POSTAL NEWS FROM PEN
May 2010
May 28, 2010
4 accused
of stealing jobless pay - 2 are postal employees
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USPS Wins
FMLA Case -
Postal
Service to close Lima sorting station, move 86
jobs -
OIG: USPS
Audit Report – Contract Payment Terms
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Suspect
Robs Montgomery County Post Office
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Federal
Daily says that while postal
inspectors may continue to seek employee medical
information as part of an investigation, doctors
and health care providers can say no. -
May 27, 2010
Business
or Public Good: It’s Not Just about Saturday
Delivery - The Urban
Institute -
Former
postal worker gets time served in workers comp
fraud -
USPS Spent
$35 Million Using FedEx Needlessly
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Transcript
Testimony of Las Vegas PRC Field Hearing
- Also see
Sacramento
Field Hearing -
PEN Ed:
Watch Out for bottle bombs - newest fad - TRUE -
Watch This Snopes Video -
Postal
offices accused of non-payment at two Manhattan
condos -
Milwaukee
letter carrier suffers injury from dog attack
May 26, 2010
Q&A with
the USPS Regarding Providence Employee Drug Bust
- Also see
'Up in
smoke' post office drug raid video
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U.S.
Supreme Court refuses to hear case in 1999
Valley hate-crime shooting of postal employee
Joseph Ileto -
Yorktown,
NY postal carrier accused of selling marijuana
to cop -
Two former
Alabama U.S. Postal Service employees indicted
on charges of theft of government property
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May 25, 2010
PEN Ed: We are sharing the
link to this article - YOU must form your
own opinion -
U.S.
Postal Service Expands Construction Of Secret
Rooms -
Update:
Former postal worker pleads guilty to stealing
Netflix -
Burrus
Criticizes Exclusion Of Postal Unions from OIG
Workshare Audit -
Bismarck
postal worker sues for harassment
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5-day delivery would be
postal death knell -
A former
Elizabethtown, KY mail clerk
with the U.S. Postal Service was sentenced last
week to a year in prison, two years of
supervised release and ordered to pay more than
$7,000 in restitution after being found guilty
earlier this year of obtaining a controlled
substance by fraud and theft of mail. -
Customer
stuck with counterfeit money from the post
office -
APWU:
Unions, Management Reach Settlement of Unions’
Privacy Lawsuit -
Update:
Post Office Robbed, Clerk Kidnapped
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Ghostly
Postmaster?
... one of the most persistent spirits is a
cranky former postmaster, who used the hidden
catwalks above the main floor to spy on his
employees and make sure they were doing their
job. -
USPS April
Financials
Net loss -$382m -
May 24, 2010
Can the
Postal Service Further Consolidate the Area and
District Administrative Office Structure?
OIG Blog -
Piles of
undelivered mail found in Michigan shed
Also read
here -
Postal
worker pleads guilty to stealing drugs from the
mail -
Post
office worker told not to wear mask while
cleaning asbestos floor tiles
- Also see:
Mailroom
mask fight -
It's Time
For The Postmaster General to Go, and The
Inspector General as Well -
Eric L. Wattree -
Closing
some post offices makes sense
Federal Times -
IRS may
get access to TSP accounts of tax-delinquent
feds - Federal Times -
Confirm
competition ahead?
Postal Affairs Blog -
Postal
carriers picket for Saturday
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May 23, 2010
Whiteside,
TN Postmaster Held Hostage After Armed Robbery
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Postal
Services warns to stop mail deliveries to
prevent dog attacks - FOX 13
- Utah -
Could US
Postal Service be key to investigating Landis
allegations? -
May 22, 2010
FSS
Througputs 9% Below Plan, USPS Official Says
Dead Tree Edition -
Five-Day
Delivery Campaign Driving Away Businesses, APWU
Says - Federal Daily -
PMG Winton
M. Blount Video
This is a video, late 1960's, of PMG
Blount on Meet The Press. PMG Blount, now
deceased, lived in PEN's hometown of Montgomery,
AL. -
4 Arrested
in post office drug bust
PROVIDENCE, RI - Four men are arrested at the
Providence Postal Annex, charged with possession
of drugs. We’ve learned three of the men are
postal employees. -
NALC:
Settlement reached on medical records
The NALC has entered into
a
settlement agreement with the
Postal Service and the USPS Office of Inspector
General (OIG) that imposes significant new
restrictions on OIG agents and postal inspectors
when they seek to obtain confidential medical
information about employees from the employees’
doctors or other personal health care providers.
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Confirm
competition ahead?
Postal Affairs Blog -
May 21, 2010
Pilfering
Postwoman Charged In Westchester
Police in Pound Ridge said in February she stole
items worth about $200,000, including a $250 jar
of caviar. -
Just what
you thought: Mail carrier dumps--not
delivers--your mail -
D. Eadward
Tree Unmasked!
A postal executive stunned the
Mailers Technical Advisory Committee (MTAC)
today by announcing that D. Eadward Tree,
pseudonymous chief arborist of Dead Tree
Edition, is actually a high-ranking Postal
Service official.
Rosa Fulton, Executive Director of Flats
Sequencing, said that the
Flats
Sequencing Map published on this blog
last month had only been shown to a few
high-ranking USPS officials. She announced,
therefore, that D. Eadward Tree must be none
other than Patrick R. Donahoe, the #2 man at the
U.S. Postal Service. Donahoe reportedly laughed
but issued no denials. -
Genius
Drug Dealer Arrested at Post Office Trying to
Mail Marijuana (video) -
USPS
Merges Expedited, Ground Shipping Units
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Fairbanks
postal worker charged with theft
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Car slams
into Birmingham, AL Post Office branch
- video
May 20, 2010
Potter
announces organizational shift at USPS
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U.S.
Senators Barbara A. Mikulski, Benjamin L.
Cardin, and Congressman Frank M. Kratovil (all
D-Md.) sent a letter to Postmaster General John
E. Potter
Regarding AMP study at Easton, MD -
U.S.
Postal Service Is Not an "Employer" Under
Connecticut Workers Compensation Law
PEN Ed: Say what? -
Memphis
Public Hearing On Post Office Cutting Saturday
Deliveries -
USPS to
PRC:
The
elimination of Saturday outgoing processing will
save mail processing workhours
-
Opinion:
Government Should Fund Postal Service So It Can
Compete -
Federal
News Radio on USPS
It is no secret that the Postal Service has to
come up with a new business strategy to ensure
its financial stability and ultimately,
survival. Postmaster General John Potter says
they've
realigned
some services to help with that.
The Expedited Shipping and Ground Shipping
groups have merged into one Shipping Services
Group. Meanwhile, Potter named Jim Cochrane as
vice president of Product Visibility and
Operational Performance. It will be his job to
lead the development of technology to help scan
and track packages through the postal system.
Potter said the new internal structures will
result in more competitive package products and
scanning visibility information for customers. -
May 19, 2010
Burrus: A
Pig with Lipstick… Is Still a Pig
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APWU Urges
PRC To Save Saturday Delivery at Memphis Field
Hearing -
Netflix's
Latest Problem: The Mailman
Forbes -
APWU
Rallies Against Big Banks, For Good Jobs
-
USPS
Monthly Financial Data for March
-
Pitney
Bowes: $210,000 spent to lobby health care,
postal service and banking laws in 1st qtr
-
Woman
accused in fatal robbery of retired postal
employee refuses plea offer -
Also see
Retired
Postal Employee Slaying Befuddles Police, Family
-
May 18, 2010
Post
Office Waste Could Cost Mail Day
WSB Atlanta -
Regulator
Says No-Mail Saturdays Not Done Deal
NBC - Dallas/Ft. Worth -
Also see:
Many
protest proposal to end Saturday mail delivery
at postal hearing in Dallas -
Feds/Retirees Have Political Muscle
Federal News Radio -
Postman
delivers help in emergency -
Police and
Fire Report - Battle Creek, MI
INDECENT: A warrant for gross indecency is being
sought for a Battle Creek man, 22, after Battle
Creek police said he exposed himself and was
masturbating while a female mail carrier was
trying to make deliveries Friday and Saturday. -
May 17, 2010
Postal Service To
Discuss Cutbacks In Dallas -
Also see:
Dallas
customers weighing in on plan to end Saturday
mail service -
US Postal
Service’s Woes Impact Netflix
-
AN
EXIGENCY INCREASE IS NOT JUSTIFIED
by postal commentator Gene Del Polito
"It has been said that the business model of the
Postal Service is broken. Broken, it may be. It
wasn't, however, the customers of the Postal
Service who broke it, and they shouldn't be held
accountable to fix it." -
OIG: What Do You
Think of the Priority Mail Advertising Campaign?
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Sentencing
today for former postal employee charged with
stealing Best Buy rewards certificates
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Postal
Inspector Criminal Complaint
Defendants did conspire to commit armed robbery
of a postal employee, forcibly kidnap and rob a
postal employee, and forcibly steal mail and
property belonging to the United States Postal
Service. -
Postal
Employee Charged With Destroying Mail
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Postal
Employee Charged with Stealing 24 Letters from
Mail -
Direct
mail drop doesn't tell the whole story
DM News -
May 16, 2010
OSHA: USPS
CITATION and NOTIFICATION OF PENALTY
(PDF) -
Junk Mail
and the Postal Service
I just received four letters in the mail today
with a total of .20 cents worth of stamps on the
combined mailings. Let me rephrase that, I just
received four pieces of junk mail today, each
with .05 cents worth of stamps on each letter.
Yet when I mail a letter, I pay .44 cents a
stamp. -
"Mastermind" of postal robbery had insider
knowledge -
Former
Rolla, MO postal clerk indicted on federal
charges -
Five-day
postal delivery would affect businesses in
different ways -
May 15, 2010
The Postal
Service Is Essential to Democracy -- It Should
Be Re-Imagined, Not Shrunk -
Man pleads
guilty in Wytheville post office standoff
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Winlock:
Postmaster to face prostitution charge - NOT
rape charge - Also see
Child-sex
sting nets Winlock postmaster
-
This Week
In Postal
Listen to this week's review of postal news. -
May 14, 2010
New
Documents Show Wage Theft in NH Post Offices
Continues -
The North
Dakota Newspaper Association
has issued a flyer regarding possible loss of
Saturday delivery -
Mail
carrier accused of repeated thefts
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Postal
service employees trusted despite occasional
blemish -
Union,
lawmakers say Dover letter carriers shortchanged
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Postal
Service rate of 44 cents may not be good enough
for consumers -
Police
seek Alabama postal carrier accused of killing
wife in front of children -
Lake
County postal worker sentenced for stealing more
than 500 parcels containing prescription drugs
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20K Pieces
Of Mail Found In Mailman's Philly Home
-
More on
this story
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Burrus:
USPS Postage Discounts Are Illegal,
Self-Defeating -
APWU:
Bills to Extend Health Insurance Coverage To
Young Adults Introduced in House, Senate
Automated Package Processing System
Equipment Maintenance Opportunities
May 13, 2010
Postal
Service sees $381M loss in March
-
Feds: Postal worker
stole IDs on route -
‘Coffee
break’ inequality not actionable
A postal employee could not hold his employer
liable for allegedly allowing female employees
to take long coffee and lunch breaks, the 1st
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled. -
A 21st
century Postal Service
LA Times Opinion -
Big, little postal clients plead to
keep Saturday service -
Gamefly
vs. US Postal Service Complaint Continues
-
May 12, 2010
NALC: 5
Day Delivery - Just the beginning?
Buried at the bottom of a piece in
Monday's
Washington
Post on Postmaster General Jack
Potter was this quote from his remarks at last
month's National Postal Forum in Nashville: "The
value of going to four days - removing a second
day - is even greater." -
USPS marketing
executive, Robert F. Bernstock, to resign; IG
investigation ongoing - Also see:
Postal
Service official to resign
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USPS press
release |
Postal
chief who OK'd no-bid pacts to step down -
HOUSE
POSTAL SUBCOMMITTEE HOLDS HEARING ON WORKSHARING
AND PRICING - via
PostCom
-
Periodicals Are Profitable for USPS, Publishing
Exec Testifies
- Dead Tree
Edition -
Burrus to Testify At House Hearing
on Postage Discounts -
Read his testimony -
Update:
Winlock postmaster arrested after detectives
pose as girl on Craigslist -
Former Canada
Post carrier pleads guilty - admits stealing
more than 160,000 pieces of mail over a 16-year
span
-
Letter carriers' food
drive tops 1 billion pounds in 18 years of
helping to 'Stamp Out Hunger' -
Please Mr.
Postman, look & see—will you still be delivering
mail to me? -
Jury
convicts mail handler for theft
-
May 11, 2010
Time
Warner Backs U.S. Postal Service’s Saturday Cut
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APWU Urges
Postal Commission To Save Saturday Service
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USPS Leaves Confirm Customers
Hanging Once Again
Postal Affairs Blog -
USPS Cited
for Third Set Of Safety Violations in One Week
- Fines Now
Total Nearly One Million Dollars -
PRC:
Request for Proposal to Measure the Social
Benefit of the Postal Service
-
Postal
service outlines possible Saturday cuts at Las
Vegas meeting - Omar
Gonzalez, regional coordinator for the American
Postal Workers Union, said he was speaking
Monday on behalf of 250,000 members of his
union. “The mail will be deliberately delayed,”
he said. “We think that the public deserves full
service. Gonzalez continued: “It’s a spiral to
the elimination of the Postal Service as we know
it. If the Postal Service goes, the country’s in
trouble.” -
Also see:
Postal
workers oppose five-day week at hearing
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Outrageous
Executive Perks
Postal Affairs Blog -
Postal
Service Moves Closer to Energy and Fuel
Reduction Goals -
Postal Bulletin 22284 - May 6, 2010
-
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New FERS Accrued Unused Sick Leave
Ruling in Effect
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Equal Employment Opportunity Policy
Statement
May 10, 2010
Winlock
postmaster arrested for using Craigslist to
arrange for sex with women -
OIG Blog:
Can Letter Processing Get Even Better?
-
Postmaster
General John Potter leads a cry for retrenchment
- Potter says "By fall, the Postal Service won't
have enough money to make payroll." But big
customers, regulators, lawmakers and organized
labor still have to be won over. -
Plea
bargain delivered to ex-mail carrier
-
Ginger
Barrow: Mail carrier delivered friendship, too
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SIX DAYS,
EVERY HOME, EVERY BUSINESS. WE DELIVER FOR YOU
-
May 09, 2010
To The
United States Postal Service - Bring It On!
by Eric L. Wattree - a PEN contributor -
Newell, SD
man a victim of high-profile mail thief
-
Post
office drowning in a sea of red ink
Chicago Sun-Times -
May 08, 2010
FSS
Machines Shuffled Again -- But Do They Work?
Dead Tree Edition -
Also see:
FSS
Deployment Plan – May 2010 -
Postal
Populism Amid Governmental Distrust
NAPUS Newsletter -
Postal
Employee Convicted of Four
Counts of Mail Fraud, Eight Counts of Worker’s
Compensation Fraud, and Two Counts of Making
False Statements to Federal Officers -
This Week
In Postal Podcasts -
Express Mail Next Day Delivery Postage
Refund Amendment
- Postal Affairs Blog -
May 07, 2010
Rural
Carrier
Eonreco M.
Myles of Pearland, TX (PDF)
Carrier Myles says, in his letter to the PRC,
that most rural routes are larger than city
routes and rural carriers "usually carry more
mail" than city carriers. -
APWU:
Dispute Filed Concerning USPS Failure to Bargain
Over Safety and Ergonomic Issues
-
Read
Dispute Letter -
Bellingham man who threatened post
office workers pleads guilty -
Postal
truck rolls over toddler in Plainfield
-
'Letter-stash' mail carrier pulls a
'Seinfeld'-esque stunt -
Car crashes into Clear Lake-area
post office 5 people injured -
Mail carrier allegedly witnesses
crime, give officers clue
He might have gotten away with it if not for the vigilant mail carrier. -
Postal employee challenging the
federal law - the Defense of Marriage Act - New York
Times -
May 06, 2010
USPS
Reports $1.6 Billion 2nd Quarter Loss
-
Postal
Service Reports Continuing Losses
- But Levels Of Service Remain Stable -
Also see:
Mail
volume, income still shrinking
Washington Post
Why
October 12 is needed...
Rag Content -
APWU:
Obama Declares: 'I’m Pro-Union'
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OSHA Fines USPS $217k for Safety
Violations in Denver Just Days After Citations Issued in Providence
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Downsizing Diminishes USPS's Role As
A Source of Opportunity for Blacks, New Book Says -
Dead Tree Edition -
Cops:
Fired postal worker tried to kill ex-boss
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Wheeling's
Postal Workers Upset Over Processing Move
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Rural mail
carrier indicted for stealing money, gift cards
from customers -
Postal
employee faces federal charge of abandoning mail
-
May 05, 2010
Houston
postal worker convicted in gasoline scheme
involving $17,829.39 in gasoline
-
The Future
of the Postal Service
FedSmith -
It’s
(Past) Time to Free the U.S. Mail
-
How
Michigan could save the Saturday mail
-
PRC
Chairman Ruth Goldway says...
"the Postal Service's proclamation that it will
lose $238 billion over the next 10 years if
nothing changes is an "unsubstantiated figure
with no connection to reality." [from PostCom:
scroll for article 'PostCom update from postal
consultant Kathleen Siviter' -
Joint
Alternate Route Adjustment Process 2010
(PDF)
Agreement between USPS and
NALC:
See
M-01720 -
See
M-01717 -
See
M-01719 -
See
M-01718 -
Postal
Service finds 2,000 missing SS checks
-
May 04, 2010
APWU:
NLRB Settlement on
Information Requests Concerning Ergonomics &
Tour 2 Consolidation -
Read memo
to local and state presidents -
Burrus:
Phony Deficit Projections Mask Management’s Real
Goal -
Spokane
City Council rejects ‘Do Not Mail’ concept
-
USPS
consolidation with Grand Rapids will cut about
40 jobs from Oshtemo Township site
- Also
here
-
OSHA Cites USPS for
‘Willful’ Safety Violations -
Also see:
Postal
Service responds to OSHA fines -
USPS
Statement Concerning Sex Offenders Working for
the Postal Service -
May 03, 2010
NALC:
Standing Tall - Then and Now
(PDF) -
American
Justice - As Practiced by the United States
Postal Service - by Eric
Wattree -
Postal
Workers Picket Against Proposed Cutbacks
-
Should the
Postal Service request financial relief from the
$6.8 billion FERS surplus?
OIG Blog -
The USPS’s
‘Automation Refugees’
Tad DeHaven - Cato Institute
PEN Ed: Apparently, after all these years, Mr.
DeHaven still does understand what the postal
service does, how it works, or how postal
employees work. -
Four D-FW
postmen are sex offenders, TV show to report
More than 20 Texans working for the U.S. Postal
Service are on the public sex-offender registry
maintained by the Texas Department of Public
Safety, investigators for New York-based
Inside
Edition found. -
OSHA Fines
USPS $500k+
PROVIDENCE - The U.S. Postal Service faces more
than $500,000 in potential fines after safety
officials say it exposed workers to the
possibility of electrocution and other dangerous
conditions in a Providence post office. Also
see:
Postal
Service Hit with $558,000 Fine |
Providence
postal service responds to OSHA fines
(video) -
May 02, 2010
Postal
Service Scores a Win with Wal-Mart
Dead Tree Edition - If FedEx and UPS are so much
more efficient than the U.S. Postal Service, how
did the USPS manage to beat its private rivals
for an exclusive deal with the nation’s toughest
customer? -
Optimizing the Postal Service
Network and 6-day Delivery - Courier, Express, and
Postal Observer -
Reflect
and regroup - and regain the nation's trust
Federal Times -
Mailman
saves woman from fire -
Concerned
Norton Shores mail carriers credited with saving
elderly customer's life -
News Story
Changes Post Office's Plans -
May 01, 2010
OSHA finds
safety violations at Providence post office
-
USPS
controls the outside of your mailbox, too
-
3 Year Old
Jason Evers, the son of
retired postal employee Bob Evers, was kidnapped
and murdered 28 years ago - recently Bob found
out that an unknown man had stolen Jason's
identity. Also see
Ex-Bend
OLCC mgr. may have taken slain toddler's ID
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Postal
employee pistol-whipped during attempted robbery
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