"...According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of Illinois, Philip E. Tucker, 37, pleaded guilty after stealing from the collection box in Granite City, Illinois, on May 6, 2023. ... Prosecutors said theft of mail by a postal employee convictions are punishable up to 5 year’s in prison. Tucker is scheduled for sentencing on Wednesday, December 18 at 10 a.m."
"...ROCKY POINT, NC (WWAY) — On most days, you’ll find Jennifer Chesson cruising Pender County in a 2003 Cadillac hearse. No, she’s not a funeral director, and she’s not making deliveries to the departed. She’s actually hauling mail. “I’ll be at mailboxes, and then cars will start going slow past me and then I’ll look over and there’s a phone. ...Chesson works for the Rocky Point Post Office, delivering USPS packages five days a week."
"...The adjustment is to help cover extra handling costs.
The planned pricing, which was approved by the Postal Service governors on Aug. 8, would affect prices on these commercial and retail domestic competitive parcels: Priority Mail Express, Priority Mail and USPS Ground Advantage. No other products or services would be affected.
Pending favorable review by the Postal Regulatory Commission, the temporary rates would go into effect on Sunday, Oct. 6, and remain in place until Sunday, Jan. 19. ..."
"...the share of scheduled working hours that they are on the job versus on some type of leave—has declined in recent years, says an inspector general audit that calls on management to tighten time and attendance controls. ...“We found progressive corrective action has not been consistent and sick leave, LWOP, and AWOL hours have generally trended upward
,” the report said. Sick leave hours rose from 47.6 million in 2020 to 51.3 million in 2022...In a sample of 400 regular sick leave occurrences of more than three days, management did not have the required medical documentation for 358, or 90 percent. “Supervisors were not always diligent with obtaining documentation from employees when they used sick leave for more than three days. Supervisors acknowledged that they understand the medical documentation requirement; however, they have not been consistent in requesting or requiring employees to submit documentation ... The IG also called for stronger oversight of the roughly 13,000 employees on the “the Zero Hours Dashboard” who had no work hours for 13 or more pay periods"
"...The Postal Service has unveiled a new website that focuses on the stories behind the organization’s stamps, including their history and the creation process.
The Stamps Forever site also features news, designs and products associated with many of the stamps that USPS has released since fall 2023. ..."
"...Lucinda Guest is the latest person to send KMBC a tip about mail troubles.
She’s missing a package with a $33 watch band that never came to her front porch a couple of weeks ago.
After seeking answers from the United States Postal Service, a USPS automated recording eventually told her it was delivered to zip code 64132.
But, that's not Guest’s zip code. ..."
"...SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California woman fed up with her packages getting stolen out of her post office box sent an Apple AirTag to the address and cleverly tracked down the suspected thief, police said.
The woman had had several items stolen from her mailbox at the Los Alamos Post Office already when she thought of the idea, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday.
Apple’s $29 AirTags have... All communication with the Find My network is anonymous and encrypted for privacy, Location data and history are never stored on AirTag ...
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"...On the heels of a summer wave of COVID-19 cases, Americans will be able to get free virus test kits mailed to their homes, starting in late September.
U.S. households will be able to order up to four COVID-19 nasal swab tests when the federal program reopens, according to the website, COVIDtests.gov. The U.S. Health and Human Services agency that oversees the testing has not announced an exact date for ordering to begin.
The tests will detect current virus strains and can be ordered ahead of the holiday season ...
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"...Raheem Cooper was on his delivery route Monday when he saw an elderly woman passed out in her driveway. He jumped off his truck to check to see if anyone was at her home, called 911 and began rendering aid to the woman, WALB reports. Another woman passing by also helped until the ambulance arrived. ..."
"...A jury in Palm Beach County awarded postal worker Christy Trimbath more than $5.5 million. She was struck by a city garbage truck while she was removing mail from her van and was thrown 15 feet. Trimbath's lawyer said she became too disabled to work as a result of the wreck. ..."
"...Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) set at $978 Effective September 7, 2024 (Pay Period 20-2024), all career Mail Handler craft employees are scheduled to receive a cost-of-living (COLA) adjustment as outlined in Article 9.3 of the 2022 National Agreement. This is the fourth of six possible COLA increases under the terms of the current agreement. This COLA increase is based on the upward change in the relevant Consumer Price Index (CPI) following release of the July 2024 Index, using the July 2022 CPI index as a base. The resulting calculation provides an annual increase of $978 for all Steps in ..."
"...Known as the Conduct on Postal Property regulations, these rules cover all USPS premises, including inside facilities and in parking lots. The regulations apply to certain activities governed by ethics rules as well as the Hatch Act, a law that prohibits federal employees from engaging in partisan activity, among other things, while on the job. ..."
"In accordance with the 2021-2024 Collective Bargaining Agreement, career employees represented by the APWU will receive a $0.47 per hour cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), effective September 7, 2024. ...The increase is the result of a rise in the Consumer Price Index (CPI-W). It will appear in paychecks dated September 27, 2024 (Pay Period 20-2024). The value of the COLA for full-time employees in each step and grade will increase by $977.00 annually, and the hourly rates for part-time employees will be adjusted accordingly. The COLAs are in addition to general wage increases. This is the sixth and final cost-of-living increase under the 2021 contract. ..."
"...Thefts have taken place at several mailboxes, including one in front of the Main Street post office. "We have eight to 10 cases we know of so far," Police Chief Thomas Lynch said. "They're (reports) still coming in." The thefts are due to a postal employee's key to the boxes being stolen during a robbery, police said...."
"USPS will use employees’ feedback to make improvements ...The next Postal Pulse employee survey will run from Tuesday, Aug. 6, through Friday, Sept. 13.
The annual survey allows employees to share observations about their work environments, providing the organization with valuable feedback to make improvements.
This year’s survey is being administered by a new vendor, Perceptyx.
Beginning Aug. 6, employees with a USPS email address will receive a link to the survey website. The email address will be donotreply@perceptyx.com and the name will be Perceptyx. ...
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"...On Wednesday, officers were contacted by the USPS Inspector General about employee Marcus Gregory, who had several complaints against him for not delivering mail. On July 31, undercover officers watched Gregory while he was working and saw him dump mail in the woods near Williams Farm Road and Highway 316. Shortly after dumping the mail, officers saw him using illegal drugs in his USPS vehicle. ..."
"...in Arizona, we obviously absorb more of the open border abuse than most states. Unlike the other border states, we're now a swing state. The Dems are no doubt hoping that every single "migrant" here casts a vote for the Harris-Disaster ticket this fall. They just got a generous assist towards that end. This is from a recent post of Matt's: On Thursday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed itself and will now allow Arizonans to register to vote in federal races without having to prove citizenship. ..."
"...CHARLOTTE — A former United States Postal Service worker now faces federal charges after he was accused of having pipe bombs.
Derek Johnson’s troubles started in state court, but they’ve now made their way to federal court ... Tiffany Alexander is with the Charlotte chapter of the American Postal Workers Union. She spoke with Channel 9′s Hunter Sáenz about Johnson, who was a USPS worker hired just two weeks before his arrest.
“It’s terrifying"
"...The U.S. Postal Service is hiring. It hopes to fill some of its open positions this Thursday through a job fair at locations throughout Alabama.
The fairs will be held simultaneously at the locations below from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Thursday.
Many of the open positions would cover rural areas. ..."
List of locations ...
"...JULIAETTA - The Gwen Fire affecting Nez Perce and Latah Counties in Idaho has led to the temporary closure of the Juliaetta Post Office. All mail and retail services have been relocated to the Kendrick Post Office at 703 E Main St., Kendrick. Customers can pick up their mail at the Kendrick Post Office, which operates Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and 12:45 p.m. to 4:45 p.m., and on Saturday from 8:45 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Proper photo ID is required for mail and package pickups. ..."
"...it was yet another thumb in the eye of the British King,” author and scholar Tara Ross wrote in a 2021 blog post.
It was imperative to the revolutionary cause that messages between those fighting for independence from the Crown were not handled by the Crown, so it made sense for the Colonies to create their own system.
Franklin had been both postmaster of Philadelphia and joint postmaster general for the Crown, and his work as a former newspaper printer —printing and postal services worked hand in glove in the 18th century — was also an asset. ..."
"The man had been waiting for a package containing the cremated remains of his grandmother, sent by Priority Mail Express 1-Day from Florida. ...46-year-old Anthony Alfano, of Ossining, was arrested on Friday in Yorktown Heights after he made several graphic and violent threats to kill U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employees and burn down U.S. post offices in Ossining. ... He was charged with threatening interstate communications ..."
"The postal service took action to ‘remediate’ the issue following a TechCrunch investigation ...On Wednesday, the USPS said it addressed the issue and stopped the practice, claiming that it was “unaware” of it. TechCrunch found USPS was sharing customers’ information by way of hidden data-collecting code (also known as tracking pixels) used across its website. Tech and advertising companies create this kind of code to collect information about the user — such as which pages they visit — every time a webpage containing the code loads in the customer’s browser. In the case of USPS, some of that collected data included the postal addresses of logged-in USPS Informed Delivery customers, who use the service to see photos of their incoming mail before it arrives. ..."
"Stephen Kochersperger has been named USPS historian, a role he assumed on an acting basis in December. ...Kochersperger began his USPS career more than 40 years ago, first as a clerk in Milesburg, PA, and then as postmaster of Julian, PA, where he served for 25 years.
In 2011, he became a writer/editor for the former Capital Metro Area. The next year, he joined the historian’s office at USPS headquarters in Washington, DC. ..."
"...Change of address scam – Fraudsters pretend to be from the postal service and they charge people $100 dollars or more for a change of address, which can be done at the post office for free. ..."
"...MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport and the United States Postal Service are giving contradictory information over mail delivery to the airport during the Republican National Convention. According to a statement from the airport's director, the USPS will not deliver mail to Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport during the Republican National Convention. However, a local USPS spokesperson told 12 News late Friday that the USPS will continue delivering mail to the airport during the RNC. The airport learned about a USPS decision to not deliver mail this week..."
"Delays have included save-the-date invitations getting to guests and absentee ballots ...also had delays in receiving their tax returns since the consolidation, Fox 5 Atlanta reported. Concerns regarding the Palmetto plant have reached U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff, a Democrat who represents Georgia...Prescriptions aren’t arriving. Bills aren’t getting paid. Ballots aren’t getting counted. "
"...After increasing the price of a first-class postage stamp to 68 cents in January, the U.S. Postal Service is planning to increase the cost again in the coming days. The USPS will bump the cost of a first-class Forever stamp to 73 cents on July 14..."
"Mail delivery to Scenic View Lane stopped as of Monday and neighbors, some of whom are disabled and veterans, are upset about the decision. ...Timothy Masters is one of about five military veterans who live in the neighborhood. His neighbors, he said, include several disabled residents who depend on the mail. He said the neighbors received the first letter from the Morganton Post Office about a month ago telling them the road is unsafe and they need to fix the private road or delivery of the mail would end...."
"...The time to buy stamps is now. The price of first-class Forever stamps will jump from 68 cents to 73 cents on July 14—an increase of more than 7%. ..."
"...The price of first-class Forever stamps will increase from 68 cents to 73 cents on July 14, an increase of more than 7%. Prices for all services will rise more than 7.5%.
The price hikes are part of the USPS 10-year "Delivering for America" plan ..."
"...The two stamps came in two designs, one for each denomination. The five-cent stamp featured a picture of Benjamin Franklin, while the ten-cent stamp depicted George Washington. ... Prior to the invention of the postage stamp, a person mailing a letter would need to bring each letter to the post office and pay for it in person, said the USPS. Rather than a set price, the postage rate was determined by the length of the letter and how far it was being sent, said USPS. ..."
"FedEx Express has announced that it has permanently retired another 22 of its Boeing 757-200 freighters as the carrier continues to manage its fleet resources. The announcement came on June 25, 2024, as the Memphis-based shipping and logistics company revealed its financial results for the quarter ending May 31, 2024. The company reported fiscal fourth-quarter revenues of $201 million, compared with $430 million during the same period in 2023, resulting in a year-on-year decrease of 53%. ...Adding to FedEx’s challenges, at the start of 2024, rival company United Parcel Service (UPS) secured the lucrative contract to become the primary air cargo carrier for the US Postal Service (USPS), a contract that FedEx had held for the past two decades. This is thought to be another contributing factor to the retirement of the 757s from the FedEx fleet. ..."
"...Since 2015, the United States Postal Service has agreed to 97% of requests made to share customer's information with law enforcement. These requests for customer's names and their 'to's and 'from's were issued without warrants and regularly complied with. This practice is surprisingly and disappointingly legal. I wonder if they were allowed to shake the box, too. ..."
"...This is the fourth round of bargaining in which I am privileged to be the union’s lead negotiator. Each time I have been reminded that former PMG Donohoe shamefully advocated that young workers don’t deserve traditional defined-benefit retirement plans, job security and stable employment and called on Congress to use the Postal Service as “an incubator” for destroying decent jobs. These harmful views found their way into the December 2018 White House “Postal Task Force” recommendations. And much of this thinking led to the formation of the non-career workforce. ..."
"...According to court records, LaSonja Jones, 42, pleaded guilty to applying for COVID-19 PPP loans with false information about her two small businesses’ eligibility. Jones was reportedly an administrative employee at the U.S. Postal Inspection Service at the time. ..."
"...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. ..."
