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December 10, 2024

• Georgia postal employee, collecting workers’ compensation benefits, sentenced to federal prison for defrauding pandemic relief program - PEN
• Alabama USPS Employee Sold Arrow Key for $2500.00 - Was recruited by Sean Donnell White for Theft of Mail - PEN
• 1 employee killed, another in custody in workplace shooting at Missouri City, TX postal facility
• Comer Opens Hearing on Oversight of the U.S. Postal Service
• US Postal Service chief defends plan to buy rising number of EVs
• Teen gunman accused of trying to steal mail truck, couldn't shift into gear to drive away
• USPS: A Special Organization Seeks Special Skills From Under the Hood… Right to the Mailbox - PEN
• OIG: Fall Semiannual Report to Congress 2024
• USPS IG Hull to Testify Before House Oversight and Accountability Committee Postal Hearing - December 10 - 10am ET
• USPS Office of Inspector General Releases Video Spotlighting Agency’s Work During the 2024 General Election - PEN
• Runaway mail truck stopped by Attalla, AL police officer's 'rolling roadblock'
• PMG Testifies on Postal Service Oversight - Watch LIVE Today at 10am ET | C-SPAN3
• 5-billionth holiday package delivered in southwest Missouri
• Video: Man steals from postal service truck in LA's Koreatown

December 09, 2024

• Senator Hassan Presses Postmaster General DeJoy about Plan to Move Mail Processing Out of New Hampshire - PEN
• Sen. Blumenthal Questions PMG DeJoy on the Future of Unused or Underutilized Postal Service Sites in Connecticut - PEN
• Postal Service Head Says Aging Trucks Need Upgrades as Trump Eyes EV Plans
• Trump 'MAY' cancel USPS electric mail truck contract - he should cancel it
• Mail carriers are losing their grip on the middle-class American Dream
• Lawsuit accuses Pittsburgh USPS, managers of violating whistleblower laws | Also see PEN' article here
• PMG Testifies on Postal Service Oversight - Watch LIVE On December 10 | 10am ET | C-SPAN3

December 08, 2024

• Video: Piles of mail dumped on Memphis street - PEN
• Lawmakers raise concerns about Postal Service overhaul
• Several USPS mail carriers robbed at gunpoint
• Giving Season: Clatskanie Postal Workers Reap Cookie Rewards
• This year-round Santa Claus Post Office is real and even young adults write to him: ‘Santa, I have met this girl or this boy. What do I do now?’
• A Chicago mail carrier wrote 'This Christmas,' delivering an enduring holiday anthem - PEN

December 07, 2024

• ‘You’ve Exhausted my Patience’: Hawley Presses USPS for Answers Behind New Postal Plan & Harms to Rural America - PEN
• Video: Just 55 postal inspectors in Texas as not-so-merry mail bandits strike - PEN
• USPS invites media to tour Beaumont P&DC, on Thursday, December 12 - PEN
• USPS Operation Santa Last call for Letters - PEN
• Pacific Post Office hosts Letter Writing Campaign for Operation Santa - PEN
• Former Pennsylvania APWU Secretary-Treasurer charged with one count of embezzling union funds and three counts of filing false LM reports - PEN
• Postal Service Head Says Aging Trucks Need Upgrades
• Postal Service EV Order In Jeopardy, Report Says - Pres. Trump isn't a fan of battery powered vehicles...neither are we.

December 06, 2024

• Department of Labor seeks back wages, damages from US Postal Service for allegedly firing a worker who raised safety concerns - PEN
• Video: Sen. Rosen demands answers from Postmaster General on mail delivery delays in Northern Nevada - PEN
• Open Season Extended through December 13 for Postal Employees, Retirees
• Trump may cancel US Postal Service electric mail truck contract, sources say
• GOP senator to DeJoy: I will 'kill' your plan to reform USPS
• More mail being stolen from within the U.S. Postal Service
• Senator Jon Ossoff presses postmaster general on Georgia postal worker’s death, mail delays
• Navigating PSHB & Retirement—Insights for Postal Employees and Women Nearing Retirement
• Seattle police warn of holiday mail thefts after series of brazen USPS truck break-ins
• USPS sets lower targets for on-time mail, drawing ire from lawmakers
• This little piggy went to ... Beech Grove? Pot-bellied pig chases postal worker
• Deeply Disappointed in USPS
• ‘Cracked under the pressure’: Alarm sounded as postal worker suicides quadruple
• USPS mail carrier charged with DUI in Forsyth County, GA
• A growing Alabama city continues to fight for a post office four years after losing it

December 05, 2024

• OPM has extended Open Season for the Postal Service Health Benefits Program - PEN
• Video: Sen. Ossoff questions Postmaster General Louis DeJoy - PEN
• Louisiana Postal Employee Pleads Guilty to Pandemic Relief Program Fraud - PEN
• Woman steals trays of mail from locked USPS truck in West Seattle
• Ossoff says DeJoy’s Postal Service leadership continues to disappoint
• NALC - Statement from Ballot Committee on Contract Ratification Election
• OPM extends Open Season for enrollees in new Postal insurance program
• Charges Filed in the Armed Robbery of a Postal Maintenance Worker and Multiple High-Volume Thefts of Mail - PEN
• Video: DC mail bandit that left interesting message 'I love you daddy' charged for multiple thefts - PEN
• Watch Today 10am ET - Oversight of the United States Postal Service: Understanding Proposed Service Changes
• USPS advances strategy for package consolidator agreements - PEN
• USPS releases report on 2024 election - PEN
• NALC: Ask your senators to bring H.R. 82 to the floor - would repeal WEP and GPO
• ‘Postal-Naming Destruction’: The Least Controversial Thing Congress Does Is Becoming Controversial
• New video released of robbery of Louisville mail carrier
• Mail-in voting needs national standards
• Piles of mail dumped on Memphis street

December 04, 2024

• Philadelphia Man Sentenced to Four Years in Prison for Mail Theft Scheme, Altering Stolen Checks and Money Orders - PEN
• USPS Challenges Constitutionality of NLRB Make-Whole Remedy
• Amazon sued over slower deliveries to low-income neighborhoods
• Department of Labor petitions federal court to force US Postal Service to comply with subpoenas in employee whistleblower investigation
• Rockford post office could be renamed to honor slain mailman Jay Larson
• 91-year-old Cedar Rapids letter carrier retires
• US House to hold oversight hearing on struggling Postal Service
• NALC: Penalty Overtime Exclusion Period
• OIG: Fall 2024 Semiannual Report to Congress
• How to Reduce Your Medicare Part B Premium Surcharge
• Lower flags for Pearl Harbor Day
• Mr. ZIP appears in a new holiday special
• Amazon sued by DC attorney general for allegedly excluding neighborhoods from Prime delivery

December 03, 2024

• USPS releases 2024 Post-Election Analysis Report - PEN
• USPS delivered mail-in ballots faster in 2024 than in recent years
• Postal Service calls for election deadline changes to ensure ballots arrive on time
• Waste of the Day: Postal Service’s New Scanners Are Missing
• Suspect pointed gun at postal worker and ran away, according to St. Matthews Police

December 02, 2024

• PRC Provides Hearing Attendance and Viewing Information for Operational and Service Standard Changes Related to the Delivering for America Plan - PEN
• Prosecutors to decide if they will seek death penalty in Warren postal worker murder case
• The Postal Service is beyond the president’s help
• OIG: Happiness Isn’t a Crime, Is It? No, but Fraud Certainly Is
• The Changemakers: The United States Postal Service
• Survivor Annuity Benefits Decision Could Impact Federal Employees With Similar Claims
• Open Season Ends Dec. 9 (PDF)
• Dec. 3rd: PSHB virtual seminar
• PSHB Quick Facts from NARFE
• Important Information for PSHB Annuitants Regarding Drug Coverage
• Urge Senate Leadership to Bring the Social Security Fairness Act (H.R. 82/S. 597) to a Floor Vote

December 01, 2024

• She delivered mail to Baltimore for decades. Upon her retirement, a heartfelt surprise
• Thieves caught on camera stealing mail in Vegas neighborhood
• Postal Service Found in Violation of Federal Labor Law for Constructive Discharge and Employee Threats
• Wild turkey aggression prompts USPS letter to northeast Minneapolis residents

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• Democrat Susan Wild (Pa.) named as source of illegal leaks on Matt Gaetz
• Elon Musk warns Republicans against standing in Trump's way — or his
• Rupert Murdoch Fails in Bid to Change Family Trust
• TikTok asks court to put divest-or-ban law on hold amid Supreme Court appeal
• FBI Director Christopher Wray preparing to resign - ‘Wray doesn’t want to be fired by Trump.’
• Chicago elects first transgender official — named Precious of course
• Trump details sweeping changes he’ll carry out on day one and beyond in an exclusive interview
• California pays schools to hide gender transition from parents
• Trump says he's 'having dinner' with Jeff Bezos. It's the latest development in their long history

• Democrat governors plot strategy against Trump in closed door meeting in Beverly Hills
• Lara Trump steps down as RNC co-chair and addresses speculation about Florida Senate seat
• Jake Tapper and CNN Lose Major Motions in Defamation Case by Navy Veteran
• 10 outrageous example of government waste
• Trump Shocks NBC Journalist By Calling for J6 Committee to Be Thrown in Jail
• Pardon Envy: Democrats Vie to Make the Biden Pardon List - Not no...but, hell no
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• Jay Z accused of raping 13 year old girl — along with Sean Combs
• Donald Trump says Mexico and Canada should become the 51st and 52nd states if we are going to keep subsidizing them

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