency, said no immediate changes are needed in the post office's monopoly or its obligation to provide universal service. -

- APWU Files Second ‘Dispute’ Over Two-Tour Initiative -
- Postal Service Suspends Operation Santa After Maryland Pedophile Tries to Join In -
- Dear family: A holiday card is not in the mail
- Marysville Postal Worker Accused Of Theft
- Dallas FBI appeals for public aid on hoax letters

December 19, 2008
- Postal Service Tells Gift-Givers Not to Help Santa
The United States Postal Service abruptly shut down public participation in all the Operation Santa programs — in New York and other major cities across the country — at 1 p.m. Wednesday, without offering post offices or letter-seeking citizens any understanding of why. -

- Meth Lab Found At Home of Woman Posing As Mail Carrier to Steal -
- Thieving mail carrier will keep pension -
- Tampa contract mail carrier bitten by snake now pinched by bill collectors -
- Postal worker charged with stealing gift card
- OPM Announces Benefits Change for Enrollees of Blue Cross and Blue Shield Standard Option Who Use Out-of-Network Surgeons

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