January 31, 2017
- Video: USPS offers up to $50K to identify suspect that robbed and assaulted two Memphis carriers – PEN
- Video: Woman’s computer held hostage by fake USPS email scam
PEN - Video: Ditched mail found inside abandoned building in St Louis
PEN - Acting Attorney General Boente Directs The Dept. Of Justice To Defend President Trump’s Executive Order entitled “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States” – PEN
- There is still time to vote for your favorite 2016 U.S. stamps
Linn’s
January 30, 2017
- Goodbye Mailed Social Security Paper Statements…Again
OIG via PEN - President Trump’s Executive Order Relating to a Government-Wide Hiring Freeze – UPMA via PEN
- Inspection Service cracks down on mail theft
PEN - Slow mail delivery riles Norton, MA residents
The Sun Chronicle - Mailman overcomes stroke, keeps walking route
Norman Transcript - Rural Carrier Reports Large-Scale Mail Theft Incident in Sunny Valley, Oregon Area – KAJO Grants Pass Oregon
- What postal increases mean for SMBs
BizReport
January 29, 2017
- USPS responds to more Steve Pociask inaccuracies
PEN - Chicago postal employee killed after car crashes into carwash
ABC News Chicago - USPS Offering $50K Reward For Memphis Robbery Suspect
Local Memphis
January 28, 2017
- USPS Dedicates New U. S. Flag Stamp
PEN - Mail theft trend prompts US Postal Service to change mailbox locks
The Signal - USPS ASM Revision: Employee Participation in Community Service Activities
- Uncle Sam’s hat is returning to U.S. stamps in 2017
Linn’s
January 27, 2017
- White House Calls For Cutting Retirement and Health Benefits Of Fed Future Hires – PEN
- Video: Florida carrier calls deputies after delivering mail to nudist
PEN - USPS responds to Townhall.com blog by Brian McNicoll
PEN - Postal worker assaulted, robbed of mail by 2 men in Georgetown neighborhood in D.C. – WJLA Washington D.C.
- Two Colorado post offices see major delays due to staffing shortage, high mail volumes – Vail Daily
- There’s so much snow in Summit County, CO that they can’t deliver the mail
Dnver Post - Rolando: What You May Not Know About the U.S. Postal Service
Townhall - Increasing Stamp Prices Distracts From Critical Systemic Reforms
Forbes
January 26, 2017
- USPS HQ’s Says Past Executive Orders That Included A Hiring Freeze Did Not Apply To USPS – PEN
- Chaffetz: Postal reform bill need to reform ‘unsustainable’ trajectory
Federal News Radio - Postal Service investigating accident involving 8-year-old hit by van
MLive - USPS should support, not impede, American small business growth
Washington Examiner - USPS is questioning whether it should be covered by President Donald Trump’s federal hiring freeze – Linn’s
- Industry Groups Seek Changes to Postal Regulatory Commission Rate Making Process – What They Think
- Sprint Says Thanks – Come By January 28th For Amazing Deals!
PEN
January 25, 2017
- NALC via Twitter: “…freeze should not extend to USPS… [we’re] working to ensure that it does not.”
- Video: Michigan postal worker accused of stealing lingerie, other items
WXYZ Detroit - OIG: Is the Margaret L. Sellers P&DC correctly processing undeliverable bulk business mail?
- PRC: Postal Service Active Employees Statistical Summary
- Sprint Says Thanks – Come By January 28th For Amazing Deals!
PEN
January 24, 2017
- Postal worker threatens boss with steak knife, police say
She was being suspended for work performance – Lehigh Valley News - Video: Florida Letter Carrier: Dog ‘didn’t just bite me, he attacked me’
PEN - Presidential Memorandum Regarding The Federal Civilian Employee Hiring Freeze – PEN
- Florida Postal Employee Arrested For Trespassing at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate – Also Smeared Bananas On Cars Parked There – PEN
- Michigan letter carrier gets year in prison for stealing from the mail
PEN - Video: Mail theft ring investigation zeroing in on south Austin
PEN - Florida USPS employee alleges harassment, discrimination because of condition – Florida Record
- First Cloud-Based Solution Certified by United States Postal Service for Full-Service Mail – IT Business Net
January 23, 2017
- FERS OVERPAYMENT RULE
PEN - Rolando: USPS is an ‘American treasure’
Batesville Herald Tribune - Former postman ‘inspired’ by letters from across country
CT Post - OIG: No Pipe Dream
- 8-year-old struck by postal van in Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor News - Farley post office’s abandoned quarters explored in new exhibition
Curbed NY
January 22, 2017
- Two New York Men Plead Guilty To Grand Larceny – Scheme Involved Doctored USPS Money Orders – PEN
- Mail theft on rise: Problem plaguing not just High Desert, but all of Southern California – Daily Press
- Bee Springs, KY Post Office robbed at gunpoint
WBKO Bowling Green, KY - Bronx residents without mailboxes following spike in mail theft
News 12 The Bronx - Bishopville, SC post office fire suspicious; 2nd blaze set near
WLTX - Postal Service Should Not Be Left Out of Swamp Draining
Townhall - NALC: Food Drive’s ‘Family Circus’ art revealed
January 21, 2017
- Video: Feds team up with state, local agencies to crack down on mail thieves
PEN - Video: Georgia residents without mail for months due to broken community mailboxes – PEN
- Video: Wisconsin Letter Carrier Admits Stealing Prescription Medications Meant for Delivery – PEN
- Rapid City Man Found Guilty of Seven Counts of Mail Embezzlement and Theft
PEN - Lethal opioids from China getting to U.S. courtesy of Postal Service
USA Today
January 20, 2017
- California USPS Supervisor Burglarizes Her Employees Homes While Employees Are At Work – PEN
- Video: USPS carrier knocks down mailbox, customer wants answers
PEN - Video: Virginia Beach Mail Mess
PEN - Dayton police: 2 juveniles rob letter carrier at gunpoint
WHIO Dayton - Nonprofit Mailers Seek More Data From Postal Service
Nonprofit Times - East Hartford man admits involvement in post office robbery
Journal Inquirer - USPS Wants to Hunt Down Dark Web Criminals
- Federal judge denies dismissal request by city regarding USPS lawsuit
Daily Californian
January 19, 2017
- 54-year-old Postal employee caught grinding up against a 33-year-old woman on a north-bound No. 5 train rolling through Midtown NYC – NY Daily News
- Beloved Northbrook mail carrier dies on job
Chicago Tribune - Florida city, county could pay $80,000 over postal worker’s arrest
Daytona Beach News Journal - Mail Carrier Attacked in Front of Burglarized Home in Covina, CA
KTLA - Redlands transient in court over alleged attack on mail carrier
Redlands Daily Facts - Thief cuts locks, steals mail at Kingsland post office
DailyTrib
January 18, 2017
- Video: Mail Carrier Beaten During Attempted Robbery In The Bronx
PEN - Video: $11,000 in Checks Stolen From USPS Mailbox in East Harlem
PEN - Video: USPS, Cape police investigate case of mail fraud
PEN - Ex-New Mexico postal workers sentenced for destroying mail
The Republic - OIG: Flexible Workforce
- Stamp prices going up Sunday
MassLive
January 17, 2017
- Eagle River, AK Post Office closed with crime scene tape following vandalism – KTUU
- Elmhurst, IL postman charged after credit cards missing on his route
Chicago Tribune - Postal Service disavows Robert E. Lee notice on Springdale office
Arkansas Online - Sullivan County, TN carrier gets probation for storing mail at home
Times News - Video: Message from the APWU President – Staples Stopped
PEN - USPS Employees Invited To Join Health Program
PEN - PRC Issues Annual Report to the President and Congress
PEN - First Week of Congress and UPMA Legislative Advocacy Day
PEN - One of the most interesting Christmas cards you’ll come across
Linn’s - NPMHU Membership to Vote on Ratification of Tentative 2016 National Agreement
- Video: Sales Careers Deliver at USPS
PEN
January 16, 2017
- USPS to close post offices and suspend delivery for inauguration
WJLA Washington D.C. - Berkeley Loses a Round in Fight Over Downtown Post Office
PEN - Will I receive mail delivery on the day of the Presidential Inauguration?
PEN
January 15, 2017
- Grocery store shelves emptier in Alaska village after route change leads to long delays – KTVA
- Jan. 20 Inauguration Day postmark announced
Linn’s - JFK Forever Stamp to be Dedicated on Presidents Day
PEN
January 14, 2017
- Video shows man using counterfeit master key to steal mail from San Jose apartment complex – PEN
- Video: 2 Letter Carriers Indicted In Marijuana Distribution Ring In West Philadelphia – PEN
- Video: Texas woman fears $100 gift card she mailed was stolen by a letter carrier – PEN
- Video: Lake County, FL letter carrier arrested on mail theft charges
PEN - Suspended Pittsburgh postmaster, found guilty of obstructing law, other charges – Observer-Reporter
- Suit claims Richmond Main Post Office altered timesheets to keep costs down – Richmond Times-Dispatch
- An inside look at what winter is like for mail carriers
KTVH
January 13, 2017
- Video: They went fishing for mail in Florida, police say – Now they’ve been caught – PEN
- Video: Mail thieves steal from hundreds at Nevada mobile home park
PEN - Video: Neighbors Stealing From Neighbors – Check Your Mail!
PEN - Postal worker assaulted delivering mail in Johnson City, TX
KXAN - Michigan carrier accused of stealing $69,000 in checks from mail
WSYM TV - Pittsburgh postmaster trial to go to deliberations
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Two postal workers charged with distributing marijuana through mail in West Philly – Philly Voice
- OIG: Developing a Successful Enterprise Information Security Policy
January 12, 2017
- Video: Pilfering From The Post Office: Employee Admits To Stealing Cash, Gifts While Processing Mail – PEN
- Florida Mail Handler Guilty of Stealing Social Security Checks
PEN - Video: Georgia mail carrier saves man who slipped on ice
PEN - USPS investigates mailbox thefts in West Bridgewater, MA
Wicked Local - Rolando: Postal reform will strengthen USPS service
Herald Bulletin
January 11, 2017
- Mail Truck Robbed In Chicago’s Park Manor Is Third In Three Days
CBS Chicago - Greenville, SC claims postal truck hit him, knocked him unconscious while on his bicycle – WYFF
- Packages and mail taken from postal vehicle on South Side Chicago
Chicago Tribune - Will Publishers Pay for the USPS’s FSS Fiasco?
Publishing Executive - The FSS: A Hopeless Case
Dead Tree Edition - Pittsburgh postmaster denies allegations at trial
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Mail carrier fainted when arrested, taken for evaluation
Charlotte Observer - Heartless postal worker busted for stealing cash, kid’s letter to Santa
NY Post - Vandals set San Benito postal mailbox on fire
Valley Morning Star - Postal IG Praises Empowerment Act
FEDweek - Video: Man tracks package thieves down to get his stuff back
KFVS Phoenix
January 10, 2017
- Postal carrier robbed at gunpoint on Southeast Side, sketch released
Chicago Tribune - Obama watchdog’s new teeth: Postal reform
– two of the 2017 priorities will be postal reform and changing pension programs for NEW federal workers. NY Times - Lost, damaged letters rile Ohio customers
Bexley News - Newark’s Springfield Avenue post office hits a bump in the delivery road
New Jersey Online
January 09, 2017
- Video: APWU President Dimondstein Inaugural Speech
PEN - Video: Woman Says Postal Worker Killed Her Dog With Her Prescription Pills
PEN - Video: Letter returned to Denver woman 70 years after she mailed it
PEN - Rolando: Appropriate reforms can keep Postal Service strong
Daily Herald - U.S. Postal Service truck burglarized in Englewood – Chicago
Chicago Sun-Times - JFK Forever Stamp to be Dedicated on Presidents Day
PEN - Expensive postage leads to report of simple assault at Athens post office
Athens Banner-Herald - Two Milwaukee men charged with stealing packages of people’s porches
WTMJ TV
January 08, 2017
- The Most Endangered Jobs of 2016 – Mail Carrier, the most endangered job. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects a 28% decline in employment of Mail Carriers by 2024, or a total 136,000-employee loss in the field over the next eight years. CareerCast
- Kansas man admits role in $3.5M identity theft scheme – Vanley admitted that one of roughly a dozen co-defendants gave him a U.S. Postal Service roster with personal information for two postal service employees. – Hutchinson News
- Alamosa, CO coldest spot in nation – As the letter carrier for the U.S. Postal Service walked her route at 9 a.m. Saturday morning, the temperature was just about to nudge above minus 20. Pueblo Chieftain
January 07, 2017
- Michigan NALC Sergeant-at-Arms Sentenced For Embezzlement
PEN - Video: Mailman Builds A Ramp So An Old Dog On His Route Can Still Greet Him – PEN
- Rep. Susan Davis Re-Introduces Bipartisan Resolution to Protect Door Delivery of Mail – PEN
- Fellow employees testify at trial for suspended postmaster
Pittsburg Post-Gazette - Statesville, NC mail carrier charged with selling prescription pills on job
Statesville Record & Landmark - Homeless use of Santa Rosa post office lobbies prompts nighttime closure
Press Democrat
January 06, 2017
- Love Takes to the Air Tomorrow on New Love Skywriting Forever Stamp
PEN - Texas City Carrier Assistant pleads guilty to stealing cash, gift cards and medication – Texarkana Today
- Two teens are arrested in Conneaut mail box fire
Star Beacon - Vehicle Crashes Into Post Office – Again!
Lansing Star - Nearly one-third of federal websites haven’t converted to HTTPS
Government Computer News - Post Office wanted to ditch town until we ‘shamed’ them
NC Advertiser - Northern Iowa woman must pay more than $6,000 in restitution that authorities say she took while working for the U.S. Postal Service – KCCI 8 Des Moines
- USPS at CES? Why the national mail carrier is at the world’s biggest tech expo – GeekWire
January 06, 2017
- Texas City Carrier Assistant pleads guilty to stealing cash, gift cards and medication – Texarkana Today
- Two teens are arrested in Conneaut mail box fire
Star Beacon - Vehicle Crashes Into Post Office – Again!
Lansing Star - Nearly one-third of federal websites haven’t converted to HTTPS
Government Computer News
January 05, 2017
- The USPS and Staples Deal is Over!
PEN - USPS Postal Inspectors hit the streets to help carriers
PEN - 2017 USPS Leave and Payroll Calendar
PEN - Massachusetts USPS Customer Service Supervisor Pleads Guilty to Importing a Controlled Substance – PEN
- Former Postal Employee Faces Five Years in Federal Prison for Working as a Personal Trainer While Receiving Workers’ Compensation Disability Benefits – PEN
- Video: Investigation begins after East Texas mail theft caught on camera
PEN - ‘That’s your job, and you just do it’ Local USPS carrier not bothered by cold temps – KREM Spokane
- Mauriceville, TX residents express their concerns with postal service
12 News Now
January 04, 2017
- Feds investigate Brentwood mail collection box break-in
East Bay Times - Rolando: Postal Service business is up, deficit is all politics
Mercury News - Second mail carrier robbed on South Side in two days
WLS TV Chicago - Video: Cedar Park, TX neighborhood’s mailboxes broken into 3 times in 3 months – PEN
- Trial for Pittsburgh postmaster to begin
See original story and video at PEN
Note: authorities said he threatened coworkers - Virginia Postal Carrier and Guardian Angel
Altavista Journal - Residents angry over poor service from Bexley post office
Columbus Dispatch - Carrier Robbed At Gun Point In South Chicago
WLS TV Chicago - Unannounced cardinal forever envelope sold in Ohio
Linn’s
January 03, 2017
- USPS employee recognized for catching renegade bug
PEN - Video: Wake Forest mail carrier talks about saving packages from her burning truck – PEN
- Grand Junction postal carrier gets probation for stealing gift cards from mail
Denver Post - Former Nora Springs postmaster sentenced to probation
The Courier - USPS Expands Use of SV Scanners for Better Tracking
eCommerce Bytes - Price of forever stamps set to increase this month
WCMH Columbus - OIG: Top 10 Postal Stories of 2016
January 02, 2017
- Driver files suit over alleged injuries in Bay Pines Boulevard accident with USPS driver – Florida Record
- USPS Takes a Look Ahead at 2017
eCommerce Bytes
January 01, 2017
- Missouri letter carrier seriously hurt when mail truck is rear-ended
Jefferson County Leader - Mail thieves hit northeast Bend – Police recover items from 27 homes
Bend Bulletin