May 31, 2021
- With Commitment to Affordability and Financial Sustainability, USPS Proceeds with Request For Rate Change
- USPS worker uses music to drown out a ‘Karen’ who tries to interrupt his lunch break in viral TikTok
- What Unused Sick Leave Will and Won’t Do for You at Retirement
- USPS Post-employment restrictions – frequently asked questions
May 30, 2021
- Stamp Prices Are Increasing – So is the price of everything else – PEN
- Delivery dilemma plagues North Haven homeowners on new street: USPS won’t deliver mail
- A beloved Virginia mail carrier could become one of the first covid victims to get a building named for him
- Aid sought for former mailman’s foot surgery
May 29, 2021
- USPS Proceeds With Request for Postal Rate Change – PEN
- USPS sends first RIF notices to non-union employees
- Postal Service, Facing Steep Losses, Seeks to Increase Prices
- How the west was won. Not by guns, but by the Postal Service
- “Letterlocking” and 1600s Postal Surveillance
May 28, 2021
- Amazon Says It’s time to revitalize the United States Postal Service – PEN
- Oregon Man Indicted for Stalking and Mailing Threatening Letters – PEN
- Chicago postal worker hurt in Rogers Park dog attack
- National Postal Museum Will Reopen Aug. 27 On Limited Basis – PEN
- House committee asks about USPS covert program
- US Postal Service’s Social Media Surveillance Program Uses Clearview’s Facial Recognition Tech
May 27, 2021
- New Jersey Postal Employee Admits Dumping Mail, Including 99 Election Ballots – PEN
- Former Missouri Contract Postal Worker Pleads Guilty to Stealing Mail – PEN
- Emergency federal employee leave – Understanding new law’s provisions
- How The Postal Service Became Addicted To Secrecy
- Norfolk mail carrier charged with taking bribes to divert drugs
- Bellingham woman reportedly stole a USPS uniform and keys, then got in a post truck
- Baltimore County’s post office problems include shoeboxes full of backlogged mail, perishables eaten by rodents, congressman says
- USPS Faces Preemptive Backlash to Expected Soaring Price Hikes
- OIG: Spring 2021 Semiannual Report to Congress
- OIG: Delayed Mail at the Santa Ana, CA, Processing and Distribution Center
- GAO: F.Y.I.: Enforcement Efforts to Protect Participants’ Rights in Employer-Sponsored Retirement and Health Benefit Plans
May 26, 2021
- Postal Service Reform Act of 2021 May Negatively Affect FEHB – PEN
- Operation Second Wave Update: Final Two Defendants Plead Guilty – One was a letter carrier – PEN
- Postal reform bill could raise health premiums for federal workers, employee group warns
- New Senate Postal Bill Mirrors House Measure; Other Bills Offered
- Lawmakers request investigation into Postal Service’s covert operations program
- Suspect in assault on North Salt Lake mail carrier arrested
- Mail carrier in charged with animal cruelty after allegedly running over dog with postal van
- Face coverings – Postal Service’s current policy continues
May 25, 2021
- Two California USPS Employees Plead Guilty to Using EDD Debit Cards to Illegally Purchase Thousands of Dollars in Postal Money Orders – PEN
- Oakland, MN Man Pleads Guilty to Destroying Mailboxes – PEN
- Do You Want USPS to Bring You Your Drinks?
- FedEx piles on peak surcharges with increases set for June
- OIG: The Wired West
May 24, 2021
- USPS trucks don’t have air bags or air conditioning. They get 10 mpg. And they were revolutionary
- Postal Service sees chance to turn the page after tumultuous year
- USPS: Changes made to flexible spending accounts
- USPS to replace eAccess
May 23, 2021
May 22, 2021
- Senators Portman, Peters Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Stabilize USPS and Promote Long-Term Sustainable Service – PEN
- Concerns Raised about Security of USPS Online Presence
- Residents are upset after weeks, months without mail from the post office
- Special Election Period ahead for FSA Program
- Is Social Security Taxed Twice?
May 21, 2021
- USPS and the National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association (NRLCA) have agreed to extend contract negotiations on a new collective bargaining agreement
- Bipartisan deal on USPS reform could ease pressure for more drastic changes
- Stolen USPS Master Keys Pose Continued Threat to Chicago Apartment, Condo Owners
- Haverhill Postmaster Deals with a COVID-19 ‘Gloom of Night’ by Making Mail Deliveries Himself
May 20, 2021
- Beware Federal Employees: Mandatory Medicare First Step to Eliminating FEHB Coverage for Retirees?
Mandatory Medicare, for postal retirees, is part of The Postal Service Reform Act of 2021 - Judge Rejects Bid for Nationwide USPS Rule on Mail-in Ballots
- Senators reach bipartisan deal to overhaul USPS finances, tighten accountability requirements
- Ohio postmaster arrested on criminal felony charges involving a minor
- NPMHU: USPS delivers Mandatory Stand-Up Talk re: Face covering and mask update
- USPS: Priority Mail Express – Single 6 p.m. delivery guarantee begins May 23
May 19, 2021
- Postal Reform Bill Could Increase Health Care Costs for Postal Employees, Feds – PEN
- USPS uses facial recognition from controversial company Clearview AI and fake identities online to snoop on Americans – Also see: Facial recognition, fake identities and digital surveillance tools: Inside the post office’s covert internet operations program – Law enforcement arm then feeds findings back to other agencies
- OMB Loosens Federal Workplace Mask Requirements, Hints at More Changes to Come
- Bank Lobbyists Blast Lawmakers’ Plans For ‘Unbanked’ Americans
- USPS virtual job fair – Event to showcase retail, delivery opportunities
- Postal Bill Advances with Bipartisan Support
May 18, 2021
- Congress hints, Postal Service reform might be a real possibility this year
- House lawmakers unveil bill to end ban on Postal Service shipments of alcohol
- Amazon exec Dave Clark pushed USPS to install mailbox now at center of union election controversy
- Postal police still working case of dumped mail in Ferguson
- Driver killed after striking postal truck, overturning in NYC
- OIG: Keeping Count
May 17, 2021
- Beware: Mail thieves on the hunt for personal information – PEN
- Pressure Intensifies for Fleet Electrification at the U.S. Postal Service
- Keep Politics Out Of Postal Reform – Give The Postmaster Credit Where It’s Due
May 16, 2021
- Paid parental leave for USPS employees included in postal reform bills
- NALC: Bipartisan postal reform legislation introduced and advances in House
- NAPS: Normalizing the Workplace After a Shared Trauma
- NAPS: Postal EAS-Level Consultations: The Need for Fairness and Equity
May 15, 2021
- Unmasked postal customers could face fine
- How unreliable is the Postal Service? It lost a Holocaust survivor’s remains
- Paid Leave Available for Vaccination Side-Effects
- Amazon employees accessed mailbox for union election ballots, worker says
Reminds us of another election - OIG: Integrity of the U.S. Postal Service’s Social Media Presence
May 14, 2021
- Brooklyn, NY Man Sentenced for Stealing Mail While Dressed As Letter Carrier – PEN
- NJ Man Admits Using Postal Workers To Steal and Forge COVID Stimulus Checks – PEN
- NJ Man Admits Conspiring to Defraud Banks of Over $250,000 Using Credit Cards and Blank Checks Stolen from Postal System – PEN
- Bipartisan USPS reform bill with a ‘good chance’ of becoming law passes House committee
Read the bill HERE and see how, once again…if you like your insurance you can keep your insurance – NOT! - U.S. House panel approves $46B in financial relief to Postal Service
- Paid parental leave for USPS employees included in postal reform bills
- Pandemic boosts demand for postal delivery of abortion pill – wow, death by mail
- House Democrats seek taxpayer funding for USPS all-electric delivery trucks
- USPS rolling out new sorting machines
- OIG: Delayed Mail at the Phoenix, AZ, Processing and Distribution Center
- OIG: Issues Identified in International Package Operations – Chicago International Service Center
May 13, 2021
- Judges sentences St. Louis man for carjacking postal employee from government vehicle – PEN
- Tulino Appointed Deputy Postmaster General – Will report to PMG Louis DeJoy – PEN
- Postal worker arraigned on charges after fight caught on video in Flint
- Detroit: Postal Service declines request to talk about ongoing delivery delays
May 12, 2021
- New Postal Overhaul Measure Wins Support From Key Republican
The bill includes provisions to shift more postal retirees to Medicare for their health care and require most postal workers to select postal-specific health care plans. PEN Ed: This would shift most, if not all, of postal retirees to Medicare…even if they did not want to make this move. Saving the postal service IS NOT the job of postal retirees. PEN IS NOT in favor of this portion of the legislation. - Massachusetts Postal Worker Pleads Guilty to Stealing Mail – PEN
- Keep Politics Out Of Postal Reform – Give the Postmaster General Credit Where It’s Due
- MAGA-Hat Wearing White EX-Postal Worker’s Reverse Bias Claim OK
- Smishing alert – Watch out for USPS text message scams
- U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert Slams U.S. Post Office for ‘Spying’ on Americans
- NPMHU Seeks EFEL Clarification From OPM
- NPMHU: Mail Handlers to Receive Night Shift Differential Increase
May 11, 2021
- ‘Out of control’: U.S. postal inspection arm ripped over spying reports
- House panel to take up Postal Service reform measures
It would eliminate a requirement for USPS to pre-fund retiree health benefits and would require postal employees to enroll in the Medicare government-retiree health plan - Democrats’ Postal Reform Bill Would Give DeJoy a Free Hand
- Postal worker assaulted while delivering mail in San Tan Valley; officials investigating
- Why you might find dryer sheet stuck in your mailbox
- OIG: How Do Employees Absent Without Leave Affect the Postal Service?
May 10, 2021
- Rep. Mace Sounds Alarm on Post Office’s “Covert” Online Surveillance Program – Why is the Postal Service running a spy operation?
- Emergency federal employee leave – USPS offers info on new law’s provisions
- Democrats want $8B to electrify US Postal Service deliveries
- Postal Worker Alerts Deputies to Man with Stab Wounds
- OIG: Overseeing the Overseas Vote
May 09, 2021
- Postal Service Loses Far Less Money in Q2 2021 Than in Previous Year
- Push to electrify mail trucks gains wide support, an unlikely win for both DeJoy and Biden
- My beloved mother died. And then she got lost in the mail
- Postal Bulletin 22571: RIF Competitive Areas for the Postal Service
May 08, 2021
- Emergency Federal Employee Leave Update – PEN
- NPMHU: USPS Issues Emergency Federal Employee Leave Frequently Asked Questions
- Postmaster General Vows to ‘Consider’ Critiques as USPS Announces Tanking Performance in Recent Months
- Statement from NALC President Fredric V. Rolando on Postal Service’s FY 2021 Q2 Financial Report
- DeJoy charges ahead with USPS cost-cutting despite beating financial projections
May 07, 2021
- USPS Reports Second Quarter Fiscal 2021 Results – PEN
- Florida companies contracting with USPS shorted employees $293,000 in pay – PEN
- California Man Pleads Guilty to Mail Theft and Unemployment Benefit Fraud Scheme – PEN
- Senators Submit The DeJoy Act – PEN
- Postal Service Reform: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back?
- NALC: Recent letter carrier deaths from COVID-19 and other causes
- OIG: Scheduled Hours and Payments for Highway Contract Routes
May 06, 2021
- Four Sentenced in Mail Theft Scheme Involving Stolen Checks, Driver’s Licenses – PEN
- Former Florida Mail Carrier Sentenced to Probation for Mail Theft – PEN
- Federal Indictment Returned in Bishopville Post Office and City Hall Arson – PEN
- Progressive ‘Postal Banking’ Proposal: A Solution in Search of a Problem
- Berger to Congress: Reject postal banking programs, empower CUs
- Residents living in 8th fastest growing county in US say US Postal Service is overwhelmed
- How the US Postal Service Is Using AI at the Edge to Improve Mail
- GAO questions sustainability of U.S. Postal Service
- eBay CEO Makes Case for USPS Reliability, Reduced Regulations
May 05, 2021
- Investigation underway into dumping of undelivered mail in Ferguson, MO – PEN
- Postal Service and NIKE, Inc. announce officially licensed footwear – PEN
- Postal Service to Issue Layoff Notices Later This Month
USPS declined to specify how many positions would be eliminated, but said it aims to offer impacted workers opportunities for reassignment. Also see: Final restructuring phase – Voluntary early retirement offers included - In small test of mail delivery, U.S. Postal Service delivered just 1 of 8 letters on time
- Amazon Work Rules Govern Tweets, Body Odor of Contract Drivers
- Detroit protest held over mail delivery struggles by postal service
- Forget Packages, USPS Is Tracking You
- OIG: Management Alert – Negotiated Service Agreement Price Tables Sent Unsecured to Vendors
May 04, 2021
- USPS opts for reduction in force for non-union employees in agency restructuring’s final phase
- RIF and VER Information: UPMA | NAPS
- Woman details sexual harassment at Corpus Christi postal facility
- Postal banking won’t deliver
- One Memphis community has not received single piece of mail in month
- Matt Gaetz says USPS ‘covert operations program’ is ‘classic government’
May 03, 2021
- Can the USPS Deliver a Major Reformation?
- Fraud in the mail – Scammers targeting unemployment benefits
- Memphis police cruiser, postal truck involved in crash
- ‘I chose a bad thing.’ Pasco High grad admits getting paid for mailed drug shipments
- OPM offers up details on new emergency paid leave for federal employees
- Do We Need Federal Unions?
May 02, 2021
- Former Pennsylvania Vice President of NALC Branch 274 Indicted on 10 Counts of Honest Services Wire Fraud and 10 Counts of Wire Fraud – PEN
- After slow holiday mail, postal service has hired 150 in New Hampshire but retention remains a concern
- Something didn’t seem right, so a postal worker stepped in to save a senior citizen from major scam
- Roughly 40% Of Post Offices Operate In The Red – Could Banking Offer Them A Way Out?
- 100 Years Ago: Postal clerks, carriers start carrying guns for protection
- $570M Emergency Leave Fund Now Available for Federal Employee Use
- New Pandemic Leave Fund Comes with Strings Attached
- New Emergency Paid Leave Benefit May Impact Your Federal Retirement Date
May 01, 2021
- Congressman Matt Gaetz Leads 9 Lawmakers in Push to Abolish USPIS’s “Internet Covert Operations Program” – PEN
- Postal Service to Move Erie Mail Processing Operations to Pittsburgh by November
- Suspect charged with armed robbery of United States Postal Service employee
- Amazon is spending big to take on UPS and FedEx
- Postal Inspectors Warn Veterans Of Scams Targeting Them
- OIG: International Election Mail Observations for the 2020 General and 2021 Georgia Senate Runoff Elections