"...Union leaders warned management this would happen. If the U.S. Postal Service contracted out mail delivery in places like Beaverton, Ore., there would be accountability problems and breaches of mail security, said National Association of Letter Carriers officers like L.C. Hansen, president of Branch 82 in Portland...."
"...You know I don't like to brag, but I was reminded by the postal newsgroup that I was the very first customer to send out a mail order catalog. It only happen..."
"...The union learned unofficially on July 3 that the Postal Service had requested authority from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to offer early retirement to 40,000 postal employees.
No specifics of any early-retirement plan are available. “As information is provided, we will share it with our members,” Burrus said.
The meeting, which was rescheduled from July 7, is being held at the request of the APWU. As Burrus reported in an Update for union members last week, the union interprets the National Agreement as requiring bargaining over early-retirement offers. A written demand for notification has been sent to postal management..."
"...a better argument had she alleged that the Postal Service interfered with her FMLA rights by requiring that she provide FMLA medical certification. While the FMLA permits an employer to require the employee to abide by the procedural requirements for paid leave, it also provides that, if the paid leave certification requirements are less onerous than the FMLA certification requirements, an employer may only impose the less strict paid leave requirements. 29 CFR 825.207(h). ..."
"...There is a general lack of understanding by many postal processing facilities and personnel as to what the requested dates really mean. Because of that, there are times when postal employees go out of their way to ensure that mail is being processed and delivered by the dates on the mail. How do they go out of their way to ensure this? It could be segregating the mail by the dates requested which results in additional handling or utilization of additional floor space. It could be processing the mail in a separate pass on sorting equipment or, in the worst-case scenario, manual processing it to avoid waiting for the normal machine time. Or it could be "warehousing" mail that has been delivered too early...."
"...The union has learned unofficially that the Postal Service has requested from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) the authority to offer early retirement to 40,000 postal employees. In response to an inquiry from my office, a meeting with Postal Service headquarters has been scheduled for Monday regarding these reports...."
"...The union has learned unofficially that the Postal Service has requested from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) the authority to offer early retirement to 40,000 postal employees. In response to an inquiry from my office, a meeting with Postal Service headquarters has been scheduled for Monday regarding these reports.
No specifics of the early-retirement plan will be available until full discussions have taken place with the USPS. ... APWU is demanding bargaining on any proposal to offer “early outs.” We believe that all APWU-represented employees should be eligible, and that there should be monetary incentives for interested employees. ..."
"...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...."
"...recognized U.S. Postal Service employees at the Mohnton Post Office this morning for intercepting an illegal shipment of Asian beetles. ..."
"...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..."
"...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)..."
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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"...held her against her will while they were working at the post office. A 25-year U.S. Postal Service employee..."
"... To retired mail carrier Durant Simon, these are the sounds of economic malaise:
Aging pipes creaking from beneath his house...."
was fired as a Mississippi postmaster. The charges: throwing out mail—and writing on government time..." 
"...NPMHU President Hegarty Meets With Presidential Candidate Sen. Barack Obama ..."
"...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..."
"...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..."
"...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..."