SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) – Do you know this man? There’s a $10,000 reward for information leading to his arrest and conviction, after he was recorded taking mail from a San Francisco home while wearing a PG&E vest. The home-owner actually watched it happening live on his phone as it was happening. Imagine that feeling. Read […]
Many Albuquerque residents are fed up with their cluster mailboxes after several have been broken into the last few weeks – some of them even completely ripped open. One man says it’s a huge concern and the post office hasn’t fixed the one in his neighborhood in almost a month. Read more
February 09, 2016 Rolando statement on USPS’ quarterly financial report In the first quarter of FY2016, USPS reported an operating profit of $1.3 billion. (Sources: 2014, 2015, 2016.) NALC President Fredric Rolando issued a statement following the U.S. Postal Service’s release today of its financial report for the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2016, covering October through […]
He’s fast. He’s quick. He might be faster than any other letter carrier in town. “He’s always efficient, very efficient,” says Shari Masse. “Dewey is the greatest,” says Karen Volk. “We just love Dewey,” says Edie Waslaski. “I’m Dewey their mail carrier,” says Dewey Reinert. Dewey Reinert has a reputation for being quick on the […]
WILLIAMSBRIDGE, The Bronx — The email we received from Tony Williams in the Bronx complained that his local post office lost two of his packages in a month. Even worse, when he went to the Williamsbridge Station on Gun Hill Road to look for his packages, he said it took him an hour of standing […]
ROANOKE, Va. – The United States Postal service lost more than $5 billion last fiscal year, despite seeing a more than 10 percent increase in its package shipping business. To try and survive, the USPS is consolidating and cutting services fast, which some say is giving a whole new meaning to snail mail. The new […]
Union members are invited to take part in a live Telephone Town Hall call on Feb. 9 with APWU President Mark Dimondstein for an update on our fight for a good contract. Two time slots are available: 12 p.m. and 8 p.m. EST. Participants must register online at www.apwu.org/contract-town-hall-call-feb-9 by 6 p.m. EST on Feb. 8. The […]
Employee Impact Expected at CFS Sites APWU – 02/05/2016 – In a letter dated Jan. 29, 2016 the Postal Service notified the APWU that it plans to activate Flats Postal Automated Redirection Systems (FPARS) in 17 locations where there are Central Forwarding System (CFS) sites. Deployment of the new equipment is expected to impact employees in some locations as […]
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Exactly one year after Staples and Office Depot announced a merger plan that would create a dominant office-supply store monopoly in the United States and other markets, the American Postal Workers Union said today that it is expanding its opposition to the plan to other nations. The APWU is reaching out to overseas union […]
SACRAMENTO COUNTY (CBS13) — A phony postal worker is accused of stealing mail in a Sacramento neighborhood. Federal investigators say they’re looking for a suspect wearing a fake mail carrier uniform that’s targeting unsuspecting residents in Del Paso Heights. Michael Mohr says he was at a restaurant with his daughters when he got a message […]