September 30, 2016
- Video: California Carrier Trips Over Woman Being Kidnapped And Does Nothing – PEN
- Video: After USPS Raises Suspicions, Large Marijuana Grow In California Busted – PEN
- USPS Seasonal Hiring – 2016
PEN - USPS: North Carolina civil unrest
PEN - Video: Syringes found in Lowell, MA mail drop box
PEN - USPS: Point Richmond Station, CA Office Closed
PEN - Delayed Postal Delivery Means Wasted Absentee Votes
Forbes - Why Drug Runners Love the U.S. Postal Service
WSJ - Driver thrown from mail truck after rear-end collision near Parma, ID
Idaho Press-Tribune
September 29, 2016
- Maine USPS Contract Carrier Pleads Guilty To Stealing Mail
PEN - OIG: Postal Service Workplace Violence Program
PEN - The Iconic Symbols of Halloween Debuted on Forever Stamps Today
PEN - USPS Statement on Jack-o’-lanterns Stamp Defect
PEN - USPS Will Continue Dabbling in Grocery Deliveries
Dead Tree Edition - Feds Will Pay 6.2 Percent More Toward Health Care Premiums in 2017
USPS employees will pay an average of 11.7 percent more for their premiums — or $16.32 per paycheck – GovExec - Tennessee postal worker takes plea deal in hidden mail case
WCYB - Amazon is reportedly building its own shipping business
Newsmax - OIG: Omaha, NE, Processing and Distribution Center Customer Service Performance
- OIG: What Should a USPS Information Technology Strategic Risk Management Process Include?
September 28, 2016
- Video: Surveillance cameras catch Texas mailbox thief in action
PEN - Two Arrested In Randolph, MS Post Office Robbery
PEN - Video: Unrestrained dog costs Wichita neighborhood mail door deliveries
PEN - Postal service health benefits and the FEHBP
Federal News Radio - Three Quarters Of Customers Broadcast Their Frustrations When They Receive A Damaged Package – PEN
- Explosion at Staten Island post office was caused by customer’s e-cigarette
Staten Island Live - Former Manson, WA Postmaster Jailed For Mail Theft
KOZI Radio - 300 pieces of mail found in Rancho Viejo trash bin
Santa Fe New Mexican
September 27, 2016
- Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) is calling for a review of a government surveillance program that allows postal workers to monitor the mail – KGW
- Video: USPS promises to move Nacogdoches, TX disabled veteran’s mailbox
PEN - Postal Service unwittingly fuels opioid epidemic by delivering foreign drugs right to U.S. doorsteps – Washington Times
September 26, 2016
- Video Update: Search continues for Mississippi post office shooting pair
PEN - Composite Sketch Of Man That Shot Mississippi Postmaster
PEN - Butterfly Stamp to Alight On Post Office Locations Across Nation
PEN - TX: Postal worker killed in Sunday crash
Cleburne Times-Review - OIG: City Carriers Returning After 6 P.M. – Los Angeles District
- California Man Throws Trash Can Through Post Office Window
Lost Coast Outpost - Video: Linns Monday Morning Brief
PEN - Get ready for a new USPS mail truck, maybe from a company you don’t know
Auto Blog - Dim weight changes mean more rate pain ahead
DC Velocity - OIG: Oversight of Oil and Gas Mineral Rights (PDF)
- GAO: Information on Designated Postal Operators and Universal Service in Selected Countries
- OIG: The Postal Service and Cities: A “Smart” Partnership
- OIG: Helping Cities Get Smarter
September 26, 2016
- Composite Sketch Of Man That Shot Mississippi Postmaster
PEN - California Man Throws Trash Can Through Post Office Window
Lost Coast Outpost - Video: Linns Monday Morning Brief
PEN - Get ready for a new USPS mail truck, maybe from a company you don’t know
Auto Blog
September 25, 2016
- Michigan Representative Jon Hoadley Introduces Legislation Aimed At Protecting Mail Carriers And Others From Dangerous Dogs – PEN
- Video: Cat Chases Down New Zealand Post Mailman Everyday Demanding To Be Loved – PEN
- Unwanted mailing address change triggers scam alert
Delaware State News
September 24, 2016
- Video: Mississippi Postmaster Shot During Robbery
PEN - Video: UPS open ocean drone delivery test a success
PEN - Officials respond to issue of illegal drugs being shipped through USPS
WMDT - Postal workers’ excess travel wastes millions
San Diego Union-Tribune
September 23, 2016
- Massachusetts Postal Employee Charged with Viewing Child Pornography on Work Computers – PEN
- Video: Thieves target mail for gift cards
PEN - PRC Publishes Strategic Plan Outlining Five-Year Vision
PEN - Postal Service Taps 6 Firms for Delivery Vehicle Prototyping Contracts
GovConWire - California mail thieves strike again, USPS installing new mailboxes
September 22, 2016
- Temporary Emergency Committee of the Postal Service Board of Governors to Meet Sept. 27 – PEN
- USPS Awards Spartan Motors’ Utilimaster Prototype Contract for Next Generation Delivery Vehicle Program – PEN
- NAPUS: Postal Service Clarifies Evaluation Policy
PEN - USPS Selects AM General For Prototypes Of The Next Generation Of Postal Delivery Vehicles – PEN
- FedEx CEO – Amazon can’t do what we do – he also states “There is no entity that can provide the type of route density and cost for lightweight residential delivery as the postal services both in this country and abroad.”
- Suburban Chicago postal worker charged with delivering drugs
Chicago Sun-Times - Amazon can now deliver your packages to a secure locker instead of your front porch in Denver – Denver Post
- USPS Has Achieved Just a Fraction of Its Projected Savings From Slowing Mail Delivery
Government Exec. - Mandatory cluster mailboxes too easily burglarized
Fresno Bee
September 21, 2016
- Two Alabama Postal Service Employees Sentenced for Bribery and Conspiracy to Distribute Marijuana – PEN
- Investigating grease fire at Missouri maintenance facility, OSHA finds US Postal facility failed to maintain working fire extinguishers – PEN
- Former Letter Carrier Sentenced To One Year In Prison For Scheme To Steal And Cash Hundreds Of Postal Money Orders – PEN
- Former Michigan letter carrier pleads guilty to stealing mail
PEN - Ahmad Khan Rahami Charged in Manhattan and New Jersey Federal Courts with Executing Bombings in New York City and New Jersey – PEN
- Postal Service Previews Select 2017 Stamps
PEN - Louisiana mother says postal worker’s carelessness caused injuries
Louisiana Record - Central NY letter carriers who cheered up Clay teen with cancer receive national honors
- USPS Worker Told to Remove ‘Make America Great Again’ Sign
Bloomberg - OIG: Are Clerk and Mail Handler Costs Correctly Attributed to USPS Products?
- Postal Systems Debate whether Amazon Is Friend or Foe
eCommerce Bytes
September 21, 2016
- Investigating grease fire at Missouri maintenance facility, OSHA finds US Postal facility failed to maintain working fire extinguishers – PEN
- Former Letter Carrier Sentenced To One Year In Prison For Scheme To Steal And Cash Hundreds Of Postal Money Orders – PEN
- Former Michigan letter carrier pleads guilty to stealing mail
PEN - Ahmad Khan Rahami Charged in Manhattan and New Jersey Federal Courts with Executing Bombings in New York City and New Jersey – PEN
- Postal Service Previews Select 2017 Stamps
PEN - Louisiana mother says postal worker’s carelessness caused injuries
Louisiana Record - Central NY letter carriers who cheered up Clay teen with cancer receive national honors
- USPS Worker Told to Remove ‘Make America Great Again’ Sign
Bloomberg - OIG: Are Clerk and Mail Handler Costs Correctly Attributed to USPS Products?
- Postal Systems Debate whether Amazon Is Friend or Foe
eCommerce Bytes
September 20, 2016
- Video: Guns stolen from the Memphis Post Office
PEN - USPS Statement On OIG Report On Mail Processing And Transportation Operational Changes – PEN
- Residents at Pensacola apartment go months without receiving mail
WEAR TV - Miamisburg, OH postal worker questioned in mail theft case has resigned
WHIO - Postal Hub Podcast: U.S. Postal Service and Logistics
September 19, 2016
- The future is here: how autonomous drones will revolutionize postal sorting
PEN - USPS Inspector General reports massive increases in delayed mail
Linns - Driver smashes into mail truck Monday morning in Taylor, MI
News Herald - OIG: Are Highway Contract Routes Useful for New Contracts?
- OIG: Where Have All the Collection Boxes Gone?
- Letter: Postal workers kept it together after 9/11
Times Union - After years of effort, U.S. Diwali stamp finally a reality
Linns - Over the last 10 years, shares of FedEx have underperformed the S&P 500 and its competition, UPS. Investors are wondering if they should stick around – The Street
- USPS awards contracts to six delivery vehicle suppliers
Post & Parcel - OIG: Mail Processing and Transportation Operational Changes
- Jack-o’-lantern stamps have Ridgefield, CT roots
Ridgefield Press
September 18, 2016
- Queens post office worker steals retired cop’s wallet containing $250 as he drops off mail
NY Daily News - Late or lost mail just part of the Postal Service’s problem
Roanoke Times - Postal service plays ‘hard to get’ on info
Roanoke Times
September 17, 2016
- Video: NALC 2016 Letter Carrier Heroes of the Year
PEN - Video: Philadelphia Letter Carrier Hailed A Hero After Saving Co-Workers Life
PEN - Man cited in Lansdale, PA post office incident
PEN - USPS Statement on Next Generation Delivery Vehicles Prototype Selection and Request for Proposal for Commercial Off-the-Shelf Delivery Vehicles – PEN
- NALC: Latest retiree, FECA COLA projections released
- ‘Much rejoicing in the land’: U.S. Postal Service alters First Day Cover servicing policy
Linns - James Hautman claims fifth duck stamp art contest win
Linns
September 16, 2016
- Video: Suspects Beat Pittsburgh Letter Carrier With Baseball Bat, Broke Mail Truck’s Windows – PEN
- What can 47 cents buy these days?
Ocala.com - Michigan NALC Sergeant-at-Arms Pleads Guilty To Embezzling Approximately $500.00 In Union Funds – PEN
- Former Massachusetts Letter Carrier Sentenced for Worker’s Compensation Fraud – PEN
- Former Ohio NALC Treasurer Pleads Guilty To Theft In The Amount Of $16,347
PEN - How The Postal Service Regained Customers’ Trust After Throwing Packages
Nextgov - 250 holiday jobs up for grabs with Ohio Postal Service
WLWT - OIG: City Delivery Office Efficiency – Greensboro District
- OIG: Postmaster Cost Segment
- OIG: Chicago District Processing Facilities’ Process for Mail Count and Color Coding of Standard Mail
- OIG: Customer Service Operations in the Capital and Northern Virginia Districts
September 15, 2016
- Video: PO Box service canceled for hundreds in Palm Springs
PEN - Postal Service Health Benefits and the FEHBP: The Urgent Case for Getting Reform Right
PEN - The Post Office Costs Taxpayers Nothing, and Gives Us So Much in Return
Alternet - Democrats Go Postal With probably the worst idea ever
The Weekly Standard - 2017 Print Forecast: Tiny Price Hikes With a Chance of Disruption
D. Edward Tree – PubExec
September 15, 2016
- Postal Service Health Benefits and the FEHBP: The Urgent Case for Getting Reform Right
PEN - Democrats Go Postal With probably the worst idea ever
The Weekly Standard
September 14, 2016
- Ex-postal service contract driver from Lafayette, LA pleads guilty to stealing mail
PEN - Wayne Co., NY Postmaster Relief Pleads Guilty To Stealing Almost $20K
PEN - Video: San Antonio Postal Service getting 30 calls a day for vandalism
PEN - ‘Hoarding mail’ tip spurs probe at Shawnee, OK Post Office
PEN - A Post Office change of address form could put you at risk for idenity theft
WXYZ Detroit
September 13, 2016
- Can Robots Replace Thousands of US Postal Service Employees?
24/7 Wall Street - Video: Federal authorities uncover second case of theft among Charlotte postal mail handler employees – PEN
- Postal Service Urges Voters to Mail Ballots Early
PEN - Willie Nelson’s new cause is … postal reform?
Washington Post - Postal Museum Launches “America’s Mailing Industry” Virtual Exhibition
PEN - After security contractor reneges, officers at Eagan postal facility strike
Workday Minnesota - Mail Cluster Break Ins Reported In NW Fresno
Your Central Valley - One last spooky set: Which spine-tingling sites are on the final five Haunted Canada stamps? – Linns
September 12, 2016
- The Anthrax Letters That Terrorized a Nation Are Now Decontaminated and on Public View – Smithsonian Mag
- NAPUS: OPTION LETTER MAILED TO PART-TIME POSTMASTERS
The correspondence advises Postmasters of an option to be promoted to a level 6. - OIG: Advertising Mail Still Going Strong
- Video: Linn’s Monday Morning Brief – Halloween stamps
PEN - Retired Connecticut postal employee faces 30 months for killing hawks
CT Post - Security Officers to Strike Monday at Postal Service Distribution Center in Eagan
KRWU-TV - OIG: Are the Mobile Delivery Devices Working as Intended?
- After a cruise, junk mail makes unscheduled stops
Palm Beach Post
September 11, 2016
- Video: Remembering 9/11 – 102 Minutes That Changed America
PEN – God Bless America
September 10, 2016
- President Obama Nominates Robert G. Taub – Commissioner, Postal Regulatory Commission – PEN
- USPS offers reward for suspect that attempted rob a postal employee
Hyde Park Herald - California veteran’s pain pills intercepted by mail thieves
KCRA Sacramento - Bipartisan Security Experts Applaud New Senate Bill to Close Dangerous Security Loophole in the Global Postal System – PEN
- Advocates Call for International Shipment Screening for Drugs, Weapons
U.S. News & World Report - At Long Last, Catalogers Anticipate Rate Relief from USPS
DM News - Mobile Post Office Opens In Ceder Key, FL After Hurricane Hermine’s Destruction
WUFT Central Florida
September 09, 2016
- Committee Releases Year-Long Investigative Report Into OPM Data Breaches
PEN - Video: Woman In Mercedes-Benz Arrested In Thefts Of Mail And Packages All Over Southern California – PEN
- Video: Kahuku, HI post office the latest hit by mailbox thefts
PEN - When travel companies sell their mailings lists, junk mail becomes an unwanted souvenir – Washington Post
- Newly Re-Elected NARFE Leaders Face a ‘Perfect Storm’ of Rising Premiums Hitting Federal Retirees – “For the 76,000 current postal retirees who do not have Medicare, NARFE believes that forcing them into Part B is bad in principle and sets a bad precedent.” Fedsmith
- America’s Mailing Industry
Smithsonian National Postal Museum - Going Postal: How Can We Fix The Worst Post Offices In Brooklyn?
Ditmas Park Corner - USPS Adds Another 3,000 Ram ProMaster Vans
Heavy Duty Trucking
September 08, 2016
- Video: Texas rural carrier killed after driving into creek during mail route
PEN - Video: Air conditioning out at East Nashville post office; Employee passes out
PEN - Video: Feds pour through your mail to flag scams
PEN - Florida Postal Employee Who Landed Gyrocopter on U.S. Capitol Lawn Released From Jail – NBC Florida
- New USPS delivery service linked to email addresses
PEN - North Carolina postal worker accused of embezzling for 4 years
WSOC Charlotte - Tom Ridge: 15 years after 9/11, a gaping security gap – Nearly 1 million packages are shipped into the United States daily through the U.S. Postal Service. Most go unchecked. – Tom Ridge former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security via USA Today
- Your mail carrier warns that door-to-door delivery is under attack
People’s World - Portman says his bill would help block mail shipments of synthetic drugs from abroad
WCTO Cinncinnati - I didn’t want Medicare Part B. Why did Social Security enroll me in it?
Postall retiree’s widow via PBS - Feds on case of Illinois post office break-in
September 07, 2016
- Video: Seinfeld Star, Newman The Mailman, Makes Appearance In Israeli Commercial
PEN - ‘Huge security gap’ lets dangerous packages enter US through postal system
Washington’s Top News - The nonpresidents who have been featured on multiple U.S. stamps
Linns - Linden Ave sure misses Ronnie the mailman
Shoreline Times
September 06, 2016
- Florida Postal Employee Charged With Delay Or Destruction Of Mail
PEN - Video: Owner angry that letter carrier pepper sprayed dog through fence
PEN - Amercians for Tax Reform Oppose USPS Reform Act H.R. 5714
PEN - Attention Retirees: Applications for Holiday Temp Jobs Due Sept. 11
PEN - OIG: Famous Former Postal Workers
- Festus, MO mailman foils postal truck theft
Festus Leader - NALC: Join UMWA’s ‘Keep the Promise’ rally in DC on Thursday
September 05, 2016
- 5 myths about labor unions
Chicago Tribune - 2016 federal duck stamp art contest gets underway Sept. 9
Linns - Five months after lead and copper were found in the water at the downtown Abilene Post Office and Federal Courthouse water still not safe to drink – KTXS
September 04, 2016
- Former Dunkerton, Iowa post office worker gets probation in theft
The Courier - Return to sender: Burning Man won’t accept mail anymore
Reno Gazette Journal - Woman Arrested, Found With Over 200 Pieces of Stolen Mail During Traffic Stop in South Pasadena – KTLA
- Laptop With Entire Clinton Email Archive Lost In The Mail
Breitbart News
September 03, 2016
- Video: Shot Fired During Attempted Robbery Of Chicago Carrier
PEN - Former Senior Claims Examiner at DOL Worker’s Compensation Office in Dallas Sentenced to 15 Months in Federal Prison for Taking Bribes – PEN
- Auto-repair mogul accused of running $30M postal-truck repair scam
NY Post - Kenosha County, Wisconsin Residents Ask “Where’s My Mail”
WTMJ - Lawsuit: Postal mgrs. ignored complaints about lovesick letter carrier
- Rain or snow, postal workers are here to serve the Upper Thumb
Huron Daily Tribune
September 02, 2016
- Iconic TV series Star Trek stamps released
PEN - Video: Willie Nelson Featured in New ‘Grand Alliance’ Video
PEN - Video: PMG thanks employees for recent successes
PEN - Update: Iowa Postmaster Indicted On Misappropriation Of Postal Funds Pleads Guilty – PEN
- Update: Former Ohio Postal Employee Sentenced For Allegedly Stealing USPS Money Orders – must pay USPS restitution in the amount of $15,929.90 – PEN
- USPS Heroes’ Corner – George Hearst, Painesville, OH
PEN - APWU: MVS Wins Important Ruling on Subcontracting Notification
PEN - PRC Announces Plan for 10-year Review of System of Regulating Rates and Classes for Market Dominant Products – PEN
- APWU: Two Settlements Address DBCS Staffing And Employee Orientation Disputes
PEN - UPS Announces U.S. Rate Changes Effective December 26
PEN - Photo released of suspect in attack on postal worker on South Side
Chicago Tribune - Anaheim company pays $3 million to resolve postal-fraud investigation
Orange County Register - How postal history tells the story of the atomic bomb
Linns
September 02, 2016
- Video: PMG thanks employees for recent successes
PEN - Update: Iowa Postmaster Indicted On Misappropriation Of Postal Funds Pleads Guilty – PEN
- Update: Former Ohio Postal Employee Sentenced For Allegedly Stealing USPS Money Orders – must pay USPS restitution in the amount of $15,929.90 – PEN
- USPS Heroes’ Corner – George Hearst, Painesville, OH
PEN - APWU: MVS Wins Important Ruling on Subcontracting Notification
PEN - PRC Announces Plan for 10-year Review of System of Regulating Rates and Classes for Market Dominant Products – PEN
- APWU: Two Settlements Address DBCS Staffing And Employee Orientation Disputes
PEN - UPS Announces U.S. Rate Changes Effective December 26
PEN
September 01, 2016
- Kansas City man charged with assaulting a mail carrier
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Disgruntled customers reveal the most frustrating (and hilarious) ways lazy postmen have dropped off their parcels – Daily Mail
- Change of address coming for historic Philly post office amid cash crunch
Inquirer Daily News