10/13/2017 Gym discounts. Postal Service employees can now receive discounted memberships to 24 Hour Fitness, a gym chain with more than 400 locations across the nation. The discounts are available to employees who enroll at 24hourfitness.com/corporate. You’ll need to enter the USPS corporate ID discount code, which is 106926CORP. Employees who enroll will also receive […]
10/06/17 – A judge sentenced a former mail sorter at the Roanoke post office to probation for stealing money from the mail. Michelle Spinner of Big Island was ordered at Thursday’s hearing to pay back $2,603, court papers said. She pleaded guilty in July to a single count of theft of mail or mail contents […]
8/16/17 WINTER PARK, Fla. – Richard Hornsby expected to find a toy for his son purchased and shipped for free thanks to his Amazon Prime subscription at his home last weekend. The company said it had been delivered, but when they returned to their Winter Park home, it was gone. “We just assumed that the […]
Neighborhood Collection Boxes Receive Temporary Seal / Removal NEW YORK, NY – In the interest of safety and security, postal officials will seal the Postal Service’s collection boxes in relation to the presidential visit, to remain closed until Wednesday, Aug. 16, in New York City. The familiar blue collection boxes will be sealed, and in […]
WASHINGTON – Today, with a bipartisan voice vote, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee approved H.R. 756, the Postal Service Reform Act of 2017, as amended. Upon approval, the bill’s original cosponsors, including Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), Reps. Mark Meadows (R-NC), Dennis Ross (R-FL), Gerry Connolly (D-VA), and Stephen F. […]
HOUSTON – Houston postal workers are hustling to make sure holiday packages reach their destinations on time. The north Houston processing facility normally handles about 1.5 million packages and letters every day. They handled nearly twice that amount on Monday.
The Postal Service has shown more than 5,000 managers and supervisors how to improve their workplaces since the USPS engagement ambassadors program began in the spring. The ambassadors are a team of 26 employees who are divided among the seven areas and headquarters. Each ambassador travels throughout their assigned territory, conducting classes for managers and […]
5/26/16 OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. — A longtime United States Postal Service worker is accused of stealing mail from his route for years. Investigators said they found several hundred pieces of mail, dating back two years, in Victor Sanchez’s garage after receiving a tip earlier this month he was destroying stolen mail. Sanchez, 48, was a rural […]
5/11/6 The US Postal Service has been hamstrung by Congress and the agency is not getting a single dime of taxpayer money despite losing $2 billion last year. But it’s not all bad news: The agency’s revenue went up five percent last quarter. Mark Dimondstein, president of the American Postal Workers Union joins ‘News With […]
5/10/16 WESTCHESTER (CBSLA.com) — Lisa Gaines, a victim of mail thefts, said such crimes are well-planned, well-executed and happen in her Westchester neighborhood all the time. Video footage shot from her neighbor’s house showed two men working their way down the street, going from mailbox to mailbox and stealing everything inside. “There’s been two people, one in […]