PRC Issues Advisory Opinion Affirming Customer Rights in U.S. Postal Service Retail Office Closing Decisions

"...The Commission finds that the current ten days advance customer notice is insufficient and limits opportunities for community consultation. Further, inconsistent financial and operational analyses impair evaluations of facility closures and consolidations. The Commission finds that standardized review procedures should be developed and consistently applied nationwide to ensure adequate and efficient service levels and comply with statutory guidelines...."    

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White Powder Reported in Baltimore City Hall Mail Room

"...Baltimore police are investigating a report of white powder found in an envelope at City Hall...."    

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USPS seeks classification change

"...Today’s filing with the Postal Regulatory Commission is a part of that strategy. The filing seeks to move about 32,000 P.O. Boxes in 49 Post Offices from the current market dominant classification into the competitive class of products. This will allow the Postal Service to test consumer interest in enhancements to the current P.O. Box offering..."    

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Taxpayers Might Have to Fund the U.S. Postal Service

"...Unless Congress breaks ties with the U.S. Postal Service or at least lets it implement major cost-savings plans, taxpayers will be stuck funding the mail. "We have to make a decision now because we are at a fork in the road," says Potter..."    

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With the Post Office Losing Billions of Dollars, Where is the Money Coming From to Run Everyday?

DOES USPS WASTE TAXPAYER DOLLARS?

"...the Postal Service has not received taxpayer funds to support its operations since 1982. In fact, though the Postal Service often is described as “quasi-governmental,” it’s required by law to cover its costs.
Don’t let myths about the Postal Service cloud the truth. “Misconceptions about the future of the Postal Service abound,” says PMG Jack Potter. “Dispelling these myths will show we can continue to deliver the mail.”..."    

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U.S. postal rates are inconsistent

"...The Postal Service wants to cut back, yet it allows companies like National Grid to pay 33 cents for postage. (I received my bill today. National Grid charged 53 cents for billing, yet paid 33 cents to send it.)..."    

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Junk mail deluge feared as postal union and Royal Mail reach deal to end strikes

"...The agreement also outlined a 6.9% pay rise over three years for Royal Mail workers, a cut in working hours and further assurances that there will not be compulsory..."    

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NPMHU Arthur S. Vallone Scholarship Application Now Available

"...National Postal Mail Handlers Union is pleased to offer the opportunity for regular craft members of the National Postal Mail Handlers Union, and members of their immediate families, to apply for scholarship assistance from the NPMHU Arthur S. Vallone National Scholarship Program...."    

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Worst class post: One in four first class letters fails to arrive on time, say devastating figures

"...First class post has plunged to its worst performance in more than a decade. ..."    

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Pink Floyd get Royal stamp treatment

"...Classic Rock magazine reports that Pink Floyd have teamed up with Royal Mail, the national postal service of the UK, to produce a special stamp available from March 6, 2010...."    

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Will end of USPS Saturday delivery kill Netflix?

"...I get a lot of Netflix movies — and I get them on Saturdays. This gives me plenty of time to watch them over the weekend and send them back en masse on Mondays. See, I strategically plan my returns and arrivals, and I’m pretty good at it. Ending Saturday mail delivery throws a monkeywrench in those plans...."    

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Union Rejects USPS Call For Five-Day Delivery, New Business Model

"...“Postal management has intensified its financial problems by offering excessive worksharing discounts to major mailers and by subcontracting work at exorbitant costs,” Burrus said. Worksharing discounts are given to mailers that pre-sort and pre-barcode their mail, he said, but the discounts exceed the costs the Postal Service avoids when the work is performed by mailers. “Subcontracting is another important source of waste and inefficiency,” he noted.

“We call for a thorough investigation by the Office of the Inspector General into the expanding role of subcontracting and the inflated costs associated with them,” he said.

“Furthermore, we reject any effort to pollute the collective bargaining process with threats of draconian work-rule changes.” Contract negotiations will begin in August. ..."    

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Postal Service expected to announce 'significant changes'

"...Officials will also seek greater flexibility in forthcoming union negotiations, including addressing ballooning health-care costs, Potter said. ..."    

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Beloit man receives accident settlement

"...The federal government agreed to pay $29,000 to a Beloit man and his Medicare bills to settle a lawsuit in which he alleged a postal worker’s negligence caused a collision between his motorized wheelchair and a postal vehicle. In May 2007, George K. Skilling, 62..."    

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Five Myths About the U.S. Postal Service

"...For 235 years, the U.S. Postal Service has delivered your mail in snow, rain and dark of night. However, tough market conditions are creating new challenges for our business. Misconceptions about the future of our enterprise abound; dispelling these myths will show that we can continue to deliver the mail. ..."    

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USPS Ponders No Saturday Mail

"...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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COLA Update

"...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..."    

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USPS 2010 Summer Sale

"...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. ..."    

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Does FedEx Fly US Postal Service Express Mail and Priority Mail?

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. ..."    

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Plane May Have Lost Mail on Flight from Billings to Kalispell

"...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...."    

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