Postal News Archives March 2024

USPS health care program will have 32 plan options in 2025

3.13.2024 – Federal News Network reports: “Starting in January 2025, about 1.9 million USPS employees, annuitants and their families are expected to be enrolled in a health plan within the upcoming Postal Service Health Benefits (PSHB) program. Ahead of the new plan year, Postal employees and annuitants are getting a better idea of what options will be available to them. For 2025, Postal Service employees and annuitants will tentatively be able to select from 32 different plan options.” – OPM taps insurance carriers to service new USPS benefits exchange – Comments

3/31/24

A ‘D’ for the USPS Delivering for America plan

3/30/24

Postal Service explores reduced mail pickups in rural areas

Retired USPS supervisor struggling to receive pension checks in mail

GAO: USPS international mail volumes fell due to higher costs, pandemic restrictions

3/29/24

Schumer: USPS will not move operations from Buffalo to Rochester

Long-time employee retires from Colfax Post Office

Concern over Tulsa USPS center’s fate reaches City Hall

Postal problems persist in metro Atlanta | Georgia congressman demands answers | Even Congress can’t get answers

3/28/24

Virginia has the worst mail service in the country, by far. We figured out why

Cheyenne’s outgoing mail will be sorted in Denver as USPS ‘modernizes’ network

Fargo: Postal workers concerned over delivery changes

Germany’s postal service ceases domestic mail flights

A USPS plan to modernize caused Richmond’s widespread mail issues

Amarillo postal worker named ‘National Hero of the Year’ for saving woman from dog attack

3/27/24

Business owners getting bad reviews due to late, missing mail

90-year-old mail carrier recognized for nearly 65 years at USPS

Union remembers Chicago postal worker fatally shot in Orland Park as a hard worker

3/26/24

Postal Service to move some operations, including 13 jobs, from Fayetteville to Oklahoma despite objections

Man jumps over counter, knocks out Marietta postal worker

Congress members ‘disappointed’ by USPS response to delays, say office communicates with ‘good news’

USPS OIG: Minnesota, North Dakota District Delivery Operations Review

‘We’ve been stonewalled’: no answers from USPS on missing mail

Atlanta: USPS blamed for losing party invitations | What if you threw a big party and no one showed up?

3/25/24

USPS OIG Audit Reports: California 5 District: Delivery Operations

Local postal service decline bemoaned by residents

Behind every Postal Service move, there is a Postal Regulatory Commissioner

Analysis: North Platte Mail Move to Denver

Forum set on planned move of White River Junction mail sorting

Thieves break into a postal worker’s truck, and then his own car is stolen

3/24/24

Mail carrier robbed in Bucktown, officials say

Three charged for allegedly robbing mail carriers at gunpoint

Co-workers of postal worker shot to death in Orland Park hold balloon release in her memory

3/23/24

Post office worker awarded Customer Service Award

Lawmakers get first tour of Richmond USPS Distribution Center in hopes of addressing mail issues

Lawmakers tour Henrico USPS facility following complaints of mail issues in central Virginia

3/22/24

Letter carrier robbed in Ft. Worth, $150,000 reward offered

USPS delays: Woman says $2 clock sent to Houston stuck in transit 114 days

Canada Post demands sweeping concessions in contract talks as postal union keeps workers demobilized

USPS says mail delays in metro Atlanta are improving after changes at Palmetto facility

3/21/24

Ex-Waco postal employee aided suspect in $1.7 million jewelry heist

GoFundMe set up to help postal worker mauled by dogs and critically injured

Senators demand answers from USPS about alleged fraud at Marietta Post Office

Postal Service investing in Chattanooga facility, but mail processing to be in Nashville

Postal workers union addresses backups, delays in Wichita

He’s concerned about postal safety: Now he looks out for his mail carrier, every day

Key senator calls for pause to DeJoy’s changes at USPS

3/20/24

Jasper County deputy saves postal worker’s life from a dog attack

USPS to invest $5M to change Fort Wayne processing facility

USPS employees worried problems at Wichita plant indicate a future closure plan

3/19/24

USPS mail price hikes driving away more customers than predicted, study finds

Letter carriers face bullets and beatings while postal service sidelines police

Central Illinois residents may soon see increased delays in receiving their mail

Postal workers union president talks about major issues at metro Atlanta USPS distribution center

‘It’s the worst we’ve ever seen it’: USPS Union speaks out about dire Wichita mail backlog

3/18/24

Bicyclist Killed by Postal Truck in Harlem, Police Say

Woman’s visa among many important items stuck in USPS Palmetto facility

USPS truck goes up in flames, mail carrier suffers minor injuries

Davidson County business owner wants to know where missing mail was for years

Lawmakers shed light on mail delivery problems plaguing Virginia

Texas postal employee sentenced for coin thefts

3/17/24

‘Nobody in charge’ at Durango Post Office

Another mail carrier maced and robbed in Summerlin

When will mail delays end in metro Atlanta?

3/16/24

Missoula residents, postal workers voice opposition to proposed changes

Atlanta: Postal workers speak out as senators demand accountability (“I’ve found mail in there from October.”)

3/15/24

Senators push to include language forbidding USPS downsizing in Fiscal Year 2024 budget

Casey presses USPS, says consolidation hurts workers, affects 2024 ballot delivery

New report claims postal workers endangered during December 2022 blizzard

Atlanta: Line of trucks “stretching over the horizon” waiting to load and offload at USPS facility in Palmetto | Poor planning blamed | Georgia senators seek answers

3/14/24

Who ya gonna call? USPS rural carrier delivers mail in Ghostbusters ambulance

Pony Up Act aims to hold USPS accountable for late delivery of bills

Investigation underway to figure out what’s wrong with the postal service in Richmond

USPS dealing with major delays at Palmetto distribution center

USPS mail issues impacting Laurens County residents

Sanders and Senate Dems Warn DeJoy: Don’t Mess With USPS Workers or Mail Delivery

3/13/24

Metro Atlanta postal center built to make things easier could be to blame for major delays

Inside look at new USPS sorting facility in Waco

USPS, union warn courts not serious on postal crime after 30-day sentence for letter carrier robbery

Atlanta residents say their packages have been sitting at a USPS distribution center for weeks

USPS attributes slower KC area mail service to staff availability, third party trucking contractor

3/12/24

Postal Service to invest $5 million in Tallahassee facility to improve delivery service

ABC News: Letter carrier robberies continue as the USPS, union and lawmakers seek solutions

WSWS: USPS and City Letter Carriers Move Towards Binding Interest Arbitration

Family of Warren postal carrier killed on the job pleads for justice

Former USPS worker guilty of delivering cocaine on his route in Lancaster Co.

3/11/24

UK: The Post Office scandal is turning out to be far worse than we thought

Watch: Armed suspect robs postal worker in Colorado Springs

Mail carrier retires after 43 years of service

3/10/24

Delivering mail is no walk in the park

Proposed changes at Brockton USPS facility angers union crowd

Man punches mail carrier in the back of the head, police say

3/09/24

Oversight Committee Unanimously Approves Connolly’s Mail Traffic Deaths Reporting Act

USPS to invest millions for Columbia mail processing facility

USPS initial findings support Spokane move, ‘net decrease’ in positions

3/08/24

Welch calls out Postmaster General DeJoy, USPS failure to deliver to Vermont

‘Out of control’: Residents in Boca Raton community contact WPTV about USPS delivery issues

Vigil held in Warren to remember postal worker killed while delivering mail

Local postal worker’s unsolved murder leaves widow without access to benefits

Community shares concerns about possible closure of Tulsa USPS Distribution, Processing Center

NALC: Settlements reached on two national-level disputes

3/07/24

PA postal workers voice concerns about understaffing, delivery delays

USPS subcontractors from Steamboat and Craig say they haven’t been paid since October

Kansas, Missouri senators demand answers from USPS on mail delays

APWU expresses concern over potential changes in Sioux Falls

Questions remain after USPS announces it won’t close Knoxville distribution center

3/06/24

Amazon introduces humanoid robots to work in its warehouses

Connecticut postmaster sentenced to 4 years for $875,000 bribery scheme with maintenance vendor

Chicago: Off-duty postal worker fatally shot on I-55 weeks after cousin’s shooting death

3/05/24

USPS customers experiencing delays for packages in metro Atlanta

Retired postal clerk will miss his job answering Santa’s letters

USPS plan would force mail from Tulsa, NW Arkansas regions to go through OKC first

San Diego USPS Employee Convicted of Assault for Stabbing Supervisor in Head

2 USPS mail carriers robbed at gunpoint in Denver’s Montbello neighborhood

3/04/24

NALC: Dennis Nolan selected as chair of interest arbitration panel

Dangerous trend ‘rooted in pandemic’ emerging, threatening your mail and postal workers

Changes are coming to the Knoxville USPS distribution center, but it isn’t closing, USPS says

3News speaks with family of USPS mail carrier killed while on the job | Family mourns USPS mail carrier shot inside postal van | $250,000 reward offered

3/03/24

Lightning strike leads to destruction of California town’s only post office

Warren police: USPS mail carrier shot and killed | Mail carrier Jonte Davis (age 33)

3/02/24

Detectives investigating after postal carrier shot in Warren

Marty Walsh reaffirms commitment to NHLPA after USPS nomination

Bay Area mail crime explodes, postal police union blames dwindling force

Delivering for America restructuring program at USPS shifting into high gear in 2024, according to report by Postmaster General

3/01/24

USPS Failed to Track Fatal Crashes, Watchdog Finds | USPS OIG Audit Report

USPS looking to hire more than 300 mail handler assistants in Indianapolis

OPM tells FEHB carriers to prepare for USPS health program’s launch

Widespread wage theft persists as latest US Postal Service rural route evaluation begins

Video: USPS looks to close it processing center in Tulsa

Postal workers and politicians slam USPS over Hampden facility plans