"...offices of the postal-service area known as the Mountain Mini Cluster, which encompasses facilities from Nebo to Murphy and is managed from the General Mail Facility on Brevard Road in Asheville...."
This Article is From: www.mountainx.com
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Thursday, July 3, 2008
Postal holiday closing on July 4
ARTICLE TITLE: Postal windows get some extra shuteye on Saturday, July 5
This Article is From: www.mountainx.com
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Postal Workers Honored for Finding Beetles in Mail
"...recognized U.S. Postal Service employees at the Mohnton Post Office this morning for intercepting an illegal shipment of Asian beetles. ..."
This Article is From: wfmz.com
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Thieves steal gas from postal trucks, cars
"...Postal workers called police when they noticed a broken gas cap on the ground along with the nozzle to a gas can. Police then checked other cars in the lot. At least half a tank of gas was siphoned from the postmaster’s sport utility vehicle..."
This Article is From: www.bostonherald.com
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Support Keeps Growing For Mail Network Protection Act
"...The following House members added their names as co-sponsors of the bill between June 19 and July 1: Mail Network Protection Act —
Shelley Berkley (D-NV-1)
Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO-5)
Frank A. LoBiondo (R-NJ-2)..."
This Article is From: www.apwu.org
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Wednesday, July 2, 2008
USPS Mail Handler Level 6
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A reader asked, "is there a Level 6 Mail Handler?"
A reader asked, "is there a Level 6 Mail Handler?"
Answer: Yes ... a reference in the current Mail Handler National Contract found in Article 9.2 , page 21 identifies the "Step Progression" of a Level 6 Mail Handler. We can find no corresponding pay scale, so we do not know if a Level 6 still exist or not. Rumors of the past mention some position that either does still exist or held by a senior mail handler somewhere. If anyone else has information, please comment.
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Concord postmaster charged with sex offenses
"...held her against her will while they were working at the post office. A 25-year U.S. Postal Service employee..."
This Article is From: www.salisburypost.com
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Retired Postal Workers Sinking in Economic Hard Times
Retirees squeezed as home values, stocks dive
This Article is From: www.mercurynews.com
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"... To retired mail carrier Durant Simon, these are the sounds of economic malaise:
Aging pipes creaking from beneath his house...."
This Article is From: www.mercurynews.com
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Literary Postal Employee(s)
Going Postal, Literary Style
"... William Faulkner who expressed his unhappiness while still on the job. In 1924, the future author of The Sound and the Fury (Norton Critical Editions)
was fired as a Mississippi postmaster. The charges: throwing out mail—and writing on government time..." 
Source: www.newsweek.com
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National Postal Mail Handlers Union meets with Sen. Barack Obama
"...NPMHU President Hegarty Meets With Presidential Candidate Sen. Barack Obama ..."
::► Source: npmhu317.blogspot.com
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Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Direct Mail Related Revenue Will Continue to Increase
Paper Lives
Source: members.whattheythink.com
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"...Some reasons paper will not die for the foreseeable future.
* Internet access is not universal, so mail remains the primary method of delivering transaction documents such as bills and invoices as well as marketing messages. While Internet adoption rates continue to rise, it is unlikely that it will ever reach the near 100% coverage provided by the postal service. A recent study in the U.S. found that only 62% had home Internet access.[6]
* The Future of Mail and Transaction Documents Study concluded that the value of printed transaction documents will remain essentially stable, dropping .0066% a year through 2010 and that revenue related to printed direct mail will continue to increase at 4.5% a year..."
Source: members.whattheythink.com
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Man Describes Shooting To Police
Man Describes Shooting To Police
Source: www.wlky.com
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"...Police also released new information in this case about an incident between Parrish and a postal carrier. The postal worker called police following the shooting to report that Parrish has allegedly been harassing and stalking her over a three-year period. The postal worker told police it got so bad Parrish followed her into a shopping center and the postal worker was so afraid, she ran into one of the stores for help..."
Source: www.wlky.com
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USPS KEY ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES
KEY ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES: New Shipping and Mailing Services, Customer Relations groups created
Resource: liteblue.usps.gov
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"...We are consolidating all IMB activities under the direction of DPMG and Chief Operating Officer Pat Donahoe,” Potter said. Tom Day, Sr. VP, Intelligent Mail and Address Quality, will be supported by a new VP of Business Mail Entry and Payment Technologies. Pritha Mehra has been named to that position. To round out the team, Chief Information Officer Ross Philo will designate dedicated resources to support the IMB objectives. Employees who support all these groups will begin transitioning during the next few days..."
Resource: liteblue.usps.gov
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Monday, June 30, 2008
NEEOISO: USPS Seeks Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Investigators
Solicitation Number: 072368-del-eeo
Source: www.fbo.gov, Solicitation Number: 072368-del-eeo
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"...Selected individuals will be home-based independent contractors, located throughout the United States, who will enter into Ordering Agreements with the USPS to provide investigative services in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth in the Agreement. Individual Task Orders assigning the investigation of particular complaints of discrimination may be issued under the Ordering Agreement in a "fee for service" arrangement. There is no guarantee of work or the number of cases assigned. An investigator is paid on a “per case” basis, generally $1100, on successful completion of the case..."
Source: www.fbo.gov, Solicitation Number: 072368-del-eeo
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Saturday Mail Delivery in Danger?
Live From the ACMA Forum: So Long, Saturday Mail Delivery?
Source: multichannelmerchant.com
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"...The House Appropriations Committee approving an amendment from Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) that would require the USPS to study the cost effectiveness and fuel consumption of a five-day delivery system and consumer demand for Saturday postal mail. Kingston said in a June 26 press release he’s been trying to get the postal service to end Saturday delivery for years. “It’s a perfect example of government waste that is driving up the price at the pump,” he said...."
Source: multichannelmerchant.com
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Odd Mail Items
Dicey mail
Source: Your Postal Blog at yourpostalblog.blogspot.com
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"...a regular-sized dice, with a stamp folded around the edges. It had..."
Source: Your Postal Blog at yourpostalblog.blogspot.com
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Post Office Pushes The Envelope In Pojoaque
No Mail Delivered To Residents
Source: www.koat.com
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"...Those with a Pojoaque address can pick up mail from a van parked on West Guiterrez Street between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m..."
Source: www.koat.com
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Justice Dept. to pay scientist $5.8 million in anthrax lawsuit
A former Army scientist who was named as a person of interest in the 2001 anthrax attacks will receive $5.8 million to settle his lawsuit...
Meta: Steven Hatfill
Source: seattletimes.nwsource.com
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"...The former Army scientist who for years was the prime suspect in the deadly 2001 anthrax mailings agreed Friday to take $5.8 million from the Justice Department to settle his claim that the government invaded his privacy and ruined his career...."
Meta: Steven Hatfill
Source: seattletimes.nwsource.com
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Smartmobbing a rural postal crisis
Ripton, Vermont Post Office
Source: www.smartmobs.com
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"...Our local post office has suddenly been closed, without much warning, and without explanation. So the residents of this town used email and a blog to coordinate a protest. We blogged an account here, have set up at least one Flickr pool here, and are putting up YouTube videos..."
Source: www.smartmobs.com
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Friday, June 27, 2008
Colorado Stamp problem?
Exclusive: Wyoming Mountain Depicted On Colorado Stamp?
Source: www.thedenverchannel.com
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"...Al DeSarro, with the U.S. Postal Service, said that Engeman's artwork "was not based on any specific picture of a mountain." He said it is supposed to be a generic representation of a mountain -- not a specific mountain in Colorado. The U.S. Postal Service plans to issue a total of 60 flag stamps in alphabetical order -- one for each state, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories as well as the stars and stripes..."
Source: www.thedenverchannel.com
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Thursday, June 26, 2008
USPS Network Plan and the Impact on the Postal Employee
The following are excerpts from the June 2008 USPS Network Plan relative to employee impact. Again, these are only excerpts, you must read the plan in its entirety to fully understand the excerpts in their proper context. However, it is obvious that the USPS workforce is in for substantial changes:
"...By measuring local mail processing equipment performance against national
benchmarks, Machine Performance Scorecards give local managers a
convenient metric against which to analyze machine and operator performance..."
"...the Postal Service is evaluating the relocation of various mail
processing operations..."
"...assuming the removal of existing
equipment in Bulk Mail Centers, the availability of BMC floorspace for other
operations may affect surrounding Processing & Distribution Centers. If Flats
Sequencing Systems and bundle sortation equipment are deployed to BMCs, the
P&DCs will experience a reduction in flat and bundle processing..."
"...Should the implementation of the Network Plan
make it necessary to apply these processes, all Postal Service career employee
personnel actions will follow a general sequential escalation of impact and will
comply with applicable rules and regulations, including Veterans’ Preference
laws..."
"...d. Voluntary Early Retirement Provisions
Under these provisions, the Postal Service requests authority from the
Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to offer eligible impacted
employees opportunities to apply for voluntary early retirement. It is the
Postal Service’s policy to request such voluntary early retirement authority
from OPM even for impacted employees covered by collective bargaining
agreements that do not contain voluntary early retirement provisions..."
"...Qualified employees who are involuntarily separated due to organizational
changes, and who are not eligible to apply for discontinued service retirement or
optional retirement, receive severance pay..."
"...The Area Mail Processing consolidations and proposed Bulk Mail Center network
reconfiguration will involve numerous site-specific employee impact
determinations which cannot be quantified until the changes proposed for
particular facilities have been identified and thoroughly analyzed. The Postal
Service considers that, for purposes of its Network Plan, it has sufficient flexibility
with which to make the workforce changes that may be necessary. To the extent
that implementation of the plan requires the accomplishment of workforce
reductions more expeditiously than can be achieved through attrition..."
Source: The above information is taken from the USPS POSTAL ACCOUNTABILITY AND ENHANCEMENT ACT § 302 NETWORK PLAN, June 2008 as found in the public domain on the world wide web from the APWU union website. NOTE: We would like to thank President Burrus of the APWU for his continued informative articles in keeping us all informed of relative postal related issues. Keep up the good work Mr. Burrus. Your union members should be proud to to have elected such a dedicated President. Job well done!
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