May 31, 2017
- Mail delivery contractor barred from fed contract bids for failing to pay drivers’ wages – New Jersey Online
- Misconceptions dishonor U.S. mail
Rolando via The Columbus Dispatch - Software Company Bringing Direct Mail into the Digital Age Announces New Facebook Integration at National Postal Forum – PEN
- Blame Congress for U.S. Postal Service fiscal woes
Rolando via The Mercury - Which U.S. Jobs Are Disappearing Fastest? By 2024, the Bureau of Labor Statistics is projecting that there will be 136,000 fewer postal jobs than in 2014, a 28 percent decline – Forbes
- Bomb threat forces evacuation, lockdown at U.S. postal training center
Norman Transcript – Update: Bomb threat at NCED cleared - USPS Removed Nearly 40 San Francisco Mailboxes Last Month
Hoodline - USPS and Bronx DA Need to Squash Mailbox Fishers
Norwood News
May 30, 2017
- NARFE Reaction to President Trump’s First Budget
PEN - NPMHU Issues Statement on Trump White House Budget
PEN - OIG: How Clean, Safe, and Inviting is your Western Area Post Office?
- OIG: Automated Vehicle Utilization System Mileage Use – Southern Area
May 29, 2017
- Video: Texas Mail Carrier Pays McAllen Woman for Missing Packages
PEN - Video: Mailbox camera captures Hollywood Hills mail thieves in action
PEN - Maybe not snow, rain, heat or gloom – but sometimes stickers
Wisconsin State Journal
May 28, 2017
- Kentucky Postmaster, and employee, charged with misappropriation of funds – Lexington Herald Leader
- USPS vehicle crash spills medical supplies into river, creek near Leavenworth, WA – King 5 TV
- Rare stamps, postal history
Linns
May 27, 2017
- Safety Matters – PMG Delivers Latest Video Message
PEN - Video: Madison County, AL mail carrier accused of feeding dog meatballs with nails – PEN
- APWU Says White House 2018 Budget Proposal Targets Postal Workers and Postal Services – PEN
- Seattle postal employee allegedly mailed marijuana out of state
KIRO - Trump’s Fix for Post Office’s Deep Losses: Cut Back Saturday Delivery
Fox Business - Dogs that attacked Grand Rapids postal worker euthanized
Wood TV - Postal Service retracts incorrect report: $2 Jenny Invert pane to remain on sale – Linns
May 26, 2017
- USPS Introduces Mail Call
PEN - Will Trump’s budget cut mail delivery? Plan revives contentious question
Washington Post - U.S. Postal Service pushes back against Portman opioid-trafficking effort. He says it is wrong – Cleveland.com
- What This Philly Carrier Did for This Dog is Heroic
tiphero.com - Canada Post carrier said he was pressured to perform CPR on possible overdosing woman – Winnipeg Free Press
- OIG: Stopping the Shipment of Synthetic Opioids: Oversight of U.S. Strategy to Combat Illicit Drugs (PDF)
May 25, 2017
- 2018 Budget Proposal For The U.S. Postal Service – PEN
- Former Pennsylvania Mailhandler Sentenced To Probation For Unemployment Compensation Fraud – PEN
- NALC Responds To President Trump’s 2018 Budget
PEN - Postmaster Organization Reports On Trump Budget
PEN - Crash Ended GA Postal Worker’s Career, Attorney Says as 7-Figure Trial Opens – Courtroom Connect
- Former Worcester postal worker accused of stealing stamps and selling them on eBay under name ‘mrfenway’ – Mass Live
- President Trump’s 2018 budget resurrects unpopular USPS cost-cutting initiatives – Linns
- Trump budget calls for $47B in retirement benefits, operational cuts at USPS – Federal News Radio
- Lincoln Motor Company wins Irresistible Mail Award
PEN - Postal Service Honors United Health Group with 2017 Partnership for Growth Award – PEN
- Russian ‘outdated’ postal service falls prey to Wannacry Ransomware
- Very Special Deliveries – Mailing Children
Smithsonian National Postal Museum - How Mail Helped Shape the Young United States
Popular Mechanics
May 24, 2017
- Driver who hit NY postal worker with car faces upgraded charges
Also see: Video Update: Man faces felony charges after striking NY postal worker with car – PEN - Video: TV station helps disabled man get mailbox moved
PEN - NALC Contract Ratification Update – Rap Session Announced
PEN - Western NY Postal Worker Admits Stealing $2,400 From Mail
U.S. News and World Report
May 23, 2017
- Video: Neighbors have serious complaints about mail in Brookshire, TX
PEN - California Police Stop Vehicle Crammed Full With Stolen Mail
PEN - USPS Selects Pitney Bowes Video Technology to Help Promote a Modern Mailing Experience – PEN
- Former letter carrier sentenced to three years for her role in delivering methamphetamines in Ohio – PEN
- Why Digital Is Not a Threat to the USPS
eMarketer - Trump’s proposed retirement changes would have major impacts on current feds and retirees – Federal News Radio
- Postal IG Sounds Alarm on Safety, Security
FEDweek
May 22, 2017
- Two million sign up for Postal Service’s Informed Delivery – 10,000 more every day – PEN
- NARFE Responds To Reported Threats in the President’s 2018 Budget
PEN - Video: Postal Notice Proposal to USPS Could Help Bulk Mailers, Political Elections, Social Media – PEN
- Video: Hindenburg Crash Mail – May 1937
PEN - Trump Budget Targets Federal-Postal Community
PEN - Postal Service Honors Henry David Thoreau
PEN - OIG: Total Eclipse of the Stamp
- OIG Audit: Is USPS efficiently and cost effectively consolidating mail between Chicago and San Francisco NDCs?
May 21, 2017
- Postal Service Deleted Customer Complaints Around Christmas
Washington Free Beacon - Maintenance Craft Agreement with USPS Resolving Line H Dispute
PEN - APWU Stands in Solidarity with Striking AT&T Retail Workers
- Dog attacks stop mail in troubled areas
Huntington, WV Herald Dispatch
May 20, 2017
- Former Iowa Carrier Convicted Of Theft Will Serve 2 Years Probation And Perform 100 Hours Community Service – PEN
- Former Wasilla postmaster demoted to custodian after investigation upholds harassment claims – Alaska Dispatch News
- Mailman rescues Minto, N.D., woman who cried for help for 20 hours
Grand Forks Herald - Reform the U.S. Postal Service for the right reasons
The Hill - 4 held in postal thefts in Irvine, LA, San Bernardino
My News LA - The story behind the 2017 eclipse stamp
EarthSky
May 19, 2017
- Postal Inspection Service leads effort to honor sick child
PEN - Operation: “Wait a Minute Mr. Postman” – Memphis Letter Carrier Helped Drug Dealers Via USPS – PEN
- Video: Postal Service Provides Safety For Employees to Help Against Dog Attacks – PEN
- U.S. Postal Service Recognized as 2017 Top Federal Agency for Supplier Diversity – PEN
- Postal regulatory agency to conclude postage review this fall
Federal News Radio
May 18, 2017
- Eutawville, SC Woman Charged with Theft of Mail by a Postal Employee – PEN
- Video: Savannah’s Hometown Heroes: Postal workers
PEN - Varnville, SC Woman Charged with Misappropriation of Funds by a Postal Employee – PEN
- Former USPS Contractor Pleads Guilty To Felony Conspiracy Charges
PEN - Summerville, SC Woman Charged with Embezzlement of Postal Funds
PEN - Video: New York letter carrier accused of stealing mail
PEN - St. Louis Postal Worker Still Missing
CBS St. Louis - USPS Falling Short on Social Media, Says IG
FEDweek - Neighborhood battles with post office to get its mail
WPXI - Revisit a time when mail delivered by trolley cars was the best way to communicate – Washington Post
May 17, 2017
- Video: Thieves steal truck full of mail in Panorama City, CA
PEN - Video: Where’s the mail? Postal thefts on the rise in Central Virginia
PEN - Video: Retired Postal Service Employee Devotes Her Life To Serving The Homeless – PEN
- Video: Mail theft in East San Jose caught on camera
PEN - Two-Day Suspension Of Postal Employee Not Enough to Prove Retaliation
SHRM - Postal employees’ pay raise in the works as union contact nears final approval – Federal News Radio
- Additional money order mail box thefts reported in El Paso
El Paso Proud
May 16, 2017
- USPS Response to Lexington Institute’s “Getting the Details Right” Article
PEN - Unique, First-of-a-Kind Stamps Mimic Sports Ball Textures
- ‘A good cause’ – Another successful Stamp Out Hunger drive
PEN - APWU: PSEs Getting a Pay Raise
PEN - Six things you should know about USPS
PEN - Video: Neither snow, nor sleet, nor snakes? Street goes days without mail over slithery sighting – PEN
- 200K Postal Workers Would See Pay Raises, Benefit Cuts Under New Labor Contract – GovExec
- Congressional politics hinders Postal Service
Rolando via Atlanta Journal Constitution - Returned to senders: U.S. Postal Service to reinstall three collection boxes in south Eugene, OR – The Register Guard
- Florida school resource officer saves postal worker from dog attack, police say – WPLG
- LAPD Snoozing on Easy Burglary, ID and Mail Theft Case
City Watch - The Postal Service wants you, millennials
Marketplace
May 15, 2017
- OIG: Rethinking Assumptions – The Postal Services Health and Retiree Liabilities – PEN
- Video: USPS, Mail – Packages – and People
PEN - Health premiums going up, again
Federal News Radio - Video: Position 76 Jenny Invert sells for $295,000
PEN - The Quad Cities area of Iowa collected 106,704 pounds of food – that’s equal to 105 pallets – KWQC
- Roswell, GA offers to remove brick, stone mailboxes
AJC - French letter carriers will watch over your elderly parents
Connexion France - What is going on with the Royal Mail pension? – Quite simply, Royal Mail says it is unaffordable – City AM
- USPS wants board of governors back in business
Linns - Postal worker treated for minor injuries after crash in Wallingford, CT
My Record Journal - Postal Carrier Mom Hides Under Baggy Work Uniform, Then Reveals Sexy New Transformation – Little Things
May 14, 2017
- HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!
- Video: Bakersfield construction worker finds stolen mail: ‘It gets me so angry’ – PEN
- Video: USPS truck crashes into power pole, knocks out power in Kansas City, MO – PEN
- Orlando police respond to two bomb threats at post offices
Orlando Sentinel - Mail truck tips over in Warwick
WPRI
May 13, 2017
- Video: Massive mail theft of 120 homes in Pacoima, California
PEN - NALC and USPS Reach Tentative Agreement
PEN - Man Now Serving Oklahoma Sentence for ’83 Tulsa Murder Of Postal Worker – Public Radio Tulsa
- Dogs, Snow, Mice – They Encounter It All: A Day In The Life Of A Postal Carrier – Newtown Bee
- Sylvania Township man moves mailbox….mail stops!
13 ABC - Six Historic Post Offices
New England Historical Society
May 12, 2017
- Good Samaritan Told By USPS That He Had Violated Ethics Rules By Starting A GoFundMe Page For Mailman Mike Who Was Critically Injured While At Work – PEN
- Video: Memphis mailman attacked while delivering mail
PEN - OIG: Social Media Customer Inquiries
- South Florida Homeowners Fighting for Curbside Mail Delivery
NBC Miami - Maybe It Is Time for Some Outside-the-Box Thinking About the US Postal Service – National Monitor
- Lake Linganore, MD residents deliver complaints to Postal Service officials – Frederick News-Post
May 11, 2017
- NALC statement on USPS’ May 10 quarterly financial report
PEN - Video: Postal drop boxes targeted by thieves for checks
PEN - Postal Service, citing losses, seeks higher stamp prices
Fox Business - Postal Service calls on Trump to name new executives
Federal News Radio - Saving the Postal Service Requires Getting the Details Right
Lexington Institute
May 10, 2017
- Postal Worker Assaulted With Fireworks Opposes Governor’s Legalization
WHO TV - Former Rapid City postal worker arrested after failing to appear at sentencing
Rapid City Journal - NY Mailman For Trashing Nearly 3,000 Letters
BKLYNER - Dollar Bill
Crow City Blog – by Justin Florey – Minneapolis Letter Carrier - Postal Service Reports Fiscal Year 2017 Second Quarter Results (PDF)
- USPS Inspector General Provides Update for Measuring Pension and Retiree Health Benefits Liabilities – PEN
- Stamp Out Hunger This Saturday – Postmaster General thanks employees for their support – PEN
- Close postal loophole that fuels opioid epidemic
Former Homeland Security Secretary via Philly Inquirer - Memphis Mail Carrier Attacked; Search Underway For Suspects
Local Memphis - OIG: How accurate is the Revenue, Pieces and Weight (RPW) sampling data?
May 09, 2017
- Video: Postal inspectors search for suspects who stole San Antonio mail carrier’s truck – PEN
- Video: Paralyzed Man Finally Gets His Mail Delivered To His Door
PEN - Video: Father’s Ashes Mishandled By The Post Office
PEN - Video: Thieves now targeting Corpus Christi community mailboxes
PEN - Brooklyn postal worker arrested for allegedly tossing nearly 3,000 pieces of mail in dumpster – NY Daily News
May 08, 2017
- Sen. Claire McCaskill calls on USPS to explain complaints of poor service
KMBZ - Police looking for multiple suspects involved in San Antonio mail theft
KSAT - Fire Damages Postal Annex at Federal Building in Westwood (LA)
LA West - Stamps from three countries display the beauty of the northern and southern lights – Linns
- Kingman, AZ Mail theft suspect arrested
Daily Miner
May 07, 2017
- Video: East Village postal worker arrested after argument with security guard
PEN - Video: Daughter of missing St. Louis postal worker seeks answers
PEN - Aberdeen residents, city leaders, rally for accessible entrance to local post office – Baltimore Sun
- Two men face federal charges for ‘fishing’ checks out of Hialeah mailboxes
Miami Herald - Quick-thinking Ohio mail carrier saves Eastlake families from gas leak
Fox 8 Cleveland
May 06, 2017
- Postmaster General offers Public Service Recognition Week message
PEN - Thrift Savings Plan Is Turning 30
PEN - Miners Win Permanent Funding for Retirement Health Care
PEN - Jackson, MS Postal Employee Wins New Home
PEN - Video: Postal workers no longer deliver to short mailboxes in Yulee, FL
PEN - Give Postal Police a Fighting Chance
PoliceMag - APWU Members March on May Day
APWU
May 05, 2017
- Floods disrupt postal service in Midwest, South
PEN - Video: Tri-Cities, TN postal employees busted for reportedly delaying, stealing mail – PEN
- Police investigating string of mail thefts in Stuart
TC Palm - East Harlem: Postal Detectives Flummoxed by Mail Thieves as 2 More Victims Come Forward – DNA Info
- Video: Montana sheriff’s deputy honored for helping catch mail thieves
PEN - Delivering more than the mail
Rolando via Times Republican - Nine Bronx post offices on USPS’s audit
Bronx Times
May 04, 2017
- Video: Congressman Says Postal Service Must Fix Flaw That Lets Scammers Redirect Your Mail – PEN
- New Haven Man Sentenced to 90 Months for Armed Robberies of West Haven Post Office and Hamden Bank – PEN
- Postal Service Heroes’ Corner – Texas, Wisconsin, Michigan
PEN - Woman accuses US of negligence over state of sidewalk outside post office
Louisiana Record - Tennessee carrier sentenced to 14 days in prison in drug theft
Citizen Tribune - President Trump Proclaims May 2017 as Older Americans Month
PEN - Mailbox fishing is latest scam to steal your money
WPBF - Uninformed Delivery: Why The Postal Email Scheme Will Fail
Commentary by Ray Schultz – MediaPost
May 03, 2017
- Video: Boise postmaster dyes hair blue for Stamp Out Hunger
PEN - Video: Sticky mailbox scams are popping up around Topeka
PEN - Colorado Man Sentenced For Conspiracy To Steal Mail, Possession Of Counterfeit Postal Service “Arrow” Key – PEN
- Video: North Carolina residents concerned about missing mail issues
PEN - Former Kingsport, TN carrier accused of stealing cash, gift cards from mail – Times News
- Postmaster, clerk help stop phone scam and recover victims money
PrattTribune - Four basic Postal Service facts
Colorado Springs Independent - Making a federal case out of a missing mailbox flag
Chicago Tribune - OIG: What is the Impact of the Postal Service Removing Out-of-Service Mail Collection Boxes?
May 02, 2017
- USPS Responds To Recent Forbes Article Written By Steve Pociask
PEN - ‘Enough is Enough’ – APWU Members Take it to the Streets
PEN - Postal Service Issues Celebration Corsage and Celebration Boutonniere Forever Stamps – PEN
- Pit bull bites mail carrier, prosecutor reviewing matter
Michigan Local News - CA: No easy answers to area postal thefts
Martinez News-Gazette - 10th anniversary of forever stamp prompts significant USPS accounting adjustments – Linns
- Temporary Emergency Committee of the Postal Service Board of Governors to Meet May 10 – USPS via PEN
- Bill to Monitor U.S. Mail for Deadly Opioids
Sun Coast News - Mail and Rail
Trains
May 01, 2017
- Oregon Postal Employee Killed In Crash On His Way Home From Work
PEN - Video: Postal Service Has No Fix To Flaw That Lets Scammers Redirect Your Mail – PEN
- Queens postal worker swiped $20G worth of packages over two years
NY Daily News - Video: Reducing the “flow of junk mail”
PEN - Reform law that hinders U.S. mail service
Rolando via Montana Standard