HOUSTON – Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls says an unidentified postal worker threw away a bundle of his campaign mailers fliers Friday. Nehls, who is up against fellow Republican Kathaleen Wall in the July primary runoff election, says he learned of the incident from a business owner who called him. The business owner showed Nehls […]
PEN – 6/26/20 – News these days MAY be true or accurate or, it MAY NOT be true or accurate. What’s the deal here? Seems everyone wants some sort of buy-out or stimulus help and in efforts to secure these they provide false or inaccurate information. For instance, this news article released in April 2020 […]
BOSTON – DOJ 6/25/20 – A former U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee was re-sentenced yesterday in federal court in Worcester for sexually exploiting a child, using USPS computers to access child pornography and possessing child pornography. Stephen Mantha, 66, of Spencer, was re-sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Timothy S. Hillman to 16 years and […]
A federal judge rejected the plaintiffs’ argument that requiring voters to pick up the tab for stamps amounts to an unconstitutional “poll tax.” TALLAHASSEE — With a closely watched trial set to begin next month, a federal judge on Wednesday struck a blow to left-leaning groups seeking to expand Florida’s vote-by-mail procedures. U.S. District Judge […]
6/24/20 – The U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) today announced two settlement agreements reached with federal employees who admitted to violating the Hatch Act. A summary of the violations and settlements are below: U.S. Postal Service: A USPS sales associate in California violated the Hatch Act by making partisan political statements to a customer […]
PEN – 6/23/20 – So Mike Pence, President Donald Trump, Ivanka, And Bill Barr have all voted by mail…so what? Your point is what – that opening the nation up to all mail-in voting would be a good idea? A good idea for whom? Can you imagine how long it would take to count the […]
WASHINGTON — As Mainers continue to rely on the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to access critical supplies and services during the COVID-19 pandemic, Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) and 136 of his House colleagues called on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to address the Postal Service’s more than $22 billion in anticipated lost […]
Message from President Stutts: National-Level Step 4 Grievance Filed June 2020 – We continue to live in unprecedented times. While the novel coronavirus has not gone away, many states are moving through the various phases of “reopening” and we hope that process does not cause a dangerous spike in positive COVID-19 cases or worse yet, […]
From Postal Bulletin 22548 In a moment of crisis, a Postal Service™ customer in Miami turned to a trusted figure for help: Letter Carrier Donna Bratton. Bratton was delivering mail at the customer’s apartment complex when the woman ran up to her, holding an infant. “My baby can’t breathe!” the customer exclaimed. While 911 was […]
June 17, 2020 Press Release Members of Congress urge SBA Administrator Jovita Carranza to issue public statement in support of rescuing USPS FULLERTON, CA – Today, Representative Gilbert R. Cisneros, Jr. (CA-39), alongside Reps. Annie Kuster (NH-02), Kendra Horn (OK-05), and Chris Pappas (NH-01) sent a letter to Small Business Administrator Jovita Carranza to express their […]