APWU News – 10/21/2015 – The APWU is urging union members to refrain from participating in “focus groups” on Postal Pulse employee opinion surveys. The union opposes the Postal Pulse and other employee opinion surveys because management has a history of using the results of such surveys against workers during contract negotiations and arbitration. The Postal Service […]
APWU News – 10/22/15 – Presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) made a strong case for postal banking while appearing on the Jimmy Kimmel Live show on Oct. 21. [Watch an excerpt here, beginning at approximately 18:00.] “We have millions and millions of low-income people who have to go to these payday lenders and pay outrageous […]
MOUNDS, Oklahoma – In hopes of getting money and gift cards, a Green Country postal carrier is accused of stealing thousands of pieces of mail. Detectives say victims could be in Glenpool, Bixby and Mounds, as well as rural areas of southeastern Creek County and northern Okmulgee County. Investigators say the woman worked at the […]
APWU News – 10/20/2015 – The APWU won an important grievance involving Maintenance Craft staffing at Bulk Mail Centers on Oct. 19, when Arbitrator Ira Jaffe issued a stinging rebuke to the Postal Service. Maintenance Craft Director Steve Raymer praised the ruling. The arbitrator directed the USPS to rescind Maintenance Management Order 112-10 (MMO 112-10) and restore […]
LUFKIN, TX (KTRE) – An Angelina County judge sentenced the young Lufkin man who shot a mail carrier with a BB gun in 2014 to seven years of deferred adjudication Tuesday. Jaylon Wortham, 17, appeared in Judge Paul White’s 159th Judicial District Court Tuesday morning for a sentencing hearing. As part of his sentencing Wortham […]
NALC – 10/20/15 – A study published by the Brookings Institution, a Washington, DC-based think tank, absurdly calls for Congress to partially privatize the U.S. Postal Service, under the assumption that, as First-Class Mail volumes continue to decline, such a move would help the agency compete with private-sector competitors. NALC President Fredric Rolando has written […]
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After waiting for hours, angry post office customers called You Ask. We Investigate. Many of them have made multiple visits and waited hours to get medication and other important mail. Dozens of people stood in line to get new mail box keys and pick up mail Monday morning at the Tenaya and Smoke Ranch post […]
EAGLE ROCK, LOS ANGELES (KABC) – An unusual device used to steal mail has been found at Eagle Rock’s main post office. Similar items have been found in mailboxes across the city. Now, postal officials and customers are on alert. The devices are often used by thieves to fish envelopes out of mailboxes and steal […]
10/16/2015 – The APWU is discouraging union members from participating in a voluntary program established by the Postal Service that creates an online database of their health records, APWU President Mark Dimondstein has announced. “Last year’s cyber attack on the Postal Service demonstrates the danger in posting sensitive personal information in an online database maintained […]