Earlier this year USPS modified the HAZMAT questions to include perfume that Window Clerks (Sales and Service Associates) are required to ask customers. Let this article be a reminder to Window Clerks to ask all of the HAZMAT questions. Why? Well, some Postal Managers/Supervisors are issuing discipline for Window Clerks’ failure to do so . […]
FLAWS AND INACCURACIES IN USPS’S EXIGENCY FILING UNDERMINE ITS REQUEST FOR ABOVE INFLATION RATE POSTAGE INCREASE Ignoring Digital Diversion and Impact of Recovery Undercuts USPS Request for Increase above Inflation Rate Washington, D.C., November 26, 2013 – Today, a broad coalition of postal customers and suppliers asked the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) to reject a […]
MILWAUKEE, WI — One criminal sought revenge through the U.S. Postal Service and damaged the credit of more than a dozen victims! One of the victims, who didn’t want to be identified, said, “You don’t know why it’s happening or who did it to you. Did we make someone mad, irate that they are trying […]
WASHINGTON – Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) released the following reaction to the U.S. Postal Service’s announcement that it will deliver packages seven days a week through a new partnership with Amazon: “This announcement by the U.S. Postal Service is a clear example of the innovative solutions that […]
LYNWOOD (CBSLA.com) — A postal worker is fighting for her life after a hit-and-run driver struck a parked car, pinning her underneath. Juan Carlos Mosquera was working Saturday afternoon near the intersection of Santa Fe and Euclid Ave. when a driver slammed into a parked car, leaving postal worker Lydia Ray pinned underneath. “He […]
An account of rare turmoil within the secretive stamp committee at USPS. According to Linn’s Stamp News Bill McAllister Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee (CSAC): “staged an unprecedented protest at their September 23 meeting” in Washington; voted to suspend the meeting; and all 13 members signed a three-page letter to Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe requesting a […]
EEOC has issued a decision that the USPS did in fact breach class settlement agreement. EEOC has granted class agent Clarence Hill the right to sue on behalf of the the 77,000 plus disabled veterans.’ EEOC also granted Hill the right to seek new legal representation to continue the Hill v Donahoe case for disabled […]
Press Release from the National Postal Museum: (Sept. 12, 2013) The Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum opens its new William H. Gross Stamp Gallery to the public Sunday, Sept. 22. Named after its primary benefactor, it is the world’s largest stamp gallery and the only one to show stamps and mail in the context of American […]
USPS is planning some unusual marketing tactics when it introduces the 2013 version of the Inverted Jenny stamp.
Cards service is no longer available on iPhone and iPad A FAQ web page published Tuesday confirmed that Apple has quietly discontinued the “Cards” app and companion service for creating letterpress cards and having them delivered for one low price.