LAS VEGAS (FOX5) – 12/08/15 -The U.S. Postal Service is expecting to deliver 600 million packages this holiday season, which would be a record season for parcel delivery. Many of those packages will end up on recipients’ doorsteps. Some Las Vegas Valley residents have recorded packages being snatched off their front porch. According to USPS, […]
TEMPE, AZ – 12/08/15 – A Tempe man is out a few Christmas gifts, but thanks to his home surveillance camera, he has a good look at who took them. Rob Biggs was expecting some packages — gifts he ordered for his brother and father. They were delivered to his home near University and Mill, […]
CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) – 12/08/15 – It was just another day for U.S. Postal Service Mail Carrier Mark Pizzo as he delivered parcels and packages in Rock Hill two weeks ago. “I was doing the end part of my route. I pulled up to the cul-de-sac,” Pizzo said. But he quickly noticed something wasn’t right. […]
BROOMFIELD, Colo. (CBS4) – 12/08/15 – This week in the Denver metro area 400,000 packages will be delivered daily. That’s part of the reason why the U.S. Postal Service is testing new, larger mailboxes. The oversized boxes are being used in three different communitiesin the country, and one of them is Broomfield. Approximately 70 percent of mailed […]
The U.S. government is once again taking an eraser to big merger plans between Staples and Office Depot. The Federal Trade Commission announced a challenge on Monday to the $6.3 billion acquisition of Office Depot (ODP) by rival Staples (SPLS). The agency successfully blocked a merger of the two office suppliers back in 1997. In […]
OWCP Tidbits By Bill Lewis, President Trenton APWU You have a right to seek medical treatment from a physician of your choice. You have a right to decline medical treatment from the UPSP provider. Traumatic injury – medical condition occurred within a single work shift – immediately complete Form CA-1. Occupational disease – medical condition […]
Snow problem at all CBS News highlights South Dakota carrier’s dedication USPS News Link 12/04/15 Sioux Falls, SD, Letter Carrier Don Shea was busy delivering mail Nov. 30 when a photographer for the Argus Leader newspaper snapped his picture. Shea usually doesn’t receive such attention while on his route, but Sioux Falls was in the […]
SAND SPRINGS, Okla. — Quick Facts: Thieves are targeting blue USPS boxes in Sand Springs Two were it in a row; one on South Adams and another behind the post office USPS recommends mailing money and other sensitive items inside the post office Thieves in Sand Springs are targeting what was once a safe method […]
This is the time of year when millions of Americans rely on the U.S. Postal Service to deliver holiday greeting cards or packages. Despite strong challenges from e-mail and rival delivery companies, the U.S. Postal Service is still a vital link for large and small businesses as well as everyday folks. The board that oversees […]
12/04/2015 – Arbitrator Shyam Das ruled on Dec. 3, 2015, that the American Postal Workers Union and the National Postal Mail Handlers Union may now go forward with their Step 4 grievances challenging the Postal Service’s decision to close or consolidate approximately 82 mail processing facilities starting January of 2015. The grievances had contended that […]