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 […]
April 30, 2015 CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. — Two U.S. postal carriers have admitted to trashing thousands of pieces of mail that should have been delivered to homes across Central Virginia, according to documents filed in U.S. District Court. Both postal carriers were issued citations for their actions and offered different excuses for why they threw […]
A former Fenton postal employee was found deceased in his home Wednesday afternoon following a police situation that lasted several hours. Det. Mike Neering of the Mundy Township Police Department said Ricky Hughes, 65, was found dead with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Neering said that Hughes had worked at the Fenton Post Office and was […]
Heroic Mail Carrier Put Himself Between Shooter, Victim During Carmichael Standoff April 29, 2015 At 9:30 a.m. on his very first delivery of the morning, mail carrier Scott Gallegos was approached by a woman near Madison Avenue in Carmichael. He heard a knock on the window of his truck. She was covered in blood.“She had […]
Federal Indictment Charges Letter Carrier For Dumping U.S. Mail April 29, 2015 CHARLOTTE, N.C. – A federal criminal indictment charging Marlin D. Haley, 22, of Charlotte, with two counts of destroying and delaying U.S. mail was returned by a federal grand jury on Thursday, April 23, 2015, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, Acting U.S. Attorney for […]
April 28, 2015 SALT LAKE CITY — It’s been six weeks since a KSL investigation revealed the worst parking offenders in Salt Lake City: employees of the United States Postal Service. The USPS owes the city tens of thousands of dollars in unpaid parking tickets. That hasn’t changed, and from what KSL Investigators have witnessed, […]
April 27, 2015 Two people, including a mail carrier (rural carrier associate [RCA]) , were injured when a mail truck and an SUV collided in Washington County Monday, emergency officials said. Samantha Mueller, 30, of Canonsburg told police she was driving her mail truck along the shoulder of the 1800 block of Route 980 in […]
April 27, 2017 USPS OIG: Postal Service Management of CBRE Real Estate Transactions Audit Report Under a June 2011 contract, CBRE Group, Inc. (CBRE) is the sole provider of real estate management services for the U.S. Postal Service. These services include marketing and sale of properties and conducting lease negotiations. In fiscal years 2012 and […]
April 20, 2015 At the request of Communities and Postal Workers United, Senator Jeff Merkley (D) organizes entire Oregon delegation to demand PMG meeting about plant closures/consolidations. USPS completed Bend (except DPS letters) and Pendleton CSMPCs consolidation to Portland on April 18, 2015. Eugene P & DF consolidation to Medford and Portland plants were scheduled […]
Declining First-Class Mail (FCM) volumes pose a major financial challenge to the U.S. Postal Service because FCM contributes by far the largest proportion of revenue to the Postal Service’s bottom line. Between fiscal years 1995 and 2013, FCM single-piece volume dropped by 61 percent. But a close analysis of the decrease reveals significant variations in this […]