3/06/10 The following article/opinion was submitted to Postal Employee Network anonymously and does not necessarily reflect our views or opinion. I am a letter carrier and a shop steward for the NALC. I have some knowledge of the inner workings of the Postal Service and served on the MIARAP process both as a local office contact as […]
A study just released by the U.S. Postal Service’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) shows that the current system of funding the Postal Service’s Civil Service Retirement System pension responsibility is inequitable and has resulted in the Postal Service overpaying $75 billion to the pension fund. The OIG estimates that if the overcharge was used […]
On January 7, 2010, Leonard Jenkins, a Baltimore mail carrier, was sentenced in U.S. District Court, Baltimore, Maryland, to 3 years incarceration, followed by 3 years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $104,446 in restitution for mail fraud, theft of mail, and aggravated identity theft arising from the use of his position as a […]
OIG Workers Compensation ‘Fraud’ Campaign Who’s scamming who? The USPS Office of Inspector General recently launched a “Workers’ Compensation Fraud Campaign.” In typical OIG fashion, one of its strategies involves demonizing injured workers by having an actor posing as a postal employee cheerfully brag about cheating the Workers’ Comp program. No one, of course, should […]
December 03, 2009 Some of you may have visited the Dead Tree Edition today and found an error message from Google stating “The blog you were looking for was not found.” Well…this is not the full story – here’s what Dead Tree has to say… For all of you who have been kind enough to […]
On the eve of the holiday season, Dunkin’ Donuts, America’s all-day, every day stop for coffee and baked goods, is delivering a very special gift to the men and women who deliver our holiday cards, catalogs and presents. On Wednesday, November 25, Dunkin’ Donuts will serve free coffee to any United States Postal Service (USPS) […]
THEY’RE GOING TO VEGAS BABY!
(07/14/09) In response to a letter from the Postal Service stating that the APWU’s FMLA forms are not equivalent to the Department of Labor’s FMLA forms, the union has written the Postal Service clarifying our position on the use of the forms. Some managers have interpreted the USPS’s comments to mean that the APWU’s FMLA […]
July 2, 2009 by Rick Owens – www.PostalEmployeeNetwork.com For those who do not work at USPS it may appear that the Postal Service is having a going out of business sale instead of a summer sale. The closure of branch after branch and office after office, and the consolidation of distribution centers across the nation […]
July 1, 2009 Today the USPS ZIP Code turns 46 years old. However, the cartoon figure, Mr. ZIP, originated serveral years earlier. Mr. ZIP, was adopted by USPS as the trademark for the Zoning Improvement Plan or ZIP Code, which began on July 1, 1963. Mr. ZIP was designed by Harold Wilcox, son of a letter […]