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MURDER BY PROXY: HOW AMERICA WENT POSTAL
Postal Workers in Florida Can See New Documentary Murder by Proxy: How America Went Postal on a Big Screen
Los Angeles, CA – August 30, 2010. A new documentary on violence in the USPS, Murder by Proxy: How America Went Postal, will be screened at two Florida film festivals this [...]
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The U.S. Postal Service will pay tribute to Mother Teresa, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work. Noted for her compassion toward the poor and suffering, Mother Teresa, a diminutive Roman Catholic nun and honorary U.S. citizen, served the sick and destitute of India and the world for nearly 50 [...]
Literate by Choice
Just like you are doing right now reading is a thinking process to interpret words to gain meaning about a topic. Writers write to provoke change using their persuasive language to get their point across and convince others of their point of view. The larger the audience the greater the opportunity the writer [...]
Big Bucks Bigger Difference
I like what news correspondent Tom Brokaw said at a past commencement speech, “It’s easy to make a buck, but it is tougher to make a difference.” I say that message needs to go out to all our high paid executives and our national labor leaders. Tom Brokaw continued to say a [...]
LOS ALTOS, CA (KGO) — A USPS truck set on fire and melted after its driver turned on the ignition in Los Altos on Thursday afternoon. The letter carrier escaped not injured.
Investigators are trying to determine if the truck was parked over a broken gas main along La Barranca Road.
Read Full Story: Peninsula News
CALCULATING BETTER SERVICE
NEW TOOL TO MEASURE SERVICE DELIVERY
How well is USPS doing to meet its service delivery commitments — internally and with its customers? With the new Service Delivery Calculator (SDC), the Postal Service will soon have more accurate and timely answers to this critical question.
SDC is a tool USPS and its customers soon will [...]
PRC to hold August 16 Briefing on $50 Billion Discrepancy Identified In Postal Service Pension Payments
Washington, DC –The Postal Regulatory Commission invites press and interested parties to a briefing on the actuarial report of The Segal Company regarding calculation of U.S. Postal Service pension liability for former Post Office Department employees. Questions will be entertained [...]
IS USPS A BUSINESS?
EMPLOYEES WORK TOGETHER TO DELIVER
USPS employees are at the heart of the Postal Service’s progress over the past decade. Whether in the ranks of management or hard at work in processing facilities, employee cooperation across job lines has led to improvements in workforce efficiency, revenue generation and customer service.
The USPS collaboration with [...]
Washington, DC – The Affordable Mail Alliance today responded to the United States Postal Services’ earning report. The report contends that the USPS will not have the capital to continue opeartions into FY 2011. This claim is false.
As the Postal Service said just a month ago in its rate filing, even after making this year’s [...]
Postal Service Ends Third Quarter with $3.5 Billion Loss
Cash Shortfall Likely in 2011; Customer Service Scores Remain High
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service ended the third quarter of fiscal year 2010 (April 1 – June 30) with a net loss of $3.5 billion, compared with a net loss of $2.4 billion for the same quarter [...]
Underused Postal Resources Could Benefit Postal Service and U.S. Citizens
Senator Webb to Postmaster General: Keep Post Offices Open Until Reform is Enacted
Senator Levin Says Reform Bill an Important Step in Preserving Postal Service
Senators Call on Postmaster General to Extend Closure Moratorium So House Can Consider Senate-Passed Plan to Protect Rural Offices
Eleven New Criminal Enforcement Actions Against Postal Union Representatives or Officers
Senator Tester is ‘going after the high salaries of top Postal Service executives’
Senator Baucus Postal Service Work Day In Missoula