"...All the postcards in this exhibit are over one hundred years old. Most of them have undivided backs which allowed only the mailing address to be written on the back, and, most of those had a space on the front to write a message. The postcards in this exhibit are from what postcard collectors have termed the Private Mailing Card Era (1898-1901) and the Undivided Back Era (1901-1907)...."
"...Members of the U.S. Marshals task force learned that Reid and Housley would be at a hangout in south Macon and arrested them at the hangout..."
"...We are writing to inform you that the Postal Service will be business as usual on Friday, December 26, 2008, the day after Christmas. ..."
"..."If the Government backs the changes, as seems likely, it will inflame the postal unions and Labour backbenchers who both want a fully publicly owned Royal Mail..."
"...“The major reduction and relocation of employees on Tour 2 is a significant change to the three-tour operation that has been in existence for over 200 years,” the union contends, “with Tour 2 being the most sought after hours of work for the most senior employees.”..."
"...The actual number was worse than originally expected, but better than the revised estimate. Wednesday is expected to be the biggest delivery day for the Postal Service...."
"...Most of the changes resulting from those evaluations will go into effect in January 2009.
The changes are designed to give letter carriers stability and consistency by assigning a single route that they will deliver on a regular basis...."
"...“What excised really means is 21 of our workers in Waterbury will be relocated 100 or 500 miles away,” state Sen. Joan Hartley said. “I call that a layoff."..."
"...Monday a week before Christmas has traditionally been the busiest day of the year for the U.S. Postal Service and people mailing holiday packages, but officials say..."
"..."We are trying to clean up the mess the postmaster ... has created," one carrier wrote in an e-mail after News 13 began its reporting. "Since the story broke, all hell broke loose"..."
"...when workers will be sorting and delivering two to three times their normal mail volume, according to a U.S. Postal Service news release...."
"...The heads of executive branch departments and agencies may determine that certain offices and installations of their organizations, or parts thereof, must remain open and that certain employees must report for duty on December 26, 2008, for reasons of national security or defense or other public need...."
"...The postal employee was taken to Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Treschuk said. She was listed in critical..."
"...Operation Letters To Santa has created a new online community for one single purpose - to bring public awareness to the USPS volunteer program “Operation Santa Claus”...."
"...Some examples in the report include a California supervisor who pleaded guilty in May to theft of mail in a case involving 4,500 missing DVDs...."
"...the Postal Service district manager for the Philadelphia metropolitan district, was replaced yesterday by Jim Gallagher, a veteran USPS manager, spokesman Paul Smith confirmed yesterday...."
"...The dispute arose following negotiations for the 1998-2000 Collective Bargaining Agreement, which resulted in an agreement that eligible APWU-represented employees would have the right to sell back up to 40 hours of unused annual leave prior to the beginning of each leave year...."
"...in order to reflect the effects of the reorganization and restructuring of the Departments of Energy, Homeland Security, Justice, Transportation, and the Treasury on their subdivisions exempted from coverage under the Federal Labor-Management Relations Program..."
