Postal News Archives April 2021

PMG DeJoy criticizes mailing industry, USPS in scathing letter
4.28.2021 – Linn’s Stamp News reports: “In a sharply critical critique of the mailing industry, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has said the United States Postal Service is “incapable of providing the American people with consistent, predictable service.” That statement came from the embattled postal chief as he sought to rebut arguments from commercial mailers that his 10-year plan to rescue the financially troubled federal agency is seriously flawed. In a three-page letter dated April 19, DeJoy blamed mailers for tolerating the Postal Service’s flawed service “for well over a decade.” – Comments (Count)

Postal Service Begins New Round of Facility Closures While Also Procuring Dozens More
4.27.2021 – GovExec reports: “The U.S. Postal Service will consolidate 18 of its mail processing plants, coupling that announcement on Tuesday with plans to procure 45 new “annex” facilities that will boost the agency’s package delivery capacity. The move highlights USPS’ shift from traditional mail delivery to packages, a trend ongoing for years and accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic. It will also reignite a fight postal management has avoided since 2015, when it paused its efforts to close and consolidate large numbers of processing plants.” – NBC News: Concerns Over Mail Delays – Comments (Count)

Postal Service Indicates Layoffs Could Be on the Horizon
4.01.2021 – GovExec reports: “In a press conference last week, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy gave a hint as to the Postal Service’s goals. “The plan that’s in process right now is an administrative headcount reduction of some 60,000 people that was brought about with our realignment,” DeJoy said. Parenheimer later clarified DeJoy was referencing the entire population of management employees at USPS, not all of which would be impacted by the restructuring.” – USPS workers may be faced with upcoming layoffs – Comments (Count)

4/30/21

USPS in Chicago desperately needs a few good men and women, hiring 500 letter carriers – Comments (Count)

Erie post office moving operations to Pittsburgh – Comments (Count)

Wausau mail processing operations moving to Green Bay facility – Comments (Count)

Chief postal inspector tells lawmakers that social media monitoring began after George Floyd protests – Comments (Count)

50 people line road to congratulate rural mail carrier Paul Radtke on his retirement – Comments (Count)

OPM Issues New Details on Emergency Paid Leave – Comments (Count)

GAO Report on USPS volume, performance and financial changes since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic | Report (PDF) – Comments (Count)

USPS Mail Carrier Saves Public Works Employee’s Life – Comments (Count)

4/29/21

Neighbors surprise loved postal worker with special sendoff – Comments (Count)

More postal problems in the Midlands – Comments (Count)

Postal clerk restores the patina on lobby mailboxes from the 1950s – Comments (Count)

Michigan postal service holiday package ‘inquiries’ increase fivefold in 2020 – Comments (Count)

Postal Retirement Q&A April 2021 by Roseanne Jefferson – Comments (Count)

4/28/21

USPS admits it IS spying on Americans – Comments (Count)

Senate Committee Advances Biden’s Nominees for USPS Board – Comments (Count)

APWU Opposes Management Plans to Reinstitute Plant Consolidations and Closures – Comments (Count)

Postal carrier in ICU after driver loses control on Hwy 47, crashes head on into mail truck – Comments (Count)

Disabled Knoxville woman disputes postal carrier over moving mailbox – Comments (Count)

USPS driver says brakes failed mid-route before truck caught fire in Port St. Lucie – Comments (Count)

USPS postal carrier charged for brawl with women, lying to Flint police – Comments (Count)

USPS speeds up plans to get 138 package-sorting machines running ahead of holiday season – Comments (Count)

4/27/21

Almost all mail destroyed in mail truck fire in Port St. Lucie – Comments (Count)

USPS Rolls Out Plans to Handle 2021 Peak Season Surge – Comments (Count)

Former Supervisor at Fairfield Post Office Sentenced for Stealing Cash From Mail – Comments (Count)

Thousands of post offices lose money. Should some be closed? – Comments (Count)

Erie postmaster files lawsuit against mail carrier, Project Veritas over ballot fraud claims (subscription) – Comments (Count)

Congresswoman Asks Acting D.C. Postmaster for Plan to Address Delayed and Undelivered Mail – Comments (Count)

Podcast: The New Postal Board Nominees and the Future of USPS – Comments (Count)

4/26/21

PRC: Postal Service Remains on Financially Unstable Path (PDF) – Comments (Count)

Belmont Shore mailman hangs bag up after 35 years – Comments (Count)

USPS delays ban on mailing vapes – Comments (Count)

This mail carrier gets sweetest sendoff for his retirement – Comments (Count)

Mail delays impact DC neighborhood – Comments (Count)

Pandemic fuels renewed interest in collecting stamps – Comments (Count)

4/25/21

APWU Prevails on Management Court Challenge to Victorious Arbitration Award on Union Leave for Political Activity – Comments (Count)

Convictions of 39 UK postmasters quashed – Comments (Count)

After millions of deliveries over more than three decades, Coventry mailman decides to hang up his mailbag – Comments (Count)

4/24/21

Family grateful after postal worker helps save Seymour man’s life – Comments (Count)

Roanoke neighbors speak up about mail delays impacting business – Comments (Count)

Residents say Postal Service delays are leaving mailboxes empty in Northeast D.C. – Comments (Count)

USPS OIG: Delayed Mail at the Lehigh Valley, PA, P&DC – Comments (Count)

Unions back Biden’s Postal Board nominees – Comments (Count)

4/23/21

Restoring Service Central to Biden’s Postal Board Nominees – Comments (Count)

Covid-19 poses setbacks to Postal Service employees – Comments (Count)

We mailed 100 letters to test the Postal Service. We did not get speedy delivery – Comments (Count)

C-Span: OPM Director and USPS Board of Governors Confirmation Hearing – Comments (Count)

Q&A: Jeff Clermont, U.S. postal worker – Comments (Count)

Privatization of Brazilian postal service fast-tracked in congress – Comments (Count)

Outcry over USPS reportedly tracking social media posts | Common Dreams: What is going on here? – Comments (Count)

Sen. Carper says USPS should buy more electric vehicles – Comments (Count)

4/22/21

Biden’s USPS board nominees aren’t likely to oust embattled postmaster DeJoy, insiders say – Comments (Count)

Nominees for USPS Board of Governors say they haven’t been pressured about DeJoy – Comments (Count)

NYC: What’s up with the fake Amazon delivery van? – Comments (Count)

NYC: Two arrested in alleged beating of postal worker – Comments (Count)

Letter Carriers’ Union and Congressional Democrats Clash Over DeJoy – Comments (Count)

Map Shows How the Mail Shaped the American West – Comments (Count)

4/21/21

The Postal Service is running a covert operations program that monitors Americans’ social media posts – Comments (Count)

Postal carrier honored for 1 million accident-free miles talks dogs, deliveries and what’s changed – Comments (Count)

USPS tells vape mailers to prepare for the ban – Comments (Count)

Text messages acting like USPS may be scams, solicitor says – Comments (Count)

USPS OIG Audit Report: Multiple Building and Maintenance Deficiencies Found at Louisiana Post Offices – Comments (Count)

USPS OIG: Do Post Offices Cover Costs? – Comments (Count)

Benefits if You Leave Government Before Retirement Eligibility – Comments (Count)

4/20/21

USPS hiring mail carriers around Michigan – Comments (Count)

APWU: USPS will be attempting again to take your “Postal Pulse” – Comments (Count)

NALC: New Pay Rates Will Be Reflected in April 30 Paychecks – Comments (Count)

4/19/21

Postal Banking Supporters Confident Congress Will Allow Pilot Program – Comments (Count)

Postal Service seems to be getting back on track with on-time mail delivery – Comments (Count)

Rep. Wild calls for investigation into the USPS – Comments (Count)

Flags to be flown at half-staff to honor Indianapolis FedEx victims – Comments (Count)

Amazon drivers may soon assemble the furniture they deliver too – Comments (Count)

Henry Post Office Temporarily Suspends Operations – Comments (Count)

4/18/21

Amazon drivers describe the paranoia of working under the watchful eyes of new truck cameras – Comments (Count)

Welcome back to the route, Larry the beloved neighborhood letter carrier – Comments (Count)

Rural areas the next e-commerce frontier? – Comments (Count)

After missing for weeks, lost Palm Harbor father’s ashes return home – Comments (Count)

4/17/21

Behind the Australia Post management conflict – Comments (Count)

Postal worker saves elderly man who fell in home – Comments (Count)

Linemen save postal worker being beaten on the job – Comments (Count)

Albuquerque mailman condemned after using TikTok to humiliate people in International district – Comments (Count)

4/16/21

8 people killed in shooting at FedEx facility in Indianapolis, police say – Comments (Count)

Post office tells Fayetteville man it stopped deliveries to his home because of thefts in the area – Comments (Count)

Gillibrand, Ocasio-Cortez Call on Congress to Help Rebuild USPS With Postal Banking Pilot Programs | Democratic lawmakers call for USPS to provide essential banking services – Comments (Count)

USPS brings vaccination clinic to postal workers in Kansas City – Comments (Count)

4/15/21

U.S. Senate panel to consider Biden Postal Board nominees April 22nd – Comments (Count)

Maryland USPS worker with COVID says recent outbreak is causing mail delays – Comments (Count)

Ambulance and mail truck wreck, mail truck overturns – Comments (Count)

USPS reveals design for replacement post office destroyed in Minneapolis riots – Comments (Count)

Trio pummel USPS worker in Staten Island beatdown, take off in Jaguar – Comments (Count)

USPS Should Outsource More Post Offices and Request Subsidies, IG Says – Comments (Count)

USPS OIG: Revenue and Costs in the Retail Network – Comments (Count)

Vero Beach man on motorcycle seriously injured in crash with USPS mail truck – Comments (Count)

USPS truck overturns on Greene Co. road – Comments (Count)

USPS truck stolen in Las Vegas, $10,000 reward offered – Comments (Count)

Asian USPS worker stabbed, violently robbed in San Francisco – Comments (Count)

USPS truck stolen in Detroit recovered, suspect arrested – Comments (Count)

4/14/21

Mexico Beach Post Office to Stay Open for the Time Being – Comments (Count)

Could postal banking make a return in the United States? – Comments (Count)

Oakland: Suspects sought in armed robberies of letter carriers – Comments (Count)

Online Vendor Pleads Guilty to $5 Million Postage Fraud Scheme – Comments (Count)

4/13/21

USPS mishandled personal information of 89,000 employees who have veterans status – Comments (Count)

Baltimoreans bemoan continued mail delays – Comments (Count)

USPS plans to support postage tokens – Comments (Count)

Washington Post applauds sacrificing communities of color to the Postal Service austerity gods – Comments (Count)

Arizona postal worker gives shoes to barefoot elderly woman while checking her mail – Comments (Count)

Video shows careless package deliveries to Loves Park home – Comments (Count)

Fact Check: 600 Hours of Paid Leave? – Comments (Count)

USPS Driver’s Priceless Reaction to Snacks Left by Homeowner – Comments (Count)

USPS earns 91% approval in IG survey, despite pandemic challenges – Comments (Count)

4/12/21

Springfield mail carrier accused of sexually assaulting 78-year-old woman on his route – Comments (Count)

UK: Post Office could off sub-postmasters a share in profits – Comments (Count)

Canada Post employee at Toronto facility dies after contracting COVID – Comments (Count)

Washington Post Opinion: Congress should stop attacking DeJoy and Consider his plan to fix the Postal Service – Comments (Count)

4/11/21

Growing Momentum to Fix Windfall Elimination Provision – Comments (Count)

Lexington: COVID Costs and Major Reforms at the USPS – Comments (Count)

4/10/21

Amazon waged a brutal anti-union campaign. Unsurprisingly, they won – Comments (Count)

Man shot multiple times at or near post office in New Mexico – Comments (Count)

Police make arrest after attack on Michigan postal worker is caught on video | Possible road rage, only one bystander tried to intervene – Comments (Count)

USPS celebrates America’s love of coffee – Comments (Count)

4/09/21

Amazon workers vote not to unionize in Alabama – Comments (Count)

Mailman delivers smiles with smooth moves caught on camera – Comments (Count)

Two injured after USPS truck, Range Rover collide in Miami Beach – Comments (Count)

Two Baltimore post offices close after 20+ workers reportedly get COVID – Comments (Count)

USPS worker is savagely beaten by two women trying to get stimulus checks in Flint, Michigan | Police launch investigation – Comments (Count)

Amazon pushed USPS to install mailbox outside Alabama warehouse of union vote – Comments (Count)

4/08/21

Belmont Cragin Neighbors Complain That USPS Trucks Are Taking Up Parking Spots – Comments (Count)

Dearborn postal worker calls it a career after 35 years in same neighborhood – Comments (Count)

Letter Carrier Who Balked at Sunday Amazon Deliveries Lacks Suit – Comments (Count)

USPS looking for suspected mail thief in Las Vegas – Comments (Count)

4/07/21

Postal Service Mail Carrier Removed for On-Duty Drug Transaction – Comments (Count)

USPS truck bursts into flames in West Bay Shore – Comments (Count)

DeJoy’s USPS 10-year plan in trouble in House of Representatives – Comments (Count)

USPS Has Nearly Exhausted the $10B Congress Awarded It for COVID-19 Relief – Comments (Count)

Franklin post office houses historic mural painted during Depression – Comments (Count)

Judge rules USPS can move ‘limited’ mail-sorting machines to improve service – Comments (Count)

USPS to complete scanner rollout – Comments (Count)

New push to return USPS mail processing center to Toledo – Comments (Count)

4/06/21

Ex-post office chief in Nagasaki may have swindled more than 1 billion yen – Comments (Count)

Tammy Duckworth pressures postal service board on firing DeJoy – Comments (Count)

West side Detroiters say lagging US mail service has been ‘hit or miss’ – Comments (Count)

Montgomery chase ends with vehicle hitting postal truck – Comments (Count)

Hazmat company helps former postal worker by clearing out home – Comments (Count)

USPS apologizes to Senate candidate for mail mishap – Comments (Count)

DeJoy says USPS to run out of cash in late 2022 without 10-year reform plan – Comments (Count)

4/05/21

Postal Chief DeJoy Can Move Mail Sorting Machines, Judge Rules – Comments (Count)

USPS OIG: A Traffic Jam of Mail – Comments (Count)

Horry Co. family still waiting on USPS to find grandmother’s ashes – Comments (Count)

Edmonds letter carrier extraordinaire Todd Hoover hangs up his mailbag after 40 years – Comments (Count)

Contributor: 8 Facts Every USPS Employee Should Know About Rasmussen University

4/04/21

DSA4USPS: Rural Free Delivery – Past, Present and Future Seminar 4/18/21 – Comments (Count)

‘Best mailman ever’: Neighbors surprise beloved postal worker with special sendoff – Comments (Count)

Retired mail carrier from Walworth charged with stalking current, former employees at USPS – Comments (Count)

Contributor: Personal Loans: 3 Reasons Why Travel is an Investment in Your Mental Health

4/03/21

Amazon apologizes for lying about pee – and attempts to shift the blame – Comments (Count)

Postal carriers’ later start could slow mail delivery in Santa Fe – Comments (Count)

FedEx paid $0 in federal taxes past three years – Comments (Count)

Ashes in the mail: COVID changes the logistics of death – Comments (Count)

4/02/21

Time to Fix Mail Delivery Disparities – Comments (Count)

USPS isn’t happy about Nike’s Priority Mail shoes – Comments (Count)

Car crashes into Florida post office | Car crashes into Houston post office – Comments (Count)

Springfield residents deal with mail delays – Comments (Count)

Charlotte: Postal workers protest alleged harassment, mistreatment by management – Comments (Count)

Company Offering Refurbished Polaroid Cameras With USPS Branding – Comments (Count)

Maryland congressman addresses complaints at Dundalk Post Office – Comments (Count)

4/01/21

USPS OIG: Impact of Pandemic on Postal Service Finances – Comments (Count)

Steve Selness Marks 30 years with Postal Service – Comments (Count)

Do FedEx, UPS and USPS deliver on Good Friday 2021? – Comments (Count)

APWU: Clerk Craft Prepares for National Negotiations – Comments (Count)