04/14/2016 – On April 5 and 6 the APWU completed the opening round of its case before the arbitration panel that will decide the terms of a new contract, with testimony supporting the union’s economic package and proposals to eliminate multiple tiers within the workforce. The Postal Service began presenting its case the next day. Following […]
Stamp Highlights Gulf Islands National Seashore – 9th of 16 Stamps Celebrating National Park Service’s Centennial Video Below – WASHINGTON – 4/14/16 – A photograph of a long-legged water bird with a wingspan that can exceed six feet was previewed today to highlight Gulf Islands National Seashore as the ninth of 16 Forever Stamp images […]
OAKLAND (KRON) – 4/13/16 – Think of all the sensitive material you get in the mail–bank statements, credit card bills, maybe even your tax refund, or cash from grandma for your birthday. Stealing mail is a federal offense, as is stealing an entire United States Postal Service mail truck. On Tuesday night, KRON learned that […]
WASHINGTON — An iconic painting of one of the seven natural wonders of the world — the Grand Canyon — was previewed today as the eighth of 16 Forever Stamp images to be revealed over a three-week period to celebrate the National Park Service’s 100th anniversary. Grand Canyon National Park, AZ The stamp […]
2016 Food Drive video: The story behind the story By Community and Membership Outreach Coordinator Pam Donato in the April 2016 Postal Record: Each year, NALC produces a video that is sent to each branch registered for the Letter Carriers’ Stamp Out Hunger® Food Drive. The video comes to fruition with professional filming and editing work […]
Amazon’s DuPont fulfillment center is a sort of laboratory for how the company is using robots to do much of its heavy lifting. But it also shows how the human workforce is not only necessary but superior in some respects. Read more
WASHINGTON — The cost of mailing a letter has gone down. Beginning Sunday, the price of a first-class stamp dropped two cents, to 47 cents. The reduction is the result of an expiring surcharge that had been put in place in January 2014 to help the beleaguered Postal Service recoup $4.6 billion in losses dating […]
Check out the video below where U.S. Postal Inspectors say Daniel Anderson rolls up to a blue collection box and immediately casts out some type of fishing line or other type of wire string with a device attached to it that’s sticky with something and then one by one for the next several minutes, he […]
MARIETTA, Ga. – A Marietta Army veteran says she was forced to go to court to get her job back when she returned from serving her country. Jessica Rice was a mail carrier with the United States Postal Service before she joined the military. Rice was in the Army for four and a half years, […]
Jim Richter, the blind Indianapolis man known as “the Broom Guy,” is allowed back on property at four north-side post offices under an agreement reached today, Indiana House Speaker Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, said. Richter, 78, had been booted in February from Indianapolis post office property where he sold brooms for the past 60 years. Read more