Say it ain’t so, Joe:USPS CFO tries to bamboozle WSJ “The situation now, as you can see, is fairly precarious. When you have roughly $4 billion of cash, and over $100 billion in liabilities, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out we’re in a financial crisis.” —USPS Chief Financial Officer Joseph Corbett, Wall Street Journal online […]
June 18, 2014 – The APWU opened another front in the campaign to Stop Staples with a protest in Pittsburgh on June 17. The city is one of four tests sites for the program that established postal counters in more than 82 of the company’s office-supply stores – staffed with Staples employees rather than U.S. Postal Service workers. Postmaster […]
‘The right thing to do’ Carrier helps police catch burglars June 18, 2014 – Euclid, OH, Letter Carrier Linda Spencer was on her route when she noticed two young men kept appearing on the streets where she was delivering. “I saw them walking up a hill and then nearly ran into one of them coming […]
June 18, 2014 – Big banks and other major financial institutions are sending more direct mail to attract new customers, according to a recent report by the industry news site Financial Brand. The volume of direct marketing focused on customer acquisition grew by 18 percent during the six-month period that ended March 31, the report states. The increase […]
Successful Results for Letter Carriers’ 2014 Annual Food Drive Another Excellent Effort Helps Americans and Communities in Time of Slow Economy, Natural Disasters WASHINGTON, June 17, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The annual food drive of the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) collected almost 73 million pounds of food to help restock food banks, pantries and shelters around […]
Donahoe’s Treachery: PMG Endorses Highway Budget Scam Would End Saturday Delivery; Give ‘Savings’ to Highway Trust Fund June 16, 2014 – The Postmaster General’s latest act of treachery is so outrageous it’s hard to believe. Last week, he endorsed a budget scam that would eliminate Saturday mail delivery and hand over the alleged “savings” to […]
June 16, 2014—The Washington Post’s “Fact Checker,” Glenn Kessler, has challenged on his blogthe statement by NALC that the Postal Service’s plan to end Saturday would eliminate 80,000 jobs. Sadly, Kessler has made a hash of it. Kessler argues that the NALC’s statement is misleading, because the data our statement relies on is from a 2010 […]
2 Investigates: San Francisco Postal Service ranks amongst worst recycling offenders 6/16/14 – SAN FRANCISCO — Mountains of paper, plastic, and boxes at San Francisco post offices are ending up in the trash instead of being recycled. Video will load below. Read more.
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June 13, 2014 – The Postal Service is always on the move, and so are other posts around the world. The United Kingdom Post Office recently deployed a fleet of 40 new “mobile post offices” to serve rural customers in 250 locations. The vans will provide letter and parcel postage, bill payment and personal banking services, including […]