Bomb Squad Sent To Local Post Office To Check Out Suspicious Package

"...suspicious package was discovered on top of a mailbox at the U.S. Post Office on Highway 6 in Waco...."    

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Do we need unions? What has the union done for me?

The oft asked questions of non-union members, as well as disgruntled union members, are Do we need unions? What has the union done for me?. For the educated and well-read members of American society, the questions are easily answered. For example, anyone that has ventured to ponder those questions and educate themselves, may have read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, popular classic read, and which shined a bright light on the realms of child labor, prisons, insurance companies, and, foremost, American enterprise and its role in the creation of a new American class of impoverished industrial wage slaves. The book was considered required reading in some school systems in America. Some feel that the atrocities referenced in the book are merely a reflection of times past that could not be repeated in modern civilized society. If you are of that school of thought, consider yourself a part of the privileged caste. Please do not think for one minute that these atrocities do not exist today in our own society, no matter how far removed you may be from it. To this day, you are fed anti-union rhetoric by big business through all media streams in an effort to tilt you into thinking that the unions are responsible for the destruction of the American dream and the outrageous pricing economics of this great country. As members of the highly unionized postal workforce, you are bombarded at union negotiation time, by large mailers screaming about the wages and benefits of postal blue collar workers being the cause of high postal pricing and poor performance, while they attempt to veil the savings they unfairly reap on their own mailing discounts through excessive workshare discounts and other manipulative means. Specifically, what has the union brought to you and the American working class? This should be easy to see, even in the low-wage postal industry. Take a look around you. Ask that casual employee working directly next to a Full Time Regular (FTR) employee or a Part Flexible (PTF) employee, what they think about their wage and benefits. They will tell you about not having health insurance, their low wage, their lack of any decent schedule, their inability to know how many hours they will get this week and the ability of the employer to fire them on a whim without any protection. Unfortunately, most of them have an anti-union thought themselves, as they see the career postal employee as a spoiled employee that doesn't appreciate the benefits and wages they receive. However, that casual employee fails to see that without the union in place, their own wage would be lower and their work environment would be much worse, as the employer would not feel obligated to pay them anything more than minimum wage (also hard fought and won through unions). The career postal employee should look at the casual employee and see in the mirror themselves if the union did not exist. That goes equally to the SDO's and MDO's whose wage and benefits are closely tied to what the union negotiates for the working class. You have health insurance, higher wages, life insurance, tax benefits, safe working environments, retirement programs, better hours, overtime, and a voice, thanks SOLELY to unions in this country! ...and non-union workers in this country owe unions a debt of gratitude for what they have. So support your union and strive to point out to the non-union industries the benefit of being unionized. Stand up against the uneducated anti-union bullies who are quite often pawns in the big chess game of making the rich richer and the working class a separate caste. Unions want us ALL to have a larger, fairer slice of the pie that we all work hard to achieve. That also means we should all work hard and diligently to make our employer a success as well! Yes, we need unions!

   

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The future for intelligent mail is bright

"...requiring participating mailers to use unique Intelligent Mail Bar Codes on mail pieces, trays and containers, and to electronically submit postage statements and mailing documentation, among other requirements...."    

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Postal worker needs plastic surgery after dog attack

"..."Whilst welcoming this significant victory in relation to personal injury compensation, it does emphasize the importance of the ongoing CWU Biteback campaign which continues to fight for tougher laws to protect postal and other workers and members of the public from dangerous dogs...."    

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Postal carrier killed in Inlet shooting

"...Post Office worker and mother of three young children was gunned down by her ex-boyfriend Wednesday morning, ..."    

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Vail case being treated as murder-suicide

"...Pima County Sheriff's Department is investigating a possible murder-suicide late Sunday in Vail that culminated with a U.S. Postal Service inspector shooting himself while on the phone with a 911 operator..."    

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Postal Workers Seek Answers in Public Meeting

"...It was a tense discussion as U.S Postal Service (USPS) representatives met with workers and residents of Bay County Thursday, as they sorted through a proposal to close the Panama City distribution center..."    

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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