Postal Facts updated for 2023

"Did you know that more than 1,400 USPS-owned buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places? Or that the Breast Cancer Research semipostal stamp has raised nearly $95 million since 1998? Or that USPS employs nearly 63,000 veterans? These tidbits of knowledge and more can be found in that smorgasbord of USPS history, statistics and trivia known as Postal Facts, which has been newly updated for 2023. The information can be found at facts.usps.com, a graphics-rich site you can also download as a PDF. ..."    

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Suspicious powder sent to Manhattan DA’s office

"The Manhattan District Attorney’s office received a parcel containing an eerie white powder inside an envelope on Friday. ...The grand jury proceedings scheduled to meet the following Wednesday were canceled. ...The discovery came three days after a bomb threat had shut down the courthouse at 60 Centre Street"    

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Massachusetts postal worker sentenced for attempting to bribe boss to participate in trafficking cocaine

"John Noviello, 61, of Nashua N.H. was sentenced to one day in prison and three years of supervised release for offering to pay his boss $1,750 per kilogram of successfully delivered cocaine, according to the United States Attorney’s Office of Massachusetts. ..."    

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U.S. Postal Mail Carrier allegedly attacked by minor with machete

"The USPS letter carrier was out delivering mail during Tuesday's nor'easter when the juvenile male attacked him. ...The juvenile male was charged with two counts of juvenile assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, two counts of juvenile simple assault, and one count of juvenile breaking and entering into a motor vehicle, resisting arrest, and disorderly conduct. Police did not release the name or age of the suspect. The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is also investigating the attack. “The safety and well-being of Postal Service employees is a top priority..."    

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Postal Service Saviour DeJoy Doing Amazing Job!

Time magazine covers DeJoy’s turnaround efforts

"“DeJoy may be the only person on earth who could have delivered these wins for America’s beloved, beleaguered agency,” the article states, explaining how he has drawn upon his previous experience as a CEO and political fundraiser. Additionally, the article notes that some early criticisms of DeJoy proved erroneous. The 3,900-word piece is available on Time’s website, in the magazine’s March 27 print edition and on Apple News, where it appears under the headline “The Mail Man — Initially cast as a Trumpian villain, Louis DeJoy is delivering for the Postal Service, and Democrats.” The article concludes by indicating the Postal Service still has a long way to go, but DeJoy plans to keep working to turn the organization around. As he tells Time: “I don’t like to leave a job undone.”..."    

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Long-term care pause | Two-year freeze on applications

  Long-term care pause | Two-year freeze on applications

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has paused all new applications for the Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program.

Unenrolled individuals cannot apply for the program.

The suspension period, which will run for 24 months from Dec. 19, 2022, is designed to give OPM and the John Hancock Life and Health Insurance Co., the program’s carrier, “time to thoroughly assess benefit offerings and establish sustainable premium rates that reasonably and equitably reflect the cost of the benefits provided,” according to the suspension notice on the program’s website.

Current enrollees’ coverage will not change as long as they continue to pay their premiums. However, current enrollees may not increase coverage.

Those who applied for the program before the cutoff date will have their application considered and, if approved, will receive all relevant information.

For those in claims status, there is no change to coverage or claims reimbursement as long as benefits have not been exhausted.

For more information on the suspension, call LTCFEDS at 800-582-3337. For other benefits-related questions, contact the Wellness team.

Reference: USPS News Link via NPMHU Local 317 - Alabama

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NPMHU members ratify 2022 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA)

  NPMHU members ratify 2022 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA)

MAIL HANDLERS RATIFY 2022 NATIONAL AGREEMENT

The terms of the 2022 National Agreement between the NPMHU and the U.S. Postal Service were officially ratified on March 13, 2023. The certified results show that over 84% ...

Reference: NPMHU via NPMHU Local 317 -Alabama



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U.S. Postal Service (USPS) Employee Hatch Act Violation

"OSC filed a complaint for disciplinary action with the Merit Systems Protection Board charging a rural mail carrier in California with violating three provisions of the Hatch Act when, in August 2020, she intentionally removed and discarded 66 pieces of presorted deliverable mail intended for delivery on her route because the pieces were sent by a political party or the campaign of a candidate for partisan political office. According to the complaint, the carrier placed the mail in an undeliverable mail bin from which it would have been thrown away, but an attentive employee at the post office noticed an unusual quantity of political mail in the bin and alerted a postmaster. In a settlement agreement, the carrier admitted that OSC would have been able to prove that she violated three provisions of the Hatch Act—the prohibitions on engaging in political activity while on duty or in the federal workplace and the prohibition on using one's official authority to interfere with or affect the results of an election. The carrier agreed to resign from USPS and accept a one-year debarment from federal employment as a penalty for violating the Hatch Act. ..."    

This Article is From: U.S. Office of Special Counsel

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Cyclist Blamed For His Own Death During Trial Of a USPS Truck Driver Who Killed Him

"“I’m happy he was charged with something, but a misdemeanor takes almost no consideration that my husband died,” Brimer told Streesblog in 2121. “He ran my husband down with a mail truck. The charge of ‘failure to yield’ doesn’t even suggest that a man died. It’s more like, ‘Whoopsie, I guess I didn’t look.'” Defense manipulated the truth, blamed the cyclist Fast forward to this week. The trial of Sergei Alekseev resulted in a conviction on the “failure to yield” misdemeanor charge, but not before Alekseev’s defense attorney blamed Williamson for being run over, even though the cyclist clearly had the right of way and was riding in a bike lane. ..."    

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Salvaged American flag an emblem of hope in KY

"...among the debris, a group of postal workers and volunteers discovered that the Post Office’s U.S. flag — tattered and torn but still in one piece — survived. “It was an emotional day for us,” said Ginger Rosenbury, a maintenance manager who assisted with recovery and cleanup. When the team found the flag, they knew they wanted to do something special for Mayfield Postmaster Joshua Jenkins. “We witnessed how he put his whole heart and soul into helping his employees and the Postal Service” after the..."    

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Royal Mail Bosses Admit to Tracking Postal Workers

"...The head of Royal Mail told Parliament that his company has used technology to track the speed of postal workers, including for how long they stood still. Appearing before the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy committee Wednesday, Chief Executive Officer Simon Thompson said the exercise was to avoid cases of work overload and not to..."    

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Negative Home Value Impact | People Do Not Want to Buy Homes With Cluster Mailboxes

Cluster Boxes (Centralized Delivery) vs Mail Delivery to the Home Can Impact Home Value

"USPS customers don’t like and don’t want this change. People want their mail delivered to their home. ...consumers and businesses place the highest value on maintaining delivery to the door and/or curb, rather than delivery to cluster boxes or parcel lockers..."    https://mail-boxes.blogspot.com/2023/02/cluster-boxes-centralized-delivery-vs.html" title="Cluster Boxes (Centralized Delivery) vs Mail Delivery to the Home Can Impact Home Value">

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Indiana man who threw steel wheelbarrow on dying grandpa and stomped head to ‘finish him off’ convicted of murder on victim’s birthday

"An obituary said Huffman, a former employee with the United States Postal Service, was a “loving father, grandfather and great-grandfather” who “enjoyed spending time with and caring for his family.”...deliberated for just over five hours before finding Trent D. Kreegar guilty on one count of murder and one count of aggravated battery in the horrific Sept. 5, 2021 death of Robert Earl Huffman Jr., prosecutors announced. The date of Kreegar’s conviction also happened to be the day that his grandfather would have turned 69. ..."    

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