"...ST. PAUL, Minn. — St. Paul police are investigating a shooting involving two postal workers on Sunday that left one with life-threatening injuries.
It happened at about 3:30 p.m. at the post office on West Seventh Avenue near Alaska Avenue, just a few blocks east of Highland National Golf Course. ..."
"...Columbus Day, a holiday that celebrates Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the Americas, is Monday, Oct. 14.
The first Columbus Day celebration took place in 1792 ..."
"...Letter Carrier Jeremy King was assisting a co-worker recently with deliveries on her White Plains, NY, route, but he ended up helping in more ways than one.
King was in his vehicle when he saw a customer attempt to introduce a dog to Letter Carrier Amy Fowler, who was loading her vehicle. The dog suddenly turned aggressive and lunged at her. ..."
"...The American Postal Workers Union covers over 200,000 postal workers across four main crafts: Clerks, Maintenance, Motor Vehicle Services, and Support Services.
This means that three of the four postal unions are now working under expired contracts, even as USPS management is carrying out an historic attack on jobs and on postal services under the “Delivering for America” restructuring program. This seeks to transform the Postal Service into an automation-driven parcel delivery service—at the expense of vital mail services, lower-income and rural customers, and postal jobs—and ultimately to privatize it.
This underscores that rank-and-file postal workers are in a fight, not just against management, but sellout union bureaucrats. ...
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"...The Postal Service has recommended deadlines for the holiday mailing and shipping season.
The suggestions, released Tuesday, Oct. 8, are for expected delivery by Dec. 25.
Here are the deadlines for items being sent to addresses in the lower 48 states..."
"...The average monthly annuity payment for a Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS) retiree in 2023 is ..."
"...Postal Reorganization Act of 1970, which granted unions the right to negotiate with management over their wages, benefits and working conditions. In lieu of the right to strike, a binding arbitration process was established for resolving contract disputes. ..."
"...tentative agreement was reached "on wages," according to the International Longshoremen’s Association and the U.S. Maritime Alliance. ...This represents a significant increase from the shipping industry group’s offer of a 50% wage increase earlier this week. The union had been pushing for a 77% pay hike over six years.
The tentative agreement would bring the hourly wage for a top dockworker to $63"
"...Teamsters President Sean O’Brien claiming Democrats are no longer for unions and beholden to big tech. ... “Democrats should start by saying people make mistakes and we need to earn back that trust.”"
"...Resources include a new landing page with details for PSHB enrollees; information about auto-enrollment where Postal employees will be automatically transitioned from their current plan to a comparable plan in the new PSHB program; and a page providing information on cost savings for enrollees who are also signed up for Medicare Part B or Medicare Advantage through PSHB. The Postal Service Health Benefits (PSHB) Program, is a new, separate program within the FEHB program, the creation of which was directed by the Postal Service Reform Act. The PSHB program will be administered by OPM, and will provide health insurance to eligible Postal Service employees, Postal Service annuitants, and their eligible family members starting in 2025. PSHB coverage will replace FEHB Program coverage for these groups. ..."
"...While in custody for shoplifting at the store, police searched 39-year-old Amber Beard’s purse and car and found stolen merchandise, a multitude of checks, credit and debit cards, and Alabama drivers’ licenses not belonging to her, as well as U.S. mail addressed to several people in the Birmingham area.
While in custody, Beard told officers she works for USPS.
Police found that while Beard was employed as a postal worker, she opened mail not addressed to her and removed items like checks, debit and credit cards, and gift cards, and fraudulently used them. ...as well as U.S. mail addressed to several people in the Birmingham area.
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"...Police responded Sept. 21 to a battery call and found that the carrier had facial injuries, police spokesperson Juan Rebolledo said. The worker was chased by two dogs while delivering mail. After using pepper spray, he rushed back to his vehicle but then was followed for blocks by two men who assaulted him, Shade said. ..."
"...The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) allocated nearly $364 million in the fiscal year 2023 and $650 million for the 2024 fiscal year to the “Shelter and Services Program” “to provide humanitarian services to noncitizen migrants following their release from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS),” according to the government’s website. ..."
"...“We’re trying to bring the service standards back to where it needs to be so the public won’t have to come in and wait... and can get their mail in a reasonable time like we used to do it,” said Shelton Thomas, President of the Alabama Postal Workers Union.
The event was a one-day rally, not a strike by postal workers. ...
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"Postal Service's violation of Article 7 section 3 of the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA)... Conversion Opportunities: The USPS will offer 50 Part-Time Regular employees conversion to full-time positions. Financial Compensation: The USPS will distribute a total of $15 million to Maintenance Craft Part-Time Regular employees, covering the Fiscal Years 2018-2024, which they will pay in two installments. The USPS will make the first payment no later than December 31, 2024. ..."
"... The United States Postal Service announced that First-Class postage, currently at 73 cents, will go up five times through 2027, according to a detailed document submitted this week to the Postal Regulatory Commission. The next price hike is planned for July 2025 and will then repeat “each January and July thereafter” through the end of 2027..."
"...The Postal Service’s surge in mail theft cases contributed to hundreds of millions of dollars in suspected check fraud cases last year, according to a recent Treasury Department analysis.
Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) received more than 15,400 reports of suspected mail theft-related check fraud under the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) from more than 840 financial institutions between February and August 2023. ..."