Going Postal: U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein's husband sells post offices to his friends, cheap.

Going Postal: U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein's husband sells post offices to his friends, cheap.

Going Postal... (Amazon)

"...Peter Byrne’s e-book, Going Postal: U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein's husband sells post offices to his friends, cheap. National award-winning investigative journalist Peter Byrne reports that the husband of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein of California has been selling post offices at bargain basement prices—often to his own business partners. Richard C. Blum is the chairman of CBRE Group Inc., the largest commercial real estate firm in the world. In 2011, the Postal Service awarded Blum's company an exclusive contract to sell off postal real estate in cities and towns across America. Byrne's in-depth investigation details the many apparent conflicts of interests driving the CBRE deals. It brings to light a scathing government audit of Blum's contract that is being ignored by the Obama administration. The investigation reveals how Senator Feinstein pressured the Postmaster General to stop a postal construction project, and to favor the interests of a developer working with her husband's firm. Byrne explains why the Post Office is not really broke and how powerful forces on Capitol Hill are angling to franchise the U.S. Mail monopoly. We learn that the post office executives in charge of Blum's contract have been up to a financial shenanigans of their own. This is first class investigative reporting on a vital issue of the day that you will not find anywhere else...."    
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Rare Opportunity: Only 100 sheets of special 'corrected' 2013 Inverted Jenny stamps printed

Inverted Jenny Stamp - with a possible rare surprise
"...The Postal Service announced that it has additionally printed 100 additional sheets of stamps of the recently issued Inverted Jenny stamp but with the plane flying right-side up. These very limited edition stamps were circulated with the recent issue of the most famous “misprinted” stamp. Customers who have recently purchased the new Inverted Jenny stamp could have a very limited edition of the famous stamp...."    
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Video: USPS plan to alter employee healthcare

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Gang member threatened mail carrier for walking in “his alley”

Gang member faces 20-plus years in prison for shooting of North Hill woman

"...pulled a gun on a U.S. Postal Service mail carrier and threatened to shoot him for walking in “his alley.” Police recovered the gun used in that incident, tested it and identified it as the gun used in the woman’s shooting...."    

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Plan: Make Postal Service look worse than it is. It should appear like “the USPS is obsolete and doomed...

US Postal Service Privatization: The Dark Side

"...A recent article in the Huffington Post discusses an American Enterprise Institute (AEI) plan, written in 2011. According to the article, the AEI plan is to make USPS look worse than it is. It should appear like “the USPS is obsolete and doomed..."    

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Meth Mail: drug bust

Otsego woman arrested after U.S. Postal Service finds meth in the mail

"...from Vallejo, Calif., a known source location for narcotics, the complaint said. After a K-9 inspection revealed the package had narcotics, a federal search warrant was obtained and inspectors found about seven ounces or 200 grams of crystal methamphetamine..."    
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USPS recommended military mailing dates holiday 2013

USPS recommended military mailing dates holiday 2013

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2013 Holiday Mailing Dates (USPS)

The United States Postal Service has announced the recommended military mailing dates for the 2013 holiday season. You will also find valuable tips for addressing the package properly. You can find this information here.
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APWU Elects New President

Dimondstein Wins Presidency

"...Mark Dimondstein was elected the new president of the American Postal Workers Union in a hotly-contested race that ended Oct. 7. His “Members First” team won most of the offices they sought, defeating incumbents. ..."    

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Postal Service selling postal properties through CBRE at far less than assessed values

Nader to Feinstein: Stop the USPS Sell Off

"...Going Postal: U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein’s Husband Sells Post Offices to His Friends, Cheap. In his letter, Nader highlights a number of troubling issues raised by Byrne, including that in the first two years of CBRE’s contract with USPS, it sold 52 postal properties at $66 million less than their assessed value...."    

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Postal Service 'issues' $16.7M contract to FedCentric Technologies LLC

FedCentric Technologies LLC is awarded a $16.7M contract with the United States Postal Service

"...The US Postal Service has issued a contract to FedCentric Technologies LLC to deliver a High Density Supercomputing (HDSC©) solution including Silicon Graphics International high density hardware platforms and FedCentric Technologies products & professional services to provide high availability and expanded functionality to the Transactional Record Processor (TRP) system...."    

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Led by Darrell Issa: The destruction of the U.S. Postal service ...and all things governmental

GOP’s newest target: The postal service

"...The government itself wasn't enough. Now, led by Darrell Issa, the right wants to go after your mail delivery ..."    

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Man in postal worker killings physically restrained and removed from a Memphis courtroom

Outburst at Man's Hearing in Postal Worker Deaths

"...charged with killing two Tennessee postal workers had to be physically restrained and removed from a Memphis courtroom after..."    

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Rain, sleet, snow or government shutdown, the Postal Service continues to deliver mail

USPS, WIC, VA Offices Still Open

"...Offices of the USPS are also operating normally, despite the federal government shutdown...."    

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PMG working hard to pull postal workers out of Federal Health Benefits Program

USPS says overhauling health benefits key to postal reform

"... However, the Office of Personnel Management is concerned about how the Postal Service's planned exit would affect the FEHBP, which OPM manages. Jonathan Foley, OPM's director of planning and policy analysis, said the overall impact would be about a 2 percent increase in costs per enrollee. But he testified Postal Service's withdrawal from the federal health system would have a larger impact on those plans with a heavy presence of postal employees. ..."    

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Privatizing the Postal Service is not a good idea

Don't privatize USPS yet

"...Although delivering mail may not turn a profit, it is a valuable public service. The Postal Service delivers 40 percent of the world’s cards and letters, according to the Center for American Progress. Sending letters, though less common today, is far from obsolete. Spending a small amount of tax money to keep the postal service afloat is not automatically a bad idea...."    

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More Mail Delays

Mail fail: Local newspaper steamed up over USPS delays

"... ongoing cutbacks at the U.S. Postal Service have been delaying the arrival of the paper in subscribers' mailboxes by as much as several days...."    

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First class stamps going up, what about standard bulk mail rates?

USPS proposes raising stamp price by 3 cents in new year

"...The United States Postal Service said Wednesday that it has proposed increasing the price of first-class mail to 49 cents from 46 cents, beginning in January..."    

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William H. Gross Stamp Gallery at National Postal Museum

Its Main Mission: Forever Stamps

"... the gallery’s 12,000 square feet are devoted to a single object that seems on the brink of extinction: the postage stamp. ..."    

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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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