Less than six months after a cyber data breach may have stolen thousands of postal employees personal information, USPS has posted a notice of its intent to modify the existing system of records (SOR), “Personnel Compensation and Payroll Records.” USPS is proposing to modify a General Privacy Act System of Records (SOR) to support the […]
On Nov. 23, 2013, 26-year-old Tyson Barnette was shot multiple times while delivering the mail in Landover, Maryland. On Feb. 26, 2013, federal corrections officer Eric Williams was stabbed with a homemade weapon at the high-security Canaan penitentiary in Pennsylvania. In 2013 57 federal employees were killed on the job, according to preliminary data by […]
Take mail carrier, one of the jobs most impacted by technology and among the most endangered. Mail carrier finished No. 200 out of 200 careers examined in the CareerCast 2014 Jobs Rated report for projected growth outlook, with an expected decline of 28% by 2022, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Of course, […]
This is an old editorial posted on PostalReporter.com several years ago but it is still relevant today as it pertains to Postal Clerks–and postal workers in general. In an article last year from the Federal Times, it stated that Postal work is the most dangerous among federal civilian jobs On June 29, 62-year-old letter carrier […]
Bureau of Labor Statistics’ 2013 Union Membership Report In 2013, the union membership rate—the percent of wage and salary workers who were members of unions—was 11.3 percent, the same as in 2012, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The number of wage and salary workers belonging to unions, at 14.5 million, was little […]