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"...As an example of USPS retirement under CSRS, a postal worker with a high-3 average of around $60,000 and 20 years of service earns $1,824 a month without any deductions. That equals about $22,000 annually. A worker with the same salary and 40 years of service earns $3,837 monthly, or about $46,000 annually. ..."
"...In addition, since October 2019, missing mail inquiries for the Baltimore region has been above the national average. Baltimore ranked second among other major metropolitan areas for the highest number of missing mail requests with more than three times the national average..."
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"...Teaneck residents have taken a big gamble when dropping a check in the mail.
Beginning in early 2020, more than 250 stolen checks and incidents of mail fraud were reported to Teaneck police. Many victims said someone had altered a check they'd placed in a mailbox ..."
"...The United States Postal Service has quietly relaunched a banking program that includes check-cashing at a handful of post office locations.
The program, which began on Sep. 13 at post offices in Washington D.C., Baltimore, the Bronx, and Falls Church, Virginia, allows customers to..."
"...part of a larger effort by the delivery service to avoid delays that occurred last year during the holiday season.
“We’re going to kill it,” DeJoy told the newspaper.
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Other initiatives that the Postal Service is taking include adding 40,000 seasonal workers and more than 100 package sorting machines..."
"...A pole-wielding homeless man has admitted to assaulting an Alabama postal worker a few days before Christmas, and court records show it was the culmination of a violent spree.
Christopher Daniel Andrews, 36..."
"...Earlier this year, U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy unrolled the postal services’ 10-year-plan which includes changing its standard timeframe for delivering first-class letters, flat envelopes, and periodicals from a one-to-three-day window to a one-to-five-day window..."
"...The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) on Friday finalized a plan effective Oct. 1 to slow down some first-class mail deliveries as part of efforts to cut red ink.
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy proposed..."
"...“I don’t want to send someone I knew all my life through the mail,” said Stan Reese. The Huntsville, Alabama, resident is starting a business to personally collect ashes for others and then hand-carry them to scenic places, where they will be scattered — on video if requested. He knows that relatives are not always physically able to fly or drive long distances to get a loved one’s ashes, and that quarantine guidelines and potential exposure to COVID makes others reluctant. He said his service will help families avoid having “the last time they see their loved one be when they put a stamp on them.”..." This Article is From: www.phillytrib.com Read our latest posts!
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"...If you are a Blue Cross Blue Shield customer, you may have gotten a letter in the mail recently about a historic multi-billion dollar class-action lawsuit.
Some BCBS customers may be entitled to a chunk of that settlement, which is part of a long running anti-trust suit. The suit claims that BCBS violated anti-trust laws by creating non-compete agreements within its individual plans, limiting competition in the health insurance section..."