"...Agency’s strategy of using middlemen to cut its rates raises questions about highway safety..."
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Friday, June 16, 2023
Scraping the Bottom for Employees to Drive
U.S. Postal Service’s Search for Savings Brings Riskier Drivers
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3 Mississippi men get prison time for robbing postal worker
"...Each of them will serve five years of supervision once released and they were ordered to pay restitution to the U.S. Postal Service for the money taken in the robbery and to the postal carrier for medical costs associated with injuries he received, federal prosecutors said. ..."
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Thursday, June 15, 2023
Criminals seek USPS employees’ security info
"...The Postal Service wants employees and contractors to watch out for phishing emails designed to con recipients into revealing their security clearance information. Employees at several government agencies have received phishing emails in recent weeks, according to the FBI. USPS employees also have been targeted. ..."
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Wednesday, June 14, 2023
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Tuesday, June 13, 2023
Postal FEHB enrollees feel ‘angst’ as OPM builds USPS-only (PSHB) health insurance marketplace
"The agency is creating the Postal Service Health Benefits (PSHB) Program as a separate entity from the Federal Employee Health Benefits (FEHB) program, as required under the Postal Service Reform Act signed into law last year. ...Dimondstein, however, said there’s been some “angst” among current retirees unaware that they are exempt from a requirement for all future retirees to enroll in Medicare Part B.
“Retirees who are not in Medicare B now, are not going to be forced to be in Medicare B once this law matures, but some people don’t know that,” Dimondstein said.
The National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association (NARFE) is asking OPM to prevent as much disruption as possible in moving nearly 2 million FEHB enrollees to new health care plans offered under PSHB."
The Congressional Budget Office estimates postal enrollees in PSHB could also see slightly lower premiums since postal retirees will primarily be covered under Medicare Parts A and B. However, some USPS employees and retirees remain wary about their premiums under a new plan.
A USPS retiree told OPM that, “When I made my decision to retire, I was never told that someday I’d be forced into a different insurance plan that might cover less and cost me more.”
“We base our decision to retire on what’s available to us at the time and should never be forced to accept anything less,” the retiree wrote.
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Monday, June 12, 2023
USPS States That Ethics Rules apply after leaving USPS
"...The rules mainly address two concerns: when former employees can interact with USPS on behalf of new employers, and how current and former employees may interact with each other. Post-employment ethics considerations include..."
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Friday, June 9, 2023
Trafficking operation that uses Pokémon art cases to ship in cocaine busted in New Bedford
"...A trafficking operation that used Pokémon art cases to ship in cocaine from Puerto Rico was busted in New Bedford, the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office said Thursday. Two New Bedford men were arrested Tuesday after a United States Postal Service inspector and New Bedford police detectives coordinated a controlled delivery of a package to an apartment on Viall Street. An undercover postal inspector posing a mail carrier brought the package to the porch. ..."
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Thursday, June 8, 2023
Big Medicare Changes Coming For Postal Service Retirees
"...the Postal Service Health Benefits (PSHB) Program... They will not be able to enroll in or continue with FEHB plans. To continue with a PSHB plan, Medicare-eligible annuitants who have retired will have to enroll in Medicare Part B, medical insurance. ...Why is the government doing this? ...this change could save the Postal Service $5.6 billion through 2031 while adding $5.5 billion in costs to Medicare during that span"
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Monday, June 5, 2023
Residents seeing USPS issues across Mid-South
"“We’ve had two or three cases now where we have mailed a vendor a check and it’s taken four or five weeks to get to their location,” one storeowner said. ... “They just say ‘look, your regular mail carrier is out. We don’t know where your mail is at this point but we’re trying to track it’,” Nywening said. That seems to be a constant across the Mid-South. A Southaven resident still awaiting a passport on June 2, for a trip beginning June 3, made a Facebook post about her issues. ..."
This Article is From: www.localmemphis.com
Saturday, June 3, 2023
California woman busted in counterfeit postage scheme that cost USPS over $60M
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Thursday, June 1, 2023
Postal Service Finalizes the 2023 Stamp Program
"...the Postal Service announced first-day-of-issue dates and locations for previously announced stamps through the end of 2023. ...Customers may purchase stamps and other philatelic products through the Postal Store at usps.com/shopstamps, by calling 844-737-7826, by mail through USA Philatelic or at Post Office locations nationwide. For officially licensed stamp products, shop the USPS Officially Licensed Collection on Amazon. "
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Monday, May 29, 2023
Use This USPS Online Tool to Find Out If Mail Really Is Slower in Your Area
That delay in your ZIP code probably isn't in your imagination.
"...United States Postal Service (USPS) recently rolled out a new online dashboard which allows users to look up the speed and reliability of mail service in their ZIP code. Here’s what to know. ..."
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Thursday, May 18, 2023
Postal supervisor used USPS credit cards to buy $65K in groceries, household items, cops say
"Austin T. Mahan, 42, of the Cape May Court House section of Middle Township, is charged with misappropriation of postal funds. He appeared..."
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Tuesday, May 16, 2023
12,000 security mailboxes being deployed by USPS: What you need to know
"...USPS is also replacing its antiquated “arrow” locks with 49,000 electronic locks, a move that comes after the service reported that letter carriers have been targeted for their specialty keys that allow for box access. The new locks have already been installed in select cities...Customers are encouraged to report stolen mail as soon as possible by submitting an online complaint to the Postal Inspection Service at www.uspis.gov/report or calling 877-876-2455."
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Monday, May 15, 2023
PMG DeJoy updates employees in new video
"...Postmaster General Louis DeJoy discusses the next phase of the Delivering for America plan, which USPS began implementing more than two years ago. “We will accelerate the pace of our improvements and will make great gains the coming years,” DeJoy says. ..."
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Saturday, May 13, 2023
Postal Service high-volume mail theft incidents from mail receptacles, including blue collection boxes
"USPS will use 49,000 electronic locks to replace antiquated arrow and modified arrow lock keys, which criminals use to steal mail from secure mail receptacles to commit financial crimes, including altering checks to commit fraud.
• Preventing change-of-address fraud. In April, USPS implemented dual-authentication identity verification for online transactions and, effective May 31, the organization will offer enhanced in-person change-of-address transactions at Post Offices and retail outlets.
• Defeating counterfeit postage. USPS will fully exercise new authority to take possession and dispose of packages identified with counterfeit postage. ..."
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Monday, May 8, 2023
Postal Service Health Benefits Program - New Fact Sheets Released
"...The APWU has been working diligently with the USPS, the other postal unions, and OPM to ensure a smooth implementation of the PSHB Program. As a result of our combined efforts, two fact sheets have been developed to highlight the new program and answer questions for both active postal workers as well as annuitants.
APWU is committed to ensuring that APWU members (active and retired) have the resources they need leading up to the January 1, 2025 start date of the new program. As more information and educational items are released, we will be posting and distributing that information. ...
PSHB Employee Fact Sheet
PSHB Annuitant Fact Sheet April 2023
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Wednesday, May 3, 2023
3 indicted in Alabama mail thefts involving stolen keys
"...illegally sold keys that allowed others to open and pilfer Birmingham-area mailboxes. The indictment filed Thursday in federal court in Birmingham accuses Keaundria Janae Gresham, 30, of Pleasant Grove, a letter carrier at a local post office, of selling two keys for $3,000 each to Derrell Allen Matthews, 25, of Birmingham. What the U.S. Postal Service calls “arrow keys” open mail collection boxes. ..."
This Article is From: www.kansascity.com
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Netflix to end its DVD-by-mail service after 25 years
"...The growth of Netflix’s video streaming service has been slowing down over the past year, prompting management to put more emphasis on boosting profits. That focus may have also contributed to the decision to close an operation that was becoming a financial drain. But the DVD service was once Netflix’s biggest money maker. ..."
This Article is From: www.krqe.com
Saturday, April 1, 2023
Parcel Volume in U.S. Hits Projection a Year Ahead
Parcel Volume in U.S. Hits Projection a Year Ahead
'...FedEx saw the biggest U.S. parcel volume falloff in 2022, according to Pitney Bowes’ annual index, and while overall domestic volume last year was down by 2.2%, the pandemic bump in ecommerce helped it outpace the 2019 projection by hitting the target a year ahead of schedule. Pitney Bowes forecast parcel volume growth will be cut in half from 2023-2028, from a 10.8% CAGR in the trailing five years to a “most likely” CAGR of 5%, out of three different scenarios, “driven by market normalization, inflation and economic uncertainly.”...'
Reference: multichannelmerchant.com
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