(APWU) Excessing: Know Your Rights

"...indicating that junior full-time employees will be reassigned to other crafts or more distant facilities. Through collective bargaining, the union and management have established rules governing the reassignment of employees, and it is important that the rules be followed. Unfortunately, management seems to be engaged in a dangerous game of “chicken” with workers — hoping to reduce the complement by coercing employees to resign. Management is attempting to accomplish this insidious deed by “reassigning” employees to non-existent positions in facilities far from the employees’ homes...."    

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Sick 3-D Cameras Go Postal

"...Sick, a maker of sensors, safety systems, machine vision, and automatic identification products for factory and logistics automation, announced it was awarded a multi-million dollar order from Lockheed Martin Systems Integration – Owego to provide its Ruler E 3D Cameras as part of continuing improvements to the United States Postal Service’s Automated Package Processing System (APPS)...."    

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Despite risks, dealers still mail illegal drugs

"...Neighborhood Recovery Unit intercepted four packages of marijuana totaling 57 pounds. The packages, which originated from the western part of the country, probably cost about $70,000 altogether, but had an estimated street value of about $250,000..."    

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Law Note: 3rd Circuit: When Serving Post Office, Don't Rely on Mailbox Rule

"...The dispute erupted over whether Pollock had filed a timely request for reconsideration within six months after the USPS denied his initial claim. Pollock filed an affidavit in which he swore that he had signed a final copy of the request for reconsideration before giving it to his secretary to be mailed first class...."    

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Postal Worker Dog Issues

Macon council president Paris cited due to pet violation, incident with officer

"...the mail carrier flagged him down Saturday morning to tell him that a black dog from Paris' Suwanee Avenue home had been chasing her. When the postal worker made contact with Paris, the council president began yelling at the woman and suggested she needed to find a new career if she couldn't handle a dog..."    

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Identity theft is big business

"...Information on how to prevent identity theft and on how to recognize fraudulent schemes can be found at the U.S. Postal Inspection website at http://postalinspectors.uspis.gov or the Federal Trade Commission at www.consumer.gov/idtheft. The U.S. Postal Inspection Service can be reached at 1-877-876-2455...."    

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U.S. Postal Service Shares Loads As Printers Mail, Mailers Print

"...USPS will test a load-sharing program called "Collaborative Logistics" for the next two years. By statute, USPS has that much time to test what PRC calls an "experimental program," which also touches markets outside printing..."    

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Postal Service is now delivering the paper

"...The U.S. Postal Service is now delivering the paper. The Daily Union laid off more than 30 news carriers in what they say is an effort to improve customer service...."    

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Postal Service as Newspaper Delivery Source

Postal service to deliver Southbridge newspaper

"...The change will affect the timeliness of the print edition of the newspaper because of deadline changes, Mr. Bird acknowledged in an interview yesterday. He emphasized the paper will remain a daily publication. He said the postal service has assured the newspaper that it can provide same-day delivery. ..."    

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Postal detectives crack case of messy addresses

"...Without leaving their cubicles, U.S. Postal Service sleuths in Glendale solve more than a million mail-delivery mysteries daily for post offices nationwide. Their wits and their computers are their only tools. ..."    

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Postal rates went up, and I give my stamp of approval

"...What that means is that literally, I wouldn't walk next door for $4. But if I drop a letter in a mailbox, the postal service will haul it all the way to Alaska for 44 cents. To me, that's still a heck of a deal...."    

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Schedule of Releases for the Consumer Price Index

Curious about when the next CPI news will be released?

   

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§ 8909a. Postal Service Retiree Health Benefit 1 Fund

"...the Office shall compute the net present value of the future payments required under section 8906 (g)(2)(A) and attributable to the service of Postal Service employees during the most recently ended fiscal year. ..."    

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NALC president: Frequent postage increases avoidable

"...Young said Congress should pass proposed legislation, H.R. 22, to correct the payment schedule for pre-funding postal retiree health benefits. The proposed measure would allow the USPS to pay its share of contributions for the benefits, estimated to be $2 billion this year, out of the Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund, instead of its own pocket...."    

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"...It is a commonly held myth that the Postal Service relies on taxpayers to fund its operations. In fact, the Postal Service is a completely self-sufficient organization. In order for the Postal Service to sustain operations, it must cover 100 percent of its costs as with any business...."    

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Junk Mail's Endless Summer

"...If the goal of all this junk mail is profit, the USPS needs to think of something else: Even before the economy went south, Postmaster General John Potter predicted that the USPS would lose a billion dollars in 2008. As it turned out, they lost $2.8 billion. But it probably doesn't take much more than a semester of Business 101 to see that if you're not within a billion dollars of profitability, you probably need to take a hard look at your business model...."    

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Obama Admin Halts Plans To Alter US Postal Workers' Benefits

"... The Obama administration initially wanted postal workers to pay 27% of their health insurance costs, up from the current level of 17%. The plan also called for postal employees to begin paying 67% of their life insurance premiums. Both of these changes would have brought postal worker benefits in line with benefits paid to workers at executive branch agencies. To do this, however, the administration would have needed to modify federal law passed in the early 1970s that extends labor contract bargaining rights to Postal Service workers, a privilege not held by other federal employees. ..."    

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USPS CONTINUES BOB HOPE LEGACY

Support the Troops: APO/FPO Priority Mail Promotion

"...Starting May 29, the Postal Service is celebrating the life of one of the greatest entertainers of the 20th century: Bob Hope. In addition to issuing a stamp in his memory, the Postal Service is carrying on Bob Hope’s legacy of entertaining American men and women in uniform by encouraging communities nationwide to support the troops and send care packages to military personnel stationed around the world. Care packages and reminders of home are a big morale boost for military service members stationed around the world. To help families and friends of military personnel, the Postal Service is offering a discount on its largest Priority Mail Flat-Rate boxes addressed to U. S. military overseas...."    

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New Postal Rates Kick In Monday

"...An analysis by the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers (ANM) indicates the overall average increase for nonprofit Standard Parcels to be almost 40 percent, said Executive Director Tony Conway. The increases range within the classes, depending on what point in the mail stream it’s entered. Conway said rates are designed to encourage more work by mailers before they dump mail into the system...."    

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Retired Postal Service letter carriers have a ZIP code to call their own: 33856 (Nalcrest, Fla.)

"...Ron Courtney, 72, has been keeping score for Nalcrest softball games for the past five years. He retired to Nalcrest eight years ago from Knoxville, Tenn. Almost 50 people are on the waiting list to move into Nalcrest’s one-story garden apartments...."    

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