July 31, 2019
- Ex-California postal supervisor to plead guilty to armed robbery of cash-filled USPS trucks – PEN
- Sacramento Man Convicted of Assaulting U.S. Postal Worker – PEN
- Massachusetts Postal Service Employee Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement– PEN
- Minneapolis police investigating after postal workers shot at by BB gun – PEN
- Sunday delivery is the new standard in the USA
- Temporary Emergency Committee of the Postal Service Board of Governors to Meet August 9
Financial Briefing to Follow Open Session Meeting
July 30, 2019
- ‘It’s Been Terrible’ – Dog Blamed After Neighborhood Stops Getting Mail Delivered – PEN
- Postal Supervisors Sue for Better Pay
See NAPS News Here - Letter to the editor: Postmaster of USPS spouting same script as predecessors
- OIG: Opioid Case Recovery
July 29, 2019
- USPS video showcases mail, technology – PEN
- UPS Launches My Choice® For Business Platform To Enhance Visibility And Control For SMBs
- US Withdrawal from International Mail Treaty Could Alter Delivery for APO-FPO Addresses
- Reforming the Postal Service
July 28, 2019
- Repeal WEP – The WEP is Unfair – and Here’s Why
Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) via PEN - Postal-gunfire case ends in plea
- Budget Agreement Could Benefit Federal Employees
- SF 3112E: FERS Disability Retirement Application Checklist
July 27, 2019
- Central Arkansas man pleads guilty to felony charges in post office shooting
- Amazon’s one-day-shipping promise will gobble up more than $3 billion this year
- Tarrytown postal employee accused of stealing mail
- Postal Service locates lost Sandwich water, sewer bills
- OIG: Customer Service Meeting Expenses – Freedom Station, Charlotte, NC
July 26, 2019
- Casting call extended for USPS holiday ads – PEN
- Postal Workers and Allies Flood Congress with Calls for “Postal Service Fairness” – PEN
- New Forever stamps celebrate America’s state and county fairs – PEN
- USPS offers $50k reward after mail carrier robbed in Cordova, TN
- OIG: Delivery Scanning Issues – Surprise Branch, Surprise, AZ
July 25, 2019
- Indictments: Kansas Postal Employees Stole From Mail – PEN
- USPS Contractor Tractor-Trailer Hits Cars, House in Meriden – PEN
- Alabama Homebuilders Pushing To Change USPS Centralized Delivery Mandate
- EBay Joins the Shipping Wars With Plans for Its Own Fulfillment Network
- Amazon has quietly ordered 2,000-plus vans to deliver your Prime packages — and UPS and the Post Office should feel stressed
- 7 reporting chemical odor treated at Tampa airport postal center
July 24, 2019
- Sunday packages – USPS intends to deliver parcels for UPS – PEN
- UPS Announces Innovative New Products And Services Including Seven-Day Delivery Network – PEN
- Oklahoma postal worker killed in crash with road grader – PEN
- New Jersey Man Charged With Assault On Postal Worker – PEN
- UPS Matches FedEx With Sunday Delivery as Amazon Threat Looms
- Facebook Belongs in Banking. The US Postal Service? Not So Much
- Reforming and Right-Sizing the Post Office for the 21st Century
- OIG: Management Alert – Commercial Air Contractor Scanning
July 23, 2019
- U.S. Postal Service Issues 1969: First Moon Landing Forever Stamps – PEN
- Will FedEx Express, FedEx Ground ever merge? It’s a long shot, says Ground contractor
- PRC Approves Lower Postal Rates Ahead of UPU Meeting
- OIG: Mail Delivery Issues – Cedar Elm Station San Antonio, TX
- OIG: Internal Controls Over No Sale Transactions
- OIG: No Holds Barred – Or Missed
July 22, 2019
- USPS worker delivers amazing rendition of ‘At Last’ to celebrate retirement – PEN
- Letter Carriers’ Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive a resounding success – PEN
- USPS aims to expand shipping, packages business – PEN
- Retired Postal Employee Dies From Test Chicago Cardiologist Ordered – Family Will Receive $2.6 Million Settlement – PEN
- Renowned architect César Pelli dies at 92; one of his first buildings was a post office
- Prime Day shoppers complain over Amazon shipping delays
- Why FedEx and UPS Could Benefit From the Post Office’s Pension Problem
July 21, 2019
- OPM Asks FLRA for Decision on Letting Folks Quit the Union Quickly
- Make Employee Ratings ‘Rigorous,’ OPM Tells Agencies
July 20, 2019
- Florida Man Charged with Stealing Dozens of Letters Containing $200,000 in Checks from Residence Mailbox – PEN
- Fix The Postal Service Before It Goes Broke
- Woman who got postcard from 1993 tracks down sender
- Postal worker recovering after crashing his mail truck while on duty in Chico, CA
- Mail carriers prepare for extreme heat
July 19, 2019
- Police believe hundreds of mail fraud cases around US connected to suspected package thief – PEN
- Postal employees receive heat safety guidance – PEN
- Death of Texas Mail Carrier Leads to $198,897 Penalty for Postal Service
- Buzz Aldrin gets his due on U.S. Postal Service’s new Apollo 11 stamp
- Phoenix man charged for forwarding victim’s mail to his home since 2015
- OIG: Mail Delivery Issues – Bear Valley Station, Denver, CO
- OIG: Delivery Issues – Westside Station, Tallahassee, FL
July 18, 2019
- FedEx is officially sounding the alarm bells on Amazon after years of laughing off the retail giant’s rapidly building package-delivery empire
- NPMUH: USPS Issues Craft Determination on the Universal Sorting System (USS)
- Here’s how Amazon could dethrone UPS and FedEx in the US last-mile delivery market
- USPS: Understanding ethics rules for community events
- The Real Reason Dogs Seem to Hate Mailmen
July 17, 2019
- Norwalk Woman Who Stole Deceased Postal Employees Federal Annuity Benefits is Sentenced – PEN
- Alabama Mail Carrier Receives 60 Months for Co-Conspirators Use of a Firearm in Furtherance of Marijuana Distribution – PEN
- Newark Mail Carrier Convicted of Conspiring to Defraud United States – PEN
- Former Michigan NALC President Charged With Embezzling $7130 – PEN
- NY postmaster Installed Surveillance Device In Employees’ Bathroom
- Would-Be Postal Regulators Pledge to Hold Mailing Agency More Accountable
- Here’s a warning for people still using those old blue postal mailboxes
- Postal Service Package Delivery Limits Taxpayer Subsidies
- WARRANT: Postal employee at SC prison knew inmates were mailed weed, cigarettes
- Did Jeff Bezos Just Admit to Exploiting USPS as Amazon’s ‘Delivery Boy’?
July 16, 2019
- Doctor And Three Others Charged In $10 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme – treated hundreds of now-former U.S. Postal Service employees– PEN
- Jeff Bezos risks angering Trump by acknowledging the US Postal Service gave him a huge helping hand in building Amazon
- How Congress Manufactured a Postal Crisis—And How to Fix it
- Locals blast city for failing to remove postal trucks from Williamsburg bike lane
- ‘I want the world to know I’m hurt’: Father of missing pregnant postal worker speaks out
- Sprint Sizzling Weekend – PEN
- OIG: Delivery Scanning Issues
July 15, 2019
- Family urges for safe return of missing postal worker Kierra Coles 9 months after disappearance – PEN
- Postal Service Tractor-Trailer Hangs Off I-295 in South Jersey – PEN
- Despite finding no discrimination, court holds USPS liable for retaliation – a long-time postal police worker was fired for sleeping on the job
- Postal Service says man stole $200,000 in stamps in 7-state scheme
- USPS resumes mail delivery after Hurricane Barry
- OIG: Local Travel Reimbursements – Concord, CA, Main Post Office
July 14, 2019
- Protecting yourself during hot weather – PEN
- APWU Workplace Environment Committee
- Mail Handlers 2019 Contract Update #2
- Bombarded with deliveries, veteran Korea Post postal worker asks for family time
July 13, 2019
- NY man arrested for breaking into mailboxes outside Springfield post office had key – PEN
- No mail for two months, disaster averted – PEN
- Amazon Teams With Colorado Police, US Postal Service On Sting That Catches Zero Package Thieves
- Post office closure continues to frustrate Mahwah residents
- As Prime Day approaches, Amazon stares down barrel of the delivery gun
July 12, 2019
- Police escort coming for mail delivery to Georgia apartment complex – PEN
- Midwest City, OK postal clerk convicted of embezzling funds, making false records
- Accused killer of postal carrier paranoid from meth use
- Mail Carrier Ejected From USPS Truck In Burbank Crash
- Mail delivered late? Madison, WI USPS mail carrier says there’s a severe staffing shortage
- Reward offered after fire set at Fort Deposit, AL Post Office
- OIG: Delivery Scanning Issues – Franklin Park Post Office, Franklin Park, IL
July 11, 2019
- Florida Postal Employee and Mother of Three Shot and Killed – PEN
- ‘Informed Delivery’ offered by U.S. Postal Service a target for criminals – PEN
- How US postal inspectors go ‘undercover’ on the dark web
- Congressional bill aims to protect workers in extreme heat
- Former Kingston parking officer accused of assaulting postal worker in Oregon
- Actor Danny Glover: My parents proudly worked for the US Postal Service. Don’t destroy it.
- Scottsville mail carrier receives Postmaster Hero Award
July 10, 2019
- Petition: President Trump, please fire the current USPS Postmaster General Megan Brennan
- Former Mississippi Postal Employee Sentenced for Mail Theft
- Denver mail carriers call Westwood neighborhood `Dogwood` due to dog attacks
- Iowa: Memorial dedicated to postal worker killed in car accident
- Amazon Is Gaining in Deliveries at the Post Office’s Expense, Analyst Says
- Pokemon card sells for $60,000, gets lost in the mail
- Should TSP be your retirement nest egg’s only basket?
July 09, 2019
- New Forever stamps will commemorate 50th anniversary of Woodstock – PEN
- 8-year-old hit by mail truck while riding bike in Norfolk
- Business Plan, and Reforms, Still Not Delivered by USPS
- Auburn, WA woman, 82, has been a delivering the mail for 50 years
July 08, 2019
- Do NOT Use USPS Calculator for Parcel DIM Weight Estimates
- Global postal industry shows solid growth trend for full-year 2018
- The Entrepreneur Behind This Multimillion-Dollar Ice Cream Company Started the Business in a Broken-Down Postal Truck
- The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) recently stated that Australia Post has failed to manage cyber risks and implement a proper cybersecurity framework
- Korean Postal Workers’ Union narrowly avoids all-out strike
July 07, 2019
- Funeral held at for slain Shreveport postal worker
- Sheriff’s Vehicle, USPS Truck Involved in Multi-Car Crash
- PC Postage Comes Under Scrutiny by USPS Watchdog
July 06, 2019
- DOL Files Lawsuit Against APWU Local 230 Suit Seeks to Nullify the Union’s March 2, 2019 Election – The lawsuit seeks to nullify the union’s March 2, 2019 election of the offices of president, executive vice-president, secretary-treasurer, clerk craft director, maintenance craft director, motor vehicle craft director, Nashua logistics and distribution center director, area business agent A, area business agent B, area business agent C, human resources director, and legislative director. PEN
- Postal Uniform Manufacturer Sentenced To Prison for Willful Failure to Pay Over Payroll Taxes – PEN
- The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is undercutting the Trump administration’s widely supported push to fix international postal rates
- Bid Made to Restore Mailed Social Security Statements
- Hampton Falls man’s mailbox invention seen as a lifesaver
- OIG: The Postal Service and the Evolution of PC Postage
- OIG Audit: Delivery and Customer Service Issues – College Station, New York, NY (PDF)
July 05, 2019
- Mail carrier tosses fragile packages in local driveway – PEN
- 9 challenges Amazon faces on its 25th birthday
- Yakima resident challenges Postal Service over mailboxes for third time in 30 years
July 04, 2019
- Postal worker robbed by woman with a rifle in Jonesboro, GA
- Postal Service Losses Sharply Accelerate
- OIG: U.S. Postal Inspection Service Asset Forfeiture Fund (PDF)
July 03, 2019
- Video: PMG Brennan Updates Employees On Business
- Former Missouri Letter Carrier Sentenced for Stealing Mail, Drug Trafficking – PEN
- Former Alaska Postal Carrier Sentenced for Deserting Approximately 49 Plastic Tubs of Mail – PEN
- Amazon is moving away from the US Postal Service and UPS
- Postal Service Floats Big Cuts to Employee Pay, Leave and Benefits
- Scorpions, millipedes run amok in postal vehicle
July 02, 2019
- Shreveport woman starts petition to equip mail carriers with bulletproof vests
- Independence Day – History of nation, USPS linked – PEN
- Postal banking, an idea whose time should never come
- Syracuse man who punched mailman while high on PCP gets a year in federal prison
- How to debloat the postal bureaucracy
- Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library thanks postal workers
- Update: Suspicious package delivered to Facebook doesn’t contain sarin
- Mail Carrier, 65, Hit By Pickup Driven By 18-Year-Old
- OIG: Kickbacks and Conspiracy
July 01, 2019