APWU – 05/16/2017 – Starting May 13, Postal Support Employess (PSEs) will get a pay raise of 20 cents an hour. The increase will be reflected in the June 2 paychecks. Click here for updated payscales. PSEs are not eligible for COLA increases, including the most recent increase of 16 cents per hour all career […]
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) – People living on Broadview Drive in Lexington went several days without getting their mail. When they found out the reason, the lack of mail became even more puzzling to some of them. “That thing about that they bring it in snow and sleet and hail… it doesn’t say anything about snakes. […]
Meeting to focus on a wide-range of Commission activities to date Washington, DC – The Postal Regulatory Commission today announced the agenda for its May 18 Public Meeting. The meeting is open to the general public and will focus on activities undertaken by the Commission over the course of this fiscal year to date. The […]
5/12/17 – A former administrative law judge for the Social Security Administration (SSA) pleaded guilty in federal court today for his role in a scheme to fraudulently obtain more than $550 million in federal disability payments from the SSA for thousands of claimants. Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice Department’s Criminal […]
May 15, 2017 – With $72 billion in revenue and 154 billion pieces of mail moved in a year, the U.S. Postal Service deals in the billions. That’s why you sometimes hear people joke that “a few million here and a few million there and pretty soon you are talking about real money” with the […]
USPS – 5/15/2017 – We ship more e-commerce packages to homes than anyone else in the country. We’re able to do this in large part due to the people who trust us with their business. Because they know when they ship with us, their business becomes our business. This campaign shows the partnership we enjoy […]
Linns – Associate editor Michael Baadke recounts the 90-second flurry of bids during Siegel Auction Galleries’ May 11 sale of the Position 76 Jenny Invert that was once part of the famous McCoy block of four stolen in 1955 and returned to the American Philatelic Research Library, the stamp’s rightful owner, in 2016. The Inverted Jenny […]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Police are trying to figure out what caused a driver to lose control of his postal service truck and slam into a power pole Saturday evening near 39th and Troost. The crash knocked down some power lines. Fox 4 Kansas City
BAKERSFIELD,Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) – A construction worker says he found piles and piles of stolen mail left in trash bins in northwest Bakersfield. The Good Samaritan tried to return some of the mail, and he contacted Post Office authorities. On Friday, postal inspectors picked up the latest batch, and promised an investigation. “This right here is […]
PEN – 5/13/17 – Over the past several years, in an effort to save costs, USPS has been avidly changing postal customers delivery mode from delivery at your door or curbside mailbox to cluster boxes. This move has proven effective toward reducing postal expenses but devastating for protection of postal customers private mail. It seems […]