Pedestrian hit, killed by mail truck

Pedestrian hit, killed by mail truck

  Wyoming Police are investigating after a 77-year-old pedestrian was hit and killed by a United States Postal Service mail truck Tuesday night. Louis Van Vo was crossing Porter Street SW around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in front of Our Lady of La Vang Vietnamese Community Parish when he was hit by the mail truck. Read […]

Postal Headquarters Issues Clarification on POStPlan Re-evaluations of Level 18 Offices

Postal Headquarters Issues Clarification on POStPlan Re-evaluations of Level 18 Offices

As the result of a recent meeting between NAPUS President Bob Rapoza and incoming President Tony Leonardi with Postal Service representatives, a clarification has been issued on the effective date of Level 18 offices that would be downgraded in FY 2016. The original statement from Postal Headquarters was that while encumbered EAS-18 offices would continue […]

USPS Announces Favorable Change to PES Ratings for 2013

USPS Announces Favorable Change to PES Ratings for 2013

Postmasters whose FY 2013 overall numeric rating is 3 or below will receive an adjective rating of contributor. Following years of management associations (NAPUS, League and NAPS) objections to non-bargaining employee’s performance ratings of non-contributor, most recently during our ongoing pay consultations, the Postal Service has decided to allow non-bargaining employees who received an overall […]

Postal Markup “Take 3?, and Bitter-Sweet Budget Agreement

Postal Markup “Take 3?, and Bitter-Sweet Budget Agreement

On Wednesday, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper announced that he would take another crack at bringing S. 1486, the Carper-Coburn postal reform bill, to a committee vote. The scheduled date for the committee markup is Wednesday, December 18 — only one or two days prior to the year-end congressional recess. […]

Postal Customer Sentenced for Embezzling $33,072.68 from USPS

Postal Customer Sentenced for Embezzling $33,072.68 from USPS

December 03, 2013 SYRACUSE, NEW YORK – Richard S. Hartunian, United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, announced that JOHN GIBSON, III, age 38, of Oswego, N.Y. was sentenced today before the Honorable Glenn T. Suddaby in the United States District Court in Syracuse, New York. GIBSON was sentenced to 3 years […]

Idaho Postal Employee Sentenced for Misappropriating Postal Funds

Idaho Postal Employee Sentenced for Misappropriating Postal Funds

Lewiston Woman Sentenced for Misappropriating Postal Funds Judge Orders Former Employee to Pay Over $3,600 in Restitution Dept. of Justice Shawn M. Stone, 49, of Lewiston, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Coeur d’Alene to three years’ probation for misappropriation of postal funds, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. […]

GA postal employee accused of stealing mail

  A postal worker in Paulding County has been arrested after allegedly stealing mail. The Office of the Inspector General with the U.S. Postal Service said that Vanessa Locklear had about 500 pieces of mail when she was arrested at the post office on Saturday. “Credit cards, debit cards, social security numbers, birth certificates,” said […]

2013 Penalty Overtime Exclusion

2013 Penalty Overtime Exclusion

As referenced in Article 8, Sections 4 and 5, of the USPS–NALC and USPS–APWU national agreements, the December period (during which penalty overtime regulations are not applicable) consists of four consecutive service weeks. This year, the December period begins Pay Period 26-13 — Week 1 (November 30, 2013) — and ends Pay Period 01-14 — […]