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January 17, 2025

• Jamestown, NY woman admits to stealing money from mail while working for USPS - PEN
• NALC: The PSHBP/FEHBP transition and your Jan. 17 paycheck
• Man convicted of assaulting postal worker with shotgun
• Mail theft suspects wanted for using stolen credit cards in Denver
• Mailbox mystery: Residents north of Colorado Springs voice concerns after cluster mailbox goes missing
• Texas P.O. Box Users Angered Over Package Delivery Changes
• USPS releases its latest Love series stamp - PEN
• USPS and UPS delivery changes: Here’s how it affects P.O Box users

January 16, 2025

• Springfield Man Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison for Assaulting United States Postal Worker - PEN
• Reps. Graves, Cleaver, Alford Reintroduce Pony Up Act to Hold USPS Accountable for Late Bills - PEN
• Former Massachusetts Letter Carrier Sentenced for Mail Theft - PEN
• Orlando-Area Residents Sentenced to Prison for Using Stolen Mail to Commit Bank Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft - PEN
• Packages found dumped in Memphis downtown lot
• Criminals have their sights set on Americans’ mail
• Opelousas, LA letter carrier dies from injuries in Jan. 5 crash
• Little-known USPS rule leaves entire neighborhood without mail for 3 months
• Eleven Defendants Sentenced to a Total of 123 Years for Cartel-Linked Drug Trafficking Ring - used USPS, trains, vehicles - PEN
• USPS’ new ‘duck’ mail trucks in major U-turn as design is changed to save them from being axed
• St. Louis residents haven't received mail from USPS since the storm hit
• Take a hike with new Forever stamps featuring the Appalachian Trail
• Fire extinguisher explodes in shipping box, evacuating Colorado Springs post office briefly

January 15, 2025

• California evacuees can get mail in nearby locations
• Post Office Continues to Adjust to Serve Customers in Fire-Ravaged Areas
• APWU: Updated Function Four Operation Numbers
• Why EV giant with a contract for 100k USPS trucks has suddenly offered to convert them to gas
• U.S. Postal Service Update - California Fires - PEN
• USPS Launches Twelve New Sorting and Delivery Centers
• USPS: Pending Route Adjustment File - This Excel sheet details route adjustments for January 2025 thru February 2025
• Changes for UPS package deliveries across the country after contract ends with USPS
• OIG: Top 10 Postal Stories of 2024

January 14, 2025

• NY man sentenced for trafficking cocaine via USPS - PEN
• Woman sentenced to jail for 2021 crash that killed mailman in Greene County
• Neither Rain, Nor Snow: Fighting Financial Crime Threats to the US Postal Service, with Michael Bruno - U.S. Postal Inspector
• USPS says buyouts are to cut employees in ‘overstaffed’ facilities
• Chicago-Area Men Accused of Robbing a USPS Letter Carrier at Gunpoint, Shooting at Federal Agents - PEN
• Minnesota Contractor Agrees to Pay Millions in USPS Fraud Settlement - PEN
• NALC statement on the Los Angeles wildfires - PEN
• NALC submits comments on OSHA’s proposed heat safety rule - PEN
• How the Eaton and Palisades fires are affecting US Postal Service operations
• APWU: APWU and USPS Agree to One-Time Retirement Incentive, 'Early Out' for Postal Workers
• Castor Calls for Restoration of Critical Postal Services in Tampa Bay Following Hurricanes - PEN
• USPS unveils latest Lunar New Year stamp

January 13, 2025

• APWU and Mail Handler One Time Retirement Incentive - PEN
• Birmingham, AL Postal Employee Convicted for Role Supplying Checks to Telegram Scam Channel - PEN
• OIG: Fleet Modernization – Facility Preparedness for Electric Vehicles at the Topeka Sorting and Delivery Center
• USPS offers up to $15K in early retirement buyouts to cut mail handler staffing
• Mailbox Explosions Shake Manchester And Westminster Neighborhoods Overnight
• Woman Left in Floods of Tears Over Letter Mailman Sends Her: 'Ruined Me'
• Postal Realty Trust, Inc. Provides Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2024 Update - PEN
• USPS to launch ‘Next Day Priority’ shipping service in 2025
• ‘Goodnight Moon’ and ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ stamps to be issued later this year

January 12, 2025

• USPS to offer early retirement incentive to Mail Handlers
• California Fires - USPS Residential Service Disruptions - PEN | Current Emergency Incidents
• Congressman Kean and Summit, NJ Mayor Fagan Address Homeless Encampment Issue at Local Post Office - PEN
• Early Air Mail Pilots Put Lives On The Line To Connect The West
• “Trans” Violence Phenomenon: Man Claiming Womanhood Brutally Kills Postal Worker

January 11, 2025

• Fall River Man Charged with Shipping Cocaine Through the Mail - PEN
• NYC postal worker pistol-whipped by thug attempting to rob post office
• USPS Employee Accused Of $130K Welfare Fraud Scheme: Nassau County DA
• Wildfires affecting Southern California
• Wyomingites Pay More For Rural Postal Service Deliveries Through Sneaky Surcharge

January 10, 2025

• Video: USPS mail carrier robbed at Memphis apartment complex, postal inspector says
• Homeless man killed after being hit by mail truck in Macon, GA coroner says
• For Some Americans, AI Is Coming to Take Your Job, and You Can't Stop It - Which jobs will be hit the hardest? Postal workers, executive secretaries, and payroll clerks
• Cook County, MN east end residents go full week without USPS delivery service
• Granite City Postal Carrier Sentenced to Prison for Stealing Credit Cards from the Mail - PEN
• Oshkosh Ready for Possible USPS Shift to Gas Trucks From EVs
• UPS SurePost volume shifts away from US Postal Service, Teamsters say
• OPM extends long-term care program suspension

January 09, 2025

• Former WV USPS Employee Pleads Guilty to Obstructing Mail - knowingly and willfully threw away approximately 227 pieces of mail - PEN
• Family of USPS worker fatally stabbed in NYC deli line speaks out: 'We are extremely hurt'
• US Postal Service Needs Some Competition
• Crisp: Don’t privatize Postal Service
• South San Francisco police arrest 2 in USPS mail vehicle burglary
• Study: Within 5 Years, 41% of Companies Will Cut Jobs Due to AI - they MAY be coming for your job
• California Postal Employee and Son Sentenced for Stealing Postal Money Orders Worth More Than $5 Million - PEN
• Postal customers say they’re fed up with backlog of mail sitting in Springfield’s post office
• Newport News Video: Postal carrier throws away mail into NN dumpster
• OIG: Fraud Hurts More Than America’s Trust in the Postal Service

January 08, 2025

• Millions in Bribes for U.S. Mail Contracts
• USPS operating status for National Day of Mourning, Jan. 9, 2025 - PEN
• USPS’ transportation consolidation efforts have hurt service: OIG
• WaPo To: America. From: USPS. Delayed by: Congress
• US postal worker robbed at gunpoint in Brooklyn, days after mail carrier fatally stabbed in Harlem
• USPS next-gen fleet lawsuits dropped, but electric vehicle plans still under scrutiny
• USPS: Winter Storms Blair and Cora Impacting Delivery - PEN

January 07, 2025

• USPS to participate in National Day of Observance - Delivery, retail services and office activity suspended Jan. 9 - PEN
• Postal Service Commitment to Open Communication Amid Strategic Realignments - PEN
• GPO-WEP Repeal Bill Signed; Clock Starts toward Retroactive Payments
• Fentanyl allegedly mailed to Staten Island home from Puerto Rico prompts raid; 4 arrested
• USPS will hold virtual fairs for supervisory jobs
• OPM Says New Postal Health Benefits Program a Strong Success - PEN
• USPS worker arrested at Academy store parking lot in Webster, TX for allegedly passing off fake ID
• San Francisco Mail Carrier Found Dead In USPS Truck
• IG, regulator bash USPS plans to slow some mail delivery
• You can contribute more to the TSP The IRS has announced new limits for 2025

January 06, 2025

• Social Security Fairness Act Signed Into Law - Repeals WEP and GPO
• Mentally Ill Man Kills Postal Worker; Media Lies About His Gender
• When It Comes to Enforcing the Law, USPS Mails It In
• Billerica, MA Police Make Three Arrests in Connection with Postal Key Theft
• Who braves the snowstorm? The bartender and a postal carrier

January 05, 2025

• Transgendered attacker with long rap sheet gutted father of two, postal worker during argument at NYC Deli | See video of killer here
• Mailman helps extinguish fire during postal route before firefighters arrive

January 04, 2025

• Man Sentenced To 18 Months for Stealing, Selling Human Remains and Shipping Them via USPS - PEN
• NY Post: Knife-wielding transgender woman accused of killing NYC postal worker smiles, rolls eyes in creepy video - PEN
• Laramie County, WY mail carrier has been arrested in connection with the theft of multiple mail items
• USPS again accepting mail, packages to Canada
• Videos: Community mourns loss of USPS letter carrier Ray Hodge stabbed in deli | Also see (page bottom): A transgender woman with a history of violence is accused of fatally stabbing a postal worker in New York City on Thursday after being cut in line for lunch
• Postal Worker Threatened! Shocking Allegations Lead to Arrest of West Chester Man
• Beloved Rushville postal worker loses husband following house fire
• No, the president can’t privatize the U.S. Postal Service
• USPS denies public information request in Havasu postmaster’s resignation

January 03, 2025

• NYC woman in custody for stabbing USPS letter carrieer to death in dispute at deli sandwich line
• 'I just want my mail': Nashville couple's address change fails to deliver
• Federal auditors: Small percentage of postal workers are stealing, but the amounts are big
• Top Insider Warns About New People Joining US Postal Service - They're Not Here to Deliver Mail
• USPS will resume acceptance of mail and packages to Canada -PEN
• Robert G. Taub Elected Vice Chairman of the Postal Regulatory Commission -PEN

January 02, 2025

• President Biden to Sign Social Security Fairness Act, Repealing WEP and GPO on January 6 - PEN
• Person of interest in custody after postal worker stabbed and killed while working in Harlem
• Postal worker struck by car in Waukesha
• Lawsuit Over Ford Powered USPS Mail Trucks Dropped
• New Orleans Terror Suspect Shamsud-Din Jabbar had past job as a Data Entry Clerk with the United States Postal Service - PEN
• 'Video and pictures don't lie' | Mail thieves caught in the act
• Scam texts from ‘USPS Delivery Team’ continue to target personal information
• Opinion: The U.S. Postal Service is a DOGE Delight
• NALC: Deadline for ballot returns extended to January 27 in contract ratification process
• Here’s when USPS employees will be paid this year
• USPS has another busy year ahead. Here’s why

January 01, 2025

• All Postal Service facilities are included in the National Day of Observance on Thursday, January 9, 2025 - PEN
• NALC mourns the loss of President Carter, USPS to observe National Day of Mourning on Jan. 9 - PEN
• Criminal organizations recruit postal workers to infiltrate USPS
• How soon could the bill to repeal WEP, GPO possibly become law?

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• Greatness is returning to America
• BILL GATES DISCUSSES 3 HOUR DINNER WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP. 'Frankly, I was very impressed by Trump.'
• New SpaceX chopsticks catch (from yesterday) is mind blowing
• Victor Davis Hanson shreds ‘cadaver in chief.’
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• CBP One app will be shut down on first day - this Biden app is/was used by those crossing our borders
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• USS John Kennedy aircraft carrier sold to scrappers for one cent
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• North Carolina governor refuses to help his citizens

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• Pulitzer Prize winning leftwing cartoonist Darrin Bell arrested on child porn charges
• Trump goes trolling on Truth Social
• ‘Trump envoy swayed Netanyahu more in one meeting than Biden did all year.’

• Trump’s second term agenda to include cutting ‘slackers’ from federal workforce, former OMB official says
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• OPM finalizes rule to bring blue collar wages in line with General Schedule
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• New West Virginia governor axes DEI and enacts Vaccine exemptions on day one
• US government ‘denying the existence’ of drone sightings: Rep. Burchett
• Florida Democrats rip Biden for lifting Cuba terror sponsor designation
• 80 armed homeowners hunt looters in Pasadena
• Top Pentagon Advisor Reveals On Hidden Camera Conversation “with a Couple of Retired Generals to Explore What We Can Do” to ‘Protect People from Trump’
• China plans to blow Starlink satellites out of the sky

• CNN — ‘Pete Hegseth kicked their asses.’
• Senator apologizes for ‘disgusting behavior’ by Democrats
• Embarrassing slip for Pocahontas Lizzie Warren
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• Video: What you may not know about the death of Rosanne Boyland
• Another terrible Biden legacy — releasing more Gitmo prisoners who will terrorize the world
• Happening Now | Pete Hegseth confirmation hearing broadcast live
• Source Behind Hegseth Claims Is Disgruntled Former Employee
• CNN suggests the real heroes of LA wildfires are the fact checkers
• Colorado apartment complex shut down after Venezuelan gangs take over
• China reportedly considers sale of Tiktok to Elon Musk | TikTok Calls Report That China Is Exploring Sale of App to Elon Musk ‘Pure Fiction’
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• Eli Lilly CEO expects new weight loss pill to be approved next year

• CHUCK SCHUMER WOULDN'T ALLOW TERRORISM BRIEFINGS
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• NYC congestion pricing already controversial
• The Washington Post Is Limping Into Trump’s Second Term
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• Fake Job Postings Are Becoming a Real Problem
• Price-gouging begins in Los Angeles
• Garland Seeks To Trample Americans’ Due Process Rights To Get Trump
• Hundreds of Navy SEALs, Veterans to March in D.C. to Support Pete Hegseth’s Confirmation as Defense Secretary

• Dystopian scene from Malibu
• Mel Gibson does not mince words on Gavin Newsom
• Muslim Rape Jihad is unmentionable
• JD Vance — Trump will not issue pardons for ‘violent’ J6 prisoners
• JPMorgan Chase Disables Employee Comments After Return-to-Office Backlash
• Jack Smith resigns in shame from Justice Department. Three years of treachery and all he got was a lousy t-shirt
• Bannon: "Zuckerberg, You're One Of The Worst People In This Country"
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• In pictures: The deadly path of a small bush fire that came to devastate the LA elite
• Biden calls Meta's decision to end fact-checking 'really shameful'
• Students are taught to report anyone who "offends" them

• Los Angeles Times, live updates on all fires
• CA: Humvees stolen from Tustin Army Reserve Center
• Who Pays to Rebuild California When Insurance Falls Short? Everyone Else
• ‘Disgrace To The System’: Trump Slams Democrat Lawfare As Show Trial Sputters To An End
• While California Burns, Gavin Newsom Begs Biden To Silence ‘Disinformation’
• Zuckerberg: Biden Officials Called Meta Employees To ‘Scream At Them And Curse’ Over COVID Posts
• ‘Disgusting!’: Biden Slammed By Both Sides For Last-Minute Decision
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