Digital signage used by USPS to spark interest in kiosks

Digital Signage

"...focused on changing this customer behavior specifically by including a digital screen at the main entrance to each of the test sites. Nicknamed the “Stop and Turn” device, it is a 30-inch screen hung portrait fashion in a custom mount. The content on this screen is all very short (3-5 seconds), bright colors, and designed to catch the eye of customers as they walk into the post office. It’s also very direct in its messages. “Jump the line. Ship packages at the APC...."    

Source: www.selfserviceworld.com

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Favorite Fictional Postal People

Poll results - favorite postal character

"...Who is your favorite fictional postal character?..."    

Source: yourpostalblog.blogspot.com

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Mail Package Shipping Test:

FedEx, UPS, and the Postal Service - A shipping test

"...We sent three packages via Fed Ex, another 3 through UPS and the last
batch we handed over to the Post Office..."    

Source: www.abcactionnews.com

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Postal worker charged in jewelry theft at work

"...U.S. Postal Service worker was arrested Sunday night and charged with stealing thousands of dollars in jewelry from the mail while working at a distribution center in Bethpage,..."    

Source: www.newsday.com

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Early Retirements in Many Industries

While many postal workers speculate on a Voluntary Early Retirement offer, many are pondering if other industries are facing the same. Below you will find links to articles that will quench your thirst.

Taking a Buyout to Leave a Job You Love   Source: www.usnews.com

NYSE Offers Retirement to 450 US Workers, CEO Says   Source: www.bloomberg.com

St. Petersburg TimesTo Trim Staff   Source: www.theweeklychallenger.com

Continental to cut 3000 jobs, slash domestic flights   Source: www.tradingmarkets.com

Buyouts taken by 300 at GM Wentzville   Source: stcharlesjournal.stltoday.com

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Postal Technology

Connected: Postal Service technology can be helpful

"...the Postal Service has recently installed imaging equipment specifically to expedite the return of undeliverable checks -- and there was a picture of my check near the bottom of the page!..."    

Source: www.post-gazette.com

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A Look Back to June 8, 1959: Missile Mail

While the Post Office Department had no official mail rocket program, unofficial mail rocket launchings made occasional headlines

"...the postal service and defense department cooperated in an experiment using missiles to carry mail in 1959. On June 8 of that year, a missile carrying 3,000 letters was fired from Navy submarine U.S.S. Barbero to a Naval station at Mayport, Florida, one hundred miles away. On hand for the service was Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield, who boasted that missiles would be able to speed mail across the U.S. and oversees. Among the pieces of mail carried was a letter from President Dwight D. Eisenhower..."    

Source: www.postalmuseum.si.edu

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Saturday mail delivery

Langford, to save fuel, urges an end to Saturday mail delivery

"...Langford last week announced a four-day work week for 4,000 Birmingham city employees, effective July 1. That plan received national and international attention. Langford was featured on Fox News Channel and ABC World News Tonight in stories detailing how the nation is coping with near $4 a gallon gas prices..."    

Source: al.com

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U.S.P.S. earned its second consecutive Certificate of Excellence award

An Exceptional Encore

"...The U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) international mail facility in Chicago has earned its second consecutive Certificate of Excellence award from an international organization dedicated to improving global postal services..."    

Source: www.usps.com

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Post Office: Mooresville, AL 35649

Mooresville Alabama Post Office

"...Oldest Post Office in Alabama still in the original building, circa 1840..."    

Source: www.postmarks.org

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Post Office: Hinsdale, NH 03451

* Hinsdale NH Post Office Claims to be the Oldest Continuously Operating PO in America-1816.

"...Around the turn of the century, the post office was robbed twice. Thieves blew up the safe both times, destroying valuable records. That's the reason to this day, no one knows who was Hinsdale's postmaster for a 19 year period. (1826-1845) Prior to 1905 people had to come to the post office to pick up mail that was put in "call" boxes. Then, in that year, a rural route was started..."    

Source: www.associatedcontent.com

Further Information:
Source: http://www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/postalfacts.htm
* Oldest Post Office is in Castine, ME. This office has been in continuous operation since 1814.
* Second Oldest Post Office is in Hinsdale, NH. This office has been in the same building since 1816.

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Rhinebeck Post Office

Post office forever linked to FDR

"...There is a great deal of history here with regard to President Roosevelt, who was very involved in the creation of our post office building," said Barton, a 42-year employee of the U.S. Postal Service who has been with the Rhinebeck Post Office since 1995...."    

Source: www.dailyfreeman.com

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Cozad, NE original Pony Express Station

Cattle Towns: Cozad, Nebraska

"...Malalley Ranch became not only a trading post for Indians but also a camping place for wagon trains because there was water available and wood for repairs and fuel. Later it became known as the Willow Island station and was used as a stage and Pony Express station during the Pony Express April 1860..."    

Source: www.cattlenetwork.com

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1976 Mail Bomb Mystery

Woman searches for grandfather's killer 32 years after death

"...It was May 13, 1976. Ivend Holen was assistant postmaster in Kimball, Minnesota. He was sorting through packages when one of them exploded. Holen was killed. No one was ever arrested. The explosion remained a mystery..."    

Source: www.kare11.com

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Canada Post paid pre-retirement leave

Canada Post and Canadian Union of Postal Workers have a great benefit:

"...a regular employee who attains fifty (50) years of age and completes twenty (20) years of continuous employment or, attains sixty (60) years of age and completes five (5) years of continuous employment, shall be entitled to be paid a pre-retirement leave of one (1) week..."    

Source: www.hrsdc.gc.ca

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What is a VSIP?

VSIP is an acronym for Voluntary Separation Incentive Payment. Sometimes a VSIP is called a buyout

"...Under VSIP, agencies may pay up to $25,000, or an amount equal to the amount of severance pay an employee would be entitled to receive, whichever is less...."    

Source: postal-edaily.blogspot.com

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Post Office Hours

"...Locate a Post Office and look-up the Post Office hours at USPS.COM..."    

Source: www.usps.com

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postal codes canada

Canada Postal Code Look-Up

"...Take a look at the Canada Postal-Code Lookup with a reverse search feature..."    

Source: www.canadapost.ca

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digital postal scale

Postage Scales Buying Guide

"... Postage scales can help increase mailing efficiency by reducing overpayment on outgoing mail, saving the typical business 10% to 15% on postage..."    

Source: ebay.com

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US Postal Service Contract

U.S. Postal Service Awards Rivermine Telecom Expense Management Contract

"...Rivermine will deliver its patent-pending solutions to automate the U.S. Postal Service's existing TEM processes..."    

Source: www.earthtimes.org

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