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POSTAL NEWS FROM PEN
March 2015 News
March 31, 2015
NALC: Court issues lawsuit decision
- PEN
APWU: Shine a Light on Dark Money
- PEN
Another LLV Fire - Mail damaged in Colorado
Springs when postal truck caught fire to be delivered this week
- Video - Colorado Springs Gazette
Congressman Huffman speaks out against postal
service - North Coast News
Erie's mail-sorting plant set to close April 18
- GoErie.com
Video: 3,000 Pieces of Undelivered Mail Found At
DFW Postal Facility - PEN
Former USPS Contract Employee Sentenced to
Federal Prison for Theft of an Estimated $478,000 in U.S. Postal Service
Property - PEN
Mail-processing change could create delays, postal
employees say - Cape Girardeau SE Missourian
Video: Legal notices go missing in Hancock County
mail - PEN
Former USPS Contractor and Wife Charged With
Stealing US Mail Including Veterans Meds - AL.com
Rural Delivery Operations - Indian Trail Post
Office Consolidation to the Monroe, NC Carrier Annex
(PDF) - OIG
March 30, 2015
APWU: Deceptive Study Financed by UPS
- PEN
POSTAL EMPLOYEE SENTENCED FOR SEVEN-YEAR
DISABILITY SCAM - PEN
NPMHU Joins Federal-Postal Coalition To Defeat
Harmful Budget Resolution - PEN
Former President of NALC Branch 6066 Sentenced to
One Year Probation - PEN
Maya Angelou Stamp Dedication
- PEN
The U.S. Postal Service's existential problem
- Brookings Institution
Postal employee accused of stealing gift cards
- Chron
USPS changes will upend delivery service in NEGA
- Jackson Herald
Car Collides with Postal Truck in Oceanside
- Long Beach Patch
The USPS and PRC ponder the meaning of "post
office": The appeal on the Careywood Idaho CPO
- Save the Post Office
APWU Contract Town Hall Call: April 6
March 29, 2015
Oregon’s Radical Innovation: Make Democracy Easy
- The Nation
NPMHU Urges All Members to Support NALC Food
Drive - MAY 9, 2015 - PEN
Another LLV burns in Colorado Springs
- Colorado Springs Gazette
Postal Service launches new search tool for lost
mail - PEN
March 28, 2015
Video: Postmaster General Megan Brennan's
"Business Focus - March 2015 - The PMG touts her
Postal Pulse survey - PEN
Video: Registered sex offender will continue to
deliver mail despite complaints - PEN
APWU: Arbitrator Sustains Grievance on Motor
Vehicle Craft Subcontracting - PEN
USPS Board of Governors Delays April 2015 Price
Change - PEN
Will the PIP code Replace the ZIP code?
- Ticker Report
Berkeley post office: Judge asks USPS to rescind
documents
Sinkhole forces closure of New Athens Post Office
- Harrison News Herald
March 27, 2015
PRC Holds First Quarterly Meeting Of 2015
- PEN
The doctor will see you now: The Postal Service
takes the pulse of employees - Save the Post Office
Napa's postal service hero -
Napa Valley Register
Missouri Clerk and Carrier Indicted
- PEN
USPS: Credit-monitoring deadline - Sign up by
March 31 for free service - PEN
PMG discusses Postal Pulse, new growth
initiatives - PEN
Does the U.S. Postal Service have an unfair
competitive advantage? - The Washington Post - PEN
Ed: answer, no.
USPS officials confirm mail delays starting in
April due to consolidation - KBJR
House-Passed Budget Targets Postal and Federal
Community - PEN
March 26, 2015
"We're all in trouble": The Yantic CT post
office, from suspension to appeal - Save the
Post Office
Video: Convicted sex offender, mail carrier taken
off school route - PEN
Rep. Huffman to New Postmaster General: Don’t
Close Petaluma and Eureka Mail Processing Centers - PEN
NAPS OPPOSES FY16 BUDGET RESOLUTION CONSIDERED IN
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - PEN
Future of the Postal Service: End the Monopoly or
Grow New Business? - GovExec.com
Forever Stamps will work with postcards and more
starting next month - The Washington Post
NALC: $1.4 billion Postal Service operating
profit for first five months of FY 2015 (greater than
operating profit for full FY 2014) - NALC news via PEN
Should the Postal Service go into banking?
- Federal News Radio
Posters Promote Our Cause -
APWU
APWU: Budget Bills: Cut Postal, Federal Pay
- APWU news via PEN
Report: USPS Gets $18 Billion In Subsidies And
‘Special Privileges’ - Daily Caller -
Read the report by Sonecon
(PDF)
Google could soon let you pay bills in Gmail
- CNN
USPS IG and economist spar over Postal Service's
role in the private sector - Fierce Government
March 25, 2015
Former Post Office Manager Sentenced In Bribe
Scheme - PEN
PRC rejects Discover NSA and the Postal Service's
"subjective intuition" - Save the Post Office
APWU: Update on Article 1.6.B ‘Global Settlement’
Remedy - PEN
Postal Service probing complaints of poor mail
delivery in Norton - The Sun Chronicle
The future of the U.S. Postal Service
- Brookings Institution
Police seek owner of pricey jewelry left in
mailbox - Detroit Free Press
Man Sentenced For Robbing, Assaulting Mail
Carrier - CBS Cleveland
March 24, 2015
Video: Chicago postal worker fatally shot on his
way to work
- PEN
Columbus, OH Man Sentenced For Attacking Postal
Worker, Stealing Package Full Of Pot - WBNS-10TV
New York letter carriers help expose crime ring
- PEN
North Carolina rural carrier helps rescue stroke
victim - PEN
Mail hauler convicted of stealing gift cards,
cash - Green Bay Press-Gazette
USPS: Employee idea generates $820,000 in revenue
- PEN
House Budget Committee Takes Aim at Federal and
Postal Employees and Retirees - NAPUS news via PEN
USPS: New software being deployed nationally
- PEN
Sticker Day Set for Thursday, March 26
- APWU
Supposedly deceased crook got a North Carolina
driver’s license and birth certificate using the name of a former New York
postal worker - Faked death scheme - Washington Post
March 23, 2015
APWU Setting the Record Straight
- PEN
Nonprofit Mailers Scramble, Again, to Fight
Postal-Rate Increases
- The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Network Consolidation: It Takes Two … Phases
- Office of Inspector General
Epic Fail for the Postal Service: The wrong model
and the wrong BOG
- Save the Post Office
Video: OK Carrier Throws Package Then Jogs Around
LLV - Strange Behavior - PEN
USPS Sees Big Opportunity in New Ecommerce Delivery
Options - eCommerce Bytes
STREET BEAT: Mail at issue in Norton
- The Sun Chronicle
Postal Service looks to repurpose Stewart sort
center - Mid-Hudson News
March 22, 2015
Dog owner, mail carrier settle suit over attack
- The Register-Guard
Indiana post office worker accused of throwing
away mail - NW Indiana Times
A former postal worker is alleging that
preferential treatment of Amazon packages by the United
State Postal Service is part of a larger trend toward valuing corporate
partners over regular citizens. - Daily Caller
March 21, 2015
Video: 2 sought in postal carrier robberies in
Coral Springs, Tamarac FL - PEN
Pair who robbed, beat postal worker facing hard
fed time - Boston Herald
Video: Tucson to see new mailboxes that thwart
thieves - PEN
Twenty years later: Montclair looks back at
Watchung Plaza Post Office shooting -
NorthJersey.com
Alabama carrier, 60, jailed on child porn charge
after taking computer for repairs - AL.com
Former postal worker gets probation for tossing
mail off bridge - Newsday
March 20, 2015
Postal Inspectors Offer Reward For Armed Robber
- CBS Miami
Congresswoman Barbara Lee proposes moratorium on
sale of historic post offices - Save the Post
Office
Hanover, PA postal carrier charged with
destruction of mail - Hanover Evening Sun
Do you think reducing the window hours at
selected post offices will generate the savings the POStPlan proposed now
that it is fully implemented? - Office of Inspector
General
Making Mailers Pay for USPS Mistakes
- Intelisent Postal Affairs Blog
Video: Detroit postal worker attacked while
trying to break up a fight - PEN
Postal Service worker charged with stealing post
office keys, trying to make copies - NW Georgia
News
Who Remembers the Nationwide Postal Wildcat
Strike of 1970 (and Why Does That Matter)? - Save the
Post Office
APWU: Join the Post Office Lowdown!
- PEN
The Village residents tired of postal problems
- KOCO Oklahoma City
Deputy Postmaster General's Use of Data
(PDF) - Audit - OIG
APWU: Forever T-Shirt, Glover Poster Available
March 19, 2015
Former Virginia NALC President Sentenced For
Embezzlement - 1 Year Probation, $7,649 Restitution
- PEN
USPS expands grocery delivery test
- PEN
ELM Revision: FERS Revised Annuity Employees
(RAE) - Postal Bulletin 22411 - Also from PB 22411 see:
ELM Revision: FERS Further Revised Annuity
Employee
APWU: Robin Hood to the Rescue!
- PEN
Union notified of suspicious parcel addressed to
the President of the United States
- NPMHU news via PEN
Video: Oklahoma letter carrier accused of
stealing mail from elderly residents - PEN
Postal Service Policy on Workplace Harassment
- Postal Bulletin 22411
USPS Equal Employment Opportunity Policy
Statement - Postal Bulletin 22411
USPS Ends Support for Click-N-Ship for Business App
- eCommerce Bytes
April Postal Increases Worry Nonprofit Magazine
Publishers - The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Mail carrier credited for warning 911 about fire,
helping save woman - Lubbock Online
Careywood, Idaho, residents fight for local post
office - Spokesman
Mail woes continue in Mountain Lakes
- New Jersey Hills - The Citizen News
Report: The Secret Service knows who sent an
envelope to the White House believed to contain cyanide
- Business Insider
March 18, 2015
Video: Carrier Robbed In Valdosta, Georgia
- PEN
PRC Again Remands Price Adjustments Back To USPS
- Standard Mail, Periodicals, and Package Services Products Affected - PEN
Video: Carrier and Customers Protect Mail From
Burning LLV - PEN
USPS Chief Marketing officer Manabe to leave
Postal Service - Linns
USPS: Customers testing larger mailboxes
- PEN
Texas postal worker indicted on drug delivery
charge - Waco Tribune
Who owns the Postal Service?
- Save the Post Office
NALC: House budget ‘plan’? Cut letter carrier pay
(again) - PEN
Video: Carrier springs into action after customer
falls - PEN
Could Global Ecommerce Give the Postal Service a
Lifeline? - eCommerce Bytes
Former postal employee sentenced for taking
coupons from mail - WGRZ TV
Rural mail carrier says losing leg doesn’t slow
her down - Northwest Florida Daily News
2 injured after crash involving U.S. Postal truck
- Chicago Tribune - Also see:
Postal Worker Airlifted From Scene of Crash
Video: Vandals Damage Postal Vehicles
- PEN
Obama selects Crawford, Miller For USPS Board of
Governors - PEN
Honoring the Heroes of the Great Postal Strike
- APWU
March 17, 2015
Video: Community thanks beloved mailman with
notes, money for trip to Hawaii
- PEN
PMG Brennan Pledges to Keep Mail Relevant
- NAPUS news via PEN
NPMHU URGES PARTICIPATION IN THE GRAND ALLIANCE
- PEN
2 letter carriers plead guilty to delivering
marijuana - The Washington Post
Postal Service looks to improve on 9 miles per
gallon in mail trucks - Phys.org
Middle-Class Betrayal? Why Working Hard Is No
Longer Enough in America - NBC News
Demanding Answers from the Postal Service
- Taxpayers Protection Alliance
Wichita postal worker attacked by dog
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More Postal News
March 16, 2015
Postal Workers Plead Guilty To Drug Distribution
Conspiracy - CBS Baltimore
Mailbox rivalry goes postal -
The Fence Post
APWU: United Mine Workers Adopt ‘Stop Staples’
Resolution - PEN
Jersey City man charged with robbing Bayonne
mailman - NJ.com
Des Moines Post Office faces thousands in fines
for safety violations - Radio Iowa
Customer Connect program nears $2 billion in
revenue - PEN
Lost since 1969: Topsham man’s water bill
returned after 46 years in postal limbo - Bangor Daily
News
Is USPS Shortchanging Priority Mail Shippers?
- eCommerce Bytes
USPS plans to reduce carbon emission by 20% by
2020 - Fierce Government
Video: Snake problem stops mail at Denver home
- PEN
Kirkwood, MO postal truck catches fire
- KSDK
USPS Reshaping Digital Services
- PYMNTS.com
Can One Union Save the Slumping U.S. Postal
Service? - Alternet
Growing Body, Shrinking Footprint
- Office of Inspector General
Utilization of Data by the Chief Financial
Officer and Executive Vice President (PDF) - Office of
Inspector General
Retail Systems Software Deployment and
Functionality (PDF) - Office of Inspector General
March 15, 2015
APWU President Reports on Negotiations
- PEN
USPS: Some states mailing tax refunds this year -
even if filers chose a direct deposit option. - PEN
"We Deliver for Amazon": The Postal Service's New
Priority - Save the Post Office
NALC: Overtime equitability test extended
- PEN
March 14, 2015
Video: Neighbors Upset Over Ongoing Problems With
Mailman - PEN
FAIRBANKS -- Over a period of six years, hundreds
of prescriptions mailed by Alaska pharmacies to veterans and villagers
disappeared while in the custody of the U.S. Postal
Service in Fairbanks. - Alaska Dispatch
Post office in Hinkley, CA to close: What would
Erin say? - Save the Post Office - PEN Ed:
Who is Erin
Brockovich?
Domestic Merchandise Returns and Forwarding
(PDF) - OIG
Badges for Postal Service Contractors
(PDF) - OIG
March 13, 2015
APWU: Baltimore City Council Unanimously Opposes
Postal Privatization - PEN
Privately Owned Vehicle Program Announced
- Postmaster.org news via PEN
US Postal Service Might Be Just Fine Without a
Chief Data Officer - Nextgov
The value of a government-owned postal service
- The Baltimore Times
Atlanta postal worker taps $400K prize in Georgia
lottery - WSB-TV Atlanta
Postal Service change leads to delays in video
disc mailings - Fayetteville Observer
USPS Tries on Role of Technology Startup to Stay
Relevant - eCommerce Bytes
Response of The United States Postal Service to
Order No. 2378 - Intelisent Postal Affairs Blog
Video: Erie, PA Postal Worker Shot In Ear
- PEN
March 12, 2015
Video: 15 Waterbury Mail Carriers Hurt on the Job
Since January - PEN
Video: Mysterious spy cameras collecting data at
post offices - PEN
Video: Mailbox moved to safety after
investigation airs - PEN
Mailing Groups Cautiously Optimistic New Postal
Leadership Will Stop All the Fighting -
GovExec.com
Post office taking over the payday loan industry
– how true it is - Examiner
Surveillance video captures Yuba City mail thief
- KCRA
Post office in Waggoner shuts doors due to safety
concerns - The State Journal-Register
March 11, 2015
Alabama employee was part of civil rights turning
point
- PEN
NALC: March transfer list available
- PEN
Video: Attempted daylight robbery of
Chesterfield, VA Post Office
- PEN
Mail Delays, No Shows Frustrate Greenburgh
Residents - Tarrytown-Sleepy Hollow, NY
Bronx tenants fed up with postal service problems
Teen tries to rob two Ohio postal carriers
- WKYC
PMG thanks employees, family during installation
- PEN
Selma collectibles - Commemorative envelopes,
other merchandise available - PEN
Cupid and his friends at the post office are
fighting back against flimflamming privatizers -
Hightower Lowdown
APWU: Locals Show Creativity, Enthusiasm in
Contract Campaign
UPS Repositions, Launches Ad Campaign
- DM News
The Confederate Post Office Department
- National Civil War - Examiner
Regulators find USPS rate changes for certain
products don't comply with requirements - Fierce
Government
March 10, 2015
Postal Service apologizes to deaf woman who was
refused written service - UPI video
Video: Dealers using postal service to ship drugs
cross-country - PEN
Postal Worker Arrested For Theft
- Hartford Courant
Former immigration officer pleads guilty to
leading crystal meth ring - Postal Service workers
would sometimes supervise receipt of the drug-laden parcels "to ensure
successful delivery - New Jersey Online
Uptown Residents Petition to Improve Poor Post
Office Package Delivery - DNAinfo.com New York
CIO makes good use of Postal Service data, but
presentation needs improvement, watchdog says - Fierce
Government IT
Your Christmas gifts are changing the Postal
Service - Federal Times
March 09, 2015
APWU Contract Town Hall Call - Mar. 19
- APWU news via PEN
Thoughts on USPS Change Strategy...and the Danger
of Velocity Without Focus - Intelisent Postal Affairs
Blog
Postal Service to push for compromise reform bill
- Federal Times
MD employee alerts apartment residents to fire
- PEN
Green Scene - Office of Inspector
General
Video: Davis police alert residents of mailbox
break-ins
- PEN
Car crashes all the way into postal office in
Belfair, WA - KIRO TV
Video: Monday Morning Brief - United States
Stamps - March 09, 2015 - PEN
Australian government backs two-tier mail
delivery service proposal - Post & Parcel
March 08, 2015
Disappearing middle class jobs
- USA Today - "postal clerks at the top of the list."
Tasers on Stun: 9 New Business Ideas for the U.S.
Postal Service - Dead Tree Edition - Dead Tree
says "You'll either love this or hate this."
American Postal Workers Union Stands In The Way
Of Office Depot (ODP)-Staples (SPLS) Merger - Bidness,
etc
Dog attack on mail carrier prompts safety,
vaccination conversation - NJ.com
Mystery of the missing Middletown mailbox
- Times Herald-Record
March 07, 2015
Video: PMG Brennan Gets Sworn In As First Female
Postmaster General - PEN
Neighbors of former sex offender home file
complaint with USPS - WSOC TV
Postal Commission Rejects Rate Hikes That Angered
Nonprofits - The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Suspicious parcel clears federal building, closes
street - Rutland Herald Online
Night shift added at Mansfield post office
- Mansfield News Journal
March 06, 2015
Postal Service swears in first female postmaster
general
- Federal Times
Galveston postal workers stop 90-year-old man
from sending last of savings to scammer - abc13.com
Postal Service investigates reported slight of
deaf woman in Port Orange - Daytona Beach News
Postal worker to go to prison - pleads guilty to
stealing mail and embezzling postal money orders -
Central Maine
APWU Assembles Team of Experts To Oppose
Staples-Office Depot Merger - PEN
PRC Remands Proposed Price Adjustments to USPS
- PEN
The U.S. Postal Service says it believes a letter
carrier threw mail in a Norfolk ravine not once but four times this year.
- Pilot Online
American Postal Workers Union Assembles Team of
Experts To Oppose Staples-Office Depot Merger - Market
Watch
Reinventing the Mail Truck -
NY Times
OK Postal Worker Dies In Car Crash
- Texoma
Sticker Shock: Size of Postal Increase Stuns
Publishers - Dead Tree Edition
USPS, rivals and mailers knock heads over alleged
cross-subsidy of products – DC Velocity
Pot sent Priority Mail gets mother, daughter
arrested - USA Today
If the U.S. Postal Service Goes … Here’s What
Goes with It - Cit Watch LA
10 area post offices' hours to change; most will
close earlier - Gateway District - News Gazette
Challenges in Controlling Costs with Standard
Mail Flats and Periodicals (PDF) - OIG
March 05, 2015
Vietnam Medal of Honor Recipients To be
Recognized on Forever Stamp Sheet - PEN
NAPS Applauds Introduction of Postal Employee
Appeal Rights Legislation - PEN
APWU: Selfie Winners -
PEN
NALC President Rolando to take part in Selma 50th
anniversary commemoration - PEN
Video: Cold, Ice No Match for USPS Letter
Carriers - PEN
Uncle Sam Should Get Out of the Postal Business
- Newsweek: Opinion by Doug Bandow of Cato...who else would it be? PEN
What We Lose With a Privatized Postal Service
- Truth Out: Op-Ed by By Katherine McFate, President and CEO of the Center
for Effective Government
Postal carrier indicted on charges of hoarding,
destroying mail - Ocala Star Banner
Fight to save Stamford post office suffers
another setback - Stamford Advocate
USPS To Help Rural Businesses with Advice on How to
Export - eCommerce Bytes
Earth Class Mail, once a highly touted Oregon
startup, files bankruptcy ahead of planned sale -
Oregon Live
USPS Seeks Partner to Help Monetize Its Brand
- Intelisent Postal Affairs Blog
USPS Postal Bulletin 22410: Handbook EL-312
Revision: Recruitment
USPS Postal Bulletin 22410: IMM Revision: Lithium
Battery Terminology
March 04, 2015
Bill would give personnel appeal rights to USPS
mid-level managers - Fierce Government
Postal worker pleads guilty in sexual battery
case - Fox 59
How Can the Postal Service Use Promotions to Add
Value to the Mail? - Office of Inspector General
Ex-Dumas, TX postal worker sentenced in mail
theft - Amarillo Globe
What We Lose with a Privatized Postal Service
- Center for Effective Government
Senators Tester and Schatz Reintroduce Bill to
Strengthen Postal Workers Rights - PEN
Video: The postman never rings at all - until
PIX11’s Arnold Diaz comes calling - PEN
USPS Seeks Partner to Help Monetize Its Brand
- eCommerce Bytes
Hold the applause for the Postal Service
- Federal Times
AMP Holding’s Electric Delivery Trucks Perfect
for Postal Service - The Street
USPS Coming to a T-shirt Near You?
- eCommerce Bytes
Delivery Startup Shyp Wants To Make Returns
Painless - Fast Company
Lawmakers Look to Give More Postal Employees
Appeal Rights - GovExec.com
March 03, 2015
APWU: Don’t Let Them Take Your ‘Postal Pulse’
- PEN
USPS: New delivery vehicles will be more
efficient, CSO says - PEN
USPS: New mobile app aims to make letter writing
easier - PEN
Marion Co., FL postal worker admits to stealing
mail, money, investigators say - wftv.com 9
Postal Unions Deliver a Strong Message as
Contract Talks Ensue - DM News
Video: Asbestos found at a VA post office, mail
being inspected
- PEN
Where is the Love from Low Fuel Prices?
- Office of Inspector General
After Eight Years of Losses, End the Government’s
Postal Monopoly -
PEN Ed: No, lets end the
prefunding crap. - Cato @ Liberty
USPS to provide exporting workshops in rural
areas - PEN
Here's What The US Postal Service Wants In Their
Next Mail Truck - jalopnik
March 02, 2015
Video: Tax Payments Burn In Mail Truck
- LLV burns in Nashville - PEN
North Carolina carrier assists homeless veterans
- PEN
NALC: March transfer list available
- PEN
You're Not Going to Believe How Amazon Is Going
to Speed Up Delivery - The Motley Fool
Postal service starting to consolidate six Ohio
locations into just two sites - Crescent-News
$60 Million Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed By
Family Of Woman Killed By U.S. Postal Truck
- OC Weekly
Online Selling and the Future of Package Delivery
- eCommerce Bytes
At Auburn post office, money order request
handled shabbily - Worcester Telegram & Gazette
March 01, 2015
Video: Taylor Ridge, IL Post Office armed robbery
suspect in custody - PEN
Postal service says Akron mail-sorting operation
to close in April - Akron Beacon Journal
1,500 applied for that penguin post office
job in Antarctica - Quartz - UK
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