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Oakland APWU May Sue USPS Over Improper Involuntary
Reassignments
- Management waited until Monday, April 20 at 11:00 p.m. to advise
a number of employees of the specific detail of reassignment. The employees were given in some
cases less than a week in which to report to new locations. Many
of these individuals are being required to report as far away as
Sacramento and Fresno and other locations, which will require
them to move themselves and their families . The current
agreement specifically provides that employees are entitled to
not less than 60 days advance notice of such relocation.
(4/26)
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Liberating the Postal Service (PDF)
Commentary by A. Lee Fritschler,
former Chairman of PRC: "Government bailouts of high profile
private corporations have obscured the fact that one of the
largest government enterprises, the U.S. Postal Service, is also
in dire financial straits. Its requests for immediate relief,
however, should be turned into long term, and long overdue,
reforms that will strengthen a great national institution for
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Federal
Court Orders Postal Service To Reconsider Mailing of Illegal
Animal Fighting Magazines
- A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Postal
Service to reconsider whether the mailing of certain animal
fighting magazines should be banned by the Postal Service
because they violate the federal Animal Welfare Act.
(4/26)
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USPS Seeks
Suppliers For Electric Vehicle Conversion of LLVs
The USPS is
actively evaluating various alternative vehicle technologies for
the eventual replacement of our fleet of delivery vehicles. One
technology with a good potential is an all-electric drive train.
The majority of our vehicles have a route length of less than 20
miles and park overnight for approximately 16 hours daily.
(4/24)
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Post office's blue boxes not safe at night
The U.S. Postal
Inspection Service tells The Watchdog that those blue collection boxes outside
post offices are no longer safe to use at night. Why? People are "using a device
to pull letters back out of the collection box," spokeswoman Amanda McMurrey
said. "Postal inspectors advise that if customers miss the last posted
collection time on the blue collection box, they should consider waiting to
deposit the mail until the next day or go into the post office to deposit the
mail," she said.
(4/24)
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Gamefly Accuses USPS Of
Preferential Treatment For Netflix and Blockbuster
- GameFly
has asked the Postal Service to give GameFly’s DVD mailers
processing on terms and conditions comparable to the terms and
conditions offered to two larger DVD mailers, Blockbuster and
Netflix. The Postal Service has not done so.
(4/24)
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USPS ‘Clarifies’ Some Early-Retirement Deadlines
The Postal Service has informed the
APWU that the deadline for eligible employees who wish to apply
for Voluntary Early Retirement (VER) effective June 30 or July
31 is June 19.
(4/23)
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Federal Times: More Bad Numbers Ahead For USPS
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The Postal
Service’s board of governors is meeting early next month to
discuss, among other things, the financial results from the
second quarter of 2009. There’s not much optimism about the
numbers, considering USPS
lost $384 million
in the first quarter, which is traditionally the strongest of
the year .
(4/23)
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4/26/09
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Tulsa leaders fight for post office
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Postal service truck hits sheriff’s deputy
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Elko: Debate over mail delivery continues
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Man attempts to rob South Bend mail carrier
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Former postal employee indicted for workers comp fraud
4/25/09
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Murray Comarow,
former executive Director of the President’s Commission on
Postal Organization,
responds via Postcom to the article
Going Postal - The Imminent Death of the U.S.
Postal Service?
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As volume of mail decreases, Postal Service drops collection
boxes
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PRC: A Word From the Chairman
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NAPUS Hotline
4/24/09
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Florida Rep. Calls for GAO Audit on Closing Polk Mail Center
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City Wanted Post Office Building for Free - or for a Fee
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Will Vehicle Cuts Really Help USPS?
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Three
local businesses open USPS kiosks
4/23/09
Rural
Carriers To Fight USPS Standard Mail 'Summer Sale'
Reportedly the NRLCA is of the
opinion that after having their contract mail piece counts
expanded already by the Postal Service, any additional mail
volume will not result in any additional rural letter carrier
compensation.
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APWU: Twenty-Two More U.S. Reps
Sign Up as Co-Sponsors of H.R. 22
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APWU: Our Battles Over 'Tour Compression'
Initiatives
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Detroit: Postal Service offers reward in
letter carrier robbery
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Postal worker accused of stealing 'breakup
book'
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Make Your Mailbox 'Greener' With Tips From
Pitney Bowes
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USPS Marks Earth Day With Green Initiatives
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Feds to end some newspaper, magazine subscriptions
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USPS Unveils Further Details on
'Summer Sale'
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Letter carrier charged with theft
of mail
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Mail Monster: Carrier Rifles Through Mail, Pockets Anything With
Monetary Value
4/22/09
Chrysler Pushing
New Minivans For USPS
Chrysler is celebrating Earth Day today
by unveiling the first four of what will be a fleet of 250 battery-powered
minivans for the U.S. Postal Service. The USPS will be using the
vans for a variety of duties at locations around the country – including
daily home delivery. The vans themselves are based on the concept
Town and Country EV that was unveiled last Fall by Chrysler. However,
because of the duty cycle used by the Postal Service, which generally
amounts to only about 18-20 miles per day on a fixed route, these
vehicles are being built without the range extender seen on the
concept.
Chrysler Debuts All-Electric Minivan
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USPS Taps Optimization
Software to Slash Transportation Costs
Generating more efficient mail routes
helps the post office reduce fuel use by 615,000 gallons per year.
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Rural carrier killed in crash with farm tractor
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Authorities say Muncie trio makes mail theft a family affair
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Letter carrier charged with theft
of mail
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Postal workers awarded for safety records
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Detroit Letter Carrier Robbed at
Gunpoint
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New Jersey postal worker accused
of using stolen credit card info to steal $7,500
4/21/09
To Save the Postal Service, Congress Must
Approve H.R. 22
A new PowerPoint slide show about H.R.
22, a bill of critical importance to anyone concerned about the
Postal Service, is now available to local, state, and national officers
for use at union meetings. The slide show explains the significance
of H.R. 22 in staving off a financial collapse of the USPS. “We
hope union activists will use the slide show to inform rank-and-file
members about the legislation,” said APWU President William Burrus.
“This bill is essential to the viability of the Postal Service —
and to our jobs.
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USPS To Reduce
Fleet by 10,000 Vehicles
According to Donahoe, the year-end
goal is to remove 10,000 vehicles from the existing fleet of 220,000
vehicles. This will involve transferring some 3,000 right-hand drive
vehicles to rural routes, redistributing under-utilized vehicles
to where they are needed, and selling surplus vehicles. Area and
district offices also will re-evaluate their needs for administrative
vehicles and share resources.
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APWU Initiates Dispute
Over USPS Failure to Furnish Notice of Changes to PS Form 1723
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BookSwim: Netflix for books
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Putting
Off Retirement
4/20/09
USPS Seeking Contractor To Create New ID Cards
For Postal Employees
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All Postal Service career employees will be issued a uniform identification
and access card that may be interoperable with Postal Service physical
access control systems (PACS) depending on the PACS type. It will
be the official identification of the Postal Service and allow for
entry to all Postal Service facilities (based on an employee’s access
needs)
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Don’t sweat EEOC complaint after discipline
if you can prove process was fair
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Kent Neely, who
is black, worked for the U.S. Postal Service handling mail. Neely,
however, struggled with attendance; he was late or absent 83 times
one year. When he was warned he could be terminated if his attendance
didn’t improve, he filed a discrimination complaint, alleging his
female supervisors were harassing him because he turned down their
romantic overtures.
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APWU-Led Consolidation Protests Gather Steam,
Gain Public Support
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Changes coming for Lafayette's mail delivery
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Mail
carrier signs, seals and delivers 50 years of service
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The Postal Service's Green Initiatives
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Postal
contract worker accused of theft
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Post
Office Robbers Caught
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Mail
Bans, Postal Woes
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New Deal art filled post offices
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Postal Service offering $50,000 reward for info
about Jacksonville robbery attempt
4/19/09
Going
Postal - The Imminent Death of the U.S. Postal Service?
For all its inability to stay in tune
with changing consumer trends, technology advances, a warming planet
and a deep economic crisis, the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service
(USPS) might as well have given all their mail carriers Hummers
to drive on their appointed rounds in recent years. As it turns
out, the USPS and Hummer’s parent company, General Motors, have
a lot in common these days. A better idea would be to recognize
the failure of USPS senior management, and do to it, for far more
justifiable reasons, what the White House has recently done to the
senior management of General Motors: Change it.The ever-optimistic
USPS senior management, starting with Postmaster General Potter,
continues to make hallucinatory predictions that mail volumes will
magically recover once the economy recovers.1 It is hard to find
any industry expert outside of the USPS management or its union
leaders who agree with Potter’s math, or the logic underlying it.
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