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		<title>Changes in Express and Priority Mail to meet marketplace demand</title>
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Significant changes are coming July 28 to the Postal Service’s expedited product lineup.
“With the online shopping marketplace expected to reach $327 billion by 2016, we want to make sure our premier products — Express Mail and Priority Mail — are positioned for growth,” says Chief Marketing and Sales Officer Nagisa Manabe.
Express Mail will get a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://postalemployeenetwork.com/news/2013/06/changes-in-express-and-priority-mail-to-meet-marketplace-demand/</link>
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		<title>Union Criminal Enforcement Actions 2013</title>
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Union Criminal Enforcement Actions 2013
On May 29, 2013, in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, Joseph Allen, former Secretary-Treasurer for National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 588 (located in Athens, Ga.), was sentenced to one year in prison, one year of probation and ordered to pay restitution in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://postalemployeenetwork.com/news/2013/06/union-criminal-enforcement-actions-2013/</link>
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		<title>Privatizers disrupted at airport mail facility</title>
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Over forty demonstrators, ten of whom blocked the entrance to the Portland Air Cargo Center (US Postal Service), declared victory against “postal privatizers” today. According to postal service managers, several morning mail runs by subcontractor Dill Star trucking were disrupted by the protest.
”Postal truckers, mail handlers and mail processing clerks are losing their jobs to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://postalemployeenetwork.com/news/2013/06/privatizers-disrupted-at-airport-mail-facility/</link>
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		<title>Most Americans Oppose USPS Plant Closures</title>
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Survey Says:
Most Americans Oppose Plant Closures
Greg Bell &#8211; APWU Executive Vice President
(06/04/13) I have always been skeptical of surveys conducted by the Postal Service, because they seem to be designed to generate responses that would justify cutting service, closing postal facilities, or reducing employees’ pay.
But the results of a survey commissioned by the USPS Office [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://postalemployeenetwork.com/news/2013/06/most-americans-oppose-usps-plant-closures/</link>
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		<title>APWU: Ricin Update</title>
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UPDATE: According to published reports, two suspicious letters mailed from Shreveport LA last week tested positive for ricin. The New York Times reported May 29 that one of the letters was addressed to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the other was addressed to a Washington DC lobbyist for his gun control campaign. The paper [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://postalemployeenetwork.com/news/2013/05/apwu-ricin-update/</link>
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		<title>Unions and ObamaCare</title>
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May 28, 2013
The Accordable Care Act, commonly known as ObamaCare, is gaining the attention of many unions across the nation. Some unions, it is reported, are seeking repeal or reform of the Affordable Care Act.
The Hill states &#8220;Labor unions are breaking with President Obama on ObamaCare. Months after the president’s reelection, a variety of unions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://postalemployeenetwork.com/news/2013/05/unions-and-obamacare/</link>
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		<title>Postal Employee Killed in Oklahoma Tornado; Post Office destroyed</title>
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Tragedy in Oklahoma &#8211; Postal employee killed in tornado; Post Office destroyed
USPS and employees in Moore, OK, were not spared from the destruction caused by the massive tornado that tore through the town May 20.
Among those killed during the tornado was Richard Jones, a Tour 3 employee at the Oklahoma City P&#38;DC. Jones, a 28-year [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://postalemployeenetwork.com/news/2013/05/postal-employee-killed-in-oklahoma-tornado-post-office-destroyed/</link>
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		<title>DOL Says Postal Service Method of Calculating Overtime Rates for PSEs Violates the Fair Labor Standards Act</title>
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PSE Overtime Rates to Increase, Retroactive Pay Adjustments to Be Made
The Postal Service method of calculating overtime rates for PSEs violates the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the Department of Labor has found. The Postal Service has based overtime pay, which is paid at one-and-a-half times an employee’s hourly rate, on the wrong rate, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://postalemployeenetwork.com/news/2013/05/dol-says-postal-service-method-of-calculating-overtime-rates-for-pses-violates-the-fair-labor-standards-act/</link>
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		<title>Georgia Congressman Bishop Joins Effort to Delay USPS Processing Center Closures</title>
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Georgia Congressman Sanford Bishop has joined more than 40 other members of Congress asking PMG Donahoe to delay closing of USPS mail processing until spring of 2014.
Congressman Bishop stated in his letter to the PMG&#8230;
&#8220;We urge you to recognize the disastrous impact that the elimination of overnight delivery standards and closings of Area Mail Processing Centers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://postalemployeenetwork.com/news/2013/05/georgia-congressman-bishop-joins-effort-to-delay-usps-processing-center-closures/</link>
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		<title>USPS raises revenue and cuts costs</title>
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5/20/2013
Significant progress
USPS raises revenue and cuts costs
In his latest “Dollars and ¢hange” video, CFO Joe Corbett discusses the good news surrounding the financial headway USPS made during the first six months of 2013.
“We made significant progress in increasing revenues and cutting costs for all the areas where we have the legal and commercial flexibility to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://postalemployeenetwork.com/news/2013/05/usps-raises-revenue-and-cuts-costs/</link>
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