"...picketed Thursday in front of the Industry Processing and Distribution Center. The U.S. Postal Service, under pressure to trim its budget..."
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"...picketed Thursday in front of the Industry Processing and Distribution Center. The U.S. Postal Service, under pressure to trim its budget..."
"...DX Group, the only private postal company not beholden to another carrier for delivery of items, has beefed up its next-day service – SecureDX..."
"...The letters were sent to lawmakers and news organizations as the nation reeled in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Postal facilities, U.S. Capitol buildings and private offices were shut for inspection and cleaning..."
"...A letter carrier was stung multiple times while on his route. Firefighters say the man..."
"...Nalcrest is a letter carriers retirement community south of State Road 60. According to its Web site, it has 500 ground-floor, garden-style apartments, arranged in 66 clusters of four to 10 units...."
"...A major part of the USPS' drive to "leave a green footprint," the Post Office Box Lobby Recycling program will be expanded to include 8,064 Post Offices nationwide, an increase of 2,435 Post Offices since the project began in 2005. The Post Office Box Lobby Recycling program encourages Post Office..."
"...After Monday's court hearing, Woerpel, a postal worker known in Hammond circles as "The Mailman," revealed the charges resulted in the U.S. Postal Service suspending him without pay. ..."
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"...A U.S. Postal Service carrier reported Thursday that he was assaulted while making a delivery on the 600 block of Dock Street at around 10:30 a.m..."
"...story was made up to cover up Fox's own year of stealing from the Post Office in question. ..."
"...“The general public can rest assured that the integrity and delivery of their mail remains the highest priority for the Postal Service,” said Gleisner. “Of the thousands of employees who work for the Postal Service, sadly it takes only one or two to tarnish our integrity.”..."
"...President Obama has unveiled a budget for the U.S. Postal Service that would keep six-day mail service and not require increases in worker contributions to health-care coverage, pleasing postal unions that have fought cutbacks at the agency...."
"...The woman accused of killing three colleagues at the University of Alabama in Huntsville was a suspect in a 1993 attempted mail bombing, according to a report by The Boston Globe...."
"...fiscal 2009, USPS said it reduced work hours for the first quarter by more than 28 million, or the equivalent of 15,800 full-time employees. Work-hour reductions are being achieved through continued efficiency improvements and matching workloads to lower mail volumes, and in many categories, the USPS said it has gone beyond savings attributable only to lower volumes. As an example it cited how first quarter volumes declined 8.9 percent, while mail processing hours were driven down by more than 14 percent...."
"...private companies would not want responsibility for the other services that the Postal Service provides, such as delivering a postcard to a remote area.
The USPS provides universal service, the president said, and private companies would not. ..."
"...Federal law requires uniform postal rates. No matter where you are mailing to or from, “uniform rates” means that the cost should the same. The workshare-discount charade pretends that the cost that would be incurred by the Postal Service is forgiven if the work is performed prior to depositing it in the mail stream.
But the union’s secretaries affixed a barcode to my letters, and they entered the USPS mail processing system without any responsibility by the Postal Service to perform any sorting other than the walk sequence of the letter carrier. The cost of the work that the APWU secretaries performed is not 10.5 cents, the discount afforded large mailers; it is zero...."
"...Regarding tensions at the U.S. Postal Service ......"
"...a release issued by the US Postal Service, mail carriers will be attempting to make deliveries where (streets) are safe and passable. If carriers do not have access, they may return later in the day to..."
"...Missouri man is answering questions from police after apparently mailing a bag of drugs to the Franklin County Assessor's office along with his tax forms...."
"...A St. Paul woman is getting jail time for trying to smuggle cocaine into the Stillwater prison using the mail...."