Video: Skimmers at Washington County post offices?
A joint investigation between the US Post Office and the Washington County Sheriff’s Office is underway over the possibility skimming devices were illegally placed on self-service stamp machines at two post offices. Read more
APWU, USPS Reach Agreement On Filling Residual Vacancies
APWU, USPS Reach Agreement On Filling Residual Vacancies Settlement Will Result in PSE, PTF Conversions March 24, 2014 An important March 20 agreement between the APWU and USPS outlines a procedure for filling residual vacancies in the Clerk, Maintenance and Motor Vehicle Crafts, and will result in the conversion of Postal Support Employees to career […]
NALC sends letter to House subcommittee
NALC President Fredric Rolando has sent a letter to the leaders of the House Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and Census, registering the union’s concerns about the subcommittee’s March 13 hearing on USPS finances. “This hearing was yet another example of how anti-USPS and anti-worker forces in Congress are trying to manufacture a […]
Video: USPS stops delivering Bay Area woman’s mail
What would you do if suddenly you stopped receiving any mail. It happened to a Bay Area woman who didn’t get a single piece of mail for months. At first she thought someone was stealing her mail. Later she found out that the U.S. Postal Service was returning all her mail to the senders. Read […]
Good Samaritan – a postal employee – Shot and Killed After Breaking Up Domestic Dispute
Dallas police are investigating the shooting death of a man who, according to witnesses, was shot by the very people he had just tried to help. Rubin Brown, a 27 year old Texas postal employee, was shot multiple times early Thursday when someone fired upwards of 23 bullets into his house and car in […]
NALC signs onto AFL-CIO letter to Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC)
NALC President Fredric Rolando has joined with the leaders of several other labor organizations in signing a letter from the AFL-CIO to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). The letter signals the federation’s disappointment with the DCCC in its effort to defeat Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ) in this fall’s mid-term election. “The role of the […]
Postal Service Postpones Plans to Move Jobs Out of Scranton
Plans to move nearly 300 postal jobs from Scranton to the Lehigh Valley have been put on hold. The United States Postal Service says it is postponing the second phase of its mail processing center consolidation plan. Read More
National Association of Letter Carriers Stands with APWU to ‘Stop Staples’
March 20, 2014 The National Association of Letter Carriers is taking a stand in support of the APWU’s fight against the sweetheart deal between the USPS and Staples that puts postal retail operations in Staples stores — and staffs them with low-wage, high-turnover Staples employees rather than postal employees. In a March 18 posting on […]
Video: Mail Carrier Allegedly Tossed 1,000 Letters and Packages
We all get a little lazy on the job sometimes. But one Long Island postal worker has singlehandedly raised the bar for the slackers of the world, and is paying for it dearly. U.S. Postal Service employee Patrick Paskett, 24, was arrested last week after dozens of customers complained about missing packages and letters, CBS […]