May 31, 2019
- Former Manager of North Kenner, LA Post Office Sentenced To 30 Months for Stealing More Than $630,000 in Postal Stamps – PEN
- Ohio postal carrier caught on camera spraying dog behind fence with pepper spray – PEN
- NRLCA Reaches Tentative Agreement with USPS for Three-Year Contract – PEN
- U.S. Postal Employees’ Retirement Assets Are Invested More Cautiously Than Those of Their Foreign Counterparts
- New video explains USPS finances
- OIG: Spring 2019 Semiannual Report to Congress
- OIG: When in Rome, or Dublin or Bonn…
- Million Mile Awards – Clifton Heights, PA
May 30, 2019
- Mother and son plead guilty to murder in death of mail carrier – PEN
- FedEx Ground Announces Seven-Day Residential Delivery Year-round – PEN
- Case involving teen accused of fatally shooting postal worker turns federal
- Couple leads petition against Lynden, WA Post Office mural that contains a topless Native American woman
- Postal Reform Negligence Threatens Public Safety
- Postal service vows to improve service at community meeting
- Pat the Mailman is a jolly good fellow
May 29, 2019
- Albuquerque post offices still dealing with rats – PEN
- Mail truck catches fire in southwest Houston neighborhood – PEN
- Two Dogs Quarantined After Breaking Through Screen Door, Biting Mailman
- Crash causes damage at Watertown Post Office
- OIG: High Throughput Package Sorter at the Queens, NY, Processing and Distribution Center
- OIG: Foreign Posts’ Retirement Asset Investments
- USPS Reviewing Solutions to Reduce Costs, Expand Services
- It seems like Amazon might still be coming to New York City
May 28, 2019
- Postal Service delivers 81-year-old Christmas card to Billings woman
- Richmond-area residents deserve timely postal deliveries
- Where is the U.S. D-Day 75th anniversary stamp?
- Our Mail Is Opened, And Someone Is Stealing Credit Cards, Gift Cards And Cash, West Town Residents Say
May 27, 2019
- NC man drove to Virginia to steal mail over and over, feds say – PEN
- Memorial Day
- Dismantling the Argument for Dismantling OPM
May 26, 2019
- Commentary: Flawed business model hurts U.S. Postal Service
By David Partenheimer – Manager, public relations USPS - Perhaps we need the US Postal Service to restore trust in digital communication
- Olean, NY Post Office employee charged with stealing mail
May 25, 2019
- U.S. Rep. Tom Reed (R-NY) Aims to Shore Up USPS Funding – PEN
- USPS Honoring Former President George H.W. Bush with Forever Stamp– PEN
- USPS will celebrate Sesame Street’s 50th anniversary with Forever stamps– PEN
- Beloved mailman’s retirement GoFundMe goal surpassed after Twitter thread chronicling last day goes viral
- U.S. Postal Service mail, packages are headed to Dallas by self-driving truck
May 24, 2019
- Chester, PA Mail Carrier Final Salute – PEN
- Saying Thank You to Postal Workers for ‘Stamp Out Hunger’ Event – PEN
- TuSimple’s self-driving trucks go postal, on 2-week trial with USPS
- Postal Shippers Beware: USPS Implements New Dimensional Pricing in June
- OIG Audit: Do First-Line Supervisors Have Adequate Resources to Perform Their Duties?
- Stamps.com Hit With Derivative Action After End of Key Postal Partnership
May 23, 2019
- Mail carrier helps save Phoenix woman’s life – PEN
- Ford Wants This Headless Humanoid to Make Door-to-Door Deliveries
- Couple relieved after yard damaged by postal service repaired
- Richmond-area posts offices fined thousands for unsafe working conditions
- Illinois Postal Worker Provides Cheering Section for Teen Playing Basketball
May 22, 2019
- USPS Employee Sentenced for Embezzling Postal Money Orders – PEN
- Wife of slain postal carrier recalls moment she learned of his death – PEN
- APWU Says “Do not participate in the 2019 Postal Pulse Survey” – PEN
- USPS: Memorial Day Holiday to be observed May 27 – PEN
- Rapper Ice-T blasts Amazon after he ‘almost shot’ one of their delivery drivers
- Former Postal Worker Admits To Stealing Mail In Washington County
May 21, 2019
- Duo cashes nearly $40K in checks stolen from post office
- Postal Service Rolls Out Big Changes for Highway Mail Haulers
- Supreme Court won’t take up UPS bid to raise Postal Service prices
- Self-driving trucks begin mail delivery test for U.S. Postal Service
- OIG Audit: Are End-of-Life Network Devices Affecting the Postal Service Network?
- OIG: Beware of Spam Scam
- Postal service warns of fake delivery notices
May 20, 2019
- USPS celebrates national military appreciation month
- Postal Podcast: Trump-quake in the US postal sector
- Postal worker retires with four decades of experience
May 19, 2019
- Former Postal Inspector files lawsuit credibly alleging current and retired Federal Postal Inspector supervisors, managers and executives of the service violated numerous civil and criminal laws – By Ted Mort – Former Postal Inspector – Exclusive for PEN
- $20,000 reward offered for information about attempted robbery of Florida letter carrier
- Two injured in postal truck accident
- Postal Service: Minot office can’t support mail processing
May 18, 2019
- Former postal employee charged in Minot stolen mail case
- Ohio City residents facing major mail issues
- Cameras help catch mail thieves
May 17, 2019
- California Postal Inspector Arrested for Allegedly Stealing Proceeds from Criminal Drug Activity – PEN Exclusive
- Poll ranks USPS first among agencies – PEN
- Ocasio-Cortez Puts the Postal Service on the Path to Ruin
- It’s Time, Finally, for the Postal Service to Figure Out What Its Products Cost to Deliver
- Going Postal
- District of Columbia judges express rate case concerns
- OIG: Mail Delivery Issues – Graceland Annex, Chicago District
May 16, 2019
- USPS employee says she’s not being paid after traumatizing incident on the job – PEN
- How much does the USPS profit when they lose your mail and it’s sold at auction? – PEN
- Rep. Burchett introduces resolution asking USPS to hear from homeowners before installing cluster mailboxes – PEN
- $100k reward as authorities investigate 2001 homicide of U.S. Postal contract driver
- US Postal Service’s Sad Song Continues: Billion-Dollar Losses, Mail Weakness Offsets Parcel Gains
- Americans Remain Satisfied With Postal Service
- Minnesota boy run over by mail truck, life saved by his helmet
- USPS to reschedule ceremony for Tyrannosaurus Rex stamps
May 15, 2019
- Former Postal Worker Sentenced to Fourteen Months in Prison for Stealing Electronics from Priority Mail Processing Facility – PEN
- The U.S. Postal Service Doesn’t Know Why Its Trucks Keep Catching on Fire
- Man accused of ramming mail truck to kill ‘useless’ USPS employee
- USPS halts mail service to Sparks, NV neighborhood for more than 3 weeks due to pest problem
- Cops Respond To Postal Employee Asleep In Car With BB Gun In His Lap
May 14, 2019
- Walmart launches free next-day delivery, taking aim at Amazon
- Safety Experts Alarmed by Mail Trucks Bursting Into Flames
- USPS vehicles have been catching on fire for years with no recall, report says
- Ex-Postal Worker Sentenced for Stealing Electronics Packages
- USPS DID NOT MEET PERFORMANCE GOALS FOR 2018
- OIG: Assessing the Effectiveness of Domestic Competitive Negotiated Service Agreements (PDF)
- OIG: Spotlight on Safety
May 13, 2019
- DEPARTMENT OF LABOR CITES IOWA U.S. POSTAL OFFICE FOR BLOCKED EXITS AND FAILING TO TRAIN ON EMERGENCY PLAN
- Famed ‘Blue Boy’ Stamp to Be Offered at Auction – Starting Price of $1,000,000 – PEN
- Amazon offers employees $10,000 to quit, launch delivery business
- Postal Service Still Americans’ Favorite Federal Agency
- USPS is reminding employees about flag requirements for three holidays this month
May 12, 2019
- Mail carrier needs surgery after dog attack in Washington Township – PEN
- USPS: Undelivered Union, NJ Mail Dumped In Trash
- Regular Vs. City Carrier Assistant – Who Makes the Best Postal 204B Candidate?
May 11, 2019
- Former Minnesota Postal Employee Sentenced To Prison After Firing A Shotgun At The Federal Reserve Bank – PEN
- Man Charged with Killing Postal Carrier in California Crash – PEN
- Postal employee saves sleeping customers’ lives – PEN
- NALC’s Statement on Postal Service’s 2019 Q2 Financial Report – PEN
- Postal Service Hasn’t Even Called Family Whose Relative Was Killed By a USPS Driver
- Florida Keys postal carrier accused of stealing mail, faces up to 20 years in prison
- NPMHU Relocating National Headquarters
- Beleaguered Postal Service Needs to Say No to ‘Green’ Vehicles
- Dalton City Council member wants answers after mailboxes rearranged by the Postal Service, his hit three times
May 10, 2019
- U.S. Postal Service Reports Second Quarter Fiscal 2019 Results – PEN
- Letter carrier’s heroic response to fire helps save two dogs, ferret, and a Maryland home – PEN
- Ohio woman reacts to mail carrier answering nature’s call outside her home: ‘I couldn’t believe it’
- Stamps.com warns of even more pain ahead after it ditched the Post Office. Stock plunges 50%
- OIG: Facility Condition Reviews – Mail Processing Facilities
- OIG Audit: How Was the Postal Service’s Performance During the 2018 Midterm and Special Elections?
May 09, 2019
- Man Who Cashed More Than $60,000 in Stolen Postal Money Orders Sentenced to 30 Months in Federal Prison – PEN
- Postal Service Transcontinental Railroad Stamp Will Be Released Friday, May 10 – PEN
- Grieving Brooklyn Family Rails at Postal Service ‘Killers’
May 08, 2019
- Memphis mail truck recovered after being stolen by woman on bike
- Weld County, CO Woman Sentenced To Federal Prison For Stealing Over $180,000 From the United States Postal Service Through Hundreds Of False Insurance Claims – PEN
- Concerns Raised on Compelling Retirees to Enroll in Medicare
- $6.3 billion delivery: New U.S. Postal Service truck to be picked this year
- Another Attempt to Let USPS Ship Alcohol
May 07, 2019
- Rats, rodents, bats still plaguing Albuquerque post offices – PEN
- Rep. Reed (R-NY) Introduces Bipartisan Bill to Shore Up Postal Service Funding – PEN
- PMG Highlights How Digital Dimensions are Taking Mail to New Heights – PEN
- Who Is to Blame for USPS Delivery Delays?
- 3 sentenced in 500-victim Anchorage mail fraud scheme
May 06, 2019
- Kilmer, Cole Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Help Federal Workers Retire On-Time – PEN
- Federal Jury Convicts Former FedEx Employee of Obstruction of Mail – PEN
- NARFE Warns of Perils to Mandatory Medicare Measures as Part of Postal Reform – PEN
- Porch pirates be warned. Get ready for BenchSentry – PEN
- NPMHU Releases Details on RI-399 Payments – PEN
- OIG Audit: How Well Does the Postal Service Recruit and Retain First-Line Supervisors?
- $18K added to reward for information on missing postal worker Kierra Coles – PEN
- To Curb Dog Attacks On Postal Workers, USPS Goes High-Tech
- Varmints still appearing at Albuquerque post offices
- OPM Cites Value of New Policy on Comp Time for Religious Purposes
- Settlement talks fizzle in U.S. Postal Service’s downtown Milwaukee lease dispute
May 05, 2019
- 27th annual Letter Carriers’ Stamp Out Hunger® Food Drive – Saturday, May 11, 2019 – PEN
- Family mourns father of three fatally struck by USPS truck in Brooklyn – PEN
- Lil Sherry Postal Carrier parade
May 04, 2019
- USPS Truck Hits And Kills 52-Year-Old Father In Brooklyn Crosswalk – PEN
- APWU Contract Update – PEN
- NAPS Says Factfinding Report Validates Their Position That EAS Pay Rates and Pay System Have “Serious Flaws” – PEN
- PMG offers Public Service Recognition Week Message – PEN
- Neighborhood Alligator Scares Off Postal Workers, Neighbors Haven’t Received Mail In Days
- Former Worcester postal worker, accomplice admit trying to ship cocaine through mail
May 03, 2019
- Mississippi postal worker blames broken gate for stolen truck and personal belongings
- Postal worker tackles would-be robber in LaFox, IL
- Postal worker in mail theft case says supervisors need to be questioned more
- The Mail Boat Captain of Detroit
- Magnolia Springs, Alabama has had delivery of mail by water for one hundred years
- 5 letter carriers attacked by dogs in Maryland in past week
- In praise of snail mail
- Mail carrier’s concern likely saved elderly woman’s life
May 02, 2019
- Bipartisan legislation introduced to repeal USPS pre-funding mandate – PEN
- Latest Effort to Overhaul the Postal Service Hits New Snag
- Georgia carrier killed in pickup truck crash
May 01, 2019
- Hearing on Financial Condition of the Postal Service – PEN – Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) – “How long are we going to have to wait for a plan to come from the board, Ms. Brennan (PMG)? We’ve been dealing with this; it’s been in crisis mode for two or three years,” Meadows said. “When are we going to have a plan?”
- USPS responds to Toledo Blade editorial on opioids and the STOP Act – PEN
- USPS offers special coins to veterans – PEN
- US Postal Service fears running out of cash by 2024 amid a ‘death spiral’
- Mastermind admits postal workers were stealing credit cards in mail