"...On Monday the USPS will share its survival plan. Word is officials plan to ask Congress for permission to shorten its work week and to change its retiree health benefits...."
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"...On Monday the USPS will share its survival plan. Word is officials plan to ask Congress for permission to shorten its work week and to change its retiree health benefits...."
"...The CPI-W must rise above 644.303 before another COLA would be due. After the final month of the six-month measuring period, the seventh COLA under the 2006 National Agreement and the Operating Services Agreement..."
"...Customers must have mailed more than 350,000 Standard Mail pieces in the baseline period of July 1 to Sept. 30, 2009. This covers about 3,525 customers, or 67% of Standard Mailers. Mail service providers (the printers and preparers that physically execute mail and give it to the USPS) are not eligible to aggregate volume on behalf of their customers. ..."
Wikipedia says, "...In 2001, FedEx Express signed a 7-year contract to transport Express Mail and Priority Mail for the United States Postal Service. This contract allowed FedEx to place drop boxes at every USPS post office, and has recently been extended until September 2013. USPS continues to be the largest customer of FedEx Express. ..."
"...A plane contracted by the U.S. Postal Service may have lost up to two bags of priority mail on a flight from Billings to Kalispell, totaling up to roughly 25 pounds of cargo...."
"...will spend time behind bars for mailing more than two pounds of marijuana to an ex..."
"...US Post Office employees in Dale discovered Tuesday morning some mail and other items were stolen. The post office closed ..."
"...The Postal Service's Office of Inspector General anticipates prosecution and disciplinary action taken once the..."
"...Accused Ponzi artist Richard Elkinson was indicted for mail fraud for allegedly stealing millions of dollars from 130 investors in an investment scheme, according to the US Attorney's Office in Boston...."
"...``Whenever people would complain on eBay, he would continue to put them off and even blame the post office for the delay,'' said U.S. Postal Inspector Richard Koss, who led the investigation after the congressman's letter landed on his desk in Miramar...."
"...USPS announcement says that Mother Teresa “had been a citizen of India since 1948” and she “served the sick and destitute of India and the world for nearly 50 years”. She is buried in Kolkata (India). ..."
"...The Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) increased for January 2010..."
"...action against the owners of two rottweilers which savaged a postman has been dropped. Charges against business tycoon Robert Stewart..."
"...Robbers wielding sawn off shotguns raided a Fulham Post Office (Feb 15) and assaulted a member of staff before making off with cash...."
"...On Tuesday, Feb.23, Siegel will auction off the Hampshire Collection of United States stamps. Included in the sale are stamps ranging from the last half of the 19th century to the early 20th century...."
"...State records indicate Julie A. Salisbury was working as a clerk at the Mason City Post Office late last year when officials from Victoria's Secret complained that one person had redeemed an unusually large number of gift cards..."
"...The Israel Postal Company's spokeswoman on Monday announced that the public will not be able to receive mail items at the postal office branches throughout the country, due to a suspicious..."
"...I want to express my appreciation to all of our letter carriers who came to work and went out to try to make deliveries in conditions that kept many of their customers home. My appreciation also goes out to those who work in Post Offices and our mail processing facilities. -Dr. Joshua D. Colin..."
"...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..."