October 31, 2019
- USPS offers up to $20,000 for information leading to arrest of people who robbed postal worker
- Who Actually Delivers Informed Delivery? DirectMail2.0 Does in a Big Way
- Probation for Union Grove mail carrier accused of stealing Menards rebate cards from customers
- Waterloo mail carrier hailed as hero
- Escaped python found by postal worker one month after disappearance
- Kudos to carriers
- Idaho postal clerk is honored for quick action in helping an elderly customer
- OIG: Postage and Fee Refunds – Rockville, MD, Post Office
October 30, 2019
- Letters, packages grabbed at gunpoint from South Florida letter carrier
- Another mail truck caught on fire in Covington, GA
- Kroger is working with UPS, USPS, and FedEx to lure more shoppers to stores
- Zebra lands $570 million Postal Service contract – 300,000 scanners
- USPS: Sample Responses for Use When Preparing Written Responses from Santa
- USPS Operation Santa — Digital Program
- Christmas Pay Procedures for Rural Carriers
- DMM Revision: Hold Mail Service
October 29, 2019
- Former Postal Service Employee Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison for Scheme in Which USPS Trucks Were Robbed at Gunpoint – PEN
- Iowa Postal Employee Pleads Guilty to Theft of Mail Matter
- NPMHU: MAKE THE MOST OF OPEN SEASON
- UPMA: Fiscal Year 2019 Mitigating Factors Information Released
- OIG: Customer Service, City Delivery and Vehicle Operations – Workload and Workforce Performance Indicators
- OIG: Mail Delivery Issues – Brightwood Station, Indianapolis, IN
- OIG: Automated Package Verification
- OIG: Custodial Workhours
October 28, 2019
- Informed Delivery gets new service – electronic signature service – PEN
- Raging driver (a postal employee) pulled gun on car full of undercover cops
- Waiting on something in the mail? It may be scattered along Interstate 75
- CA Update: Fires Will Result In Added Post Office Closures
- eBay Vows to Fight for Small Businesses amid Postal Leadership Changes
- Missing mail in South Bossier has apparently resulted in the resignation of a mail carrier
October 27, 2019
- Update: Georgia authorities file charges against postal worker accusing her of stealing – PEN
- OIG: Oversight of the U.S. Postal Service’s Uniform Program
- OIG: U.S. Postal Service Sales and Marketing Key Performance Indicators
October 26, 2019
- Georgia homeowners complain about mail theft – PEN
- Should Tennessee create specific porch pirate laws? – PEN
- Mail-theft thieves busted in Greenwich with hundreds of checks
October 25, 2019
- USPS employee accused of stealing phones from Portland mail distribution center
- Share your Seasonal Spirit with the 2019 Holiday Wreath Stamps – PEN
- USPS campaign aims to avoid slips, trips and falls – PEN
- The Drones Are Coming! How Amazon, Alphabet and Uber Are Taking to the Skies
- NYC reaches $1.5M settlement with postal worker who said NYPD officers beat him for unwittingly giving directions to cop killer
October 24, 2019
- Family says second suspect in South Carolina postal worker’s death is related to victim – PEN
- Postmaster General Announces New Chairman of the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee – PEN
- Postal Service Board of Governors Need to Embrace Innovative Reforms
- Englewood Cops Honored For Saving Postal Employee’s Life
October 23, 2019
- SC investigators arrest 2nd suspect in killing of USPS employee
- New York men allegedly go fishing at Wellesley post office
- NYC, California sue Postal Service over smuggled cigarettes
- Pit bull to return home temporarily after biting postal worker – PEN
- How you can help fight the illegal rate increase on Forever stamps
- Postmaster General Retirement not a Surprise, as Governors Want Their Own Person
October 22, 2019
- Chicago letter carrier finds boy, 3, wandering alone and unclothed – PEN
- 2020 Forever Stamp Program Offers Something for Everyone – PEN
- Post Office Fiddles While Its Mail Trucks Burn
- OIG: Drawing Conclusions
October 21, 2019
- ‘I was scared’: Postal worker recalls terrifying experience of being robbed at gunpoint in Canton, OH – PEN
- Former mailman guilty of public indecency inside his mail truck – PEN
- Google affiliate begins drone deliveries in Virginia town
- Might We See an End to Free Priority Mail Supplies?
- USPS offers safety tips for the holiday season – PEN
- Unscheduled leave – New method for craft employee requests
October 20, 2019
- Police at mailbox: Check yourself or become a victim
- Watch: Message from the APWU President – Latest Interest Arbitration Update
- Congresswoman Worried About a ‘Graying [Federal] Workforce’
October 19, 2019
- Postal service worker tosses package with glass ornaments up steps – PEN
- Accomplice to Robbery of United States Postal Letter Carrier Convicted – PEN
- South Carolina mail carrier caught on camera tossing package – PEN
- Former Winona postmaster sentenced for delaying or destroying mail
- OIG: Postal Service Management of End-of-Life Devices
October 18, 2019
- In retirement message, PMG Brennan thanks employees – PEN
- Halloween decorations in Brentwood lead to mail delivery issue – carrier says decoration is offensive – PEN
- Former Texas APWU Secretary-Treasurer Charged With Embezzling $71,064 In Union Funds – PEN
- St. Louis Woman Pleads Guilty to Aiding in the Robbery of the Richmond Heights Post Office – PEN
- OIG: Postal Service Dynamic Route Optimization and Cost Savings Initiative
- USPS Holiday Newsroom
October 17, 2019
- Tulsa Woman Indicted for Mail Theft – PEN
- Statement by APWU President Mark Dimondstein on Retirement of Postmaster General Megan Brennan
- NPMHU: The National Office Has Established a Union-Run Appeal Procedure for RI399 Settlement Payments
- Postal carrier overwhelmed by birthday cards for ‘Courageous Carter’
October 16, 2019
- FERS & CSRS Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) for 2020
- The Postal Service is Exploring Big Ideas for Small Drones
- U.S. Postal Service Punishes Almost No One for Bad Driving
- Developer balks at USPS mailbox policy
- Two New Jersey Men Sentenced to Prison for Bribing Mail Carriers to Steal Credit Cards – PEN
- Four postal workers accused of smuggling drugs at N. Charleston post office
- OIG: Whatever It Takes
October 15, 2019
- 4th Tulsa Post Office Targeted By Thieves – PEN
- She couldn’t get her mail for months. So, she turned to 10 news
- Pitney Bowes Says Ransomware Behind System Outages
- China says postal fees to rise after US complaint – PEN: and they should rise
October 14, 2019
- Tennessee Letter Carrier Delivers Stellar Performance – Films USPS Commercial
- UPS and FedEx peak season delivery charges ‘have more lasting bite this year’
- 2020 COLA Fails to Keep Pace with Rising Costs for Federal Government Retirees, Social Security Recipients
October 13, 2019
- 60 P.O. boxes were broken into at Owasso, OK post office – PEN
- Amazon Is Firing Its Delivery Firms Following People’s Deaths
- Federal employee groups press Congress on paid family leave
- Magic number$ for feds, retirees: 1.6, 5.2, 2.6, 3.1
- A SC mail carrier was gunned down on the job. A suspect’s in custody, but questions linger
October 12, 2019
- Minnesota Postal Service Employee Pleads Guilty To Stealing More Than $100,000 In Government Benefits – PEN
- APWU Interest Arbitration Update: Management’s Financial Presentations
- Spooky Silhouettes Forever stamps now available for purchase – PEN
- Amazon’s delivery contractors announce upward of 2,000 layoffs even as the mega-retailer’s logistics demand balloons
- Postal worker says car defaced by anti-Semitic graffiti
- Mail carriers endure cold, snow to guarantee deliveries
October 11, 2019
- Massachusetts Man Sentenced for Mailing White Powder and Purported AIDS-Infected Blood to Online Dating Website – PEN
- California postal worker finds missing autistic teen girl and missing 3-year-old – PEN
- Arlington, TX man used a fishing device to steal $93,000 worth of checks from mailboxes
- US Postal Service rate increase request would boost Express, Priority mail
- Downtown Milwaukee post office eviction case tossed out by judge
- OIG: Delivery Scanning Issues – Stafford Post Office, Stafford, TX
October 10, 2019
- Georgia homeowner says surveillance video shows postal worker picking up package off doorstep – PEN
- Colorado residents say USPS letter carrier is peeling out on private road – PEN
- Former Postal Employee Sentenced for Stealing Mail – PEN
- OPM has told agencies to comply with three 2018 executive orders on union-and disciplinary-related matters
- United Postmasters and Managers of America: Postal Reform Talking Points and Key Messages
- U.S. Postal Service Announces New Prices for 2020
- NALC: Printed version of the 2019 Letter Carrier Resource Guide is now available to order
- OIG: Local Purchases and Payments: Miscellaneous Services – Kearny, NJ, Main Post Office
October 09, 2019
- Haitian Man Sentenced To Prison For Fraudulent Abuse of USPS Informed Delivery – PEN
- Aurora Woman Charged for False Armed Robbery Report at LaFox Post Office
- Puerto Rican Postal Service Employees Arrested For Conspiracy To Possess With Intent To Distribute Cocaine – PEN
- Jeep Wrangler USPS mail trucks will soon deliver their own recall notices
- Knoxville City Council asking USPS to weigh homeowner concerns over cluster mailboxes
- APWU: Dimondstein Re-Elected National President
October 08, 2019
- USPS temporarily suspends package delivery due to ‘porch pirates’ in Katy, TX neighborhood – PEN
- Former Nebraska postal employee sentenced in armed robbery of USPS truck
- Arkansas masked man accused of robbing post office and bank
- OIG: Zeroing in on Postal Vehicle Service (PVS) Efficiencies
October 07, 2019
- Universal Postal Union Compromise “A Huge Win” for US Small Business
- USPS truck stolen in Belmont Heights on Chicago’s Northwest Side – PEN
- Holiday Wreaths Featured on Postage Stamps – PEN
- USPS Relocation Expenses – Update offered on reimbursement requests – PEN
October 06, 2019
- ‘Wanted’ Poster Thwarts Mail Thief At Denver Apartment Building – PEN
- Houston hacker re-directs mail, steals banking information from Round Rock couple – PEN
- Sisters haven’t seen their mother’s ashes since they were mailed months ago
- OIG Audit: Assessment of the U.S. Postal Service’s Service Performance and Costs
October 05, 2019
- St. Louis Man Pleads Guilty to Robbing the Richmond Heights Post Office at Gunpoint – PEN
- USPS Spending More to Deliver Less, Audit Finds
- Maryland Couple Receives Postcard 60 Years After It Was Sent
- OIG: Local Travel Reimbursement – Las Vegas, NV, Huntridge Station
- OIG: Refund Permit Postage – Memphis, TN, Main Office Window Service
October 04, 2019
- Pukwana, SD Woman Charged with Theft of Mail – PEN
- Electronic Signatures Coming to USPS Deliveries
- Mail carrier with long-chain disability claim convicted
- Shirtless woman takes mail truck on joyride, which ends in crash, arrest, police say
- We Need to Talk About the USA – USPS and UPU – Postal Hub Podcast – Episode 172
October 03, 2019
- FEHB Premium Increase for 2020 Disappointing for America’s Active and Retired Federal Employees – PEN
- Lake, MS Woman Sentenced for Delay or Destruction of U.S. Mail by a Postal Employee – PEN
- OPM Announces 2020 Health, Dental, and Vision Program Premiums – PEN
- Public ranks USPS top agency in new poll – PEN
- NARFE Continues Push for Social Security Fairness, Supports New Legislation to Reform Windfall Elimination Provision – PEN
- East Bay woman sentenced in S.F. mail-theft scheme
- FEHB Premiums to Jump 5.6 Percent on Average
- Loss of Parcel Select business could hit USPS hard, consultancy says
- OIG: When Less Costs More Than It Should
- OIG Audits: Postal Vehicle Service Zero Base Reviews – Costing Best Practices
- OIG Audit: How does the U.S. Postal Inspection Service National Forensic Laboratory Services Safeguard Evidence?
- OIG Audit: Does USPS’s Expedited Packaging Supplies Program Effectively Increase Revenues and Manage Costs?
October 02, 2019
- USPS Says Package Security Enhancements Begin This Month – PEN
- Update: Wilmette Mail Carrier Under Investigation For Elder Abuse
- VERIFY: Is the RNC sending out a fundraising ‘Census’ with the words ‘Official Document?’ – PEN
- USPS recognized for military employment – PEN
- America’s most popular government agency: The Postal Service
- New U.S. Postal Service truck contract worth $6.3 billion may be awarded in 2020
- Another WEP Reform Bill Introduced
October 01, 2019
- USPS Ask Employees To Share Their Santa Stories – PEN
- A former Pewaukee, WI postal carrier gets probation after stealing more than $6,200 from 621 mail customers
- How a Broken Pay System Forced Postal Supervisors to Take USPS to Court
- Postal service to release redesigned Purple Heart ‘forever’ stamp
- Alabama artist wins Federal Duck Stamp Contest