NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A pedestrian has been struck and killed by a postal truck in Brooklyn Friday evening. Surveillance video captured the moment a U.S. Postal Service truck stopped at a crosswalk, then started to drive just as the man walked in front. Police say 52-year-old Charles McClean was killed at the intersection of […]
Fed Help Medical Centers is a medical practice that helps injured federal workers especially Postal employees who need medical care as a result of job related injuries. Our specialty is federal workers compensation cases for injured federal employees covered by the Department of Labor – Office of Workers Compensation Programs (OWCP). Our Centers are in […]
NALC – 4/30/19 – On April 28, Reps. Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Tom Reed (R-NY), Xochitl Torres Small (D-NM), and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) introduced the USPS Fairness Act (H.R. 2382) which would repeal the mandate that USPS “pre-fund” decades’ worth of health benefits for its future retirees, enacted through the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) […]
May 31, 2019 Former Manager of North Kenner, LA Post Office Sentenced To 30 Months for Stealing More Than $630,000 in Postal Stamps – PEN Ohio postal carrier caught on camera spraying dog behind fence with pepper spray – PEN NRLCA Reaches Tentative Agreement with USPS for Three-Year Contract – PEN U.S. Postal Employees’ Retirement Assets Are Invested […]
One side of the USPS military challenge-style coins feature an American flag design stamped with the words “Proud Veteran.” USPS News Link – 5/01/19 – USPS is once again honoring employees who are veterans of the armed forces and have five years of postal service with military-style challenge coins. Historically, challenge coins symbolize military unit […]
To the editor: Postal Service supports anti-fentanyl efforts April 29, 2019 By David Partenheimer – Published in the Toledo Blade Sunday, April 28. Your editorial, “Choke off fentanyl supply,” falsely implies that the U.S. Postal Service is not aggressively working to implement provisions of the STOP Act to keep dangerous drugs from entering the United […]
? 4/30/19 – The Postal Service’s financial condition has been deteriorating over the past decade for three primary reasons: (1) a decline in first-class mail; (2) expenses increasing at a faster rate than revenues; and (3) requirements put in place by Congress in 2006 to make billions of dollars of payments each year to pre-fund […]
FRANKLIN Co. , Mo. (KMOV.com) – Residents in Franklin County are voicing concerns after the United States Postal Service (USPS) stopped deliveries due to the road they live on. Tim Bird said he’s lived off Deer View Lane in Lonedell for 15 years and has never had issues with his mail until recently. “It started […]
BOSTON – 4/29/19 – A former United States Postal Service manager pleaded guilty today in federal court in Springfield to charges of bribery, witness tampering and false statements to federal officials. Kenneth LaFlamme, 54, of Fort Myers, Fla., pleaded guilty to an Information charging him with one count each of bribery, witness tampering, and false […]
NEWARK, N.J. – 4/29/19 – A Union County, New Jersey, man today admitted his role in a scheme to bribe mail carriers to steal credit cards from the mail, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced. Olagoke Araromi, 22, of Union, New Jersey, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Katharine S. Hayden in Newark federal court to […]