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POSTAL NEWS FROM PEN
October 2013 News
October 31, 2013
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Tulsa
postal worker is killed in four-vehicle pileup
- Tulsa World
Layers of
Redundant Management Have Been Eliminated, USPS
Says - Dead Tree Edition
Springfield postal worker attacked
APWU
Contributes to Fight To Save Historic Post
Offices - PEN
Take a
bite out of crime? Oh, it’s just the new
mailboxes - NY Daily News
Sen.
Schumer fights to end alcohol mail restrictions
- USA Today
A man was
sentenced to three years behind bars Wednesday
for stabbing a postal worker
Nassau
police investigate 3 postal incidents
Postal
driver charged in theft of 40,000 pallets from
White Plains center - The
Journal News
October 30, 2013
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GOP
lawmakers eye federal-retiree benefits in
upcoming budget talks -
Washington Post
Postal
worker who stole, threw away thousands of
letters hired as state employee
- MyNorthwest.com
500
garbage bills never reach Pottsville residents
- Republican Herald
No
Mailboxes to Be Placed on City Property or
Right-of-Way - Wayne County
Journal-Banner Online
Seven
arrested in Portland postal privatization
protest
Voyager
Card Program for Highway Contract Routes -
Unidentified and Unrecovered Fuel Overpayments
- Office of Inspector General
October 29, 2013
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Sale of
Stamford post office on hold: U.S. District
Court grants temporary injunction
- Save the Post Office
17 More
Ways USPS Is Not Like a Real Business
- Dead Tree Edition
Postal
Worker Pleads Guilty To Stealing $450,000 Worth
Of Mailed Jewelry –
Consumerist
Postal
worker saves Greensboro woman
- MyFOX8
Video:
Postal worker aids woman suffering medical
emergency
The Inbox
Trumps the Mailbox - Business
2 Community
October 28, 2013
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Cyber
Awareness: Protecting the High-Tech Side of Mail
- Office of Inspector General
The Nation
blames Tea Party for USPS rate hike
- Politico
U.S.
Postal Service: Time to Go Public?
- InvestorPlace
Postal
Clerks Could Get Back Pay for Window Hours
- Fedweek
Redrawing
the Battle Lines for Last Mile Delivery
- PostalVision 2020
Post
Offices sold and for sale: An update on the
inventory - Save the Post
Office
Some N.J.
mail carriers told to report for work during
Superstorm Sandy - Washington
Times: An OIG report on the USPS’s hurricane
response said managers told employees they must
report for work on the day the massive,
devastating storm hit, despite the fact that the
facility was within a mandatory evacuation zone.
October 27, 2013
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Issa bill
would open FEHBP to all Americans, but at what
cost? - Federal News Radio
Study says
direct mail still a key segment
- Gazette
October 26, 2013
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Mail
Handlers to Receive Wage Increase Effective
November 16, 2013 - PEN
Video:
Postal Worker Pleads Guilty In $450K Jewelry
Theft Case - CBS Dallas
Post
Office at VFW? Shea Mentions Possibility to Keep
USPS in Village
Reward
offered in Torrance post office burglary
- abc13
Bill Would
Open FEHBP To All Americans -
FedSmith
Video:
Antlers Postal Worker Sentenced For Stealing
Package
Ex-Willimantic postmaster accused of getting 55
pounds of pot in mail - The
Bulletin
October 25, 2013
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Postal
Service could save more than $17m with better
oversight of fleet -
Washington Examiner
Plantersville, AL office robber named
New
Zealand cuts postal service to three days a week
- The Guardian
October 24, 2013
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We're
listening: The Postal Service holds 8,500
POStPlan meetings, but why? -
Save the Post Office
Exigent
Request Should Fail, Says Author of Last Postal
Bill (Senator Susan Collins)
- Direct Marketing News
Workers
complain of delivery delays at Conroe post
office - The Courier
Bridgewater woman assaults postal worker by
pulling, grabbing her hair, police say
- NJ.com
NALC: New
MOU on CCA staffing - PEN
October 23, 2013
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Why did
the Stamford post office close? Conflicting
answers, disturbing questions
- Save the Post Office
Will
future postmen even ring once?
- Boise Weekly
USPS used
14M more hours than need for mail processing in
2012, IG says - Fierce
Government
NALC: CA
Carrier Critically Injured -
PEN
Former
Indiana postal employee pleads guilty to mail
fraud - 14 News
Mail
Handlers: Unfair Labor Practice Challenging USPS
Lean Mail Processing Project Resolved
- PEN
Federal
Agencies Lost 6,000 Jobs in September
- The Postal Service - which has seen an overall
loss of about 200,000 employees over the last
six years -- added 1,400 jobs last month -
GovExec.com
Open
Season and Your Health Insurance
- FedSmith
Post
Office $5.6 Billion Default Raises Urgency of
Reforms - Money News
MailPro -
Misguided Marketing - aka, You Can't Make This
Stuff Up - intelisent Postal
Affairs Blog
F.Y.I.
Dept: IRS paid out $132 billion in bogus tax
credits over last decade -
Washington Times
October 22, 2013
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Magazine
industry chief rails against USPS
- New York Post
Video:
Postal worker struck in Compton; hit-and-run
driver sought - PEN
Stamp of
approval at USPS - FCW
Postal
Service truths - Yakima
Herald Republic
October 21, 2013
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Netflix
May Ditch DVDs Sooner Rather Than Later
- Businessweek
APWU
Objects to the Methodology Used by USPS in
Calculating Workshare Discounts
- PRC via PEN
USPS is
casting ‘enthusiastic employees’ for holiday ad
campaign
Postal
Service Takes a Leading Digital Role
- Office of Inspector General
Small
Business: Targeting mailers to save on postage
- Newsday
Postal
Family To Appear On “Family Feud”
- FedSmith
October 20, 2013
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USPS #fail
- Save the Post Office
A
post-Postal Service world? -
The Charleston Gazette
October 19, 2013
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USPS:
Notice to All USPS Employees with Military
Service - PEN
ELM
Revision: Family Medical Leave Act
(FMLA) updates to Servicemember and Qualifying
Exigency Leave
Feds
arrest Romanian nationals accused of placing
skimming devices in 2 Pittsburgh post offices
2013
Penalty Overtime Exclusion -
PEN
October 18, 2013
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Rolando to
AZ Daily Wildcat: "Using
largely fictional numbers and inaccurate
information to paint a sky-is-falling picture,
the author called for the end of the Postal
Service."
Activists
Take The Helm of Postal Union
- Labor Notes
USPS
Responds To Criticism of Its Annuity Estimates
- Dead Tree Edition
Postal
Unions against Carper-Coburn Bill
- Kokomo Perspective
Deputy
PMG: "Exigent Increase Not a Done Deal"
- Direct Marketing News
October 17, 2013
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APWU Wins
‘Global Settlement’ Remedy Case
Clerks in Small Offices to Receive Back Pay If
Supervisors Worked in Excess of Limits in
Contract
POStPlan
Re-evaluations of Level 18 Offices in FY 2014
Won’t Impact Incumbent Postmasters Until FY 2016
- NAPUS
No
Closures! No Cuts! No Delay of the Mail!
- PEN
Video:
Police seek suspects after mailman attacked
while on route - WGN-TV
US Postal
Service Privatization: The Dark Side
- Epoch Times
Multi-Channel Retailers Scramble to Find
Alternatives in Response to Proposed Postal Rate
Increase of Nearly 6%
October 16, 2013
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Postal
Carrier Delivery Becomes Lifesaving Stop
Why the
U.S. Postal Service Is in Even Worse Shape Than
You Think - Businessweek
Postal
workers' strike: Royal Mail should expect a
battle royal - The
Guardian
USPS Comes
Up With Yet Another Way to Discourage Early
Retirement - Dead Tree
Edition
Former
Missouri mailman charged with sexual abuse while
on mail route -
KOAM
Even on
stamps, D.C. worrywarts rip away the fun
- Pilot Online
October 15, 2013
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How Does
The Congressional Government Shutdown Affect
OWCP Claims? PEN
Royal Mail
offers £300 to postal workers to cross picket
lines - The Guardian
Senator
Grassley Advises Iowans on Postal Mail Delays to
Washington, D.C. - PEN
Denny's
Offers Free Food to Federal Employees
- Manassas, VA Patch
The path
to postal nirvana: An entitlement program for
the mail industry - Save the
Post Office
Sausalito
neighbors rally to help critically injured mail
carrier - Marin Independent
Journal
Have You
Hugged Your Postal Clerk Today?
- Huff Post
Drones to
deliver parcels in Australia starting in March
- Computerworld
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October 14, 2013
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A U.S.
Postal Service IPO? It's Not as Daft as It
Sounds - Businessweek
UK: Shadow
minister demands investigation into Royal Mail
sale - Post & Parcel
Video:
Postal Worker Prevents Man from Losing Thousands
to Lottery Scam
On the 5th
Birthday of Dead Tree Edition, It's Time To
Reveal the Real D. Eadward Tree
- Dead Tree Edition
October 13, 2013
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The
Impending Implosion of the Postal Service
- Townhall
It's time
to close Sun Valley post office
- Editorial: Reno Gazette-Journal
If
Congress wants Postal Service to be a
self-sustaining operation, it has to loosen its
micromanaging grip - The
Olympian
October 12, 2013
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Why the
U.K. Can Privatize Its Postal Service, but the
U.S. Can’t - Yahoo Finance
Former
postal employee who stalked female co-worker
pleads guilty to breaking into her Texas
Township home - MLive
USPS Wins
Global Innovation Award -
Direct Marketing News
Why Your
Snail Mail Costs A Tiny Fortune and Other Fun
Facts from the USPS -
Business 2 Community
Postal
Worker Can’t Deliver The Mail Until Someone
Removes That Scary Spider Web
- The Consumerist
FYI: The
Redesigned $100 Note
October 11, 2013
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Postal
Service Reviewing Allegations Against Palatine
Letter Carrier - PEN
Charges
filed in post office threats
- ABC Newspapers
Local
postal workers train to save lives in a
bioterrorist attack - ABC 10
Portugal
to Sell 70 Pct of National Postal Service
- ABC News
Video:
Fresno Mail Carrier Fired For Throwing Away Mail
About Obamacare - PEN
Mystery
Valentine appears in Elgin mailbox, more than
100 years later - Elgin
Courier News
Oh,
please, Mr. Postman
"...unnamed members of the President’s Council
on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition idiotically
raised alarms with the Postal Service, which
then idiotically buckled. The stamps are headed
to the shredder." - NY Daily News
Postal
Service Gets $16.7 Million Supercomputing
Upgrade - HPC wire
New Postal
Workers Leadership Vows to ‘Stop the Bleeding’
- In These Times
October 10, 2013
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How would
an exigent rate increase impact mail volumes and
revenues? - Save the Post
Office
Postal
worker shot with airsoft gun while delivering
mail - WATE TN
Video: PMG
On The State of The Postal Service
- PEN
Lets
address U.S. Postal Service misconceptions
- Tulsa World
October 09, 2013
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A Message
from APWU President-Elect Mark Dimondstein
- PEN
NALC: 2013
Letter Carrier Heroes of the Year
Postal
Workers Elect New Leaders Who Pledge to Build a
Movement - Labor Notes
Postal
Worker Union Mutiny Imperils USPS Chief's Agenda
- Businessweek
Berkeley
postal service disrupted after human excrement
put in mail box - SF Gate
Postal
worker indicted for stealing from mail she was
handling
Cleveland
mail carrier gets national award for aiding
ailing postal patron
APWU:
Guffey Out, Dimondstein In
Two
Station Managers Charged With Bribery
- WBAL Radio
USPS
Customers Frustrated by Long Downed Mailboxes
Minnesota
man cited after attack on postal worker
- St. Cloud Times
Video of
postal worker driving onto Georgia yard gets
3.7M views - Atlanta Business
Chronicle
October 08, 2013
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APWU 2013
Unofficial Election Results
PostCom:
Members of Congress are Wrong on the Postal
Monopoly - PEN
What's
Weighing Down the Postal Service?
- Dead Tree Edition
Darrell
Issa's Health-Care Plan Is Basically a Plush
Obamacare - The Atlantic [PEN
Ed: just give the people one more year to decide
whether they want this or not and cease giving
anyone or any company an exemption...that's
extremely simple]
Free the
Postal Service - If Congress
wants it to be a self-sustaining operation, it
has to loosen its micromanaging grip. LA Times
Delivering
a High Honor to a Postal Worker Turned Hero
- FOX8
October 07, 2013
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APWU
Election Ballot Count - PEN
Think
Before You React
FedSmith - An EEO complainant who blew his top
over his company’s settlement offer through a
mediator told the company they could keep it and
just fire him. So they did.
Iowa
police: Postal Service vehicle crashes
Postal
Worker Allegedly Assaulted Over Postage Due
Package
COBURN GOT
IT WRONG ON THE USPS MONOPOLY
- PostCom
The Postal
Service couldn't be more troubled, but no help
is coming - Politicus
Switzerland's postal service
has admitted it accidentally sent mail to people
who recently died welcoming them to their new
homes
Who likes
their supervisor? Bill Moore honored at the
Westwood branch of the U.S. Postal Service
Feds take
down ObamaCare website for repairs
October 06, 2013
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Ralph
Nader wants Senator Diane Feinstein
(D-California) to introduce
legislation to put a halt to the sell off of
USPS buildings around the country. Why
Feinstein? As it turns out, Feinstein’s husband,
Richard Blum, is chairman of the C.B. Richard
Ellis Group (CBRE), which has an exclusive
contract to negotiate the sale of USPS real
estate. - Corporate Crime Reporter
5
Minnesota Post Offices receive bomb threat
letters
Postal
workers call for safe havens in Milwaukee
Opposing
View: Who Caused the Government Shutdown? Obama
and the Democrats are at Fault
Who’s
behind the government shutdown? Some of the same
people trying to privatize the Postal Service
- Save the Post Office
October 05, 2013
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Nine Ways
the Postal Service Is Not Like a Real Business
- Dead Tree Edition
PRC is
Closed, But Mailers Contend With Exigency Threat
- Direct Marketing News
Man steals
package, purse from postal truck
- Salem News
Retired
postal carrier sentenced to prison for $400,000
embezzlement - The Buffalo
News
October 04, 2013
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USPS
properties for lease: Business as usual or a new
approach to excess space? -
Save the Post Office
Video:
Laziest Postal Driver Ever Drives Over Lawn
Instead Of Walking On Sidewalk
- Huff Post
PMG’s
Credibility In Doubt Again -
PEN
Postal
Service needs independent oversight,
commissioners warn - Post &
Parcel
Postal
Service should move toward European model -
Tampa Bay Times [PEN ED: I
don't think so - and neither should our nation]
October 03, 2013
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Burrus,
former APWU president, closes his blog
Obamacare
Glitches Show Why We Still Need the Post Office
- US News
USPS
Documents Expose How Local Police and the
Federal Government Spy on Your Mail
- Open Watch
Ashes Of
Allison Kelley's Late Husband Lost By U.S.
Postal Service, She Claims -
Huff Post
Police:
Mailing Meth Becoming More and More Common
October 02, 2013
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Ralph
Nader writes Senator Feinstein on potential
conflict of interest in CBRE's sale of post
offices - Save the Post
Office
HP to host
ID management hub for USPS -
FCW
Reid offers to 'talk' tax reform and
suggested changes to ObamaCare if GOP ends shutdown
(Video)
POStPlan
implementation 60 percent done: Hours reduced at
over 8,000 post offices -
Save the Post Office
Postal
Service nears crossroads -
MassLive
Shutdown
Obscures Congressional Inaction
- Roll Call
Postal
Service Won’t Shut Down but Will Default on Its
Debt
Postal
shootings hearing in Memphis resumes after
outburst - Times Free Press
Carrier
crashed into a bridge while
on the job in rural Morrison, IL
October 01, 2013
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USPS
Announces FY 2014 Pay for Performance Program
and National Performance Assessment Corporate
and Unit Indicators
The Postal
Service (yawn) defaults again
- Federal Times
Ex-prison
guard charged with killing 2 Tenn. postal
workers restrained after court outburst
- Fox News
Washington
Idiots Shuts Down PRC - PEN
Blog
Long-running feud over Obama health care law
plunges nation into government shutdown
- The Washington Post [PostCom
quote: "Yup. Our Congress. Our President. The
people WE elected. As the saying goes: "People
get the government they deserve." Well....that's
a bit harsh. At the very least, we deserve the
government WE ELECTED. Think about that the next
time you step into the voting booth. - PEN Ed: I
agree.]
DEM Senate
Rejects GOP House Bill to Delay Part of Health
Law -WSJ
Sale of
historic Stamford Post Office challenged in
federal court - Save the Post
Office
Mail
fraud? U.S. Postal Service is set up by Congress
to fail
USPS OIG -
Closed
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