Postal Service says it's broke, but spending $42 million on one facility renovation

What is going on with the U.S. Postal Service? Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe says By mid-October 2013, the Postal Service projects it will have a cash balance on hand of approximately five days of average daily expenses. The aforementioned article claims the Postal Service will be broke by November 2013, yet in one of many examples, evidence seems to run counter to that claim. Specifically, while the USPS is shuttering and consolidating mail processing facilities across the nation, they are at the same time allocating money to renovate and even expand others. For example, Korte is to begin $42 Million design-build construction For a USPS Processing and Distribution Center (P&DC) in Houston. This is after claiming the urgent need to close or consolidate facilities due to excess floor space and mail processing equipment sitting idle too much. This tends to give more validity to the perception that the USPS has manufactured a crisis to assist in lowering wages and benefits of workers, thus making it easier to privatize profitable portions of the USPS.    

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Tim Costello top 3 'District Manager of Year' (PCC recognition)

Tim Costello

Postal Customer Council recognizes Tim Costello top 3 'District Manager of Year'
"...This year Timothy R. Costello, District Manager, Alabama District, is the recipient of the "PCC District Manager of the Year" Bronze Award. The Greater Birmingham PCC nominated Costello, citing his "outstanding leadership by example --- critical to the Alabama District, the Postal Service, and its customers." Costello competed with District Managers across the nation...."    
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Early retirement offer for 15,000+ Postal Service managers and supervisors

Postal Service: Almost 16K EAS employees eligible for early-out

"...Under the standard federal package, employees can retire early if they are at least 50 years old with a minimum of 20 years’ service or at any age with at least 25 years’ service...."    

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Illicit Marijuana mailers prefer Postal Service Express Mail

Postal investigators target drug trade through U.S. mail

"...a local postal inspector, wrote in a recent court filing that Express Mail, in particular, has been used to ship narcotics. “The use of Express Mail is favored because of the reliability, speed and relatively low cost of this service..."    

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AFL-CIO resolves to prevent destruction of the Postal Service

AFL-CIO Adopts Pro-Postal Resolution

"...These destructive bills (H.R. 2748 and S. 1486) also pose a dire threat to the pensions and health benefits of postal employees by interfering with the postal collective bargaining process that has worked so well for more than 40 years.”..."    

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Remembering 9/11

Remembering 9/11
National Geographic remembers 9/11    
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How much of our public domain will turn into private fortunes?

Scam Alert! Press Sleeps Through the Great Post Office Fire Sale

"... History is repeating itself today with the nation's postal service, and much of the press is asleep at the wheel. ..."    

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Federal jobs: postal work is by far the most dangerous

Most dangerous jobs: Postal work tops list among federal civilian positions

"...For a workforce of about 2.1 million, that works out to roughly one fatality for every 39,000 employees..."    

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Postal Service early retirement offer may be coming for 1,000's of executives, postmasters, and other managers

Big early-out offer may be coming at USPS

"...The U.S. Postal Service is poised to offer early retirement to thousands of executives, postmasters, and other managers, according to the National Association of Postal Supervisors (NAPS)...."    

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Have any idea which direction the findings of this 'private-sector' report will lean? Assault on America's working class continues

Postal Service IG Puts Retirement and Leave Benefits Under the Microscope

"...The USPS’ inspector general posted the requests on the FedBizOpps, asking for a supplier with “subject matter expertise” to develop a report that compares the Postal Service’s leave and paid holiday program and retirement benefits to those offered by “major private-sector companies.”..."    

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Postal Service claims alleged harassment was not sufficiently severe or pervasive and did not create an abusive working environment

US postal worker claims 'acting manager' repeatedly harassed her

"... In a pre- hearing statement from the post office, the agency states it will prove Colon cannot establish a case of discrimination and that the alleged harassment was not sufficiently severe or pervasive and did not create an abusive working environment...."    

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More discounts for big mailers

U.S. Postal Service shops around price break on product samples

"...The nation's mail delivery service is offering companies a discount to send consumers product samples through the mail. ..."    

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Postal Service pays up after initially denying insurance claim

Local soldier reimbursed after Postal Service denied the claim

"...Initially, the Post Office wouldn't pay Rider's insurance claim for the stolen DVD's, until an investigation was conducted by NewsCenter 16...."    

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Postal worker killed in accident while pulling into work

US Postal Service worker killed in South Los Angeles rear-end crash "...Investigators say the victim was pulling into work, when he was rear-ended by a 2001 Chevy Monte Carlo that was estimated to be going 95 mph...."    
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Postal Service proposal to shift more costs to postal workers and to weaken Medicare

GAO: USPS Healthcare Plan Would Hurt Medicare, Postal Workers

"...The Postal Service’s proposal to take postal workers out of the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program would weaken Medicare and would result in reduced coverage and increased costs for postal workers. ..."    

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Postal worker input requested in IG review of employee conference costs and amenities: Were they appropriate?

Inspector general begins probe of Postal Service conferences

"...The Postal Service inspector general’s office has requested input from USPS employees, asking whether they feel conference costs and amenities were appropriate. Postal workers can submit comments through a page on the agency’s Web site...."    

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Article: Postal Service cuts are creating a slowed-down mail system

Postal bill draws protests in U.S. cities

"...Issa’s bill comes on top of sweeping postal actions in the last year that have closed 30 percent of mail processing plants; reduced hours by 25 percent to 75 percent in half of all post offices; put 10 percent of post offices up for sale; subcontracted trucking and mail handling; cut thousands of mail routes; and eliminated 60,000 postal jobs. The cuts are creating a slowed-down mail system...."    

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Postal Service wants to remove employees from the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program

USPS Plan to Pull Out of Fed Health Benefits Could Cost Postal Workers

"...it would likely put postal workers at risk of paying higher premiums, incurring more out-of-pocket costs and receiving less insurance coverage for a variety of procedures...."    

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APWU COLA increase

$937 Cost-of-Living Raise Set for September

"...Career APWU members will receive a $937 annual increase in pay in September, APWU President Cliff Guffey has announced...."    

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UPS cargo plane crashes on approach to Birmingham airport - two dead

UPS jet crashes, 2 dead

"...BIRMINGHAM, Alabama— The pilot and co-pilot of a large UPS cargo plane were killed today when it crashed and burst into flames on approach to the airport in Birmingham, Alabama...."    

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