"...The 2008 Express Mail and Priority Mail stamps, featuring the Hoover Dam and Mount Rushmore go on sale today..."
Source: yourpostalblog.blogspot.com
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Friday, June 13, 2008
The dam stamps are finally available!
Marvelous engineering
Source: yourpostalblog.blogspot.com
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Source: yourpostalblog.blogspot.com
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Going Postal - An Offensive Term?
Union Campaign Against Violent Stereotype Greeted with Silence by Postal Management
"...The union has learned that the Postal Service has designated a franchise business called — you guessed it — Goin’ Postal as a partner in the USPS Approved Shipper Program. The national union learned about the partnership from local editors Mike Mazurkiewicz, (Saint Paul’s Postmark) and Cathy Hanson (Minneapolis’ Northern Light), who ventured into a Goin’ Postal outlet in their area. When they identified themselves to a manager as postal workers offended by the company’s name, they were informed that the company plans to open 4,000 stores nationwide..."
Source: www.apwu.org
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"...The union has learned that the Postal Service has designated a franchise business called — you guessed it — Goin’ Postal as a partner in the USPS Approved Shipper Program. The national union learned about the partnership from local editors Mike Mazurkiewicz, (Saint Paul’s Postmark) and Cathy Hanson (Minneapolis’ Northern Light), who ventured into a Goin’ Postal outlet in their area. When they identified themselves to a manager as postal workers offended by the company’s name, they were informed that the company plans to open 4,000 stores nationwide..."
Source: www.apwu.org
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Thursday, June 12, 2008
Send Fathers Day Mail to Our Soldiers in Iraq from www.mymars.org
Free Father's Day Messages for Overseas Servicemen
Source: www.theleafchronicle.com and www.mymars.org
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"...Family members can easily send free MARSgrams overseas by entering their message on the web site www.mymars.org. The Army MARS WinLink system automatically relays the Iraq-bound messages to Hammer and his helpers, who produce printouts and envelopes and hand them on to the Military Postal Service for final delivery. A MARSgram travels much faster than ordinary mail and can be delivered wherever American troops serve..."
Source: www.theleafchronicle.com and www.mymars.org
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A Look Back: Mail Data from 1999 Article
offthemap; Deck the Box - greeting cards - Statistical Data Included - Brief Article
Source: findarticles.com
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"...If trends hold, Americans will send out more than 4.5 billion stamped cards and letters this holiday season, plus an additional 138 million parcels, comprising 28% of the annual mail volume, according to the U.S. Postal Service..."
Source: findarticles.com
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Additional Benefits for Civilian Employees in Combat Zones
OPM Reminds Agencies of Additional Benefits for Civilian Employees in Combat Zones
Springer outlined a list of authorities currently available to agencies. These include, but are not limited to:
* The National Defense Authorization Act of 2008 provides for a higher annual maximum limitation on premium pay;
* The Department of State Standardized Regulations (DSSR) provide a number of important compensation entitlements, such as danger pay and hardship differentials;
* OPM regulations give agencies the discretionary authority to provide recruitment, retention, and relocation incentive payments (up to 100 percent of basic pay) to address difficulties in recruiting or retaining employees in combat zones;
* Agencies have the ability to offer time off awards;
* Agencies have the authority under DSSR to provide travel benefits for rest and recuperation equivalent to one trip every six months and after 90 days in the country; and,
* Agencies have the authority to grant administrative leave (excused absence with pay and without charge to leave).
For additional information on these and other authorities, Federal employees should contact their agency human resources office.
Reference: www.opm.gov
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Springer outlined a list of authorities currently available to agencies. These include, but are not limited to:
* The National Defense Authorization Act of 2008 provides for a higher annual maximum limitation on premium pay;
* The Department of State Standardized Regulations (DSSR) provide a number of important compensation entitlements, such as danger pay and hardship differentials;
* OPM regulations give agencies the discretionary authority to provide recruitment, retention, and relocation incentive payments (up to 100 percent of basic pay) to address difficulties in recruiting or retaining employees in combat zones;
* Agencies have the ability to offer time off awards;
* Agencies have the authority under DSSR to provide travel benefits for rest and recuperation equivalent to one trip every six months and after 90 days in the country; and,
* Agencies have the authority to grant administrative leave (excused absence with pay and without charge to leave).
For additional information on these and other authorities, Federal employees should contact their agency human resources office.
Reference: www.opm.gov
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Social Studies Teacher Blogs About Ben Franklin
Ben Franklin’s Post Office
Source: history591twenty9.wordpress.com
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"...have collected stamps off & on since I was in the 4th grade. I collect stamps from all over the world but I mostly enjoy United States stamps. I think the reason I love stamps is because there is history in stamps. Commemorative stamps do just that..."
Source: history591twenty9.wordpress.com
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Royal Mail workers issue fresh strike threat
Union warns that it will push for industrial action unless Royal Mail gives assurances on the future of the business
Source: timesonline.co.uk
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"...The postal group halted its final salary pension for all employees in April, and replaced it with one based on career average earnings...."
Source: timesonline.co.uk
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008
USPS Shipping of Live Animals
Animal cruelty or business as usual?
Source: www.malibutimes.com
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"...Since 1919, the Postal Service has retained statutes dictating the terms of shipment of live animals, including newborn and adult fowl, lizards, earthworms, snails, leeches, scorpions and even honey bees..."
Source: www.malibutimes.com
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Stole gasoline from the U.S. Postal Service
Texas pair stole, sold postal gasoline
Source: www.chron.com
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"...used postal service credit cards to buy gasoline for themselves, plus sell it to people in Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana. They have paid restitution of more than $47,000..."
Source: www.chron.com
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
How to retire in style
Neither rain nor heat nor gloom of night stops folks from living large at the unofficial retirement community of the National Association of Letter Carriers.
Source: nationalgeographic.com
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"...With an efficiency renting for under $75 in 1964, Nalcrest [Florida] was nirvana for postal retirees. It remains a bargain: A one-bedroom rents for only $305, and dinners at Jay Bee's II, the town's only restaurant, average $6. ..."
Source: nationalgeographic.com
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Emergency Drill At Main Post Office
Workers Hold Emergency Drill At Main Post Office
Source: www.kypost.com
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"...The drill focused on response to a biohazard danger, including decontamination of volunteers...."
Source: www.kypost.com
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Digital signage used by USPS to spark interest in kiosks
Digital Signage
Source: www.selfserviceworld.com
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"...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
Source: yourpostalblog.blogspot.com
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"...Who is your favorite fictional postal character?..."
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Mail Package Shipping Test:
FedEx, UPS, and the Postal Service - A shipping test
Source: www.abcactionnews.com
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"...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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Monday, June 9, 2008
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.
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Postal Technology
Connected: Postal Service technology can be helpful
Source: www.post-gazette.com
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"...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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Sunday, June 8, 2008
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
Source: www.postalmuseum.si.edu
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"...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
Source: al.com
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"...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
Source: www.usps.com
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"...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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