POSTAL NEWS FROM PEN
SEPTEMBER 2009
September 30, 2009
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Feds as a
Political Force -
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Binghamton
postal workers given little time to decide on
filing for early retirement -
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Mail Carrier
Pleads Guilty To Mail Theft -
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U.S. Official
Spent 6 Days in Cuba to Talk Postal Service,
Ties -
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Mail set to
take the long way home
September 29, 2009
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OIG: Silly
Rules -
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Cumberland
mayor to join postal picketers -
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Don't stamp
out post offices: Pols pushing to save seven
Bronx branches -
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Health
premiums up 8.8% in 2010 -
September 28, 2009
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Online
services let cities bypass the mailbox
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Bronx
Community Awaits Word on Post Office’s Fate
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USPS branch
closures unlikely to affect DM -
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Mail carrier
delivers life-saving help -
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Woman Who
Killed Mail Carrier Released From Prison
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September 27, 2009
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Mailman's
ZZZZZIP code - 23-year postal veteran caught
snoozing next to a bag of mail -
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The Fight
Over Flexible Spending Accounts -
September 26, 2009
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NAPUS: House
Grants Postal Service 1-Year Reprieve – Senate
to Act Next Week -
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APWU: H.R. 22
Included in Stopgap Spending Bill -
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U.S. Postal
Service fights city assessment, owes county
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USPS: Revised
PS Form 3849
September 25, 2009
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Postal worker
faces 5th rape charge -
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Opinion: Don't
cut the postal service to try to save it
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Pennsylvania
Letter Carrier Honored as 'National Hero' for
Fire Rescue -
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Commentary:
President Obama doesn't get it -
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National
Association of Postal Supervisors Legislative &
Regulatory Update -
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Panel passes
measure to keep government operating
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Carey mail
carrier pleads guilty to 11 federal mail fraud
charges
September 24, 2009
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2 NJ postal
workers admit theft of gift cards -
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USPS is more
focused, efficient than ever -
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Congress
Targets FSA Tax Break -
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Proposal
would end federal health benefits plan
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Postal
workers protest South Florida Post Office
closings
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Local
Citizens Picket to Protect Post Office
September 23, 2009
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APWU: Fact &
Fiction: The US Postal Service -
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Postal
workers may get Census duties -
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USPS Fleet
Manager Charged -
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Postmaster
Work Week - FLSA concerns -
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Postal
workers irked by decision to forbid them from
mentoring
September 22, 2009
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Carrier
delivers heroics - twice -
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Ex-postal
worker admits DVD thefts -
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Workplace
violence includes range of behaviors
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September 21, 2009
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Report:
Postal worker stole Best Buy rewards
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ACMA’s Postal
Battle Not Just About Rates -
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Metro's Mail
Disrupted by Unpaid Bill -
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Post office
could shift Salinas mail processing to San Jose
September 20, 2009
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Former
contract mail carrier sentenced to 30 months of
probation for stealing mail -
September 19, 2009
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Vigil for
Murdered Postal Carrier -
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Former Farley
Postmaster sentenced for embezzlement and
bankruptcy fraud -
September 18, 2009
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The Postal
Service is in even deeper trouble -
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U.S., Cuba
Mull Direct Postal Service -
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Mpls. Postal
Worker Admits to Stealing Mail -
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PRC:
First-Class Mail Incentive Program -
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A Light at the end of the Tunnel
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Mail Handlers Union Prevails in
National RI-399 Arbitration and APWU APPEAL DENIED IN ALL RESPECTS
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$100,000
Reward Offered for Mail Bomb Arrest
September 17, 2009
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Postal
Deficit - Washington Post -
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More on
Postal employees paid to do nothing -
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USPS Will Pay
Managers to Go Green -
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Postal Worker Shot in Maple Heights -
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House Passes HR 22, Bill Now Moves
to Senate - Also see
NALC -
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Postmaster General Addresses Current
Climate, Lays Foundation for Future Growth -
September 16, 2009
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Shot Postal
Worker Thrilled To Resume Route -
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Postal worker
admits $156,000 embezzlement -
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NALC: Settlement allows for
on-the-clock retirement counseling -
Read
Settlement -
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House votes to prevent Postal
Service shortfall
Also see
House (finally) approves H.R. 22 -
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Tony
Thornton, 49, 'Punching Postman'
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Man gets 52
months in prison for scamming USPS
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Postal Museum
Rental Violated Policy
September 15, 2009
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Ex-W.Va.
postmaster pleads guilty to theft charge
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Postal
Service to probe Dexter dog spray case
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A One-Shot,
$150 Payment? -
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Alpine Air
Signs $72 Million Contract With USPS
September 14, 2009
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Mail carrier
sprays 5-pound dog, 7-year-old girl
- Update:
U.S.
Postal Office Investigation Confirmed After
Postal Worker Pepper Sprays A Dog And A Child -
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Time running
out on NSPS, sick leave, postal rescue bills
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OIG Blog:
Mystery Shoppers -
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Postal
Service called federal crown jewel -
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Postal worker
pepper-sprays dog, child -
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APWU: Advocates of Postal ‘Reform’
Attempt to Misdirect the Public’s Attention -
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USPS: CHEATERS BEWARE OIG KICKS OFF
WORKERS’ COMP FRAUD CAMPAIGN - Also see
OIG's
“Unable to Work . . .” -
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Obama to
Speak at AFL-CIO Convention
September 13, 2009
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'Lost' in the
mail W. Side uproar over 'canceled' carrier
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Privatized
postal service would cause big problems
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PRINT 09:
Letter to US President and Congress in Support
of USPS
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Re-creating
delivery of mail by balloon
September 12, 2009
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Postal
Service delivers big business -
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Lawmakers
must help revive a mail service on life support
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Can the
Postal Service Still Deliver? -
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Former
Loveland mailman agrees to plea deal in local
case -
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APWU: House to Vote Soon on Postal
Relief Bill -
September 11, 2009
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Florida
postal worker indicted in stolen gift card case
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A Roof Like a
Park on Top of NYC USPS Facility -
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APWU: Dispute Over Reassignment of
Non-Bargaining-Unit Employees To Bargaining-Unit Positions Appealed to
Arbitration -
Also see this page -
September 10, 2009
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DA: Postal
Worker Sent Explicit Photos to “Girl”
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Government
should take back the Postal Service -
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Postal
Service Searches for Ways to Stabilize Costs and
Shrinking Mail Volume -
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Don’t stamp
out postal service -
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APWU: Retirement, Separation
Incentive Interpretations Document Updated -
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USPS: Legislative Relief or Bust? -
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Woman pleads
guilty to falsifying postal record
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Sen. Casey
aims to keep post offices open
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Arlington
Cemetery Service Will Honor APWU Vets
September 09, 2009
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Contract
Postal Employee Convicted -
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Man admits
selling stolen stamps -
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CSC Wins $46
Million U.S. Postal Service Contract to Manage
and Operate Detroit Service
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Pickets
protest plan to close Ohio post offices
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Moving Flats
in Alabama
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UPDATE - Postal service delivered mail
bomb that injured Visalia office worker -
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OIG: Federal Budget Treatment of the
Postal Service -
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OIG says Audit “Sweeps Up” $848 Million
in Savings -
September 08, 2009
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USPS: 63% of
mail is advertising -
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Save the
Postal Service -
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U.S. Postal
Service Could Deliver America the Electric Car
September 07, 2009
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Not the
Retiring Kind -
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Charlotte, NC Area APWU and USPS
Reach $1.7 Million Settlement -
September 06, 2009
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What's the
hurry? As customers look to save a buck, they
turn to slower deliveries. -
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Who'd miss
Saturday mail? -
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Cyncar v. Potter---An Update
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September 05, 2009
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USPS OIG
Concludes Electrification of Post Office
Delivery Fleet Operationally Feasible, But
Costly -
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What's In a
Name?
September 04, 2009
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GSA Delivers
Federal Shipping Contract to UPS -
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Double
Standard On Sick Leave??? -
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Fraud
investigation leads to postal employee arrest in
Springfield -
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What ails the mails could very soon
ail the health care system -
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How USPS Could Bypass Congress on
Saturday Delivery -
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LETTER HARRIERS: POST OFFICE
TRANSFERS WORKERS TO 7-HOUR COMMUTES -
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Saving lives,
collecting goods for the needy earn awards for
mail carriers across country
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Postal
carrier admits stealing drugs from the mail
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Post office
closings would disrupt lives, Nashville
customers say
September 03, 2009
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FERS Flu Cure
A Dead Duck? -
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Mail Carrier
Doing More than Just Delivering Packages
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Going Postal Over Postal: Mail
Carriers Fight a Losing Battle in the Senate -
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University
takes junk out of dorm mail -
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Jury indicts
2 Postal Service workers
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APWU: Retirement, Separation
Incentives: Unanswered Questions, Excluded Employees -
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APWU: Union Develops Action Plan to
Oppose Closures -
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Mail carriers named for
heroic, humanitarian acts
September 02, 2009
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Postal Service Considering Closing
413 Post Offices | Also see
Fewer Post Offices Targeted for
Closure | and
USPS -
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USPS Facility
Closures -
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NALC:
Rolando's Labor Day message -
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Sen. Lieberman: I’ll Try To Save
Post Offices -
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Postal union
pickets outside Toledo stations -
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Postal
Nonsense -
PEN Ed: The articles title says it all.
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Postal
Service halts efficiency study in Utica
September 01, 2009
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FedEx & UPS
challenged by USPS flat rates -
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USPS NATIONAL PAYROLL HOURS SUMMARY
REPORT -
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OIG Blog: Nationwide Wage Uniformity -
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A letter from PMG Jack Potter:
Remembering FY 2009
In many ways, fiscal year 2009 will be remembered as one of the most
challenging we’ve ever faced. At the same time, it will be seen as one of
the most successful.
Read more -
Mailman loses both legs after car
slams into him during work
NEW ORLEANS – Through rain and sleet and gloom of night, New Orleans
mailman Roy Rondeno was always there for the people he served. Thanks to
Glenn Chapoton, President of NALC Branch 6119 Metairie-LaPlace, LA for
notifying PEN, and postal employees, that a fund has been set up by one of
Mr. Rodeno's customers at Capitol One Bank in New Orleans in his name.
Also see:
Please help
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Postal worker whose legs were amputated after
accident feels the love of his customers -
Hitler Goes Postal - The Carrier
A regular PEN reader posted the link to this funny video. I think most of
you will find the video hilarious. The video contains some dirty language
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Controlling the Grievance- Part 1
Denny Belden has written a new article for our Belden Factor section.
Post office wrong target for
conservatives
Why hate on the post office? The USPS is America's second-largest
employer, with 34,000 facilities and the nation's largest vehicular fleet.
It's also on track to lose $7 billion this year. -
Earth Class Mail and BankServ Enable
Electronic Check Deposit Directly from Postal Mail -
Excessed Clerk Fired For Failing the
805 Driver Training Test
[PDF file: 1.87mb]
Summary: A USPS clerk in California was being excessed because her
clerk position was being abolished. One choice provided to her by USPS was
that she may choose to transfer to the city carrier craft - BUT, she was
warned that she MUST pass the USPS driver training program and
test. She was warned that failing this driver training and test would
result in her separation from USPS. The employee passed the actual drivers
test but failed the 805 computer based exam portion of the driver training
program. USPS separated her from the postal service. The arbitrator
states: "The Postal Service had just cause to issue the Grievant the
Notice of Removal for failure to meet the requirements of the position." -
Kiplinger Predicts "There’ll be no
more Saturday delivery of mail, come 2011 or so" -
PRC Chairman Goldway would like to
encourage a national conversation on the future of mail and hardcopy
communications -
TODAY! Sept. 25 Is Incentive
Deadline! Thousands of Opportunities Still Available -
Postal Service Relief in Sight
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Postal Relief? How About No More
Congressional Thievery? -
The End of the Monopoly
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OIG: "Management at the Washington
NDC did not use the PIVMS (Powered Industrial Vehicle
Management System) because the system had been intentionally damaged,
causing it to be non-functional and in need of extensive repair or even
replacement." PIVMS can help reduce inventory and can measure vehicle
utilization attributes (such as speed, distance traveled, and idle
time) to assess productivity. -
Incentive Available to Employees
Seeking Disability Retirement - Also see
Incentive Would Offset OWCP
Compensation -
USPS: Early Out Incentive Option:
Sept. 25 deadline nears - Also see:
2009 Early Out Incentive Option
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Postal workers may get Census duties
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APWU: Union Address Concerns About
Incentive Offer
The APWU says "To date, fewer than 21,000 employees have applied for the
incentive or expressed interest." -
OIG Blog: Should the Postal Service
Eliminate Sunday Mail Processing Operations? -
APWU: Union, Management Reach
Settlement On Individual Retirement Counseling -
Will FSS discounts fall flat?
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Can the Flats Sequencing System Be
Fixed? -
Problems at Post Office start at the
top
Does the Postal Service need to go to a five-day delivery schedule to
survive? Possibly, but before that, they should be looking at reorganizing
from the top down. -
OIG Says FSS Test Fall Short
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PMG Potter Tells US News It Doesn't
Make Sense To Continue 6 Day Delivery
"We should move towards five-day delivery because back in 2000 we were
delivering 5.9 pieces of mail per stop per day. Since then, it's dropped
to 4.4 pieces." -
Update: Mail Carrier Shot in Maple
Heights Pronounced Dead - Also see
NALC "A senseless and outrageous
tragedy" -
Slain mail carrier Daniel Kondas
remembered as friendly, responsible -
Police: Robbery behind shooting of
mail carrier -
NALC: Leadership of the House
Republican Conference escalates its attack on the Postal Service
The NALC states: On September 11, 2009, in anticipation of floor action on
H.R. 22, leaders of the House Republican Conference (HRC) issued a one
page brief entitled
“What
Every Member Needs to Know About the Postal Service Relief Act (H.R. 22)”
that is filled with the same kind of inaccurate and misleading information
about the Postal Service featured in a similar ‘One Page’ brief issued in
August. -
From PostCom:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer reportedly,
through an amendment as a substitution for H.R. 22, want the House to
approve language that would require the Postal Service to make only a $1.4
billion payment for FY 2009 toward its retiree health benefits obligation.
This relief would be for one year only. Nonetheless, it would "save"
having to make an additional $4 billion payment to fully satisfy the
requirement that's a part of the Postal Accountability act. Word has it
this will all take place on Tuesday. -
Paid to do nothing
The Federal Times states "The U.S. Postal Service, struggling with a
massive deficit caused by plummeting mail volume, spends more than a
million dollars each week to pay thousands of employees to sit in empty
rooms and do nothing." -
Up To 315 Full-Time Carriers and 8
PTF Carriers May Be Involuntarily Reassigned at the Los Angeles
Performance Cluster - Possible MIARAP Impact -
Postal ELM Revision Rescinded:
Limited Duty and Rehabilitation Assignments -
NALC Presidents Message: Making
sausage in the Washington jungle -
This Writer Wants to Know..."Why
aren't lay-offs used to reduce the workforce?" and "Why doesn't the Postal
Service have more part-time jobs?" -
Update: Postal Service deems Louisville parade
signs a mistake; RTD investigating |
Postal, RTD vehicles seen bearing
Obama health-care signs at Louisville parade
Spokesman says U.S. Postal Service will investigate use of vehicle -
The Unofficial Guide to Flats
Sequencing
The U.S. Postal Service is a bit schizophrenic when it comes to talking
about the Flats Sequencing System. It has provided lots of information
about the new technology but not answered some basic questions that have
been kicking around for a couple of years. -
Questions and Answers on Incentive
Program
The APWU and USPS have reached agreement on the answers to a series of
questions regarding the incentive program for employees who retire or
separate in the coming months. Read
MOU RE: ONE-TIME RETIREMENT INCENTIVE
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INTERPRETATIONS - INCENTIVE MEMORANDUM
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Effective Dates of Retirement,
Separation Limited
The USPS and APWU have agreed that employees who as of Aug. 24 had a
scheduled retirement date of Sept. 30 or earlier will be permitted to
retire or separate on the date they selected, and will be eligible to
receive the $15,000 incentive negotiated by the union and management. -
USPS: EARLY OUT INCENTIVE OFFER
WON’T AFFECT CUSTOMER SERVICE -
HOW DOES THE SALES DECLINE AT THE
POSTAL SERVICE COMPARE TO THOSE AT LARGE PRIVATE-SECTOR BUSINESSES?
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IRET Congressional Advisory
USPS Seeks Industry Input on 5 Day
Delivery | The Postal Service has released an industry
survey regarding a reduction of mail delivery to
five days. -
Burrus Responds to Wall Street
Journal - USPS Has Snow, Rain and Heat Beat, but Money?
| Also see
This Response to WSJ
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