June 30, 2018
- Postal Service flag notice, rare letter and more – PEN
- Amazon Logistics should worry postal services and carriers – Tamebay
- Two Men Arrested for Mail Theft Spree in New York – NBC NY
- Short-handed post office is out to lunch – Riverdale Press
June 29, 2018
- Cleveland Postal Employee Indicted For Theft of More Than 250 Gift Cards – PEN
- Seasoned postal worker accused of 220 pound marijuana scheme in Hampton, VA – PEN
- USPS suspends delivery in Cincinnati neighborhood after mailman attack – PEN
- Charlotte postal employees say they’ve been stalked, harassed by co-workers for years – Charlotte Observer
- Amazon’s new grassroots delivery network could sidestep UPS, Postal Service – USA Today
- Clues sought in 2009 murder of USPS contract workers – Alex City Lookout
June 28, 2018
- Camp Washington residents and businesses frustrated with mail delivery issues – PEN
- Supreme Court Rules Unions can’t force government workers to pay fees– AP News
- Supreme Court’s decision in Janus v. AFSCME is a win for the free-speech rights of government employees – SCOTUS Blog
- NALC Says Supreme Court attacks workers’ rights in Janus decision
- Former La Crosse Postal Worker Sentenced for Stealing Mail – PEN
- CCA Indicted After Undelivered Mail Found In Weymouth, MA SUV – PEN
- Jacksonville, FL man arrested after allegedly attacking a postal worker – WOKV
- Postal Service Issues High-denomination Statue of Freedom Stamps – PEN
- Ex-Springfield postal worker accused of delay or destruction of mail – WHIO
June 27, 2018
- Former Boston Postal Service Employee Charged with Theft of Mail – PEN
- Postal Service to Issue Classic Santa Stamps this Christmas – PEN
- NPMHU, APWU and USPS Reach Agreement to Update RI-399 Dispute Resolution Procedures – PEN
- Palm Springs mail carrier pepper sprayed, Postal Service offers $50k reward – WSVN Miami
- Would Privatizing the Post Office Help Online Sellers? – eCommerce Bytes
- OIG Audit: How Successful is USPS in Reducing the Need for Highway Contract Routes?
- OIG Audit: Is USPS Properly Maintaining Tires for its Postal Vehicle Services Fleet?
- OIG: Election and Political Mail Readiness
June 26, 2018
- Man told by U.S. postal officials that passports are being stolen – PEN
- Video Shows Connecticut Postal Employee Tossing Package Out Truck Window Onto Lawn – PEN
- Chicago Bulk-Mailing Company Defrauds Postal Service Out of $16 Million – PEN
- Mysterious mailbox stickers spur concern – PEN
- Police: man reached over the counter of a South Orange post office and took 93 blank money orders – So. Orange Patch
- USPS Mail Truck Crashes Trying to Avoid Rabbit – East County Today
- Ohio postal workers protest job cutbacks ahead of national contract negotiations – WCPO
June 25, 2018
- Postal employee maintains veterans’ headstones – PEN
- Retired Postal Worker Creates Tree Sanctuary Over 3 Decades – KCSR
- Q&A: From postman to policeman – and beyond – Herald Palladium
- FERS: Saved by the bell … again – Federal News Radio
June 24, 2018
- Former Louisiana Postal Employee Sentenced for Embezzlement of Mail Matter – PEN
- Here to Help: Heroic USPS Employees Make a Difference – PEN
- UPS And International Brotherhood Of Teamsters Reach Handshake Agreement For New National Master Agreement – PEN
- How to Privatize the Post Office: Piece by piece, step by step – Save the Post Office
- Postal employees forced to take Medicare Part B – Daily Republic
- Thrift Savings Plan Fact Sheet – PB 22496
June 23, 2018
- Postal Union Asks Members “Are You Fired Up” – PEN
- Mail Handlers Union Rebuffs Trump Administrations Proposal To Privatize USPS – PEN
- NALC: Senate Appropriations preserves 6 day
- USPS reports 880-percent increase in parcels containing drugs – ABC So. Texas
June 22, 2018
- White House Plan To Restructure the Postal Service and Future Possible Privatization – PEN
- APWU Issues Statement Regarding White House Plan to Possibly Privatize the Postal Service – PEN
- UPMA Issues Statement Regarding Possible Postal Privatization – PEN
- PMG Issues Statement Regarding The OMB Reform Plan and Reorganization Recommendations – PEN
- Stamps.com shares dive on White House proposal to revamp US Postal Service – CNBC
- Privatization is Not the Answer to What Ails the Postal Service Says Coalition for a 21st Century Postal Service – PEN
- Postal bills in the current session of Congress: Is anything going anywhere? – Save the Post Office
June 21, 2018
- Video: Iowa Postal officials: Thieves smash their way into mail truck – PEN
- America’s Next Postal Truck By Karsan Spied Testing Again – Yahoo News
- OIG: Opioid Safety Preparedness
June 20, 2018
- Letter carrier uses military training to rescue girl – PEN
- Postal Service Will Complete Last-Mile Rx Delivery Nationwide For CVS – PEN
- Former Illinois Postal Employee Indicted for Theft from U.S. Mail – PEN
- Vote on STOP act: Give U.S. Postal Service tools to track fentanyl – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- Congressmen express concern over Estes Park Post Office – Estes Park Trail Gazette
June 19, 2018
- Kailua postal worker saves woman from being a victim of the ‘grandparent scam’ – PEN
- Texas postal truck erupts in flames after mail carrier smells gas while driving – PEN
- First Scratch-and-Sniff Stamps Debut June 20 – PEN
- OIG: Test Driving Left-Hand Drive Vehicles
June 18, 2018
- New Postal Bills Percolating in Congress – UPMA via PEN
- Congress Collaborates in Support of Federal Workers – NPHMU via PEN
- What does USPS do, anyway? WH Postal task force aims to redefine its mission – Federal News Radio
- Spy Shots: New Look at the Karsan Mail Truck Prototype – Trucks.com
- Changes in parcel landscape loom large as UPS, Teamsters knock heads again – DC Velocity
- Answer Man: Why does local mail sometimes take days to be delivered?– Dothan Eagle
June 17, 2018
- Third suspect arrested, charged in murder of New Mexico mail carrier – PEN
- St. Thomas Man Pleads Guilty to Alvaro de Lugo Post Office Burglary – PEN
June 16, 2018
- USPS Comments on the STOP Act – Synthetics Trafficking and Overdose Prevention – PEN
- The Lexington Institute held a forum on President Trump’s Postal Service Task Force — Postal retirees, and current employees, should listen to John Hatton of NARFE speak on forcing postal employees into Medicare – you may find this at 2:07 into the video – C-Span
- Video: Retired postal employee chases dream, gets associate degree at age 57 – PEN
- U.S. Magazines Are in a Steep Decline, Except . . . – Dead Tree Edition
- USPS looking to hire 50 mail carriers in Rochester – WHAM
June 15, 2018
- Coming to a post office near you: Scooby-Doo – PEN
- Notice to prospective candidates in the 2018 NALC election – PEN
- Security camera catches Florida postal worker throwing package – ABC Tampa
- Georgia juvenile facing charges in attempted armed robbery of postal worker – Union Recorder
- House Passes Bill to Help USPS Block International Shipments With Illegal Opioids – GovExec
- Surveillance cameras capture man stealing neighbors’ mail, police say – WREG Memphis
June 14, 2018
- “The Eagle Always Faces Forward” – PEN
- Video: Hundreds of pieces of stolen mail from Dublin, GA recovered – PEN
- Texas Man Fighting Back After Postal Service Stops Delivering to His House – PEN
- Jury Convicts Former Postal Worker – She Submitted More Than $46k In False Travel Claims Related To Her Workers Comp Claim – PEN
- Customers Embrace Postal Service Form 3849 – PEN
- Homeowners frustrated by long waits for cluster mailbox repairs – News 4 San Antonio
June 13, 2018
- Court Orders Former South Dakota Postmaster to Pay $353,441.42 for Defrauding the United States Postal Service – PEN
- Congressman Crowley, Members of the New York City Congressional Delegation Meet with Deputy Postmaster General – PEN
- When People Used the Postal Service to Mail Their Children – History
- Lake County man charged by feds in anthrax hoax, faces 15 years in prison – Orlando Sentinel
- Mail truck in Fargo spotted with torn-off gas hose hanging from its tank – WDAY
- OIG Audit: How Clean, Safe, and Secure are Postal Service Processing Plants?
- OIG Audit: Is USPS management maintaining appropriate security over IT at Baltimore P&DC?
- Annual Leave Refresher – FEDweek
June 12, 2018
- Mother Charged After Postal Worker Finds 5-Year-Old Girl Outside With No One Home – PEN
- President Trump’s Executive Orders Regarding The Federal Workforce DOES NOT Apply To Postal Employees or Postal Unions – PEN
- Memphis letter carrier shot during attempted carjacking – WMC Action News – Also see: Postal Service Supervisor Wounded in Shooting in Memphis
- The Postal Service Is Not Subject to Trump’s Workforce Executive Orders – GovExec
- USPS issues second tribute to air mail – PEN
- Audit Questions Postal Employee Background Checks – Fedweek
- Malone University student accidentally changes school mailing address – Cleveland 19 News
- USPS releases 2017 Household Diary Study, finds “use of post offices continues to dominate the mail service industry” – Save The Post Office
- How Politics Complicate the New Mail Delivery Truck Contract – Trucks.com
- OIG: It’s SARC Time!
June 11, 2018
- Nationwide strike would deliver the pain to UPS – CBS News
- Kentucky postal worker dies while delivering mail – WKYT
June 10, 2018
- Prevent Heat Illness — Know the Signs and Act – PEN
- Will Executive Orders Change Collective Bargaining? – FedSmith
- OIG Audit: Refunds and Voids – Bluebonnet Station, Austin, TX (PDF
June 09, 2018
- NALC priority resolutions reach majority support – PEN
- APWU Meets With Federal Task Force Considering Changes to USPS – PEN
- Video: Florida mail carriers seen throwing packages up flight of stairs – PEN
- Video: Tennessee man caught on camera stealing hundreds of pieces of mail from USPS truck – PEN
- OIG: Processing Readiness for Election and Political Mail for the 2018 Midterm Elections
- OIG: Domestic Preference in Vehicle Contracts
June 08, 2018
- Bernie Sanders Outlines Plan He Says Will Strengthen The Postal Service – PEN
- USPS reveals Art of Magic Forever stamps – PEN
- USPS worker arrested, charged over rap songs threatening coworkers – The Indy Channel
- The postman rings no more – Hudson Valley 360
- US Postal Service Offers Passport to Travel Through Space History in Stamps – Space.com
- Progress in Mail Service Quality, But Some Problems Persist – The Examiner
June 07, 2018
- Texas woman discusses mail mess in rural Jefferson County areas – PEN
- Amazon delivery man captured following doormat’s instruction to ‘hide packages from husband’ – PEN
- APWU: Join the Town Hall Call on June 14
- Who You Gonna Call? Postal Police Is Italy’s Fake News Fix – Bloomberg
- Reward offered in suspected arson that destroyed Arkansas town’s post office – Arkansas Online
- Men who pistol-whipped postal worker, killed store owner, shot at his wife, sentenced – WYFF Greenville, SC
- The world’s highest post office – BBC
June 06, 2018
- NY postal worker charged with stealing mail – PEN
- White House proposes changes to Federal Employee Benefit Package – PEN
- USPS Hatch Act education campaign continues – PEN
- NALC submits postal workforce recommendations to White House – PEN
- California Letter Carrier Throws Rock At Cat – Twice – PEN
- The Teamsters and UPS could be heading toward the nation’s largest strike in decades
- OIG: Parcel Return Service – Los Angeles District
June 05, 2018
- Four Plead Guilty to Tax Charges in Postal Service Vehicle Maintenance Investigation – PEN
- Mail carrier decides police department doesn’t exist – ABC 6 Ohio
- After woman follows suspects, police find stolen mail from across Anchorage – Anchorage Daily News
- Yonkers Officials Call On U.S. Postal Service Following Mail Thefts – Yonkers Daily Voice
- APWU: Tell the PMG!
- NALC: Hellman to retire; Rolando to appoint Stewart
- Licking cancer: US postal stamp helped fund key breast study – ABC News
- Piedmont Mail Carrier Honored For Helping Catch Burglars – NBC Bay Area
- OIG: To Everything – Reduce Churn, Churn, Churn
June 04, 2018
- New postal service package tracking system saves time – PEN
- President Trump’s meetings with postmaster general stir further debate – Linns
- Executive Order on Firing Policies Leaves Federal Employees Contemplating Job Security – Fedsmith
June 03, 2018
- White House Shifts Focus to Federal Employees with 3 Executive Orders– NPMHU via PEN
- 1-year-old airlifted to Tampa after being hit by mail truck in Hendry County, FL – Fox 4
- Honoring the Vital Role of American Troops in the First World War – PEN
- Woman leery of $9.99 fee to hold mail delivery while on vacation – Cleveland.com
- OIG: Spring 2018 Semiannual Report to Congress
- OIG: Is USPS efficiently managing Postal Service Vehicle operations in the Houston District?
June 01, 2018
- NALC Investigating Whether Or Not President Trump’s Executive Orders For Federal Employees Will Impact The Postal Service – PEN
- American Federation of Government Employees Sues President Trump Over Executive Order – PEN
- Postal Service to Dedicate WWI: Turning the Tide Commemorative Forever Stamp on July 27 – PEN
- 5 reform principles for the Task Force on the US Postal System – R Street
- Man faces federal indictment after post office workers killed in Dublin and Columbus – WBNS Columbus, OH
- Why the next big bank shouldn’t be the USPS – Brookings Institution