Postal News Archives July 2021

USPS Regulator Approves Price Spike But Warns Mail Slowdowns Could Have Worse-Than-Expected Impact
7.20.2021 – GovExec reports: “The Postal Regulatory Commission on Tuesday did not flat out reject Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s plan to slow down delivery windows for some mail, but suggested the proposal was not fully thought out and its success was far from guaranteed. On Monday, it signed off on the Postal Service’s new pricing structure set to go into effect later this year.” – PRC Issues Advisory Opinion (PDF) – Linn’s: PRC endorses USPS rate case – Controversial Plan Slammed By Postal Regulator – Comments (Count)

Capitol Hearing Focuses on Frustrations With Mail Delays
7.14.2021 – WUSA 9 reports: “Today, we leave mail behind because of plant processing issues, machines breaking down and fewer machines in the building. We make fewer trips, we are understaffed and we are required to stick to a rigid delivery schedule which requires drivers like myself to leave with trucks that are not fully loaded,” postal truck driver Brian McLaurin said during the hearing. “To make matters even worse, postal facilities are short-staffed. When mail finally arrives at the station, there are not enough workers to process the mail and get it through for delivery.” – IG Whitcomb Testifies Before U.S. Senate (PDF) – C-SPAN – Coons Grills USPS Inspector General Over Delays – USPS mail delays continue throughout the state, frustrated Marylanders testify on Capitol Hill – Comments (Count)

House Lawmakers Tell USPS to Postpone Rate Hike to January 22
7.03.2021 – Federal News Network reports: “Two members of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, Government Operations Subcommittee chairman Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) and National Security Subcommittee Ranking Member Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) are leading 11 other Republicans and eight other Democrats in calling on USPS to delay the price increase, which will take effect Aug. 29.” – Comments (Count)

7/31/21

Gretna Postmaster Delivers 40-Year Career – Comments (Count)

Alaska Tlingit artist’s ‘Raven Story’ stamp is released by Postal Service – Comments (Count)

Beloved postal worker retires after delivering three decades of smiles – Comments (Count)

A mail carrier’s life: Post office employee Kitt Navo recognized for 44 years of service – Comments (Count)

Searching for answers, Louisville continues to struggle with mail delays – Comments (Count)

7/30/21

Man who jumped over counter and attacked postal worker over package sentenced to 18 months – Comments (Count)

USPS Gets Hit With Lawsuit Over Social Media Snooping – Comments (Count)

Lexington: Attorneys General and the Postal Service’s Expected September 1 Mail Slowdown – Comments (Count)

7/29/21

Latest USPS report shows sustained service performance improvements – Comments (Count)

USPS Worker Shortages Slow Outer Cape Mail Delivery – Comments (Count)

Burned-out mail truck leaves neighbors stunned – Comments (Count)

Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate draws postal union backlash | APWU Statement – Comments (Count)

Turkey hilariously chases after mail truck down a Wisconsin street – Comments (Count)

USPS driver charged with reckless driving after vehicle hydroplanes and causes crash – Comments (Count)

7/28/21

Longtime Woodside postal worker hangs up her hat – Comments (Count)

NALC: CCA Retention Pilot Program Started – Comments (Count)

75-year-old postal worker has no plans to slow down – Comments (Count)

Is meth being made at the post office in Carr, Colorado – Comments (Count)

Post office closures linked to severe lack of staff – Comments (Count)

Lakeview residents say they’ve gone weeks without receiving mail – Comments (Count)

Biden will announce vaccination requirement across federal government on Thursday – Comments (Count)

7/27/21

Staffing Issues Disrupt Mail Service at Kennebunkport Post Office – Comments (Count)

USPS to Issue Backyard Games Stamps – Comments (Count)

USPS Letter Carrier Clocks 1 Million Accident-Free Miles Driving Streets of Benicia – Comments (Count)

USPS Board of Governors to Meet August 6th – Comments (Count)

Tampa woman gets prison time for scheme involving postal stamps – Comments (Count)

Get ready for higher stamp prices in August – and a delivery slowdown – Comments (Count)

Mail recipients in Idaho face longer mail deliveries from proposed USPS changes – Comments (Count)

Miami-Dade man wanted a postal worker to open his box. He’s charged with attempted murder – Comments (Count)

7/26/21

Video released of suspect vehicle in shooting of mail carrier – Comments (Count)

USPS lifts mask mandate for fully vaccinated employees amid workforce changes – Comments (Count)

Argentina a cautionary tale as Brazil moves to privatize postal service – Comments (Count)

Postal employee primary informant in Whitmer kidnapping plot – Comments (Count)

Hundreds Line Streets Outside Van Nuys Post Office for Passport Fair – Comments (Count)

USPS Mail Delays Continue Across Baltimore Area – Comments (Count)

7/25/21

Zionsville Postmaster Plans to Retire – Comments (Count)

USPS truck catches fire while the postal worker delivered mail in Niceville – Comments (Count)

Fortuna postal worker honored for 1 million accident-free miles driven – Comments (Count)

NALC: Four National-Level Grievances Settled – Comments (Count)

7/24/21

Canada Post’s urban experiment: Delivering parcels to Montrealers by electric trike – Comments (Count)

Where’s my mail: Long Island postal service slower than before pandemic – Comments (Count)

Carr post office closed after failed air quality test; allegations of meth lab on premises – Comments (Count)

Cincinnati: USPS looks to fill more than 200 job openings – Comments (Count)

7/23/21

NALC: 2021 JCAM Released – Comments (Count)

Monson honors 50th anniversary of postal worker – Comments (Count)

How an ‘integrated postal network’ represents cronyism at its worst – Comments (Count)

Staff shortage at Louisville post office forces temporary closures – Comments (Count)

USPS Keeps Losing Posters Mailed in Tubes – Comments (Count)

USPS using new package sorting equipment to help meet expected surge over holidays – Comments (Count)

Amazon’s mission: Getting a ‘key’ to your apartment building – Comments (Count)

Linn’s: USPS continues to focus on package mail – Comments (Count)

7/22/21

NALC: USPS Revises Face Covering Policy – Comments (Count)

What the Constitution Has to Do With Mail Delays in Detroit – Comments (Count)

UPDATE: Postal worker shot while delivering mail released from hospital – Comments (Count)

Nonprofit Mailers to Appeal Postal Rate Hike – Comments (Count)

7/21/21

USPS piloting new same-day delivery in Houston to help businesses compete with Amazon – Comments (Count)

Alabama: USPS driver shot while delivering mail – Comments (Count)

Las Vegas: USPS letter carrier robbed at gunpoint – Comments (Count)

More than 30 years later, postal workers retired together – Comments (Count)

Postal worker Collins ready to deliver last parcel – Comments (Count)

USPS mobile unit in Longs still not set up nearly a month after post office fire – Comments (Count)

Mail changes concern Montana letter carriers – Comments (Count)

Bezos thanks Amazon customers who ‘paid’ for space flight, sparking criticism – Comments (Count)

7/20/21

Bluefield Postman Awarded the Postmaster General Hero Award – Comments (Count)

Cleveland: String of attacks on postal workers – Comments (Count)

4 Las Vegas men allegedly used USPS Priority Mail envelopes to sell drugs – Comments (Count)

USPS plans to move ahead with mail rate hike over lawmakers’ objections – Comments (Count)

7/19/21

Lexington: Congress Should Not Interfere With Mail Truck Purchases – Comments (Count)

VIDEO: USPS All-Employee Message from PMG DeJoy – Comments (Count)

Staffing shortage has mail carriers working long hours – Comments (Count)

USPS debuts same-day and next-day delivery at three southern Dallas post offices – Comments (Count)

Bomb Scare Clears Atlantic County Post Office – Comments (Count)

Royal Mail wants all company cars electric by 2030 – Comments (Count)

USPS installs state-of-the-art sorting machine in Huntsville facility – Comments (Count)

7/18/21

Thieves targeting USPS mailboxes in Oklahoma – Comments (Count)

San Antonio: One clerk, 100 people in line, hours wait at Richland Hills post office – Comments (Count)

Update: Train Crashes Into USPS Truck – Comments (Count)

7/17/21

Sweating it out: Post office workers suffering without air conditioning – Comments (Count)

Franklin Co. residents speak out about mailing service issues with USPS – Comments (Count)

USPS 4th Quarter Begins With Continued Service Performance Improvements – Comments (Count)

7/16/21

Baltimore mail service: Poor delivery, and no stamps for sale! – Comments (Count)

A St. Paul postal worker begged for stronger COVID-19 protections. She ended up spending six weeks in the hospital | Pleaded for COVID protections – Comments (Count)

Woman critically hurt crashing into back of mail truck on Queens expressway – Comments (Count)

Train collides with postal service van in Marion County – Comments (Count)

Ohio congressional members demand answers for slow postal service – Comments (Count)

Linn’s: The end of USPS stamped envelopes for Priority Mail – Comments (Count)

7/15/21

Post office tries to find who mailed letters to ‘Granny’ from Greenville – Comments (Count)

Tennessee postal worker gets surprise financial help from a friend – Comments (Count)

USPS IG warns 10-year plan may not save as much money as agency projects – Comments (Count)

New sorting machine installed at Traverse City USPS distribution facility – Comments (Count)

GovExec Daily: Is USPS Service Back to Normal? – Comments (Count)

7/14/21

USPS offers $50K reward in letter carrier robbery in Minneapolis – Comments (Count)

Mississippi: Postal worker stabbed her supervisor multiple times with screwdriver over a time-off request – Comments (Count)

Brooklyn USPS worker and boyfriend arrested for stealing $3 million worth of money orders, feds say – Comments (Count)

PRC: Annual Household Diary Study: Mail Use and Attitudes in FY 2020 – Comments (Count)

7/13/21

Meeting of the Advisory Committee on International Postal and Delivery Services Scheduled for July 15th – Comments (Count)

NALC: (Huge) accumulated COLA is $1,726 through June 2021 – Comments (Count)

USPS Inspector General Investigation Targets Baltimore Mail Delays, as Probe Expands Nationally – Comments (Count)

How the Postal Service Can Help Local Retailers Beat Amazon – Comments (Count)

Mail truck delivers close call for rural carrier – Comments (Count)

Residents of one Detroit zip code say USPS mail service has left them empty-handed – Comments (Count)

USPS truck overturned in 2-car crash – Comments (Count)

USPS OIG: Sick Leave in the Era of COVID – Comments (Count)

Postal banking could provide free accounts to 21 million Americans who don’t have access to a credit union or community bank – Comments (Count)

7/12/21

Attorney General Shapiro vows to fight Postal Service changes after meeting with Lehigh Valley postal workers – Comments (Count)

Greenfield postal worker retires after 42 years – Comments (Count)

Judicial Watch Sues Postal Service Over Tracking Americans’ Social Media Posts – Comments (Count)

San Diego: Dedicated Postal Carrier Celebrated – Comments (Count)

Postal Service Asks Court to Toss Vehicle Lawsuit – Comments (Count)

Drunk postal worker arrested after falling out of moving mail truck – Comments (Count)

Virginia courier company poaches drivers from Amazon due to labor shortage – Comments (Count)

Elderly minivan driver slams into Coconut Creek post office – Comments (Count)

Carmichael man pleads guilty to armed robbery of postal worker – Comments (Count)

How mail led to the start of the Lehigh Valley International Airport – Comments (Count)

USPS Monetizes Basic Services: What Next? – Comments (Count)

7/11/21

USPS to hire over 100 mail carriers in Louisville | USPS hiring 300 in metro Phoenix – Comments (Count)

7/10/21

Stamps.com agrees to go private in $6.6 billion all-cash deal – Comments (Count)

Some county postal stations could close, lose services – Comments (Count)

Kentucky: USPS official explains consolidation process – Comments (Count)

7/09/21

One Year Later, USPS Restores Service to Pre-DeJoy Levels – Comments (Count)

Tina Sweeney ready to become Phoenix’s first female postmaster – Comments (Count)

Q3: USPS’s Strongest Quarterly Service Performance For All Mail Categories – Comments (Count)

Baltimore man’s disability check finally arrives in mail; USPS problems persist – Comments (Count)

Suspects wanted for robbing Dallas post offices, up to $50K reward – Comments (Count)

7/08/21

Rosendale Post Office Closes After Vehicle Crashes Into It – Comments (Count)

Travaille delivers finale to 30-plus year postal career – Comments (Count)

A Philly-made USPS mailbox that danced outside convention center will go into Smithsonian – Comments (Count)

The U.S. Postal Service’s 10-Year Plan: Will it Work? – Comments (Count)

7/07/21

Huntsville post office demands you wear a mask despite its own policies – Comments (Count)

Farewell from longtime St. Helena postal employee – Comments (Count)

Identity thieves are stealing people’s mail, especially in the southeast Denver area – Comments (Count)

As the COVID-19 pandemic slows, USPS mail delays continue – Comments (Count)

NALC: OPM requires verification of eligible family member enrollments for FEHB – Comments (Count)

Missing postal worker mom found dead, 75-year-old co-worker arrested for her murder | ‘Deranged’ ex-postal worker accused of murder – Comments (Count)

7/06/21

Rockport Post Office announces a changing of guard – Comments (Count)

Post Office Delays Lead Residents to Frantically Search for Mail – Comments (Count)

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

7/05/21

USPS postal police say their duties have been scaled back to keep them from helping stop mail theft | Postal police officers frustrated with new foot patrol restrictions – Comments (Count)

Pay it forward: Workers recall beginning of USPS – Comments (Count)

Large number of mailboxes broken into at Colorado Springs post office – Comments (Count)

7/04/21

USPS rolls out mobile unit in Buckeye-Shaker neighborhood – Comments (Count)

Mystery helper repaints post office bollards – Comments (Count)

Longtime Lantana mail carrier retires – Comments (Count)

7/03/21

Amazon’s delivery robot lands a new development center in Finland – Comments (Count)

Obscure language in postal reform bills causes stir – Comments (Count)

Morris County mailman delivered marijuana and cocaine – Comments (Count)

USPS now rejecting FOIA requests for COA moving data, is developing a commercial product to sell COA data instead – Comments (Count)

Cleveland: Postal carrier has gun pointed at him – Comments (Count)

East Bernstadt mail carrier given award for rescuing woman – Comments (Count)

Postal employee pocketed $150K after lying on workers compensation forms, feds allege – Comments (Count)

7/02/21

Marshall post office’s Marjorie List to retire after more than 30 years – Comments (Count)

Bang! Car hits post office – Comments (Count)

Man charged with stealing mail delivery truck – Comments (Count)

Baltimore City man hasn’t seen mail in weeks – Comments (Count)

Suburban grandmother says packages she ships overseas are taking a month just to leave Chicago – Comments (Count)

Jesperson retires after 35 years with USPS – Comments (Count)

USPS executives meet to prepare for holiday season – Comments (Count)

7/01/21

Mail delays: No end in sight – Comments (Count)

USPS victim was a ‘great man’ on the verge of retirement when killed on his bicycle commute, wife says – Comments (Count)

Update: USPS Mail Carrier Gets Face Broken in Wild Dirt Bike Trio Attack on NYC Delivery Route – Comments (Count)

The USPS Marks Its 50th Anniversary Today As An Independent Agency | Today is National Postal Worker Day – Comments (Count)

USPS begins delivering mail to Surfside residents, businesses on streets currently closed to public – Comments (Count)