Postal News Archives February 2019

Postal Service Loses $1.5 Billion in Q1
2.08.2019 – FedSmith.com reports: “The Postal Service’s ongoing financial losses widened in the first quarter in which it reported a net loss of $1.5 billion, which is an approximately 178% higher loss than the same quarter last year in which it only lost $540 million. On the bright side, total revenue was $19.7 billion, up 2.9% over the same quarter last year. Marketing mail revenue increased by $218 million, and revenues from shipping and packages increased by $516 million.” – USPS: $103 Million Controllable Loss – Comments (Count)

2/28/19

One million safe miles of driving earns honors for eight postal workers – Comments (Count)

Postal Service workers are a tough bunch, trudging through record snowfall this year – Comments (Count)

Mail thieves use sticky tactics to snag personal information – Comments (Count)

Snow causing headaches for postal workers – Comments (Count)

Return to sender: Aging mail trucks bursting into flames – Comments (Count)

2/27/19

Dallas-area postal worker Judy Askew killed by son with machete – Comments (Count)

Postal worker allegedly runs over two coworkers at Dominick V. Daniels P&DC – Comments (Count)

USPS mail truck catches fire at gas station | Video! – Comments (Count)

Dallas: Man admits to fatally shooting USPS worker during fit of road rage on Interstate 30 – Comments (Count)

They’ve Got Mail: Students Run Crosby Post Office – Comments (Count)

Kenner post office manager pleads guilty to stealing more than $630K in stamps, selling them online – Comments (Count)

Man threatens postal employee with knife – Comments (Count)

Chinese foreign exchange student receives uranium in mail – Comments (Count)

Stamps.com Stuns by Parting Ways with USPS, Looks to Other Carriers – Comments (Count)

2/26/19

Owner of pit bull that attacked postal worker defends pet – Comments (Count)

Locals in Richmond frustrated with missing mail – Comments (Count)

Much of Northern Michigan Will See Delay in Mail Due to Weather – Comments (Count)

2/25/19

Technology Can Improve the Postal Service – If It Gets Its House in Order First – Comments (Count)

USPS OIG: Advertising Effectiveness and Age – Comments (Count)

Postal worker complains that his lunch time isn’t his own – Comments (Count)

Wanted: Autonomous Vehicle Tech for Mail Delivery – Comments (Count)

USPS Financial Results Reviewed in Video – Comments (Count)

Middletown’s only post office undergoing nine months of needed repairs – Comments (Count)

2/24/19

Forget the Last Mile, Amazon Wants to Own the First Mile, Too | Amazon cargo plane crashes in Texas, three dead | Ticking Time Bomb – Comments (Count)

Worked to Death at FedEx – Comments (Count)

What Stamps.com Postal News Means for Online Sellers – Comments (Count)

2/23/19

Owner of dog in vicious attack on mailman says Boss Hogg has never attacked anyone before – Comments (Count)

Our mail doesn’t come or it goes to the wrong house – Comments (Count)

Ex-postmaster charged with trafficking marijuana through Alaska post office – Comments (Count)

2/22/19

Alabama mail carrier pleads guilty to feeding dog nail-laced meatballs – Comments (Count)

Horrific video shows dog viciously attacking mail carrier in Detroit (and heroic citizens trying to fight off the dog) – Comments (Count)

The reason Stamps.com dumped USPS is Amazon? – Comments (Count)

71-year-old retired postal worker killed inside his Ann Arbor home – Comments (Count)

Postal Issues Have Plagued the Rockaway Peninsula – Comments (Count)

USPS vehicle vandalized while carrier delivered mail – Comments (Count)

Stamps.com is breaking up with the USPS, and its stock is down 50% – Comments (Count)

2/21/19

Northern Arizona: Postal deliveries not happening today due to snow – Comments (Count)

Postal carriers celebrate ‘Hoodie Hoo Day,’ wish winter away – Comments (Count)

Senator Hoeven Working to Ensure USPS Resolves Local Complaints – Comments (Count)

USPS Mailman Returns Gesture of Kindness – Comments (Count)

In Minneapolis, some residents say mail service is spotty, carriers decry shortage of workers – Comments (Count)

Mail carriers deal with hazardous conditions while on their routes – Comments (Count)

Postal Service Art Director Derry Noyes Turns Famous Artworks Into Stamps – Comments (Count)

2/20/19

Postal worker who paid back stolen money before she was caught will not go to jail – Comments (Count)

Michigan: Postal worker accused of stealing 15,000 pieces of mail – Comments (Count)

FBI working with USPS to investigate Jussie Smollett letter – Comments (Count)

People in Alaska town desperate for mail after post office closed for two weeks with no postmaster – Comments (Count)

Postal Police Continuing to Hire – Comments (Count)

USPS OIG: How We Organize Our Work – Comments (Count)

2/19/19

USPS responds to pepper spraying incident – Comments (Count)

Amazon pledges 50% net-zero carbon shipments by 2030 – Comments (Count)

Supreme Court hears arguments in USPS patent case – Comments (Count)

Columbus man demands answers after silver bar lost in the mail: USPS sends check for $15 – Comments (Count)

Wrong-way driver killed in crash with Postal truck – Comments (Count)

Postal Inspectors Help Bust MDMA Lab – Comments (Count)

2/18/19

Kansas family outraged after mail carrier runs over dog, then drives away – Comments (Count)

Aspen’s postmaster temporarily assigned to other post offices – Comments (Count)

Alabama man’s patent case against the USPS goes to the Supreme Court – Comments (Count)

Mailbox vandalism has neighbors requesting permanent fix – Comments (Count)

2/17/19

Pet owner says his dog was peppersprayed by mailman – Comments (Count)

Peggy Frank Memorial Act would require AC in all postal vehicles within three years – Comments (Count)

Letter carrier from Belvidere reaches career milestone – Comments (Count)

2/16/19

Family wants answers after dog hit by mail carrier’s car – Comments (Count)

USPS governors, postmaster, address UPU exit – Comments (Count)

VIDEO: Postal worker speeds after porch pirate in getaway vehicle – Comments (Count)

USPS investigates Austin postal worker accused of wrongdoing – Comments (Count)

2/15/19

Postal worker indicted for public indecency – Comments (Count)

Man attacked postal worker after fatal crash – Comments (Count)

LLV ends up in harbor – Comments (Count)

Postal workers say millennials perplexed by ‘snail mail’ – Comments (Count)

USPS mail carrier in surgery after being bitten by two pit bulls – Comments (Count)

2/14/19

In the name of love: The Valentine, Texas postmark – Comments (Count)

Polar Parcels – Comments (Count)

91-year-old mailman retires after 69 years with perfect record – Comments (Count)

Trillion-dollar-valued Amazon doubles profits from last year, pays $0 in income tax and gets multi-million refund – Comments (Count)

Berea native is a new postmaster – Comments (Count)

Brooklyn: Residents of Midwood building say they haven’t received mail since October – Comments (Count)

2/13/19

Mail carrier explains braving cold while delivering mail – Comments (Count)

Sickness blamed for no delivery in Dayton area – Comments (Count)

Playing Frogger: Busy Austin road leads to mailbox concerns – Comments (Count)

VIDEO: Thieves make off with a dozen Amazon packages after driver dumps them outside complex – Comments (Count)

Baltimore Postmaster Makes History – Comments (Count)

Mulligan recognized for 25 years of service – Comments (Count)

Wind causes heavy damage to Derry post office – Comments (Count)

2/12/19

Dog found nearly frozen by letter carrier euthanized after biting vet tech – Comments (Count)

Hattiesburg family says USPS carrier sprays their dog through a fence – Comments (Count)

Chicago: Residents on Southwest Side say mail delivery is inconsistent, slow – Comments (Count)

Riverwest residents say they have not received mail in two weeks – Comments (Count)

Postal Management: “Sorry for the inconvinced” – Comments (Count)

2/11/19

Woman trapped in bathtub for five days saved after postal worker sees overflowing mailbox – Comments (Count)

Franchising your mailbox might put the USPS out of business – Comments (Count)

Police can seize cash in the mail. An innocent man found out the hard way – Comments (Count)

Town officials: Post office move would lead to loss of community, rural feel. “USPS has become a trucking business” – Comments (Count)

2/10/19

Robot mail delivery trucks developed in Detroit ready to roll in China, U.S. – Comments (Count)

Dog found by postal worker nearly frozen, fights for survival – Comments (Count)

Chicagoans say they’re missing mail after polar vortex – Comments (Count)

Petition drive underway to challenge post office move – Comments (Count)

2/09/19

McBride celebrates 25 years as a Lexington mail carrier – Comments (Count)

Post offices confiscate record number of marijuana packages – Comments (Count)

Billings postal carriers told to stop routes early Friday due to deteriorating weather – Comments (Count)

Is the USPS delivering cronyism to our front door? – Comments (Count)

2/08/19

LETTER OF THE LAW: Unsung postal agents diligently keep mail safe – Comments (Count)

Louisiana woman pleads guilty to gambling away postal funds at local casino – Comments (Count)

USPS tests electric delivery trucks in California: “I didn’t hear the mail come!” – Comments (Count)

Q&A With Former PMG Patrick Donahoe: Insights Into the Postal Task Force Report – Comments (Count)

NY Postal worker allegedly used mail to traffic K2 from China – Comments (Count)

Surveillance video shows postal carrier urinating while delivering mail – Comments (Count)

2/07/19

Norway’s ‘Posten’ Self Destructs – Comments (Count)

Postal worker dies after crashing truck into N. Huntingdon home | Medical Event – Comments (Count)

Communities and Postal Workers United Winter 2019 Newsletter (PDF) – Comments (Count)

‘Eric’s Comb’ immortalizes long time postal carrier – Comments (Count)

Tremont postal customers frustrated: USPS pleads ‘inadequate postal access’ – Comments (Count)

Priority Mail Postal Sticker Show – Comments (Count)

2/06/19

‘This Post Office Sucks’ – Comments (Count)

Another community mailbox in Las Cruces left open – Comments (Count)

10 Seconds and 18 Inches: Reasons why USPS won’t deliver to replacement mailbox – Comments (Count)

PHOTOS: Nasty LLV Accident in Norwich, CT – Comments (Count)

Postal workers brave cold and snow – Comments (Count)

USPS Closer to Making Small Packets From Overseas Pricier – Comments (Count)

2/05/19

Postal worker fatally shot on I-57 driving to work – Comments (Count)

Postal Service offers help after murder/suicide involving postal worker – Comments (Count)

Las Cruces neighbors wonder what can be done to protect mailbox – Comments (Count)

USPS won’t deliver on skinny road – Comments (Count)

Penner retires, Gicker named acting director of USPS stamp services – Comments (Count)

USPS is launching a test of electric delivery trucks – Comments (Count)

Mail truck crashes, ends up in river – Comments (Count)

Is a Shipping War Coming? – Comments (Count)

Amazon Seen Testing Autonomous Delivery Truck – Comments (Count)

2/04/19

USPS OIG: Top Postal Stories of 2018 – Comments (Count)

Rediscovering Wisconsin’s New Deal Post Offices and Murals – Comments (Count)

Postal Service Wrapping Up Testing of New Mail Truck Prototypes – Comments (Count)

APWU Representatives Meet to Discuss Safety Issues – Comments (Count)

Some Say Stickers On Mailboxes in The Villages Are Unsightly – Comments (Count)

2/03/19

PMG’s Business Focus Video to Employees Addresses Peak Season, Other Topics – Comments (Count)

German post offices will convert customers’ mail into email – Comments (Count)

2/02/19

Canada: Ice Smashes Postal Truck Roof – Comments (Count)

Toledo mail carrier accused of stealing packages, having weapon on post office premises – Comments (Count)

FedEx, UPS Workers Outraged After Illinois Truck Driver Died on the Job in Extreme Cold Weather – Comments (Count)

Couple Thanks Hero Postal Carrier For Rescuing Them From Fiery Wreck – Comments (Count)

30 vintage photos of postal workers back in the day – Comments (Count)

The Quiet Heroism of Mail Delivery – Comments (Count)

2/01/19

Postal Vortex – Comments (Count)

Crash involving mail truck and SUV on Highway 59 – Comments (Count)

Wisconsin: USPS resumes mail delivery after 2-day suspension – Comments (Count)

Delivering While Black: Postal Carrier Faces 2 Criminal Prosecutions Just For Doing His Job – Comments (Count)

Democratic plan to give Feds leave for election work draws McConnell’s ire – Comments (Count)

USPS contests $150,000 in OSHA penalties after Woodland Hills mail carrier’s death – Comments (Count)