Postal News Archives April 2019

USPS Cuts 10K Positions After Five Years of Job Growth
4.23.2019 – GovExec.com reports: “The U.S. Postal Service shed 10,000 jobs in fiscal 2018, the first time in five years the mailing agency posted a net reduction in jobs. USPS employed 634,000 people last fiscal year, according to a financial analysis released by the Postal Regulatory Commission on Monday, its lowest total since fiscal 2015. While the cash-strapped agency has trended toward a smaller workforce over the last two decades — it has slashed 300,000 career workers since 1999 — its total number of employees has inched up each year since fiscal 2013.” – Comments (Count)

PRC Releases Report on USPS Financial Condition
4.19.2019 – PostalMag.com reports: “The Postal Service reported a net loss from operations of $2.1 billion in FY 2018. This loss was largely due to the continual decline of Market Dominant volume and higher operating expenses, and is nearly $748 million more than the $1.3 billion operating loss reported in FY 2017.” – Comments (Count)

APWU Enters Mediation
4.10.2019 – APWU reports: “In our continuing efforts to get the contract the members deserve, the APWU invoked mediation on April 3, 2019 – sending a letter to the Acting Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and to the Postal Service. The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) is a federal agency that provides public and private-sector labor-management mediation, and by law it is responsible for facilitating the APWU’s demand for mediation with the Postal Service.” – Comments (Count)

4/30/19

USPS fears running out of cash by 2024 unless Congress helps – Comments (Count)

‘You can double your salary’: USPS hiring at Milwaukee job fair – Comments (Count)

ESPN to pull plug on signature oversized magazine in September, cease publication – Comments (Count)

Long-time postal service employee retires – Comments (Count)

Get Gephardt investigates secretive facility where USPS sends, sells your lost mail – Comments (Count)

War on Terror Vet Wins Back Postal Job After 14 Years – Comments (Count)

4/29/19

Former Springfield postal manager admits taking bribes from towing companies – Comments (Count)

Let’s Get Real About Postal Reform – Comments (Count)

Funeral services set for postal carrier shot, killed by 17-year-old – Comments (Count)

FedEx touts convenience network as antidote to porch piracy – Comments (Count)

Postal Hub Podcast Episode 153: USA vs UPU – The Inside Story (continued…) – Comments (Count)

APWU Nebraska Holds Annual Convention in Norfolk – Comments (Count)

LED lights brightening up postal stations in Florida – Comments (Count)

4/28/19

Car show displays USPS truck to honor slain mail carrier – Comments (Count)

Divide USPS products into two categories, essential and commercial? – Comments (Count)

4/27/19

A flash flood and a close call; mail carrier makes quick escape – Comments (Count)

Mail delivery vehicle rolls into backyard – Comments (Count)

Here’s how Amazon robots could make the deliveryman extinct – Comments (Count)

Former Houston postal worker pleads guilty to kidnapping, murdering young co-worker – Comments (Count)

4/26/19

Judge to ex-postal worker who raced while on disability: “This is fraud.” – Comments (Count)

Windham postal worker, veteran retires after 49 years – Comments (Count)

Amazon to make one-day shipping the standard on Amazon Prime – Comments (Count)

NALC Files National Grievances Over Consolidated Casing and CCA Caps – Comments (Count)

USPS Worker Saves Woman’s Life – Comments (Count)

Gottheimer’s Legislation Renames the Oakland Post Office in Veteran’s Honor – Comments (Count)

Irmo Neighbors Community Group: “The Irmo postmaster has made the post office a hostile working environment.” (April 20) – Comments (Count)

4/25/19

One injured in shooting at postal facility in Greensboro – Comments (Count)

Meet Kansas City’s most dog-bitten mail carrier – Comments (Count)

USPS in need of carriers in the Minneapolis area – Comments (Count)

Family shares memories of postal carrier killed on duty | Teenager arrested – Comments (Count)

NALC: Misdiagnosis: A Review of the Report of the White House Task Force on the Postal Service – Comments (Count)

Why aren’t CCAs staying? – Comments (Count)

4/24/19

Postal Banking is Back — On Democratic Party Platforms – Comments (Count)

Postal Service’s Informed Delivery program used in thefts from Indian Hill residents – Comments (Count)

Woman trapped in bathtub for five days saved by postal worker – Comments (Count)

Friends, neighbors in shock over fatal shooting of Albuquerque mail carrier | NALC Member – Comments (Count)

4/23/19

17-year-old sought in fatal shooting of Albuquerque mailman | Teenager shot, killed mail carrier in SW Albuquerque | Tried to intervene in domestic dispute – Comments (Count)

Up to 45,000 pieces of unattended mail stolen from Las Vegas Valley post offices – Comments (Count)

Postal worker burned to death in vehicle fire, husband wanted for questioning – Comments (Count)

Kennewick man crashes into mail truck while trying to pass it – Comments (Count)

4/22/19

Postal worker drives into residence, cocaine and mail found – Comments (Count)

Car drove into Puyallup Post Office and statue of driver – Comments (Count)

Former Postmaster Replaced in Winona – Comments (Count)

Putrid odor closes South Jamesport post office – Comments (Count)

Driver charged in crash that killed Chesterfield postal worker – Comments (Count)

USPS OIG: Mail Mix Matters – Comments (Count)

USPS Boss on Packages: Scanning Good, Throwing Bad – Comments (Count)

4/21/19

Will Postal Services in Brazil Soon Be Privatized? – Comments (Count)

How to work for the USPS without ever handling mail – Comments (Count)

4/20/19

Postal Carrier Finds Missing Teen With Autism – Comments (Count)

Amazon Flex now requires delivery drivers to snap selfies – Comments (Count)

Albuquerque Post Offices: No Easter Bunnies But Plenty of Rodents and Rats – Comments (Count)

Man brutally attacked in Yakima, rescued by postal worker – Comments (Count)

4/19/19

2018 NALC election results upheld by Department of Labor – Comments (Count)

HEARD AT MAILCOM: PMG Rumors, Mail Delivery Anomalies, More… – Comments (Count)

Las Vegas: Postal Inspectors investigating dock thefts of trays of mail – Comments (Count)

Residents complain about cluster mailbox – Comments (Count)

Postal employee has 5,000 hours of sick leave – Comments (Count)

Postal employee killed in rollover crash – Comments (Count)

4/18/19

Ardsley Swears in New Postmaster – Comments (Count)

Ft. Worth: Man stole $374,000 from USPS customers using stolen credit cards purchased from carrier – Comments (Count)

County Commissioner calls for change to Minot area mail service – Comments (Count)

USPS testing new air horn in Phoenix to prevent dog attacks – Comments (Count)

Dog won’t let postmen deliver mail until they play soccer with him – Comments (Count)

4/17/19

USPS OIG: Delivery Delays – Richmond District – Comments (Count)

Van crashes through Bradford Post Office – Comments (Count)

Postal subsidies leave U.S. ‘flooded’ with Chinese knockoffs – Comments (Count)

APWU fights Trump’s plan to privatize the Postal Service – Comments (Count)

Chico: 45 Neighborhoods Experiencing Mail Theft – Comments (Count)

FERS Disability Retirement: To Resign or Not to Resign – Comments (Count)

Mail carrier awarded for safely driving 1 million miles – Comments (Count)

4/16/19

Motorcycle battery explodes at post office – Comments (Count)

Post Office Murals Take Center Stage – Comments (Count)

Post Office workers protest in Macon against privatization of USPS | Postal workers rally in Erie and across the U.S. – Comments (Count)

4/15/19

PRC Directs Postal Service to Address Several Pricing and Service Compliance Issues – Comments (Count)

Detroit mail carrier speaks months after being attacked by pit bull – Comments (Count)

Spartan Motors Assembles Bodies of New Mail Trucks – Comments (Count)

Postal Workers’ Message to Public Denounces Trump Privatization Plan – Comments (Count)

Tax Day 2019: Post Office Extended Opening Hours in All 50 States – Comments (Count)

A look inside Amazon’s Staten Island fulfillment center, run with help from robots – Comments (Count)

4/14/19

With tax deadline looming, post offices to operate at normal hours on Monday – Comments (Count)

4/13/19

Mold discovered in ceiling of Muscle Shoals Post Office – Comments (Count)

Postal Service tweaking mail notification program that identity thieves hacked – Comments (Count)

USPS Releases Dog Attack National Rankings – Comments (Count)

4/12/19

Buffalo: Postal carriers say parcel numbers cut in half as Amazon starts using private couriers – Comments (Count)

Amazon operating out of ‘carnival’ tents as it seeks to catch up to delivery rivals – Comments (Count)

Whiting retires from Columbiana post office – Comments (Count)

Postal workers brave snow to deliver mail – Comments (Count)

China Using OPM Records for Spying – Comments (Count)

4/11/19

Feds: Dayton postal workers opened packages, kept meth, weed to sell – Comments (Count)

Trump moving to dismantle OPM: report – Comments (Count)

Does your mail smell? – Comments (Count)

New stamps feature Post Office murals – Comments (Count)

4/10/19

Amazon Air pilots protesting poor working conditions – Comments (Count)

News 4 Investigates: Amazon delivery drivers in unmarked cars – Comments (Count)

NJ man pleads guilty to bribing postal workers to steal credit cards – Comments (Count)

South Fargo business employees fed up with Prairiewood Post Office – Comments (Count)

4/09/19

How a Postage Stamp Saved a Postal Worker From Committing Suicide – Comments (Count)

‘Valiant’ Postal Carrier Burns Hand Saving Mail From Truck Fire – Comments (Count)

Postal worker’s good deed goes viral – Comments (Count)

Neighbor’s dogs keeping Des Moines block from receiving mail for weeks – Comments (Count)

Overgrown weeds surround Post Office in Clovis – Comments (Count)

Warrendale Postal Facility Returning to Normal After Mercury Spill – Comments (Count)

USPS OIG: Management Operating Data System Errors and Adjustments – Comments (Count)

4/08/19

Postal Worker Honored for Rescuing Victims From Fiery Wreck – Comments (Count)

Postmaster General Visits Hellertown, Shares Vision for USPS Future – Comments (Count)

Truck delivering mail to Clarksville is deemed a total loss after fire – Comments (Count)

New York: Engine Fire Destroys Mail Truck – Comments (Count)

USPS Forcing All Walnut Hill P.O. Box Holders to Change Addresses – Comments (Count)

Postal Hub Podcast Episode 150: Transport Costs in the Postal Network – Comments (Count)

Congress is Sabotaging Your Post Office – Comments (Count)

USPS is too top-heavy, says longtime employee – Comments (Count)

4/07/19

Man sentenced to 29 years for Indiana post office pipe bomb – Comments (Count)

Memphis: Postal worker arrested after police say he lied about being robbed – Comments (Count)

4/06/19

Congressman hosts town meeting concerning concentration of mail delivery complaints – Comments (Count)

2.7 million people still get Netflix DVDs in the mail – Comments (Count)

Turlock mail carriers join Million Mile Club – Comments (Count)

In bid to drive up postal rates, UPS takes the PRC to the Supreme Court – Comments (Count)

Letter carrier hangs up bag after 35 years – Comments (Count)

Third Memphis postal worker in a week robbed on route – Comments (Count)

4/05/19

Postal Carrier Rescues Abandoned Mountain Lion Cub – Comments (Count)

Memphis: Postal Carrier Robbed at Gunpoint – Comments (Count)

Operations to Resume at Warrendale Postal Facility Following Mercury Spill – Comments (Count)

USPS driver parks in handicap space – Comments (Count)

4/04/19

Scapegoating unions for the Postal Service’s phony crisis – Comments (Count)

Trump fights to fix shipping rates that favor China – Comments (Count)

Cleanup continues at postal facility following mercury spill – Comments (Count)

USPS worker with criminal history still on the job, despite taking plea deal in mail theft case – Comments (Count)

4/03/19

Lawyer’s mistake no reason to revive postal worker’s bias suit – Comments (Count)

Car Crashes Into East Sacramento Post Office – Comments (Count)

Recognizing mail carriers in your neighborhood – Comments (Count)

4/02/19

Spring 2019 Communities and Postal Workers United Newsletter – Carriers Refuse Unsafe Work Orders (PDF) – Comments (Count)

Consumer Postal Council International Postal Update – Comments (Count)

Returned mail nets call for return of Minot processing – Comments (Count)

Multi-vehicle crash in Rockville flips USPS truck – Comments (Count)

City of Coronado poised to purchase Zip Code 92119 for $4.1M – Comments (Count)

Postal worker driving down dirt road finds man shot multiple times – Comments (Count)

Warrendale postal facility remains closed after mercury spill | Residents upset about delayed mail delivery – Comments (Count)

Forever 21 Priority Mail Tube Top Not Part of the Official USPS Uniform – Comments (Count)

4/01/19

How Can USPS Improve Delivery of Packages on the First Attempt? – Comments (Count)

Why are drive-up mailboxes disappearing all over the Hudson Valley? – Comments (Count)

NYC: The city’s mail shafts are chock-full of good stories – Comments (Count)

UK: Thousands of post offices could become bank branches under Labour proposal – Comments (Count)