Saturday, January 16, 2010

OIG, USPIS Launch Workers' Comp Fraud Initiative


"...this initiative is an opportunity for the OIG and the Inspection Service to collaborate and focus on protecting the integrity and financial health of the Postal Service.

If you know someone who is defrauding the Postal Service, contact the OIG at 1-888-USPS-OIG or at www.uspsoig.gov...."    



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Thursday, January 14, 2010

GF postman sentenced for driving a mail truck while drunk


"...could be subject to discipline, considering that USPS policy prohibits on-duty employees from drinking alcohol or being intoxicated...."    



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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Nine-Million-Member Union Coalition Calls For Defeat Of Cadillac Tax


"...it will unfairly hit working-class families. The letter from the federal and postal employees frames the tax as both inequitable and potentially damaging to the prospects of recruiting future government employees..."    



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Sunday, January 10, 2010

At funeral, postal workers deliver special tribute


"...Sixty postal trucks lined the entrance of Evergreen Cemetery yesterday afternoon in a tribute to a Framingham letter carrier who died last week. Kurt J. Boudreau, 43, died Dec. 27 after falling ill at his Marlborough home...."    



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Saturday, January 9, 2010

Postal service retreats ... Marines, Beanie Babies team up


"...Among the criticisms: the word "munitions" was overly broad; the ban would violate the Constitution's Second Amendment; the postal service lacked the legal authority to issue such a ban; and there wasn't a big enough problem to even worry about...."    



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Friday, January 8, 2010

U.S. Postal Service to honor carrier who helped save 10-yr-old boy trapped beneath car


"...Christopher H. Leipert, who has worked since May as a temporary mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service office at 1300 Cumberland in Saginaw, has responded humbly..."    



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Marlow postal carrier indicted on theft charge


"...part-time postal carrier from Marlow is facing federal charges accusing him of stealing medication from the mail...."    



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UPS plans to cut jobs for additional cost savings in 2010

UPS raises fourth-quarter profit outlook

"...restructuring will eliminate about 1,800 management and administrative assistants, the company said, in part through normal attrition and by buyout offers for about 1,110 employees...."    



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Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Postal Service considers closing local mail processing center, consolidating work in Macon

Eight jobs would be lost in Columbus processing center

"...the Postal Service decided to close out a similar facility in Athens and move the work to a metro Atlanta facility. The agency is also studying whether it should close an outgoing mail facility in Atlanta itself, which could also move to the metro Atlanta site...."    



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Postal deficit may lead to less delivery


"...So what is the postal service to do? The biggest change coming could be in Saturday delivery. The agency is planning to ask Congress to let it stop running mail routes six days a week. Donahoe says that could save $3.5 billion each year...."    



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Sunday, January 3, 2010

Uncle Sam offers more buyouts for workers


"...Postal Service extended offers to 30,000 employees. A little more than 21,000 have accepted, the Post reported. The offers expire Thursday...."    



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$50,000 reward offered by USPS for robbery of mail carrier


"...robbed a postal carrier in Reseda, California, a suburb north of downtown Los Angeles, as the carrier was sitting in a parked mail delivery truck, authorities said...."    



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Saturday, January 2, 2010

If we are attacked by biological weapons — the Post Office will come to the rescue


"...Postal Service in charge of delivering drugs and other medical supplies required for surviving the attack...."    



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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

USPS sees net loss of $255M for November


"...a net loss of $255 million for November, and a $476 million net loss for October and November, the first two months of its 2010 fiscal year. ..."    



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Fallen Paris National Guard soldiers honored at Iraq post office


"...Four soldiers from the 1544th Transportation Company based in Paris were honored posthumously for their support of postal operations in Iraq during the dedication of a new post office Dec. 17 at Joint Base Balad, Iraq...."    



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Tuesday, December 29, 2009

EEOC Holds that Employees Cannot Be Discriminated Against Due to Perceived Limitations of a Disability


"...EEOC Appeal No. 0720070077 (November 13, 2009), the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) reinforced the notion that federal agencies cannot discriminate against disabled employees based on subjective opinions of their limitations and abilities. Federal Employers ..."    



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2007 slaying of Carnation family haunts survivors


"...He was a big, strong guy and a really caring guy." Erica admired Wayne and Judy Anderson from the start, Mantle said. Judy Anderson was a well-liked postal carrier in Carnation, and her husband was a veteran Boeing engineer. But, her family said, relations..."    



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In the mail: CNY readers defend U.S. postal system

Postal service works hard to deliver in timely manner

"...Having dealt with several European mail services over 20 years or so, I can say with absolute assurance I know of no better postal service than ours. It’s not cheap, but it’s reliable and pretty much guaranteed to get the mail where it belongs in a reasonable amount of time...."    



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Monday, December 28, 2009

Pa. man on house arrest robs post office


"...removed the ankle bracelet so he could leave home, then put it back on after the robbery. ..."    



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Wytheville post office suspect has a 'mean streak', criminal history


"...holding three people hostage in a Wytheville post office. Court records from Florida also detail a violent history for the 53-year-old, who served four years of a 12-year prison sentence for shooting another ex-wife and was also convicted of lewd and lascivious ..."    



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