Fire Destroys Healdsburg’s Post Office Annex

Fire Destroys Healdsburg’s Post Office Annex Article Title: Fire destroys downtown landmark Article Snip: Lead and asbestos filled smoke scorched the air in an acrid lung-piercing plume as firefighters worked to contain the blaze to the United States Postal Service lot. Reference: yourtown.pressdemocrat.com

OSHA fines USPS $3.7 million plus

"...withdraw flawed management orders and instructions regarding safe electrical work practices. “The Department of Labor motion to consolidate the cases would merge these similar complaints so that the result of any litigation or, settlement discussions would be applied to every postal facility where APWU members are exposed to electrical hazards,” said Greg Bell, APWU Director of Industrial Relations. “It would provide a uniform remedy and prevent the Postal Service and OSHA from negotiating separate, individual settlements at different locations.”..."    

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Post Office Loses $3.5 Billion

"...relief may come with the proposed price increase for mail delivery requested in July, which would raise the price of a first-class stamp from 44 cents to 46 cents. The post office says the proposed increase, which would go into affect on Jan. 2, 2011, would raise $2.3 billion during its first nine months...."    

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Major Mailers Make Billions, But Demand Postal Worker Pay Cuts

"... In their ongoing effort to shift wealth to the richest Americans...continually attack the pay and benefits earned by average workers. Over the past 20 years, the transfer of wealth has been dramatic. Despite significant increases in productivity, workers’ real wages have declined, while salaries, bonuses, dividends and “golden parachutes” for executives have skyrocketed.A recent glaring example was the demand that auto workers agree to lower their wages — which were established over 50 years of often turbulent struggle..."    

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Bond denied for suspect in Atlanta postal stabbing

"...A man charged with stabbing a supervisor at a bulk mail center has been denied bond. ..."    

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National Reassessment Process

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Bomb Squad Detonates Pipe Bomb Found In Welch

"...Post Office worker delivering mail noticed some boys gathered around the device. He took the device in order to keep the boys from danger, brought it to the Welch Post Office..."    

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Postal workers picket to preserve Saturday service

"...While it might seem logical that the unions’ opposition to five-day-delivery is motivated by job preservation, Smith said most contracts include language preventing employee layoffs. Union members were given that assurance in exchange for their not being allowed to strike, he said...."    

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CPI-W June 2010

"...The Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers
(CPI-W) increased 1.4 percent over the last 12 months to an index
level of 213.839 (1982-84=100). For the month, the index fell 0.1 percent prior to seasonal adjustment...."    

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Hazmat team responds to Springfield USPS facility

"...A fire department spokesman says six postal workers had to be decontaminated Sunday after an unknown substance spilled out of a parcel at the U.S. Postal Service’s Bulk Mail Distribution Center...."    

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Postal worker found dead in trash was slain

"...post office employee who vanished at work and turned up dead at a dump hours later ..."    

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Connolly: U.S. Postal Service in a death spiral

"..."instead of reducing service from six to five days a week, the Postal Service ought to be looking at a 24-hour model like the competition," Connolly said.

He said looking at creative ways of expanding customer service is how USPS will be able to stay competitive. ..."    

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FedEx, UPS send out fleet of lobbyists to shape labor law

"...FedEx and its voluble anti-union chairman, Fred Smith, have spent the past year attacking the proposal as a "brown bailout" for UPS and the Teamsters. FedEx, based in Memphis, has more than doubled its lobbying budget during the campaign, to about $1.5 million a month, disclosure records show. ..."    

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Stamp prices going up again - 46-cent rate asked

Stamp prices going up again - 46-cent rate asked

"...Under the proposed increases, in addition to the 46-cent rate for the first ounce, the cost for each additional ounce would go up a penny to 18 cents. The cost to mail a postcard would go up 2 cents to 30 cents...."    

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Oldest Postal Worker Retires

"...a mail-handler forklift operator. He worked in the same position until his last day of work Tuesday. "I've never really given it a thought (about retiring earlier), to be honest with you. My old supervisor would ask me, `Chester, when are you going to retire?' and I would tell her, `It's none of your business, you know," he said laughing. ..."    

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Ex-Postal Employee Pleads Guilty in Check-Theft Scheme

"...Shareen Wilson, 42, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and one count of theft of mail by a U.S. postal employee for her role in a scheme to steal ..."    

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“This will not be a giveback contract,” APWU President Burrus

"...“We expect management to make many concessionary demands,” Bell said. “But we must fight to improve the wages and working conditions of postal employees.” ..."    

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Postal Service worker stabs boss with scissors at Kennedy Airport

"...Cops quickly collared Barnett, a 10-year employee of the Postal Service, and charged him with assault, possession of a weapon and attempted murder...."    

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Acting Postmaster charged with obstructing mail

"...a spokesman for the U.S. Postal Service based in Maine, said an “officer in charge” is an acting postmaster. “It’s the temporary head of that facility while there is a search going on for who will take over as the permanent postmaster of the facility,” he said...."    

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Military service and FERS

"...What are my best options for retiring at age 55? Also, would it still be to my advantage to buy back my military..."    

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