"...A United States Postal Worker is recovering after being severely attacked by a dog in Lincoln County, Tennessee. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office says the attack happened Saturday on Harbin Road in Fayetteville. According to the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office, the postal worker was delivering a package to a home on that street when a large dog jumped..."
"...If you need to visit a bank or post office this week, you may want to consider going before or after Wednesday. That's because Wednesday, June 19 is Juneteenth, a holiday...FedEx pickup and delivery services will be available on June 19, according to the company's website. FedEx Office locations will also be open. ...All post offices will be closed for retail transactions and there will be no regular residential or business mail deliveries ...UPS pickup and delivery services will be available on Juneteenth ...most restaurants, grocery and retail stores will be open"
"...15 people are charged in a scheme that involved stealing mail keys and recruiting people to launder money, prosecutors say...."
"...Regular mail and package delivery service will not be interrupted due to the safety issue, but customers who need to pick up their P.O. Box mail or make business transactions will need to visit the Hoover Post Office at 1809 Riverchase Drive. The exact reason for the safety concern is unknown at this time. ..."
"...If you have received a peculiar text with an unfamiliar URL that claims to be about a delivery from the United States Postal Service (USPS) but haven’t signed up for a tracking request, be careful: It could be a scam, the postal service warned. The United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) said in a press release last week, which USPS posted on X Tuesday, that this type of text is a scam called smishing—a form of phishing involving a text or phone number. These scammers often ..."
"...Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) has filed a bill he believes will protect Post Office Processing and Distribution Centers across the country from losing some of their services. In a news release from his office, Durbin announced Wednesday he is working with Senator Mike Rounds (R-SD) and a bipartisan group of senators for a bill they named the Postal Processing Protection Act. This is after more than 50 Processing and Distribution Centers were targeted to shift to Local Processing Centers. ..."
Snippet of Article: "...80th anniversary of D-Day.
The Allied invasion, which began on June 6, 1944, led to the defeat of the Nazis and the end of the war. The assault began with Allied aircraft bombing German defenses in Normandy, followed by around 1,200 aircraft that carried airborne troops. As dawn broke, Allied forces started bombing German coastal defenses and shortly after that vessels began putting troops ashore on five codenamed beaches: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword. By the end of the day, nearly 160,000 Allied troops had landed in Normandy, although there were thousands of casualties.
Few witnesses to history’s biggest amphibious invasion remain alive today. ..."
"...Join us today at 12pm Eastern. Passcode is 992863 for PSHB Informational Seminar | ACTIVE EMPLOYEES ONLY! ..."
"...The U.S. Postal Service made its price hike official Friday, raising the price of stamps from 68 cents to 73 cents. Five years ago, stamps cost 50 cents, making this latest price hike a 36% increase. ..."
"...Under the law, political activity is defined as any action directed toward the success or failure of a political party, candidate for partisan political office or partisan political group. While on duty, on postal property, wearing a uniform or using a postal vehicle, USPS employees are prohibited from..."
"...Federal investigators have broken up a “well-organized and wide-ranging conspiracy” to steal valuables from the mail in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, they announced Wednesday.
The alleged conspiracy involved a supervisor and six other workers at the U.S. Postal Service processing and distribution center in Providence, Rhode Island, which handles all incoming and outgoing mail for Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts. ..."
"Austin Mahan, 44, of Cape May Court House pleaded guilty before a U.S. district judge on Monday. ...Prosecutors say he used postal service credit cards to make personal purchases including a vacuum, gift cards, and tools.
"Usually, they're very nice here. For him to be stealing, that's taking trust from us," said Antoinette Lavook of Atlantic City.
Regulars at the Atlantic City post office were upset..."
"...the problem extends far beyond receiving packages on time. The delays have gotten so bad that officials are now worried they could impact people’s ability to vote by mail-in absentee ballots during Georgia’s primary election this month. Absentee ballots have taken on a greater role since the 2020 election..."
"...According to the traffic report, the van had no plates and the driver appeared to be racing a Ford Mustang.
In the body camera video, the deputy goes on to say, “Yeah. I mean, that Mustang took off. He caught my attention, and then you blew by him, and I was pacing you at like 105.”
Court records identified the driver as Drew Brown, 28. She told officials she worked for the Fremont post office.
Brown waived the case, which is now closed, and paid a $50 fine for the traffic violation after receiving a verbal warning for racing.
A spokesperson for the USPS shared the following statement:
“Drew Brown is an employee. It is under investigation and as a matter of policy, we are unable to comment further on a specific individual personnel matter.”..."
"...A FedEx delivery driver in New York City has been fired after UFC honcho Dana White caught him on camera tossing more than a dozen packages into his truck.
White, who is the CEO of the mixed martial arts organization, was being driven around the Big Apple on Tuesday when his chauffeur stopped near the driver, who was shooting boxes into the back of his truck as if they were short jump shots, according to TMZ...."
"...Total volume was 28 billion pieces, down 2.1 percent compared with the same quarter the previous fiscal year. Shipping and packages volume increased 1.5 percent, while First-Class Mail volume declined 2.2 percent and Marketing Mail volume declined 2 percent.
• Expenses. Total operating expenses were $21.3 billion for the quarter, a decrease of 3.1 percent compared with the same quarter one year earlier, reflecting the Postal Service’s cost control efforts over transportation expenses and work hours...."
"...May 10, 2024- As provided for in Article 8.7 of the NPMHU 2022 National Agreement, effective May 18, 2024 (PP12-24); the flat dollar amount at Steps A through P at each pay grade for night shift differential in Tables Three and Four shall be increased by..."
"...“This is by no means a consolidation of good stuff. This is a rearrangement of the furniture. I imagine we’ll come out with more square footage deployed around the nation than before we started. It’s just not going to be wasteful square footage,” DeJoy said. “I’m talking about waste, and handling things 17 times, instead of handling it once or twice — because it’s doable.”
USPS recently opened Regional Processing & Distribution Centers (RPDCs) in Atlanta, Georgia..."
"...Penalties in legislation passed Monday include contract suspension, termination...would require the Postal Service to maintain an internal database of such reports and publish an annual summary of information related to the reports. The legislation, introduced in March by Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., is in response to investigations of the Postal Service’s safety records involving its long-haul contract carriers and a government watchdog report published in February revealing lax oversight of its partner trucking companies, brokers and drivers."
"...SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – The U.S. Postal Service has finalized its plan to downgrade the downtown Sioux Falls post office to a local processing center, shifting non-local mail operations to a facility in Omaha, Nebraska. The reorganization, first introduced in January, has sparked concerns about slower mail delivery to rural communities because letters and packages formerly processed and sent from Sioux Falls will be routed through Omaha, 160 miles away. ..."
"...Critically different from FEHB, the PSHB Program requires stronger coordination with Medicare and verifying the Medicare enrollment eligible of PSHB Program enrollees. For example, if a postal annuitant who is required to be enrolled in Medicare Part B is not enrolled or disenrolls, they are no longer eligible to be enrolled in the PSHB Program. To meet this requirement, OPM must routinely accept and integrate Medicare eligibility information for enrollees and confirm PSHB Program eligibility (including exceptions to the Medicare Part B requirement) with a number of stakeholder agencies, including exchanging data with the Social Security Administration (SSA), Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Department of Labor Office of Workers Compensation (DOL), OPM Retirement Services (RS), and, of course, USPS. This integration is unique among employer-based health insurance programs."
"Lijuan “Angela” Chen, 51, of Walnut, carried out the scheme by using counterfeit postage to ship tens of millions of packages, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. ...From November 2019 to May 2023, Chen and her accomplice, Chuanhua “Hugh” Hu, 51, owned and operated a package shipping business in the City of Industry. The company provided shipping services for China-based logistics businesses...."
"...The man took advantage of his management position at the Greece, New York, post office to take packages containing drugs, including marijuana, out of the mail stream between May 2018 and May 2022, prosecutors said. While in the privacy of his office, he emptied the packages of the drugs, then placed the parcels back into the mail stream and brought the substances to his home in Rochester, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of New York. He’s accused of distributing marijuana and cocaine from the mail throughout Rochester with the help of his former girlfriend Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article287981540.html#storylink=cpy..." Read our latest posts!
"...Kauffman says she and her husband were alerted by their dog Stanley Friday afternoon when he started barking after a van drove into their Bexley driveway.
"The postal van had pulled all the way up our driveway and parked by our garage," said Kauffman. "After a few minutes, I saw someone get out of the far side and dump something in our own recycling."..."
"...members of the Domestic Policy Council have convened repeatedly with the Postal Service’s largest customers — including Amazon — about the agency’s persistent delivery struggles, leadership and balance-sheet woes, according to five people familiar with the meetings, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share details of private conversations. (Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.)..."
"The USPS Office of Inspector General attributed the delivery delays at a Missouri City processing center to a variety of problems, including staffing shortages, oversights by management, reporting errors, lapses in communication, safety issues and a general state of disarray. ..."
"An audit report released Thursday found hundreds of thousands of pieces of delayed mail and several safety issues plaguing a U.S. Postal...USPS Office of Inspector General conducted an unannounced site visit at the South Houston Local Mail Processing Center in Missouri City from Jan. 28 to Jan. 30..."
"NPMHU-USPS Joint Contract Interpretation Manual (CIM) Version 6 has been completed and is being released..."
"USPS has notified the Postal Regulatory Commission of mailing services price changes to take effect Sunday, July 14.
• The proposed adjustments, approved by the Postal Service governors, would raise mailing services product prices approximately 7.8 percent. ...• Letters (1 ounce): 68 cents (current), 73 cents (planned)
• Letters (metered 1 ounce): 64 cents (current), 69 cents (planned)"
"...the USPS said the agreement with UPS will be for a minimum of five and a half years and implementation of the new contract is scheduled to begin on Sept. 30, 2024. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. ..."
"...As part of the new Postal Service Health Benefits (PSHB) Program, you may be eligible to participate in the PSHB Special Enrollment Period (SEP) for Medicare Part B. The PSHB SEP applies to certain Postal Service annuitants and family members who were entitled to Medicare Part A, but not enrolled in Medicare Part B as of Jan 1, 2024.
During the PSHB SEP, eligible annuitants and family members may enroll in Medicare Part B without paying a late enrollment penalty. The one-time PSHB SEP is from April 1, 2024, to Sept. 30, 2024. Individuals eligible for the PSHB SEP will receive notification by U.S. Mail™ in March 2024.
All required information must be returned in the envelope provided and postmarked by Sept. 30, 2024.
...You can get additional information on the PSHB Program and how it works with Medicare by reviewing the resources available on the PSHB page, viewing the PSHB-Medicare 5 Part video series, or by attending a PSHB Seminar. Additional resources include the Consumers Checkbook Guide and your local State Health Insurance Program office. If you have misplaced the notification letter mailed to you or believe that you are eligible to participate in the PSHB and did not receive notification letter, please contact the PSHB Navigator Help Line’s toll-free number at 833-712-PSHB (7742), or email retirementbenefits@usps.gov."
"...Customer Services Supervisor Michael Ray Tibbals saw a co-worker experiencing a medical emergency recently in the break room of the Spokane, WA, Processing and Distribution Center. ..."
"The current contract expires on Sept. 20, 2024, and preparations are already underway with the official negotiation period beginning this June. ...APWU has opened our contract survey so that you can let us know what your priorities are for a new union contract. Please fill out the survey by visiting apwu.org/survey. Alternatively, you can text the word “SURVEY” to 91990 to receive a link to participate in the survey on a mobile device. ..."
"Livescan fingerprints will be available 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. at the Huntsville Main Post Office, 3408 Wall Triana Hwy, Huntsville, AL 35813 Enter the gate to the right of the main building and go to the rear building (Training Annex). You must stop at the gate. Call 256-464-0462 for assistance. ... Rural Carrier Associate (RCA) – At $20.38 per hour, an RCA will have to be able to work a flexible schedule and be available to work throughout the week (Sunday through Saturday). This position could be ideal if one is looking for steady employment with career advancement opportunities. "
"...former North Carolina postal worker Cathy Wrench Cashwell has admitted to doing. On Monday, Cashwell pled guilty to fraud in connection with a workers' compensation claim that she filed in 2004. Cashwell had claimed that a shoulder injury prevented her from lifting mail trays into trucks for the United States Postal Service and, as a result, was collecting benefits since 2005. Then in 2009 she appeared on the game show "The Price is Right," where she used her whole upper body -- shoulders included -- to spin the show's famous "big wheel," twice. ..."
"...The indictment charges Devin Sims, Michael Williams and Teontaey Thomas with aiding and abetting each other in the robbery of mail or property of the United States and stealing keys adopted by the Post Office. Sims and Williams are also charged with brandishing a firearm during a crime and mail theft.
The three men were arrested after a joint investigation by the United States Postal Inspection Service, FBI and South Euclid Police Department...."
"City Carrier Assistant Rodrick Clayton Sr. was making deliveries recently in Hubbard, TX, when he saw a 12-year-old boy run out of a residence, screaming. Clayton rushed to..."
"The U.S. Postal Service and U.S. Postal Inspection Service provided an update on Project Safe Delivery which includes the installation of high-security blue collection boxes. Dozens of the boxes have been deployed in the Birmingham area. ..."
"SHAWNEE, Okla. (KFOR) – Shawnee community members may be looking over their shoulders now as they enter the post office, following the second attack and robbery in the last month. Some people were shocked to hear what had happened..."
"...Christine Pruitt, Vice President of the local American Postal Workers Union, decided to visit the Wichita mail distribution center after receiving endless complaints from the 250-plus workers she represents there. "I wanted to see it for myself. ...Pruitt says she found the warehouse packed with pallets of mail stacked to the ceiling, overflowing into walkways, untouched for days, sometimes weeks at a time. She says she was particularly disturbed when she heard a weird sound coming from one of the aisles. "There were live chicks in this container in the aisle," said Pruitt. "If we hold them the extra day, they die. They can't survive without being delivered.""
"The USPS Asset Accountability team is reminding Postal Service facility managers of the proper procedure for recycling wooden pallets. Stack unbroken pallets of similar sizes together, no more than 25 feet high, and store them away from buildings. Facility managers should..."
"Effective March 13, 2024 the following provision of Article 26, Section 26.3 of the 2022 National Agreement will be implemented:
Unused portions of an eligible employee’s annual allowance for uniform and work clothing will be carried over and available for use beginning twelve (12) months after the end of each anniversary year. An eligible employee’s uniform and work clothing allowance balance may not exceed the sum of two (2) years of the employee’s annual allowance entitlement. This uniform and work clothing program adjustment will be ..."
"Once a year, during the month of March (March 1-31), ALL career employees may request to be tested for Maintenance Craft eligibility ratings and placement on In-Service Registers. ...Also, during March, those career employees already on the In-Service Register have the right to submit a written request to remain on those registers and avoid the annual purge that occurs on April 1. ..."
"The mail carrier tries to defend himself, dropping his mailbag with all the mail falling out....The mail carrier said he’s OK and wants justice.
No word yet if the United States Postal Service has filed charges against the suspect. ..."
"...Daylight saving time will begin for 2024 on Sunday, March 10 at 2 a.m. local time, when our clocks will move forward an hour, part of the twice-annual time change that affects most, but not all, Americans. ..."
"...WARREN, Ohio (WOIO) - The brother of a mail carrier fatally shot inside his U.S. Postal Van over the weekend has now created a GoFundMe page to help with funeral costs.
Jonte Davis, 33, was murdered in the 600 block of Olive Ave. NE around 1:45 p.m. on Saturday, March 2.
“He was one of the nicest carriers ever met, a good man, and a father with multiple children. ..." READ MORE: Family of mail carrier murdered in Warren sets up GoFundMe page to help pay for funeral
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"...The female postal worker told responding cops the senior citizen clocked her in the head with a cane, and she retaliated. The unidentified combatants were both taken into custody following the 10:10 a.m. incident. Charges were pending, a department spokesman said late Saturday afternoon. The postal worker declined medical attention...Canal Street denizens did not know what fueled the fury, but several, like gift shop employee Kamal said they saw the elderly man sprawled out on the pavement in the aftermath. A woman selling fruit alleged the postal worker shoved the man to the ground."
"...RICHMOND, Va. -- It's another piece of the puzzle troubling people living in Central Virginia who've reported late or even stolen mail. Four different U.S. Postal Service employees that worked in the Richmond area have now been charged with either obstruction of mail or stealing mail. According to court records...The mail is said to have included financial and bank statements, as well as election-related mail."
"...fired from another car, said police in Warren, about 60 miles southeast of Cleveland. Police said they believe Davis and the suspect knew each other. ..."
"...The Postal Service and the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) continue to negotiate to reach a new contract but are also moving forward with preparations for a potential interest arbitration. Both parties have selected Dennis Nolan to serve as the interest arbitrator. Nolan served as..."
"In preparation for the 2025 plan year, OPM for the first time outlined clearer plans to implement the Postal Service Health Benefits (PSHB) program in January. ...A special enrollment period beginning April 1 as well as the upcoming Open Season this fall will be the first time Postal employees and annuitants will be able to enroll in the brand-new health insurance program, mandated by the Postal Service Reform Act that President Joe Biden signed into law in 2022. ...Any FEHB carrier that wants to apply to offer plans in the PSHB program must submit their proposal of benefits and rates by May 31, OPM said. Then enrollees in the new PSHB program will begin receiving coverage on the first day of 2025."
"...Around 7 am, officers responded to reports of someone swinging a six-foot metal pipe near Inyo and O streets. Police say the suspect was uncooperative and would not drop the pipe. He then barricaded himself inside the U.S. Post Office on Kern and M streets. Two Post Office employees were inside when the man went in but stayed in a separate room away from him...."
"...The U.S. Postal Service urged a Pennsylvania federal court to toss a former mail carrier's religious discrimination suit following its trip to the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing his request to skip..."
"The Postal Service will observe Women’s History Month, which begins on Friday, March 1. The commemoration was first observed nationally as Women’s History Week in 1980. The week was chosen to coincide with International Women’s Day on March 8, a global observance that began in 1911. ..."
"...After a trial lasting less than two days, 33-year-old Robert Gafford of Jackson was found guilty of one count of delaying or destroying mail and one count of embezzlement of mail.
According to a release from the Office of the United States Attorney Eastern District of Missouri, Gafford worked out of the Cape Girardeau Post Office annex at the time and was responsible for delivering mail on a rural route in or near Scott City.
According to a release from the Office of the United States Attorney Eastern District of Missouri, Gafford worked out of the Cape Girardeau Post Office annex at the time and was responsible for delivering mail on a rural route in or near Scott City.
In late 2021, the postmaster received complaints from a couple on Gafford’s delivery route..."
"...Nevada’s two Democratic senators and lone Republican member of Congress have joined the chorus of opposition to the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) plans to move its Reno mail processing operations to Sacramento, The Nevada Independent has learned. Under the proposal, the Reno facility — which is the hub for Northern Nevada mail — would no longer be responsible for processing mail and would instead become a center that would prepare already-processed mail for delivery. This means that if someone from Northern Nevada sends something in the mail, it would first go to Sacramento before reaching its destination. ...They asked for USPS to provide any assessments conducted on the impact of downsizing the Reno facility on the region and the impacts of the region’s weather on service. The drive from Sacramento to Reno crosses over the Sierra Nevada mountain range, which often receives heavy snow. “USPS does not provide information about the study on which it relied to reach this determination"
"...YAKIMA- Following a public meeting held February 28th - attended by around 40 residents - Yakima resident now have just two weeks until March 14th to give feedback to the US Postal Service about a proposal to relocate some of Yakima County's mail processing to Spokane. At Wednesday's meeting, the USPS Pacific Northwest Division Senior Processing Director Brian Gaines, told residents that mail within the county would still be processed in Yakima, but anything with a zip code other than 989 would be sent to Spokane for processing. ..."
"HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - In South Huntsville, neighbors are on high alert after an opportunistic thief has been making off with items inside their mailboxes. ...he has video footage of the thief in a car driving away from a mail theft at his parent’s home..."
"...ATLANTA — Several Midtown Atlanta neighbors are claiming their packages are disappearing or not making it to them at all. They are blaming the United States Postal Service.
“I got a notification from our locker system here that I got a delivery from USPS. So, I went to retrieve the package but there was nothing in the locker,” said Stephen Gaskins.
Gaskins said at first he thought the delivery message was a mistake. He then contacted the locker system office that operates his complex in Midtown Atlanta. ..."
"...BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Dozens of workers at the United States Postal Service processing center on William Street took their fight to the streets Friday in Buffalo, as the USPS is considering uprooting the facility and moving it to Rochester. If the move is approved, the center that processes 30,000 letters per hour and hundreds of employees would be relocated 60 miles east. This would mean all the mail that now moves through Buffalo would have to be processed in Rochester first, which could lead to delays across Western New York...."
"...Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia said she, and Congressmen Al Green and Pete Sessions, were told that the problems at the Houston-area processing facilities began when a decision was made to move some of the operations from the North Houston facility to the South Houston facility in Missouri City. ..."
"...sentenced to eight years in prison, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of Mississippi announced in a Feb. 22 news release. The man’s public defenders declined to comment on the case to McClatchy News because they are likely to appeal. On Feb. 11, 2023, a mail carrier with the United States Postal Service was..."
"A private Facebook group with more than 8,600 members is doing its part to preserve a tradition that might seem out of step in the digital age: mailing greeting cards. The group, called Random Acts of Cardness, allows members to post greeting card requests for themselves or others, such as a co-worker dealing with an illness or a loss, or a friend celebrating a birthday or anniversary. ..."
"...cannot be tossed in the trash.
These batteries are typically regulated as universal waste and include dead batteries from mobile scanners, phones, laptops and other electronic equipment.
USPS facilities must recycle universal waste batteries ..."
"...He addressed a variety of topics, including package volume growth and network modernization..."
"In accordance with the 2021-2024 Collective Bargaining Agreement, career employees represented by the APWU will receive a $0.17 per hour cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), effective March 9, 2024.
The increase is the result of a rise in the Consumer Price Index (CPI-W), and will appear in paychecks dated..."
"...CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Members of American Postal Workers Union (APWU) Local 133 were hoping to see a big turnout for a public meeting about the future of the Charleston Processing and Distribution Center (P&DC) and that was the case Wednesday. Around 200 people were at the public meeting with more than 30 people who got up and spoke. Some speakers were just concerned citizens or supporters of the mail ..."
"...To save its post office, the tiny town of Hartville created a commemorative Valentine's Day stamp in 1996. The stamp has become so popular, collectors from around the world seek it out. The Pony Express joins in too with a Valentine's Day-themed ride to the town. ..."
"...Afton artist John Kaul remembers sending the first letters of his life to his paternal grandmother, Eva Kaul, in Faribault. The letters — “probably notes about school, or thank-you notes” — were the precursor of many to come. ...Kaul started collecting postage stamps when he was about 10. “My dad brought home from work envelopes with stamps coming from around the world,” he said. ...“I’ve always been someone who sent thank-you notes, and I always tried to dress up my letters to people with interesting stamps,” he said. “Sometimes there would be a theme. "
"...This shocking announcement made on Tuesday comes just six months after unionized UPS workers landed a “lucrative” new labor deal, which will see delivery drivers earning an average of $170,000 in annual pay and benefits by the end of the five years.
“2023 was a unique, and quite candidly, difficult and disappointing year,” said UPS CEO Carol Tomé during the company’s earnings call. “We experienced declines in volume, revenue and operating profits and all three of our business segments.”
She attributed the weak performance to increased labor costs..."
"...This is the second time in recent weeks a mail carrier was robbed in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. ..."
"Critically different from FEHB, the PSHBP requires verifying the Medicare enrollment of PSHBP enrollees – for example, if a postal annuitant who is required to be enrolled in Medicare Part B is not enrolled or disenrolls, they are no longer eligible to be enrolled in the PSHBP. ...The Postal Service Health Benefits (PSHB) Program is a new, separate program within the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program, administered by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) which will provide health insurance to eligible Postal Service employees, Postal Service annuitants, and their eligible family members starting in 2025. ..."
"The U.S. Postal Service has concluded that some of Casper’s mail processing should move to Billings, which means that along with a similar move in Cheyenne, Wyoming would be left without a major mail processing center. ..."
"U.S. Post Office workers in Missoula are extremely skeptical of a plan to possibly “modernize” the facility here because it may involve transferring outgoing mail-processing operations currently performed in Missoula to Spokane. ...“If you’re sending something from Missoula to Missoula, it’s gonna get driven to Spokane first... “We do a ton of Veterans Administration medications," he said. "Stuff like that’s gonna suffer. A lot of people rely on their physical Social Security checks. Things like that. A ton of local businesses take advantage of those flat-rate boxes. All their shipping could be delayed for two or more days.”"
"KINGSFORD, Mich. (WLUC) - The United States Postal Service has announced a review of its Processing and Distribution Center facility in Kingsford. Some postal workers have expressed concerns about the review. They believe changes to the facility will result in slower delivery speeds...."
"...MANCHESTER, N.H. — So many people wanted to weigh in Thursday about potential changes to a U.S. Postal Service facility in Manchester that the meeting had to move to a bigger room. Postal workers are concerned that shifting some mail processing operations from Manchester to Boston could affect jobs and employees' commutes. ..."
"...The Postal Service has announced its financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2024 (Oct. 1-Dec. 31, 2023). Here are some highlights...• Revenue. Total operating revenue was $21.6 billion, an increase of 0.5 percent ...Marketing Mail revenue decreased 5.4 percent. ...• Volume. Total volume was..."
"...One recent example involves a message that appears to be from an internal source. However, the email is flagged as “[EXTERNAL]” and the message contains a pressing request such as “I require urgent help.”
Vendor invoice fraud is another phishing scam to avoid.
This occurs when an attacker takes..."
"...You know about stamp collectors, but did you know postmarks have their fans, too?
A local chapter of the Post Mark Collectors Club recently toured the Hartford, CT, Processing and Distribution Center, where John Aberg, a USPS electronic technician, gave them a firsthand look at a machine that cancels postage. ..."
"...MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - The United States Postal Inspectors Office is searching for a man in connection to an ongoing fraud investigation.
The USPIO is asking for the public’s help identifying an unknown man who is wanted for questioning.
Investigators ask that anyone with information that could help identify the man please come forward. If you have information, please immediately call the Police or CrimeStoppers at 334-215-7867 or 1-833-251-7867 or submit a tip through the P3-tips app. Your information could lead to a cash reward. ..."
"...“The postal service is moving to an electronic key, basically where you would have to have a code with a scanner that can be turned off instantly if it’s stolen,” explains Montgomery. But until every postal carrier shifts to the new technology, U.S. Postal Inspectors continue to search for and find the robbers. A number of arrests have been made..."
"The hit TV drama based on the Post Office scandal really delivered for victims by raising awareness of their ongoing ordeal. And now a stage play is hoping to build on that success and carry on the fight against injustice. Plans for a theatre show are under way after ITV’s Mr Bates vs The Post Office sparked a major public outcry and forced former chief executive Paula Vennells to hand back her CBE. The satire, called False Accounts in a nod to the dodgy Horizon IT system supplied by Fujitsu, was performed in 2022 – and seen by more than 40 sub-postmasters..."
