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June 2018
6/30/18
Long time postal clerk set to retire after 33 years  |  Tallman retiring after 37 years - Comments (Count)
House Republicans Want to Ensure Postal Banking Plan Stays Dead - Comments (Count)
Hot weather doesn't stop USPS mail carriers from working - Comments (Count)
6/29/18
Short-handed post office is out to lunch - Comments (Count)
Tarentum postal carrier makes her last delivery after 30-year career - Comments (Count)
New Postmaster for Purchase - Comments (Count)
Ohio: USPS suspends delivery service in neighborhood after mailman attack - Comments (Count)
6/28/18
Charlotte postal employees say they've been stalked for years by co-workers - Comments (Count)
Seasoned postal worker accused of 220 pound marijuana scheme in Hampton - Comments (Count)
Trump, Bezos And The Solution For The USPS - Comments (Count)
Burlington postmaster installed - Comments (Count)
Amazon wants you to start a business to deliver its packages  |  Amazon starting deliveries in Amazon-branded vans - Comments (Count)
Livermore Falls man's car hits post office - Comments (Count)
6/27/18
NALC: Supreme Court attacks workers' rights in Janus decision - Comments (Count)
Postal worker indicted after undelivered mail found in SUV - Comments (Count)
Houston: Former APWU president defamed by widely circulated letter, suit alleges - Comments (Count)
Jacksonville man arrested after allegedly attacking postal worker - Comments (Count)
Weeds at post office in Los Altos leave 'mulch' to be desired - Comments (Count)
Mind-boggling new tech instantly identifies drugs hidden in USPS packages - Comments (Count)
6/26/18
OIG Audit Finds Significant Safety, Security and Maintenance Issues at Many USPS Retail Facilities - Comments (Count)
St. Louis: Postmaster promises to clean up overgrown post office - Comments (Count)
Mail Carrier Robbed in Palm Springs: $50,000 Reward For Information - Comments (Count)
Burlington: USPS holding job fair to address staffing shortage and delivery issues - Comments (Count)
Three charged in alleged $16 million bulk-mailing scheme - Comments (Count)
Mysterious mailbox stickers spur concern - Comments (Count)
Postal workers protest job cutbacks ahead of contract negotiations - Comments (Count)
Video shows postal employee tossing large package out truck window onto lawn - Comments (Count)
USPS Mail Truck Crashes Trying to Avoid Rabbit - Comments (Count)
6/25/18
USPS Parcel Price Increase Would Have a Ripple Effect, Study Finds - Comments (Count)
FERS: Saved by the bell ... again - Comments (Count)
I delivered packages for Amazon and it was a nightmare - Comments (Count)
UPS Workers Denounce Sellout Deal  |  Tentative agreement lays groundwork for Sunday deliveries - Comments (Count)
NALC: Senate Appropriations Preserves Six Day Delivery - Comments (Count)
6/24/18
Downtown Reading post office has a potential buyer - Comments (Count)
How to Privatize the Post Office: Piece by piece, step by step - Comments (Count)
Supreme Court Ruling Will Put More Taxes on Internet Sales - Comments (Count)
6/23/18
Thieves break into mail truck in Beaverdale - Comments (Count)
19 million letters a day! How Chicago's old main post office used to work - Comments (Count)
USPS reports 880-percent increase in parcels containing drugs - Comments (Count)
Dogs break into postal worker's van, steal her lunch - Comments (Count)
6/22/18
Sprint Saturday Event June 23rd for Postal Employees - Comments (Count)
New Resource: Superior Funding - Loans for Postal Employees - Comments (Count)
Chinese receiving far cheaper postal rates than Amazon  |  Boulder company fighting back against knockoffs from China shipped at $1.42 - Comments (Count)
Hagerstown postal worker delivers mail with a smile and a dog treat - Comments (Count)
6/21/18
Postal bills in the current session of Congress: Is anything going anywhere? - Comments (Count)
USPS OIG: Opioid Safety Preparedness - Comments (Count)
USPS OIG: Test Driving Left-Hand Drive Vehicles - Comments (Count)
VIDEO: Postal worker rescues girl - Comments (Count)
Postal worker retires after 30 years - Comments (Count)
6/20/18
Postal worker uses military training to rescue girl - Comments (Count)
Des Moines: Thieves smash their way into mail truck - Comments (Count)
Post Office Recognizes Hoover and Hightree for Service - Comments (Count)
Meet Macon's New Postmaster - Comments (Count)
Amazon is launching a new delivery option called Hub - Comments (Count)
Michigan: Postal Service Looking to Fill More Than 500 Positions - Comments (Count)
6/19/18
Postal Workers in Portland Rally to Save Customer Service - Comments (Count)
Woman said she blacked out when she crashed into post office. Later, her story changed - Comments (Count)
CVS Adds Home Delivery With Help From Post Office  |  CVS Launches Nationwide Service - Comments (Count)
Kailua postal worker saves woman from being a victim of the 'grandparent scam' - Comments (Count)
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is now worth a record $141 billion - Comments (Count)
Postal truck erupts in flames after mail carrier smells gas  |  First attributed to lightning - Comments (Count)
6/18/18
Flooding closes post office, locks out hundreds of box customers - Comments (Count)
Spy Shots: New Look at the Karsan Mail Truck Prototype - Comments (Count)
Changes in parcel landscape loom large as UPS, Teamsters knock heads again - Comments (Count)
Answer Man: Why does local mail sometimes take days to be delivered? - Comments (Count)
6/17/18
NPMHU: Congress Collaborates in Support of Federal Workers - Comments (Count)
C-SPAN: Lexington Institute Forum on Trump's Postal Task Force - Comments (Count)
6/16/18
Surveillance cameras capture man stealing neighbors' mail, police say - Comments (Count)
NALC: Notice to prospective candidates in the 2018 NALC election - Comments (Count)
6/15/18
Canada weighs going postal with basic banking services - Comments (Count)
USPS looking to hire 50 mail carriers in Rochester - Comments (Count)
U.S. Magazines Are in a Steep Decline, Except... - Comments (Count)
Ely Postmaster Sworn In  |  Baileys Harbor: Meet the New Postmaster - Comments (Count)
Security camera catches postal worker throwing package in Florida - Comments (Count)
Scooby-Doo on U.S. Forever Stamp July 14 - Comments (Count)
6/14/18
House Passes Bill to Help USPS Block International Shipments With Opioids - Comments (Count)
Worker rescued after mail truck gets stuck in Ames flooding - Comments (Count)
Registry Clerk Cites Signature Requirement for Non-Working Status  |  USPS Files to Collect $285 FEGLI Payment - Comments (Count)
Azle Man Fighting Back After Postal Service Stops Delivering to His House - Comments (Count)
Hundreds of pieces of stolen mail from Dublin recovered - Comments (Count)
Trump's Wrong on Amazon-USPS Deal, Two House Democrats Say - Comments (Count)
There Aren't Enough Drivers to Keep Up With Your Delivery Lifestyle - Comments (Count)
VIDEO: The Eagle Always Faces Forward  |  PMG Brennan's Latest 'Business Focus' Video - Comments (Count)
6/13/18
Mailboat Jumper Tryouts Held in Lake Geneva - Comments (Count)
Former Postmaster Ordered to Pay More Than $353,000 - Comments (Count)
When People Used the Postal Service to Mail Their Children - Comments (Count)
Securing the Last Mile Through Wi-Fi Enabled Locks - Comments (Count)
Vehicle-to-vehicle shooting in Frayser injures postal supervisor - Comments (Count)
Mail truck in Fargo spotted with torn-off gas hose hanging from its tank - Comments (Count)
Mother charged after postal worker finds 5-year-old girl outside with no one home - Comments (Count)
6/12/18
The Postal Service is Not Subject to Trump's Workforce Executive Orders - Comments (Count)
Memphis: USPS employee shot during attempted carjacking - Comments (Count)
Postal carrier who died on route had just retired from the Navy and started carrier job - Comments (Count)
How Politics Complicate the New Mail Delivery Truck Contract - Comments (Count)
Stamp Out Hunger raises nearly 90,000 pounds of food for the Food Bank of South Jersey - Comments (Count)
USPS releases 2017 Household Diary Study, finds "use of post offices continues to dominate the mail service industry" - Comments (Count)
Eleven Edison Mail Carriers Up for Safe Driving Awards - Comments (Count)
6/11/18
Despite Reduced Hours, USPS Says It's Not Closing Unalaska's Post Office - Comments (Count)
Malone University student accidentally changes school mailing address - Comments (Count)
USPS OIG: Postal Service Disability Retirement Application Process - Comments (Count)
Riding the Mailboat - Comments (Count)
Nationwide strike would deliver the pain to UPS - Comments (Count)
Coroner: Postal Service worker dies in Scott County while delivering mail - Comments (Count)
6/10/18
Murdered female postal worker in Chicago had been shot multiple times - Comments (Count)
Downtown Minneapolis Post Office Will be Closed for Several Months After Fire - Comments (Count)
Officer Killed in Crash With USPS Truck - Comments (Count)
New Scanner Feature Asks About Package Delivery Location - Comments (Count)
The postman rings no more on Ferry Road - Comments (Count)
6/09/18
Pointless PRC OIG Semiannual Report to Congress Released (PDF) - Comments (Count)
Man caught on camera stealing hundreds of pieces of mail from USPS truck - Comments (Count)
Mail carriers seen throwing packages up flight of stairs - Comments (Count)
6/08/18
OIG: USPS was not ready for the January 2018 special elections - Comments (Count)
Making the Postal Service Great Again: Workforce Submission to the White House Task Force on the USPS (PDF) - Comments (Count)
Former USPS Employee Arrested in Mail Theft Investigations - Comments (Count)
Inside the High-End Mailrooms Wealthy Residents Visit When They've Got Mail - Comments (Count)
Long Beach postal carriers honored for years of service - Comments (Count)
VIDEO: Lazy Postal Worker Throws Package on Driveway - Comments (Count)
6/07/18
White House nominates Michael Kubayanda to be a commissioner of the Postal Regulatory Commission - Comments (Count)
What was it like the last time UPS went on strike? - Comments (Count)
USPS worker arrested, charged over rap songs threatening coworkers - Comments (Count)
Bernie Sanders Is to Deliver a Commonsense Plan to Save the Postal Service - Comments (Count)
Amazon delivery man takes doormat message literally - Comments (Count)
LaBelle woman discusses mail mess in rural Jefferson County areas - Comments (Count)
Putting her stamp on the job - Comments (Count)
6/06/18
Woods Is New Algona Postmaster - Comments (Count)
USPS OIG: Parcel Return Service - Los Angeles District - Comments (Count)
Teamsters and UPS headed for the nation's largest strike in decades - Comments (Count)
Elderly woman crashes car into lobby of post office, gets out and screams "if it fits, it ships..."  |  Woman Drives Into Grantville Post Office - Comments (Count)
VIDEO: Carrier Throws Rocks at Cat - Comments (Count)
6/05/18
NALC submits postal workforce recommendations to White House - Comments (Count)
APWU: Tell the PMG! - Comments (Count)
Piedmont mail carrier honored for helping catch burglars - Comments (Count)
Yonkers Officials Call on USPS Following Mail Thefts - Comments (Count)
Mail carrier decides police department doesn't exist - Comments (Count)
6/04/18
U.S. Postal stamp helped fund key breast study - Comments (Count)
USPS Los Angeles District Using Job Fairs to Find New Employees - Comments (Count)
Over 60 Firefighters Take Out Fire at Kensington Post Office - Comments (Count)
USPS Offering 'Passport to Space' Folio With Space Stamps - Comments (Count)
APWU: After Over 60 Dutiful Years, He's Retiring at 89 - Comments (Count)
6/03/18
1-year-old airlifted to Tampa after being hit by mail truck - Comments (Count)
For Postmaster Paul Leonard It Has Always Been Priority Service - Comments (Count)
6/02/18
Postal workers collect more than 11 tons of food - Comments (Count)
New postmaster in Niwot - Comments (Count)
Vehicle crashes into Ogunquit post office - Comments (Count)
Meet some of the postal workers of the remote Faroe Islands - Comments (Count)
You've got mail! Cuba, U.S. make permanent restored postal services - Comments (Count)
6/01/18
USPS OIG: Is USPS efficiently managing Postal Service Vehicle operations in the Houston District? - Comments (Count)
USPS OIG: Spring 2018 Semiannual Report to Congress - Comments (Count)
Absentee Ballots Left Stranded at Brooklyn Post Office After 2017 General Election - Comments (Count)
Rouses Point postal worker awarded for life-saving efforts - Comments (Count)
Magnolia postal employee removed from duty as mail theft investigation continues - Comments (Count)
Audiobook Reviews June 2018 by Jonathan Lowe - Comments (Count)
USPS Loses Passport Applications - Comments (Count)
TOP NEWS STORIES
Amazon Launching Nationwide Delivery Service Program
6.29.2018 - Long anticipated, Amazon is launching a nationwide delivery service program to end its reliance on last mile shippers such as UPS, FedEx, and the USPS. The program will develop hundreds if not thousands of small business owners who will deliver the packages as part of their own business. Under the program, Amazon gets its packages delivered and the small business owners manage all the details including hiring, background checks, payroll, pay and benefits, training, vehicle maintenance, insurance, legal and regulatory issues etc. etc. - Amazon's new grassroots delivery network could sidestep UPS, USPS - Bezos says you can make up to $300K a year - Only Amazon Packages - Amazon Business Opportunity Website - Business Opportunity Brochure (PDF) - Archives: FedEx Sued By Drivers Clarified as Independent Contractors - Comments (Count)
Trump Administration Proposes Privatizing Postal Service
6.21.2018 - FOX Business reports: "The president has been critical of the Postal Service, particularly regarding its relationship with e-commerce giant Amazon. The government is expected to make recommendations on privatization reforms in August. It promises to maintain strong regulatory oversight of the agency to ensure fair competition and prices for customers." - Trump's Postal Privatization Plan Met With Bipartisan Rebuke in Congress - USPS: Up to Congress to Decide - Plan (PDF, Page 68) - NALC Statement - APWU Statement - White House's Plan for the Postal Service: Fix It, Then Privatize It - Stamps.com shares drop 10% on announcement - Comments (Count)
USPS Delivery Satisfaction Numbers Trending Downward
6.03.2018 - PostalMag.com reports: USPS delivery satisfaction numbers are trending downward according to the USPS OIG Spring 2018 Semiannual Report to Congress released at the end of May. The report shows declining numbers for customer satisfaction in all areas except one. - Comments (Count)

 

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