May 31, 2018
- Yonkers mail thefts: $660K stolen from 85 victims; postal service ‘failed,’ mayor says – PEN
- NAPS Comments on USPS Presidential Task Force – (PDF) NAPS
- Packages stolen from USPS mail trucks in Chicago – WGN Chicago
- Post Office sends bundles of previously stolen mail to Magnolia, AR residents – Magnolia Reporter
- Mail Stolen From Lobby Of Post Office In Westchester – Mt. Pleasant Daily Voice
- OIG: Employee Background Screening: San Francisco, Bay-Valley, and Sierra Coastal Districts
May 30, 2018
- Unions Jump-Start Recruiting Drives Anticipating A Supreme Court Loss In Janus v. AFSCME Council 31 – PEN
- Mail Stolen From 10 Postal Mailboxes In Yonkers – PEN
- Mail Handler Assistants receive an hourly wage increase of $0.20 per hour effective on Saturday, May 26, 2018 – NPMHU
- OIG: Delayed Mail Reporting Improvements
- OIG: Highway Contract Route Fuel Price Index Program Effectiveness(PDF)
May 29, 2018
- USPS Lists 6 Sally Ride facts you never knew – PEN
- Court turns back UPS bid to drive up USPS parcel prices – Save the Post Office
May 28, 2018
- Postal pilots had no parachutes or radios, but they delivered – Oklahoma City News
- Esopus considers asking U.S. Postal Service to make deliveries in hamlet of Port Ewen – Daily Freeman
- India: Postal employees burn PM’s effigy
May 27, 2018
- Senator Portman Urges Senate to Pass the STOP Act to Help Combat the Opioid Epidemic – PEN
- As computers get harder to crack, thieves are pillaging mailboxes – CNBC
- Restricting Federal Unions and Firing Poor Performers – FedSmith
- Bronx General Post Office, A Love Story – Save the Post Office
May 26, 2018
- Senator To USPS: Let Veterans Distribute Memorial Day Poppies At Post Offices – PEN
- Trump signs executive orders making it easier to fire feds, overhaul official time – Federal News Radio
Also see: Trump takes steps to ease firing of federal workers - Postal Service Suspends Two Workers Over 2016 Campaign Activities – GovExec.com
- OIG: Review of Expansion of Package Sorters Investment
May 25, 2018
- Support Postal reform? Not so fast… – PEN editor: this is a GOOD READ – Macomb Daily
- Alarm system helps warn postal workers of potential dog attacks – WDSU
- Super glued mailbox, not just a prank, but a federal law violation – Okeechobee News
- Going Postal – National Review
- Postal worker ‘dying of heat’ at the Ashland Postal Station – Village News
May 24, 2018
- Congressional Delegation Calls On Postmaster General To Implement Broad, Aggressive Program Combatting Mail Theft – PEN
- County executive asks postal Service to reconsider stance on vets handing out poppies – PEN
- Maine man wants refund after chicken dies in the mail – PEN
- GoFundMe started for postal worker who lost home in storm – Ridgefield Press
- Deadly Delivery: Opioids By Mail – NPR
- American flag stolen from Henrietta post office to protest poppy policy – Democrat & Chronicle
- Postal carrier honored for providing caring service to community – The Mountaineer
- OIG: First-Class Mail Service Performance Measurement in the Northeast Area
- OIG: Business Customer Retention Strategies
- OIG: Earned Work Hours in Customer Service Operations – Tennessee District
May 23, 2018
- Video: Post office to veteran: Get your poppies off our property or we’re calling the police – PEN
- Postal worker taken to hospital after being chased by dog – Dayton Daily News
- Break-in at Crystal River post office prompts identity-theft concerns – Citrus Co. Chronicle
- Video shows postal worker not following protocol – Westchester News 12
- Is President Trump the best recruiter that unions ever had? – Federal News Radio
- Officials Call For Action To End Mail Thefts In Westchester – Rye Daily Voice
- OIG: Review of Extended Capacity Left-Hand Drive Delivery Vehicle Acquisition
May 22, 2018
- Postal Service loses 30 days of man’s hold mail, can’t track it down – ”as near as we can figure out, it was shredded and we’re sorry” – PEN
- Video catches California letter carrier going ‘postal’ on garbage can – PEN
- Alert postal carrier and neighbor rescue elderly woman on floor for days– PEN
- Postal Service Honors First Woman In Space Astronaut Dr. Sally Ride with Forever stamp – PEN
- OIG: Sunday Is the New Monday
- OIG: Consolidation of Mail for the Atlanta Network Distribution Center
- APWU: Remembering President Emeritus William Burrus
May 21, 2018
- Postal Service’s First Scratch-and-Sniff Stamps Evoke a Sweet Summer Scent – PEN
- ‘It’s unreal:’ Milwaukee postal worker sexually assaulted on the job – PEN
- Trump vs. Amazon: Going postal on Bezos – NY Daily News
- Trump may see ‘unfairness’ with Amazon: WH adviser – ABC News
May 20, 2018
- Bear Gets Stuck Inside Colorado Mountain Town Post Office – U.S. News
- Drone deliveries ready to soar in Japan but lingering issues likely to keep post office in business – Japan Times
- OIG: Delayed Mail Reporting in the Great Lakes Area
- OIG: Tort Claims Management – Western Area
May 19, 2018
- Video: Postal Service investigating nationwide bitcoin scam – PEN
- USPS Carrier Ejected After Mail Truck Hits Pole – New Carlisle News
- Oops: First-Class Mail Discovered in Postal Service Trailer – U.S. News
- President Trump privately pushed Postal Service to double Amazon’s rates – NY Daily News
May 18, 2018
- Police arrest daughter-in-law, roommate for murder of beloved postal worker – PEN
- Queens mailman busted for delivering 10-pound parcel of marijuana – NY Daily News
- Postal Service to Issue O Beautiful Forever Stamps – PEN
- Hawaii postal worker charged with stealing gift card from mail – Hawaii News Now
- The Four Horsemen of the Postal Apocalypse – Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers
- Green Cove Springs, FL post office clerk indicted in federal court – Action News Jacksonville
May 17, 2018
- South Florida Mail Theft Caught on Camera – PEN
- Video: Amazon Delivery Drivers In Chicago Accused Of Deadly Accidents – PEN
- Postal Mail Handlers President and Treasurer Meet With Presidential Task Force – PEN
- NALC: OPM proposes retirement changes – PEN
- McCormick Trucking Agrees To Pay Postal Service $750K To Settle Contract and Common Law Allegations of Double Billing For Fuel – PEN
May 16, 2018
- Video: Houston letter carrier allegedly maced dog because she ‘feared for her life’ – PEN
- Animal Cruelty Investigation Underway After Ferret Was Shipped In A Cardboard Box – PEN
- ‘KKK’ graffiti spray-painted on Tremont post office wall – News 12 The Bronx
- Sears finds niche as brick-and-mortar resource for Amazon – Supply Train Dive
- Illinois: Postal food drive stumbles, worrying pantries – Pantagraph
- Former K.C. area postal worker guilty of stealing gift and debit cards from mail – K.C. Star
May 15, 2018
- Long lines at Prattville, AL Post Office lead to short tempers – Montgomery Advertiser
- ‘Snail mail’ mishap: Three-year backlog of mail delivered to adviser at business center – Peninsula Daily News
- Missing checks reported following Gainesville post office burglary – Gainesville Times
- City of Berkeley wins lawsuit with the Postal Service over zoning law involving historic post office – Save the Post Office
- OIG: Improving Visibility
- Postal Service allegedly fired African-American employee for reporting racial discrimination at the workplace – Penn Record
- What makes a letter? Not necessarily paper – Smithsonian Insider
- USPS Mail Truck Crashes Down Embankment Trying to Avoid Squirrel– NBC Bay Area
May 14, 2018
- 66th Postmaster General Paul Carlin Dies – PEN
- Turn the Post Office into a bank? First check Japan – Chicago Tribune
- AM General Tops Reader Poll for Next USPS Mail Truck – Trucks.com
May 13, 2018
- NALC statement on USPS Q2 financial report for FY 2018 – PEN
- Mailbox Improvement Week is May 13-19 – PEN
- USPS offers info for three May holidays – PEN
- With Trump Feud Still Simmering, Postal Service Announces Huge Growth in Package Delivery — And Widening Losses – Fortune
- Postal Service Lost $1.3 Billion This Quarter — But Don’t Blame Amazon – Newsy
May 12, 2018
- Former North Dakota NALC Branch 1494 President Charged With Theft Of Property – PEN
- Ohio mail carrier locked up for three months for stealing packages containing marijuana – PEN
- Nevada Man Guilty of Killing Wife Delivering US Mail – US News
- AAA files complaint about Aspen Post Office after bundles of magazines found in recycle bin – Aspen Times
- Thieves caught trying to swipe blue postal mailbox in Queens – NY Daily News
- The US government demands that the post office lose a lot of money – Quartz
May 11, 2018
- Sanders Introduces The Workplace Democracy Act – PEN
- PEN: Stacks of undelivered mail found in Weymouth, MA impound lot
- PEN: Video Shows Brazen Mail Bandits At Work In Yonkers
- USPS Reports Second Quarter 2018 Results – PEN
- Postal Service Announces Dates and Locations for 2018 Upcoming Stamp Dedications – PEN
- Acting Queens Postmaster Removed After Blaming Delivery Delays On Carriers Who Don’t Want To Work and Union Rules – Queens Chronicle
- Thumb on the scale: The OIG reports on the Postal Service’s share of CSRS Pension Responsibility – Save the Post Office
- Former USPS board chairman provides suggestions to save the Postal Service – Linns
- APWU: Washington’s Latest Attempt to Slash our Pay & Benefits
May 10, 2018
- PEN: Lexington, NC homeowners upset over mailbox placement demands
- Grand Forks Herald says ‘Study postal reform act; then pass it’ – PEN says NO
- Frustration over long wait at El Paso post office – KVIA
- Asbestos warning posted, as floor tiles are replaced in Aberdeen post office – Baltimore Sun
- Office of Personnel Management Proposes Retirement Cuts and Senate Panel Approves Two USPS Board Of Governor Nominees – UPMA
- PEN: US Postal Service Honors Shutterfly Inc. with 2018 Partnership for Growth Award
- Postal Service lays claim to U.S. airline foundations at stamp first day – Linns
- Fundraiser helps postal worker battling cancer – Oconee Enterprise
- OIG: Local Purchases and Payments – Eatontown, NJ, Post Office
May 09, 2018
- PEN: PMG meets with postal team at NPF
- PEN: NARFE Issues Statement in Response to OPM Proposed Cuts to Earned Benefits
- PEN: NARFE Honors Civil Servants during Public Service Recognition Week
- Paul Carlos Moseley, 31, allegedly drove his BMW around town, mailing heroin from Post Offices – Denver Post
- A new trial date has been scheduled for the postal worker accused of racing motorcycles while receiving $94,000 in disability – WHIO
- OPM Proposes Legislation to Cut Retirement Benefits for Current and Former Feds – GovExec
May 08, 2018
- PEN: $50k reward in postal worker assault case in Oconee Co. SC
- PEN: Postmaster General Brennan touts digital offerings at NPF
- PEN: Postal Service Showcases Innovative Physical and Digital Platforms at 2018 National Postal Forum
- Payday Loans: No need to go Postal – Forbes
- Former postmaster and 7-year-old girl killed in Piscataqua River boating accident – NH Union Leader
- Police: Suspicious item prompts evacuation of Hampton Post Office – Globe Gazette
- Kentucky postal worker sentenced to 10 years after soliciting minor for sex – WHAS
- OIG: Update on the Postal Service’s Share of CSRS Pension Responsibility
- OIG: The Importance of Planned Maintenance
- OIG: Surface Visibility Scanning – Capital Metro Area and Capping Report
May 07, 2018
- Patrick Donahoe, Former U.S. Postmaster General, to join SG360° Board of Directors – PEN
- Listen: Postal Service wants centralized mailbox locations for new addresses – Federal News Radio
- Riverside is using mailbox stickers to stick it to mail thieves
Press Enterprise - NALC: 2016-2019 NALC-USPS National Agreement
- NALC president appoints trustee and national business agent
- USPS, cachetmakers address Postal Service’s cacheted first-day covers – Linns
May 06, 2018
- Video: Hawaii Postal Service Disruption Alert
PEN - Is your postal carrier an unwitting pusher?
by Tom Ridge, former Sec. Dept. of Homeland Security - Postal Service banking system possible if past pitfalls avoided
The Hill
May 05, 2018
- Video: Tree falls on Michigan postal worker delivering mail
PEN - Former postal worker who withheld mail to Davie County, NC customers pleads guilty to felony charges – WXII The Triad
- Illinois postal employee still missing after dogs, boats search Reed Point area – Billings Gazette
- Body Of Missing Postal Worker From Lyndhurst Found In Passaic River
Lyndhurst Daily Voice - Investigators seeking to identify suspect who tried to sexually assault South Carolina postal worker – Live 5 News
- For New Addresses, USPS Will No Longer Deliver Mail to Your Door
GovExec – Also see: POM Revision: Modes of Delivery and Delivery Equipment - Second man sentenced in scheme that used counterfeit keys to steal mail from neighborhood boxes – Sacramento Bee
May 04, 2018
- Postmaster General and CFO Host Media Call on U.S. Postal Service FY 2018 Quarter 2 Financial Results – PEN
- Former U.S. postal worker from Pontiac has been ordered to serve 25-60 years in prison for killing his wife with a hammer – Oakland Press
- In Rural America, the Postal Service Is Already Collapsing
The Nation - USPS contract driver pleads guilty to stealing cash from Southern Illinois mail – Belleville News Democrat
- Wareham Police have announced charges against a postal worker charged with stealing gift cards she was meant to deliver – WBSM
- USPS will remove mail collection boxes as a security measure, due to the presidential visit to Dallas Today – CBS Dallas
- APWU: Rank and File Bargaining Advisory Committee Convenes
- OIG Audit: Is the Click-N-Ship Service Available When You Need It?
- OIG: Sunday Operations – San Francisco District
May 03, 2018
- Four-year-old girl sends birthday cake to mother in heaven
PEN - 2018 Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive
PEN - Newark mail carrier celebrates 50 years with Postal Service
WABC TV - Make no mistake, Postal Service Issues are Systemic
Congresswoman Lowery via Rockland Times - Postal Banking Could Become a Reality Even Without Congress. Here’s How – In These Times
- Montclair mailboxes apparently vandalized — in front of the Post Office
North Jersey
May 02, 2018
- NALC: “It’s the pre-funding, stupid!”
- Postal Service Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the Flag Act of 1818
PEN - Postal Service to Issue Frozen Treats Forever Stamps
PEN - Seattle postal customer visits every blue box in city
PEN - Mail delivery problems stack up in Collier County, FL
PEN - Temple, Texas mail in one neighborhood isn’t always ending up where it should – PEN
- Postmaster General and CFO Host Media Call on U.S. Postal Service FY 2018 Quarter 2 Financial Results – PR Newswire
- Saving the Postal Service
Times & Democrat
May 01, 2018
- Bellingham man angry with the federal government was arrested after he broke more than 40 windows at local post office – Bellingham Herald
- US Postal Service censured for forcing out disabled staff
Global Government Forum - Trump’s Postal Task Force Offers A Way Out For Troubled Agency
Daily Caller - NALC: CCA back pay update
- Letter card written and mailed during ‘Titanic’ voyage auctioned in England – Linns
- Milwaukee postal workers among victims of 65 paintball shootings in five days – WISN
- A bank run like the Post Office: Postal banking as the worst of both worlds – R Street
- OIG: Riding the Returns Wave: Reverse Logistics and the U.S. Postal Service