On June 3, 2015, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned a five count indictment charging Jose A. Rosa-Colon, his brother and business partner, Ivan Rosa-Colon and Louis Enrique Torres with a multi-million dollar Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) scheme to defraud the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs. The charges include […]
Postal Service employees who served in the military during the Vietnam War are invited to attend the Memorial Day dedication of the Medal of Honor: Vietnam War stamps in Washington, DC. The ceremony will be held Monday, May 25, from 1-2 p.m. at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the National Mall. The event is free […]
3/30/2015 – Memphis, Tenn – Two Verbena residents have been arrested and charged in a federal indictment that accuses them of conspiring to steal packages of prescription pharmaceuticals intended for military veterans. Kevin Cochrane, 34, and Carmen Cochrane, 36, both of Verbena, were named in a four-count indictment charging the couple with conspiracy to possess […]
March 14, 2015 FAIRBANKS, AK — Over a period of six years, hundreds of prescriptions mailed by Alaska pharmacies to veterans and villagers disappeared while in the custody of the U.S. Postal Service in Fairbanks. Patients waiting for morphine, oxycodone, hydrocodone and other drugs often found themselves in agony because their pain medications failed to show up in the mail, […]
Recently PostalReporter posted information about Richard Erickson, a distribution Clerk fired from his position at Fort Myers Processing and Distribution Center (Fort Myers, Florida). Erickson filed an MSPB appeal under Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA), asserting that he was improperly removed because of his military service and requesting that he […]
San Antonio, TX (PRWEB) April 26, 2010 — The National Veterans Outreach Program of the American GI Forum began production of corrugate mail trays for the United States Postal Service, at the Veterans Enterprises of Texas (VETS) manufacturing assembly plant. The United States Postal Service (USPS) recently issued the contract award to the National Veterans […]
Program Diverts Expired, Unused Medicine from Landfills, Water Supply WASHINGTON — Veterans will be able to safely dispose of expired and unused prescriptions and help the environment at the same time under a program offered by the U.S. Postal Service and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). This pilot program is limited to an estimated […]
Although the Postal Service employs large numbers of veterans, not enough is being done to help qualified veterans secure jobs with the agency, APWU Executive Vice President Cliff Guffey told a House panel during testimony on Sept. 6. “The Postal Service has systematically eliminated or contracted out the six job classifications that, under the Veterans’ […]
by Greg Bell APWU Industrial Relations Director In the March/April 2006 issue of the American Postal Worker, I wrote about a 2003 court decision that overturned the federal government’s longstanding practice of charging employees “military leave” for non-workdays spent training in the armed forces. The Postal Service, however, had taken the position that the court […]