June 30, 2021
- VIDEO: Brooklyn postal worker pummeled by dirt bike riders, leaving him with fractured face
- Representative Mike Quigley Holds Call with PMG DeJoy – PEN
- Cyclist Struck, Killed By Postal Service Truck Near Central Park on Upper West Side
- Postal truck lands on top of car after being rear-ended in Valley Village crash
- USPS safeguards mail, packages of those impacted by Surfside collapse
- Workhorse Says It Didn’t Get a Fair Shot at Big Postal Van Award
- Democrats say Postal Service’s new online complaint portal should be canceled
- USPS: Remembering National Postal Service Day
- USPS: All USPS employees must protect the mail
June 29, 2021
- Winchester, MA Man Pleads Guilty to Robbing and Assaulting Federal Postal Worker and Cocaine Possession – PEN
- California Man Sentenced for Mail Theft and Possession of Stolen Mail, including Stimulus Checks – PEN
- Postal worker robbed in southwest Bakersfield
- USPS still expects ‘modest growth’ for small packages as it proposes slower delivery
- Insiders reveal what it’s really like working at Amazon when it comes to hiring, firing, performance reviews, and more
- USPS promotes good work attendance
- Avoiding heat-related illnesses
June 28, 2021
- Camera catches USPS carrier tossing package on roof of pregnant woman’s home – then walks away – PEN
- Jersey Shore Teen Blinded In One Eye By Mail Truck Crash Gets $2 Million
- Family Puts Pressure On Efforts To Find Kierra Coles, Postal Worker Who Has Been Missing Since 2018
- Cautious optimism that mail delivery will improve with Chicago postmaster’s ouster
- Left-for-Dead Workhorse Stock Is Set To Come Back From Post Office Loss
June 27, 2021
- USPS 10-Year Plan to Achieve Financial Sustainability and Service Excellence – PEN
- U.S. Postal Service celebrates 50 years on July 1
- Debate over paid family leave falls along stark party lines
June 26, 2021
- Royal Oak police: Angry man threatened to ‘shoot up’ post office
- NPMHU: Child Tax Credit Payments to Start in July
- Slidell Woman Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Alter Postal Money Orders – PEN
- The message is the mystery on new U.S. forever stamp
- Mail-forwarding scams on the rise
- Don’t Give the Postal Service a Blank Check on Package Delivery
June 25, 2021
- USPS Service Performance Improvement Holds Steady in Latest Weekly Update – PEN
- PMG updates employees in new video
- Postal Service’s revamp plan will slow the mail in many places, including Seattle
- Amazon delivery contractors quit Portland routes, citing ‘unsafe’ work expectations
- Expanding paid family leave for federal employees faces tough, heated fight
- USPS, GSA make 7 DC-area post offices permanent PIV card sites following pilot
- Fighting for the Right to Your Benefits
June 24, 2021
- USPS Honors Yankees Legend Yogi Berra With Forever Stamp – PEN
- Bay Area postal worker sentenced to federal probation in bank fraud, marijuana theft cases
- Man shot at postal worker after she wouldn’t open package for him, inspector says
- Slow mail is no way for USPS to cut costs, bipartisan group of lawmakers tells The Post
June 23, 2021
- Postal Worker Tells CBS 2 Staffing Issues Due To Federal Leave, Prioritization Of Package Delivery Are In Part To Blame For Persistent Mail Problems – The carrier, who wants to remain anonymous, believes the severe USPS staffing shortage is partially due to the emergency federal employee leave enacted this year – which gives postal workers up to 600 hours of paid leave for COVID-related reasons. That’s right, 600 hours – roughly four months of paid time off if employees qualify. “There’s rumors that people that’s using that COVID leave don’t need it,” the carrier said.
- Treasurer of St. Louis Mail Handlers union pleaded guilty to embezzling nearly $180,000
- Gunman robs postal employee on Cleveland’s East Side
- With PMG Louis DeJoy’s initiatives, Congress can keep the USPS from going postal
- Ford to Supply Engines, Transmissions for New U.S Postal Delivery Vehicles
June 22, 2021
- Vehicle production facility selected – Supplier to build NGDVs in Spartanburg, SC – PEN
- Ohio Postal Employee Charged with Stealing More Than $4,000 from Mail – PEN
- Pendleton County WV mail carrier sentenced for attempted election fraud
- Company to bring 1,000 new jobs to South Carolina building electric postal vehicles
- Postal Worker Shot At In Florida City
- USPS slow down proposal should be rejected, state AGs say
- Amazon Could Be Forced to Sell Logistics Business Under Bill
- NALC: CCA Step CC eliminated
- NPMHU and USPS Reach Agreement to Convert 6,596 MHAs to Career Full-time Regular by August 14, 2021
- ‘Pay us our money’: Triad truck drivers haven’t received last paycheck for hauling mail
- OIG: Bringing Mail to Digital Marketing
June 21, 2021
- Pee Bottles, Constant Monitoring and Blowing Through Stop Signs
Amazon DSP Drivers Describe the Job - Attorney states: Justices Must Reject Police Shield Against Civil Rights Claims
“Postal worker Larry Thompson did nothing wrong when he refused to let four police officers into his home without a warrant. Still, the officers tackled him to the floor, arrested him and put him in jail for refusing them entry.” PEN Ed: there was ‘suspected’ child abuse involved in this case - Stay Stocked – Post Offices must keep burial flags on hand
- Royal Mail rolls out new uniform for postal workers
June 20, 2021
- USPS Here’s to Heroes – PEN
- Workhorse Sues USPS over $6 Billion Oshkosh Mail Truck Deal
- Postal banking could provide free accounts to 21 million Americans who don’t have access to a credit union or community bank – PEN Ed: people without a bank account do so on purpose – they don’t want to be tracked…yes, it is that simple
- Guidance Issued on New Juneteenth Federal Holiday
- Vaccine Incentives, Employee Confidentiality, and Latest EEOC Guidance: What Employees Need to Know
- Agencies Can’t Require Employees to Disclose ‘Vaccination Status,’ Task Force Says
- OPM Issues Pay and Leave Guidance for New Juneteenth Holiday
- USPS Inspection Service: LIMITED HIRING WINDOW OPENING SOON
- Do You Pick Up Your Mail Every Day?
June 19, 2021
- Three Indicted In Drug Conspiracy – Investigation Continues For The Kidnapping Letter Carrier – PEN
- Syracuse postal worker busted stuffing mail down his pants, feds say; he explains why
- Postal Service emergency pandemic leave partly to blame for mail delays
- Woman inundated with hundreds of Amazon packages she did not order
- Holiday Shows U.S. Government Can Be Fast When It Wants to Close
June 18, 2021
- USPS to continue regular operations June 18-19 – PEN
USPS will discuss future recognition of Juneteenth with its unions, management associations and other stakeholders. APWU not happy | NPMHU statement - First New Holiday in Years Leaves U.S. Offices Asking: Now What?
- USPS Proposes Changes to Service Standards for First-Class Package Service – PEN
- USPS Service Performance Continues to Improve During the Third Quarter – PEN
- Syracuse Man Indicted for Assaulting a U.S. Postal Employee – PEN
- USPS struggled to keep records of employees taking COVID leave
- OSHA fines USPS nearly $237K for safety violations at Lehigh Valley hub
- OIG: COVID-19 Leave Administration
June 17, 2021
- Chicago USPS postmaster out after delayed mail complaints – PEN
- New Jersey Man Admits Conspiring to Steal Mail and Commit Bank Fraud – PEN
Flip and his conspirators arranged for USPS employees to steal credit cards and blank check books from the mail in exchange for cash payments. - Dingell Urges Postmaster General DeJoy to Address Michigan Mail Delivery Issues – PEN
- Electric automaker Workhorse sues Postal Service to halt truck contract
- Lexington Institute: Statement To Postal Regulatory Commission On Proposed First-Class Mail Service Standard Changes
- Postal worker shot in Cleveland during confrontation with an angry driver; police search for suspect
- Kansas City-area postal worker saves residents from apartment fire
June 16, 2021
- NY USPS Station Manager Pleads Guilty To Sealing Over $90,000 In Cash And Stamps – PEN
- Tulsa Letter Carriers Allegedly Intercepted Drug Packages and Delivered to Dealer for Distribution – PEN
- Take a look inside an Amazon Air Boeing 737, the latest weapon in Jeff Bezos’ master plan to win the delivery wars
- ‘It’s Really Frustrating’ USPS Mail Delivery Issues Remain Throughout Baltimore
PEN Ed: delivery issues have been going on for years - Mail from Northeast Ohio went ’round the world only to be returned to sender
June 15, 2021
- There Is A Mystery Message In The New USPS Forever Stamps – PEN
- Video Shows Thieves Ransacking Mail Truck in San Jose
- Congress’s Postal ‘Reform’ Would Deliver Nothing but Debt
- USPS Mail Delivery Truck Ride-On Is A Tribute To Actual Heroes
- Amazon’s Airplanes Move Cargo for U.S. Postal Service
- GAO: U.S. Postal Service: Customer Complaints Process
- OIG: Shedding a Light on USPS Service Performance
June 14, 2021
- ‘Get used to me’: Postmaster envisions generational change for U.S. mail service
- Postmaster who stole from the mail to support her drug addiction avoids federal prison sentence
- Democrats postal bailout is just another brick in the wall
- OIG: New USPS Service Performance page on OIG website
June 13, 2021
- COVID Vaccine? Some Federal Employees Can Apply Today for $50 Award
PEN Editor: ask your doctor about checking your COVID antibodies BEFORE you get the vaccine - Postal Service turns to computer vision AI, edge computing to improve delivery
- Agencies Can’t Require Employees to Disclose ‘Vaccination Status,’ Task Force Says
- Postal service to honor former Yankees catcher Yogi Berra
June 12, 2021
- Letter Carriers Bit By Dogs – City and State 2020 Dog Attack Rankings – PEN
- Houston once again leads nation in postal workers bit by dogs
- Amazon will overtake Walmart as the largest U.S. retailer in 2022, JPMorgan predicts
- Postal worker hit by vehicle while walking in a crosswalk
- Man Pleads Guilty to Year-Long Mail Theft Spree in Arlington
June 11, 2021
- Former New York Postal Carrier Pleads Guilty to Stealing Gift Cards from Mail – PEN
- Body camera video reveals more about what led to shooting of Cleveland mail carrier – PEN
- USPS Service Performance Shows Continued Improvement Across First-Class Mail and Periodicals – PEN
- Lubbock Postal Worker Should Be Locked Up For A Long Time If Found Guilty
- ‘Any Dog Can Bite’ – USPS begins annual awareness, safety campaign
- USPS defends slower mail to achieve more reliable delivery
- OIG: Marketers’ Perceptions of Informed Delivery and Informed Visibility
June 10, 2021
- New Jersey Mail Carrier Charged with Making False Statements to Obtain Federal Workers’ Compensation Benefits – PEN
- New Jersey Man Admits Offering Bribes to Postal Service Employees – PEN
- Video: Postal carrier abducted at gunpoint in Pawtucket – PEN
- Former Louisiana Postal Employee Charged with Delay of U.S. Mail – PEN
- Lubbock postal worker indicted for stealing more than $700 in gift cards, checks from mail
- U.S. Postal Service Releases Dog Attack National Rankings
- Going postal: 7-foot alligator sneaks into Florida post office
- Woman claimed she was afraid the postmaster would put illegal contraband in her mailbox to “set her up”
June 09, 2021
- Connecticut man charged with stealing dozens of tires from USPS maintenance yard – PEN
- Chicago Company Demands Answers About Checks Stolen From Mail – PEN
- Man faces hate crime charge for allegedly threatening to kill Asian American postal worker
- NPMHU-USPS Joint Contract Interpretation Manual (CIM) Version 5 Now Available
- Iowa mail carrier stole then used Menard’s rebate check
- USPS trucks don’t have air bags or air conditioning – get 10 mpg – and they were revolutionary
- RedWave Technology Awarded $14M Purchase by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service to Help Protect the Nation’s Mail
- Letter carrier robbed in Dayton; up to $20,000 reward offered to find armed suspect
- OIG: Terminal Handling Services – Denver, CO
June 08, 2021
- After years of complaints about the Postal Service’s slow service, News 4 puts USPS to the test
- Up to $50,000 reward offered for info about person or persons who shot postal worker
- Video shows FedEx employee carelessly dropping package, USPS courier fixing delivery
- He owned a blue BMW. He made his living stealing mail sent to Miami and Coral Gables
- OIG: The ABCs of Voting by Mail
June 07, 2021
- ‘Get used to me’: Postmaster Louis DeJoy evokes Trump style in Biden era
- Town recognizes USPS employee for response to medical emergency
- Mail Delivery Speed: Slower Is the New Normal
- NAPS: To Pay or Not to Pay…”To pay its EAS employees in a fair and just manner”
June 06, 2021
- What more than 70 pounds of stolen mail can teach you about how thieves operate
- FBI inquiry of USPS chief DeJoy threatens bipartisan overhaul bill
- Choose delivery date AND a time… Royal Mail takes on rival Amazon in parcel wars as it unveils blueprint to entice customers
- World’s rarest stamp expected to fetch $15M at Tuesday auction
- Nashville post office closed after damage from fire
June 05, 2021
- Serial Mail Thief Sentenced to 10 Years – PEN
- WSJ: A fishy news leak that the bureau is probing Louis DeJoy for long-ago campaign violations
- NALC: Recent letter carrier deaths from COVID-19 and other causes
- Retailers, newspapers, printing firms oppose U.S. postal rate hikes
- Child was inside car during crash with USPS truck in north Harris County, officials said
- USPS on-time delivery ticks up, but doesn’t cross pre-pandemic threshold
June 04, 2021
- USPS Delivery of Mail Sees Across-the-Board Improvements as Recovery from Pandemic Continues – PEN
- New Jersey Postal Employee Admits Stealing Checks from Mail – PEN
- U.S. postal carrier shot on Cleveland’s East Side Wednesday
- The FBI is investigating PMG DeJoy over possible campaign finance violations committed by leaders of his former company
- Louis DeJoy Never ‘Knowingly’ Violated Campaign Contribution Laws, Spokesman Says, Amid DOJ Probe
- USPS Projects Continuing Mail Delays, Setting Targets Well Below Historical Standards
- NALC’s explanation of the health care provisions of H.R. 3076/S. 1720
- NALC: Several COVID-19 Related MOUs Extended Until Early August
- FSA changes – new enrollment, election options added
- Postal worker admits to trashing ballots and other mail ahead of 2020 election
- OIG: Vote by Mail and the Postal Service: A Primer
June 03, 2021
- DC Mailman Beaten, Zip Tied, Robbed While On Duty
- 2M miles and counting: Mail carrier earns rare honor
- USPS mail delivery truck catches fire in Redmond
- Summit County tries to resolve post office issues to no avail
- A snail’s pace: Phoenix ranks second in the nation for delayed mail
- USPS has added a feature to mobile delivery devices (MDDs) that allows mail carriers to electronically file PS Form 3575Z, Moved, Left No Address (MLNA)
June 02, 2021
- Kansas: Ex-Postal Worker Fined for Destroying Mail Containing Cash
- Business groups support proposed postal reforms under some conditions
- Here’s why firing Louis DeJoy will be difficult – even with Biden’s nominees confirmed
- USPS deploys new sorting machines for packages
- How Much Money Does A Federal Employee Need In Retirement?
- OIG: Busy Postal Service, Busy OIG
June 01, 2021
- Ohio Democrats want to put the brakes on new postal delivery truck contract
- Postal Reform Should Eliminate Private Sector Subsidies
- Amazon delivery driver shot in face during dispute in Brooklyn
- USPS: Online job fair – Event to feature Human Resources openings
- A U-S postal worker goes out of his way to help Alaskan bride-to-be