October 31, 2021
- Biggest User of Emergency Paid Leave? USPS By A Long Shot
Hours Covered: 9,985,134.41 Cost: $255,532,387.81 – And people wonder why the mail is having problems. - Feds worry vaccine mandate could lead to staffing crisis
- Democrat Boston City Councilors Say Postal Worker Threw Mail-In Ballots Away
Well, you wanted mail-in ballots…deal with it. - Antioch police investigating theft of hundreds of pieces of mail
October 30, 2021
- Self Plus One Health Plans Will Cost More than Self and Family Plans Under The NALC and Rural Carrier Health Benefit Plans for 2022
- WP says “Biden’s spending package would give USPS $6 billion to replace dangerous mail trucks with electric vehicles” – But, GovExec says “Funding to electrify the federal vehicle fleet appears to have been dropped”…”including $2.4 billion for the U.S. Postal Service”
- The United States parcel disservice
- Pickerington ‘King of Passports’ retires from US Postal Service after 50 years
- Judge boots suit by pedestrian hit by postal truck
October 29, 2021
- As Service Performance Improvements Continue for All Mail Categories, Postmaster General DeJoy Says Americans Should Feel Confident Sending Holiday Mail and Packages with Postal Service – PEN
- Mail carrier killed delivering children’s book to porch of Morris Township home
- USPS agrees to provide daily election mail reports to Virginia Democrats after lawsuit claiming delays
- Funding to electrify the federal vehicle fleet, including USPS, appears to have been dropped
- The highly unlikely Braille U.S. postage stamps
- Shyft Group Lands $53M Truck Body Contract from USPS
- Gyrocopter mailman publishes memoir
- USPS Board of Governors to meet Nov. 10
October 28, 2021
- New Jersey Man Admits Role in Stolen Identity Refund Fraud Scheme – Paid USPS Mail Carriers To Steal U.S Treasury Checks – PEN
- Connecticut Man Charged with Cocaine Trafficking Through USPS – PEN
- Thirteen Defendants Plead Guilty in $126 Million Compounding Fraud Scheme Defrauding OWCP and TRICARE – PEN
- Five Charged in Sophisticated Scheme to Mail Cocaine from Puerto Rico New York City inside Children’s Lunchboxes – PEN
- Letter Carriers Resist After-Dark Delivery
- Birmingham, AL Postal Annex gets new technology to help with holiday packages
- USPS has filed a motion to have a lawsuit alleging it failed to meet its legal obligations when setting up a service utilizing facial recognition thrown out for lack of standing
- USPS employees can provide feedback on new ads
October 27, 2021
- Massachusetts Man Sentenced for Robbing and Assaulting Postal Worker and Cocaine Possession – PEN
- Ex-USPS supervisor in Georgia sent to prison for stealing marijuana from confiscated package – PEN
- Chicago: Thieves Keep Using Postal Master Keys To Steal Mail: How Are They Getting A Hold Of Those Keys?
- TSP is coming under heavy political pressure from the White House, the GAO, interest groups supporting the administration, as well as from some in Congress – the Biden admin is after your TSP savings
- Springfield mail processing center paid $5.1 million to upset employees over three-and-a-half years
- Police investigation underway after mail carrier killed in Greene County, PA
- Alleged accomplice in postal carrier shooting charged with first-degree murder
- Virginia Democrats sue postal service over claims of delayed election mail
You wanted vote by mail – now live with those problems - CA man caught stealing mailbox keys from USPS
- FEHB Open Season Approaching
- USPS: Delivery data, Bulletin also highlighted
October 26, 2021
- Mail Carrier Hit, Killed By Driver Of Vehicle In Greene County, PA
- USPS Vows to Win Over Republicans Angry About Banking Pilot
- Two Lawmakers Come Out Swinging Against Postal Banking Pilot Program
- USPS to roll out new computer tablets
- Man who is suspected of complicity in the shooting death of a Longmont, CO postal employee is set to make his first court appearance Tuesday
- Teaneck residents have been reporting check theft for two years. Finally, USPS makes arrests
- OIG: Springfield, MO, Processing and Distribution Center Grievances
- OIG: How Does USPS Rate as An Employer?
October 25, 2021
- Community works to raise money for family of postal worker shot, killed in Pittsburgh suburb
- Chief Postal Inspector Gary R. Barksdale has a message for Postal Service employees: Be careful out there
- USPS is sending employees a mailer that recognizes their role in delivering holiday magic
- Drone home! Russia trials self-driving robot postal workers to deliver mail in futuristic automation upgrade for country’s capital
- NBN Co, Australia Post pay nearly $300m in pandemic bonuses
- Cargo Force set for expansion following US Postal win
- Japan to Miss Target With $7.4 Billion Postal Stake Sale
- Could United States domestic airmail make a comeback?
October 24, 2021
- Postmaster General Louis DeJoy Plans to Deliver for the Holidays
DeJoy promises to add 45 facilities and new equipment that can handle 35% more daily packages despite supply-chain challenges - Postal Service’s new business is harmful and unnecessary
- Amazon launches in-store pickup option for items from local businesses
October 23, 2021
- Congressmen Garbarino (R-NY), Pascrell Introduce Postal Police Reform Act – PEN
- Pittsfield health officials say post office isn’t cooperating with COVID contact tracers
PEN: And, they should not cooperate - Post Office Prepares for Holiday Shopping Surge, Adding Facilities, Equipment and Workers
- Cargo Force wins $100 million Postal Service contract for Priority Mail
- Temporary agreement avoids closure of historic Cortez Post Office — for now
- Virginia Democratic Party Sues Postal Service Over Delays in Delivering Election Materials
October 22, 2021
- USPS vehicles collect data for geospatial project – PEN
- Colorado prison employee charged as accomplice in murder of postal worker shot on mail route
- Former Indiana USPS Employee Charged With Official Misconduct, Theft and Conversion
- Postal banking distracts from core delivery, which is suffering
- Chicago Mail Thefts Apparently Committed Using A USPS Master Key
October 21, 2021
- Electronic smoking devices – Vaping products restricted under updated USPS policy – PEN
- USPS Service Performance for First-Class Mail and Periodicals Improves as Peak Season Nears – PEN
- Loveland, CO man arrested in connection to fatal shooting of Longmont postal worker
- Electronic Privacy Information Center Sues Postal Service to Halt Use of Facial Recognition, Social Media Monitoring
- Package service standards – Implementation date to be announced after holidays
- Ohio city carrier assistant named in federal indictment
- Train hits USPS truck, mail carrier hospitalized
- NALC: Lost NALC Brothers and Sisters
October 20, 2021
- York, PA Man Sentenced To 15 Months’ For Stealing $105,875 Worth Of Postage Stamps – PEN
- Woman accused of shooting Longmont postal carrier charged with first-degree murder
- Postal Employee Dissatisfaction High by Several Measures, Says IG
- Side Effects of Vaccination to Be Covered under FECA
- Freedom from Union Dues? Union Explains How to Restrict Dues Cancellations
- Funeral for Memphis postal shooting victim announced
- USPS Unveils New Small Package Sorter That Will Help Expedite Package Processing Times
- Amazon Logistics now ships more US parcels than FedEx
October 19, 2021
- Former Bristol, CT Resident Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison for Trafficking Cocaine through the USPS – PEN
- Mail saved, postal truck destroyed in Colorado blaze
- Cortez post office closure entangled in lawsuits
- Tester demands USPS return Bozeman mailboxes
- OIG: Securing Security
- OIG: Is Critical Knowledge Lost When Employees Leave the Postal Service?
October 18, 2021
- ‘We are tired’: USPS employees feel toll from retention challenges
- Chicago’s postal delivery delivery under fire at hearing
- Postal banking is unnecessary and could prove harmful
PEN: We agree. The vast majority of those who do not have banking services made this personal choice…it’s simple – they do not want to be tracked financially. - Inside Amazon’s largest warehouse — where you’ll find 10 robots for every human
October 17, 2021
- NAPS Statement on Memphis Shooting
- Congressional oversight needed for Postal Service
- Carlisle post office tells borough residents they can pick up mail as staffing struggles continue
- UK: Postal deliveries in Wales facing disruption after row over whistleblower who was fired during investigation into ‘fake hours’ scam – PEN: well, this is a new one – claim is that postal employees are being paid overtime for hours they did not work – “The plan was said to have been aimed at allowing bosses to keep budgets artificially high during quiet periods – such as the summer months – to ensure that delivery targets could be hit during busier periods such as Christmas.” While in the USA “USPS has shorted some workers’ pay for years”
October 16, 2021
- USPS Begins Fiscal First Quarter with Improved First-Class Mail Service Under New Service Standards – PEN
- Bakersfield Man Pleads Guilty to Burglarizing 8 Post Offices – PEN
- Chicago Postmaster Blames ‘Street Crime’ and Absenteeism for Mail Delays | Postal delivery delays slammed at congressional field hearing in Chicago
- $50,000 reward offered for information in Fort Totten Park shooting of postal worker
- Slain Longmont mail carrier remembered as a great father, softball player and friend
October 15, 2021
- Former Louisiana Postal Worker Sentenced to One Year Probation After Pleading Guilty to Mail Theft – PEN
- Woman accused of killing letter carrier was recently fired from USPS due to ‘incident’ with him, affidavit says
- Friends and colleagues remember ‘cheerful’ postal worker shot and killed
- Michigan Postal Worker Dies Following Accident With Semi Truck
- USPS highlights careers in cybersecurity
October 14, 2021
- Louisiana Postal Worker Charged with Issuing Money Orders Without Receiving Full Payment – PEN
- Woman discovers large pile of mail in woods of Philadelphia neighborhood – PEN
- Ex-girlfriend arrested in Longmont, CO shooting of postal worker
- Colorado postal worker is third to be shot and killed in US in the past two days
- Tennessee postal worker killings raise stress as concern
- Memphis postal shooting: What we know about victims, gunman
- Statement from NALC President on the Lamar Annex Shooting in Memphis
- White House press secretary Jen Psaki: ‘We are not the Postal Service’
- Springfield, MO Police to join U.S. Postal Service Inspection Task Force to crack down on illegally shipped narcotics
October 13, 2021
- 3 employees dead, including gunman, in shooting at Memphis postal center | “He wasn’t just a manager, he was a friend to all” | The National Association of Postal Supervisors said the victims were James Wilson, a manager and Demetria Dortch, a supervisor
- WATCH: Person who represents postal managers shares what she knows about the Memphis shooting
- USPS employee satisfaction falls behind competitors, IG analysis finds
- New Study Examines How USPS Uses Subsidies and Special Privileges to Support Its Parcel Business at the Expense of Universal Mail Service
- January Retirement COLA Set: 5.9 Percent for CSRS, 4.9 for FERS
- 2022 COLA: 5.9%; Largest in 40 Years
Why? Because gas and transportation cost have risen so much under the current administration - Rural carrier comes to aid of stroke victim
October 12, 2021
- Eric Kortz, Man Accused Of Shooting, Killing Postal Worker To Appear Before Federal Judge In Preliminary Hearing
- How Mail-In Voting Became a Democratic Electoral Strategy – “They will kill people to stay in power, literally,” said Democratic strategist James Carville
- The Postal Service is raising rates, slowing service, and getting into banking
- Rep. McKinley comes to Huntington to speak to letter carriers
- TX: Pedestrian dies after being struck by USPS tractor trailer
October 11, 2021
- Funeral Services To Be Held For Murdered Letter Carrier Louis Vignone
- Pharmacist: USPS plan could lead to medication shipping delays
- OIG: Views of the Postal Service As an Employer
- OPM Announces Updates to FEGLI (PDF)
- The Federal Times guide to open season
October 10, 2021
- PRC Opinion on USPS Proposal to Change Service Standards for First-Class Package Service Nationwide – PEN
- PRC again questions USPS mail delivery plan
- Postal workers not part of a conspiracy
- ‘You really do lose a part of yourself’: No peace for family of postal worker shot on expressway
- The tragedy which sparked the phrase ‘going postal’
October 09, 2021
- Video: Friends And Family Say Postal Worker Louis Vignone Sold His Home To Get Away From Accused Killer Eric Kortz – PEN
- Pittsburgh Man Charged in Death of U.S. Postal Service Worker – PEN
- Former New York Letter Carrier Sentenced for Stealing Gift Cards from Mail – PEN
- USPS Ends Fourth Quarter with Strongest Service Performance Across All Mail Categories – PEN
- Court Enters Permanent Injunction Shutting Down Fraudulent Psychic Mail Fraud Scheme – PEN
- Bill to Provide Paid Family Leave for Feds, and USPS Employees, Could Cost $20 Billion By 2027
- Three Memphis-area mail carriers robbed, reward offered
- Confusing Message about USPS Package Slowdown
- USPS worker injured in northeast DC shooting
October 08, 2021
- Videos: Beloved letter carrier who was shot and killed on the job is being remembered – PEN
- New Jersey Man Sentenced to 33 Months in Prison for Conspiring to Steal Mail and Commit Bank Fraud – PEN
- Staten Island Business Owner Pleads Guilty to Mail Fraud in Scheme to Exploit the COVID-19 Crisis – PEN
- Postal worker fatally shot on route; former neighbor charged
He believed the mail carrier previously poisoned him and his family with cyanide - New Orleans man arrested for mail thefts; police find over 181 checks
- Hiring events helping USPS fill seasonal jobs – PEN
- 19 U.S. states seek to block postal service cutbacks
- USPS: Revised Service Standards for First Class Package Service to Occur After the Holiday Shipping Season
- USPS: Webinar to address Medicare, other programs
- USPS: New holiday stamps featuring Santa Claus now available
- Postal worker shot, killed in Collier; alleged shooter tells police he thought carrier poisoned him
October 07, 2021
- New for the Holidays: Prices, Shipping Rates and Dates – PEN
- Give DeJoy a chance to reform the postal system
- Postal banking pilot program brings ‘grave reservations’
- Milwaukee police are investigating after a mail carrier was attacked Wednesday morning
- USPS Check Cashing is More Political than Practical
- USPS Launches Check-Cashing Pilot Program Quietly; NAFCU Loudly Pushes Back
- Package for her family goes on a 7-month cross country journey before ending up back home in Thomasville
- USPS: Employees must protect personal information
- Special delivery indeed – postal carrier urinates on mailbox
October 06, 2021
- Former Louisiana Postal Employee Pleads Guilty to Mail Theft – PEN
- Tennessee post office renamed for 2 slain postal employees
- USPS Announces Shipping Dates for Holiday Military Mail
- Let’s look again: What if we privatized the postal service?
- UK: Drones used to deliver mail to remote Orkney island
- OIG: Good Things Come in Twos
October 05, 2021
- USPS testing paycheck cashing, which could transform how millions access money and pay bills
- Banks criticize USPS experiment with banking services
- USPS changes heading into holiday season include faster sorting, more employees, and higher postage rates
- USPS Facilities at Risk from Extreme Weather Disasters, GAO Recommends Climate Assessment
- Detroit post office renamed after Aretha Franklin
- USPS: Cybersecurity Awareness Month
- Stamp out the U.S. Postal Service
- NPMHU: Wyoming Mail Handlers Vote to Amalgamate with Local 321
October 04, 2021
- Former Missouri Treasurer of NPMHU Local 314 sentenced to 18 months of prison and three years of probation for embezzling over $184,000 in union funds – PEN
- Can a post office be a bank? New services test a progressive priority
- KPRC 2 Investigates cluster mailbox mess: No mail delivery for months in one neighborhood
- UK: Domino’s slammed for ‘offensive’ postal ad campaign that demands customers ‘shut the **** up’
- Australia Post delivery delays revealed in ‘terrifying’ photo – Shows the massive amount of packages piled up in just one distribution centre as the postal giant struggles with Christmas-like volumes
- Yes, you can legally buy unclaimed Amazon and USPS packages. Here’s how
- USPS adds notifications to Informed Visibility
- USPS: Disability Employment Month begins
October 03, 2021
- USPS: Emergency leave ended Sept. 30
- UPMA: USPS has extended the Special Exempt pay for Exempt Postmasters that was originally approved on May 20, 2020
- West Newton postal clerk gets special send-off at funeral
- Your USPS packages get more expensive Sunday, just in time for the holidays. What to know
- How Much Will Federal Employees’ FEHB Premiums Increase in 2022?
- Discipline for unvaccinated federal employees can start on Nov. 9, OPM says
October 02, 2021
- 40 Victims, Mostly in Naperville; Bond Set for Four of Seven Charged with Continuing Financial Crimes Enterprise Involving U.S. Postal Service
- For federal employee health insurance, it’s never if, but how much?
- OPM: 2022 Health Insurance Premiums and Information
- Portsmouth neighborhood remembers letter carrier who was killed in hit-and-run
- More mail delays coming as postal workers worry about future of post office
- NALC: Several COVID-19 related MOUs extended through December
- Expect your mail to take longer after processing center’s roof collapse, USPS says
- OIG: Contractor Security Clearances at Surface Transfer Centers
- OIG: Seamless Acceptance Mail Quality Processes
October 01, 2021
- Where is Kierra Coles? Pregnant postal worker’s mysterious disappearance still torture for her mom
- USPS Maintains Service Performance Improvements Ahead of Peak Season
- Day of the Dead Comes Alive with New Forever Stamps
- USPS Connect Local pilot off to good start
- Court Rules That USPS’s Excessive Redactions Were Not Properly Justified
- GAO: Better Use of Climate Data Could Enhance the Climate Resilience of Postal Facilities
- NPMHU: MOU Signed, on Temporary Extensions on Step 3 and Arbitration Appeals | MOU Signed, Extension of Various COVID Related Memoranda
- OIG: The Power of Potential