"...A man charged with stabbing a supervisor at a bulk mail center has been denied bond. ..."
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Bond denied for suspect in Atlanta postal stabbing
Monday, July 26, 2010
National Reassessment Process
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Thursday, July 22, 2010
Bomb Squad Detonates Pipe Bomb Found In Welch
"...Post Office worker delivering mail noticed some boys gathered around the device. He took the device in order to keep the boys from danger, brought it to the Welch Post Office..."
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Postal workers picket to preserve Saturday service
"...While it might seem logical that the unions’ opposition to five-day-delivery is motivated by job preservation, Smith said most contracts include language preventing employee layoffs. Union members were given that assurance in exchange for their not being allowed to strike, he said...."
CPI-W June 2010
"...The Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers
(CPI-W) increased 1.4 percent over the last 12 months to an index
level of 213.839 (1982-84=100). For the month, the index fell 0.1 percent prior to seasonal adjustment...."
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Hazmat team responds to Springfield USPS facility
"...A fire department spokesman says six postal workers had to be decontaminated Sunday after an unknown substance spilled out of a parcel at the U.S. Postal Service’s Bulk Mail Distribution Center...."
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Postal worker found dead in trash was slain
"...post office employee who vanished at work and turned up dead at a dump hours later ..."
Connolly: U.S. Postal Service in a death spiral
"..."instead of reducing service from six to five days a week, the Postal Service ought to be looking at a 24-hour model like the competition," Connolly said.
He said looking at creative ways of expanding customer service is how USPS will be able to stay competitive. ..."
Thursday, July 8, 2010
FedEx, UPS send out fleet of lobbyists to shape labor law
"...FedEx and its voluble anti-union chairman, Fred Smith, have spent the past year attacking the proposal as a "brown bailout" for UPS and the Teamsters. FedEx, based in Memphis, has more than doubled its lobbying budget during the campaign, to about $1.5 million a month, disclosure records show. ..."
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Stamp prices going up again - 46-cent rate asked
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"...Under the proposed increases, in addition to the 46-cent rate for the first ounce, the cost for each additional ounce would go up a penny to 18 cents. The cost to mail a postcard would go up 2 cents to 30 cents...."
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Oldest Postal Worker Retires
"...a mail-handler forklift operator. He worked in the same position until his last day of work Tuesday. "I've never really given it a thought (about retiring earlier), to be honest with you. My old supervisor would ask me, `Chester, when are you going to retire?' and I would tell her, `It's none of your business, you know," he said laughing. ..."
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Ex-Postal Employee Pleads Guilty in Check-Theft Scheme
"...Shareen Wilson, 42, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and one count of theft of mail by a U.S. postal employee for her role in a scheme to steal ..."
Friday, June 18, 2010
“This will not be a giveback contract,” APWU President Burrus
"...“We expect management to make many concessionary demands,” Bell said. “But we must fight to improve the wages and working conditions of postal employees.” ..."
Postal Service worker stabs boss with scissors at Kennedy Airport
"...Cops quickly collared Barnett, a 10-year employee of the Postal Service, and charged him with assault, possession of a weapon and attempted murder...."
Acting Postmaster charged with obstructing mail
"...a spokesman for the U.S. Postal Service based in Maine, said an “officer in charge” is an acting postmaster. “It’s the temporary head of that facility while there is a search going on for who will take over as the permanent postmaster of the facility,” he said...."
Monday, June 14, 2010
Military service and FERS
"...What are my best options for retiring at age 55? Also, would it still be to my advantage to buy back my military..."
Postal Service needs makeover, not to be shunted aside as obsolete
"...“The USPS is anything but an anachronism on a slow march to oblivion. It is a national treasure that provides an immense and irreplaceable social service. … We must recognize that the Postal Service can and must remain public if we are to maintain the essential infrastructures of democracy.”..."
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Shelter Animal stamps no longer rare
"..."All Huntsville Post Offices have (animal stamp) supplies in stock," Joseph Breckenridge of the U.S. Postal Service communications department for Alabama and the Florida panhandle wrote in an e-mail. "The stamps were flying out the door, but supply has now caught up with demand." ..."
Friday, June 11, 2010
Capital area chief Lane leaves Postal Service after assault allegation
"...Lane, based in Gaithersburg, visited the Dulles Processing and Distribution Center in Sterling on June 1 and allegedly argued with the center's manager, Kathleen J. Michaels. The Loudoun County Sheriff's Office responded to a 911 call at the building..."
Seattle man charged in suspicious mailings to Republican senator
"...Writing the court, a Seattle-based postal inspector said the U.S. Postal Inspection Service launched an investigation following a May 8 incident in which a postal employee's face was dusted with the white powder while handling Howe's letter to DeMint. Postal inspectors opened the letter two days later...."
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