Postal Supervisors Sue for Better Pay
7.29.2019 – GovExec reports: “The National Association of Postal Supervisors filed its lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for D.C. on behalf of the 45,000 supervisors, managers, postmasters and technical specialists that make up its members. NAPS is seeking pay increases that would be mostly retroactive, covering the period from 2016 through 2019.” – NAPS Files Lawsuit – Comments (Count)
Postal Service Floats Big Cuts to Employee Pay, Leave and Benefits
New postal workers would no longer earn a pension
7.02.2019 – GovExec reports: “USPS included a hike to the employee contribution level for pensions in a first draft of a 10-year business plan presented to lawmakers and stakeholders, according to multiple people who were briefed on it, as well as phasing out pensions altogether for new hires in favor of a defined-contribution system only. The Postal Service is looking to cut the amount of paid time off employees receive by merging annual and sick leave and pitched a popular proposal with demonstrated bipartisan backing to require all postal retirees to enroll in Medicare as their primary insurance provider.” – Comments (Count)
7/17/19 |
| Queens lawmaker introduces legislation to install ‘Cadillac of mailboxes’ nationwide – Comments (Count) |
| Union city residents: No mail delivery for months – Comments (Count) |
| Postal regulation nominees: USPS faces ‘very real threat’ to long-term viability – Comments (Count) |
| Postmaster installed surveillance device in employees’ bathroom – Comments (Count) |
| Here’s a warning for people still using the old blue mailboxes – Comments (Count) |
| Sprint Sizzling Weekend Event for USPS Employees July 19-21 – Comments (Count) |
7/16/19 |
| N.J. doctor, 3 others charged in $10M kickback scheme to prescribe pain cream to USPS workers – Comments (Count) |
| UK: Postal worker delivers package by lobbing it through upstairs window – Comments (Count) |
| Would-Be Postal Regulators Pledge to Hold Mailing Agency More Accountable – Comments (Count) |
| Brother and sister duo retire from the Post Office – Comments (Count) |
| Bezos admits USPS gave Amazon boost, risks angering Trump – Comments (Count) |
| How Congress Manufactured a Postal Crisis – and How to Fix it – Comments (Count) |
| Postal Service says man stole $200,000 in stamps in 7-state scheme – Comments (Count) |
| Warren and Sanders praise Amazon Prime Day strikers – Comments (Count) |
7/15/19 |
| Former postmaster destroyed mail – Comments (Count) |
| USPS recognizes Scottsville carrier with Hero award – Comments (Count) |
| USPS resumes mail delivery after Hurricane Barry – Comments (Count) |
7/14/19 |
| USPS OIG: Local Travel Reimbursements – Concord Main Post Office – Comments (Count) |
| USPS OIG: Delivery Scanning Issues – Franklin Park Post Office – Comments (Count) |
| APWU: Acosta to Resign as Secretary of Labor – Comments (Count) |
| Amazon Prime Day Starts at Midnight Tonight – Comments (Count) |
| Korea: Bombarded with deliveries, veteran postal workers ask for family time – Comments (Count) |
7/13/19 |
| Is Amazon ready to deliver its Prime Day orders? – Comments (Count) |
| Man arrested for using arrow key to break into mailboxes – Comments (Count) |
7/12/19 |
| Postal Service Tractor-Trailer Hangs From Overpass – Comments (Count) |
| Wainwright residents protest lack of mail service – Comments (Count) |
| Mail carrier ejected from USPS truck in Burbank crash – Comments (Count) |
| Mail delivered late? Madison mail carrier says there’s a severe staffing shortage – Comments (Count) |
7/11/19 |
| How US postal inspectors go undercover on the dark web – Comments (Count) |
| Danny Glover: My parents proudly worked for the USPS. Don’t destroy it – Comments (Count) |
| Tropical Storm Barry may impact ecommerce shipping corridor – Comments (Count) |
| USPS officials join FBI for ‘law enforcement” operations at wellness center – Comments (Count) |
| Longtime Windsor Mail Carrier Honored for Helping Injured Woman – Comments (Count) |
| USPS Recruiting at Long Island Malls – Comments (Count) |
| Letter Carriers open bargaining with USPS on new pact – Comments (Count) |
7/10/19 |
| Denver mail carriers call Westwood neighborhood ‘Dogwood’ due to dog attacks – Comments (Count) |
| Change.org petition to remove PMG claims USPS customer service number is just bots – Comments (Count) |
| Dead letter finds its way home – Comments (Count) |
| Trona post office temporarily closed due to earthquake damage – Comments (Count) |
7/09/19 |
| Postal Hub Podcast Episode 162: US Postal Regulatory Reform – Comments (Count) |
| Amazon is gaining in deliveries at the Postal Service’s expense – Comments (Count) |
| Pokemon collectors say rare $60,000 trading card was lost in the mail – Comments (Count) |
| 8-year-old hit by mail truck in Norfolk – Comments (Count) |
| Hobson City Works to Get Its Own ZIP Code – Comments (Count) |
| Auburn woman, 82, has been delivering mail for 50 years – Comments (Count) |
7/08/19 |
| Business Plan, and Reforms, Still Not Delivered by USPS – Comments (Count) |
| Amazon Workers Plan Prime Day Strike at Minnesota Warehouse – Comments (Count) |
| A future without lost mail: Stamps with QR codes studied by Singapore – Comments (Count) |
7/07/19 |
| Hampton Falls man’s mailbox invention seen as a lifesaver | Slide Me Out Mailbox Bracket – Comments (Count) |
| Co-owner of postal uniform manufacturer sentenced to two years, ordered to repay $284,736 – Comments (Count) |
7/06/19 |
| Postal Service undercutting Trump administration’s efforts to fix unfair postal rates with China? – Comments (Count) |
| Postal worker robbed of packages by woman with rifle – Comments (Count) |
| USPS OIG Audit: Routes not delivered at College Station in NY (PDF) – Comments (Count) |
| USPS OIG: The Postal Service and the Evolution of PC Postage – Comments (Count) |
7/05/19 |
| UK: Post Office Blown Up for Cash Machine – Comments (Count) |
| Mail carrier tosses fragile packages in driveway – Comments (Count) |
7/04/19 |
| Amazon is moving away from USPS and UPS, but late deliveries have doubled – Comments (Count) |
| Math is hard for the USPS – Comments (Count) |
| Will Postal Workers Ever Get Moisture Wicking Shirts? – Comments (Count) |
7/03/19 |
| Lexington: Postal Service Losses Sharply Accelerate – On Track to Lose $10B This Year – Comments (Count) |
| $1,000 fine and community service for Alaska carrier who dumped 49 plastic tubs of mail – Comments (Count) |
| Scorpions, millipedes get loose from package and run amok in mail truck – Comments (Count) |
| Cluster mailbox placed in Santa Maria neighborhood after mail delivery was temporarily stopped – Comments (Count) |
| This Waxahachie mail carrier literally runs her routes – Comments (Count) |
| Fair Lawn Mail Carrier, 65, Hit By Pickup Driven by 18-Year-Old – Comments (Count) |
| Can the USPS deliver on promise of new mail delivery trucks? – Comments (Count) |
7/02/19 |
| New Albany postal worker honored for spotting forged money order – Comments (Count) |
| Petition calls on USPS to give mail carriers bulletproof vests – Comments (Count) |
| Postal banking, an idea whose time should never come – Comments (Count) |
| USPS Focuses on Increasing Cyber Workforce – Comments (Count) |
| How to debloat the postal bureaucracy – Comments (Count) |
| Sarin possibly discovered in package at Facebook mailing facility – Comments (Count) |
| USPS OIG: Kickbacks and Conspiracy – Comments (Count) |
7/01/19 |
| The National Postal Museum tells the history of America through moon mail, rare stamps, and one taxidermy dog – Comments (Count) |
| Amazon is now its own biggest shipper – Comments (Count) |
| National Postal Worker Day is Today July 1st – Comments (Count) |