CARROLLTON, TX – Steve Weinstein is asking the United States Postal Service if it’s standard procedure to toss deliveries on doorsteps after an expensive package got unceremoniously dumped on his front porch. Weinstein’s home surveillance camera caught a delivery person tossing a package several feet onto his porch Wednesday. He posted video of the incident […]
House and Senate lawmakers introduce pay-increase legislation Last week, both the House and Senate introduced the Federal Adjustment of Income Rates (FAIR) Act (H.R. 304 and S.164), which seeks to provide a 3.8 percent pay increase for non-postal federal employees in Fiscal Year 2016. H.R. 304’s original co-sponsors include: Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL) […]
01/19/2015 – A coalition of consumer organizations, financial reform groups, faith-based organizations and workers’ representatives – including the APWU and the other postal unions – announced the formation of the Campaign for Postal Banking on Jan. 19. The coalition is calling on the U.S. Postal Service to expand access to affordable financial services through its 31,000 neighborhood […]
A homeowner’s surveillance camera is recording from the front porch as the family waited for a package to be delivered. The effort pays off because the camera captures a suspect approaching the house. Another angle shows the man sitting on the ground to open the package, and then quickly leaving. Read more video platformvideo managementvideo […]
USPS Heroes’ corner South Carolina letter carrier rescues another customer North Charleston, SC, Letter Carrier Mark Conway USPS – 01.16.15 – It pays to know your customers — something North Charleston, SC, Letter Carrier Mark Conway has been reminded of more than once. Conway recently noticed mail piling up at a sick customer’s home and […]
APWU – 01.14.15 – The APWU is fighting efforts by USPS management to dismantle the nation’s mail processing network, which would severely degrade service to the people. The USPS plans to close or consolidate 82 mail processing facilities in 2015 – in addition to 140 mail processing plants that were closed or consolidated in 2012. […]
PHILADELPHIA – video below – A small business owner is trying to hang on. He’s had to cut an employee’s hours and is now hustling for every dime after an attempt to boost his business fails miserably. He says the U.S. Postal Service let him down. FOX 29 Investigates’ Jeff Cole has been working the story. […]
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Residents of a Brooklyn building are frustrated because they’re not receiving their mail. The building at the corner of Knickerbocker Avenue and Eldert Street in Bushwick essentially has an identity crisis, CBS2’s Valerie Castro reported. “The whole situation is ridiculous and weird,” resident Diana Diaz told Castro. That crisis means residents […]
LITTLE ROCK, AR – A 16-year-old was arrested and accused of shooting at a mail carrier in Little Rock. Isaac Tate faces a charge of aggravated assault after a mail carrier told police she had guns pointed in her direction and rounds fired at her. “I have three small children so it does kind of worry […]
NALC: On Dec. 24, the Postal Service results for November and fiscal year-to-date 2015 were posted on the Postal Regulatory Commission website. For November, USPS reported a $59 million operating profit. Add that to the $633 million operating profit from October, and you see that, for the first two months of this fiscal quarter, the Postal […]