September 12, 2016
- Video: Linn’s Monday Morning Brief – Halloween stamps
PEN - Retired Connecticut postal employee faces 30 months for killing hawks
CT Post - Security Officers to Strike Monday at Postal Service Distribution Center in Eagan
KRWU-TV - OIG: Are the Mobile Delivery Devices Working as Intended?
- After a cruise, junk mail makes unscheduled stops
Palm Beach Post
September 11, 2016
- Video: Remembering 9/11 – 102 Minutes That Changed America
PEN – God Bless America
September 10, 2016
- President Obama Nominates Robert G. Taub – Commissioner, Postal Regulatory Commission – PEN
- USPS offers reward for suspect that attempted rob a postal employee
Hyde Park Herald - California veteran’s pain pills intercepted by mail thieves
KCRA Sacramento - Bipartisan Security Experts Applaud New Senate Bill to Close Dangerous Security Loophole in the Global Postal System – PEN
- Advocates Call for International Shipment Screening for Drugs, Weapons
U.S. News & World Report - At Long Last, Catalogers Anticipate Rate Relief from USPS
DM News - Mobile Post Office Opens In Ceder Key, FL After Hurricane Hermine’s Destruction
WUFT Central Florida
September 09, 2016
- Committee Releases Year-Long Investigative Report Into OPM Data Breaches
PEN - Video: Woman In Mercedes-Benz Arrested In Thefts Of Mail And Packages All Over Southern California – PEN
- Video: Kahuku, HI post office the latest hit by mailbox thefts
PEN - When travel companies sell their mailings lists, junk mail becomes an unwanted souvenir – Washington Post
- Newly Re-Elected NARFE Leaders Face a ‘Perfect Storm’ of Rising Premiums Hitting Federal Retirees – “For the 76,000 current postal retirees who do not have Medicare, NARFE believes that forcing them into Part B is bad in principle and sets a bad precedent.” Fedsmith
- America’s Mailing Industry
Smithsonian National Postal Museum - Going Postal: How Can We Fix The Worst Post Offices In Brooklyn?
Ditmas Park Corner - USPS Adds Another 3,000 Ram ProMaster Vans
Heavy Duty Trucking
September 08, 2016
- Video: Texas rural carrier killed after driving into creek during mail route
PEN - Video: Air conditioning out at East Nashville post office; Employee passes out
PEN - Video: Feds pour through your mail to flag scams
PEN - Florida Postal Employee Who Landed Gyrocopter on U.S. Capitol Lawn Released From Jail – NBC Florida
- New USPS delivery service linked to email addresses
PEN - North Carolina postal worker accused of embezzling for 4 years
WSOC Charlotte - Tom Ridge: 15 years after 9/11, a gaping security gap – Nearly 1 million packages are shipped into the United States daily through the U.S. Postal Service. Most go unchecked. – Tom Ridge former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security via USA Today
- Your mail carrier warns that door-to-door delivery is under attack
People’s World - Portman says his bill would help block mail shipments of synthetic drugs from abroad
WCTO Cinncinnati - I didn’t want Medicare Part B. Why did Social Security enroll me in it?
Postall retiree’s widow via PBS - Feds on case of Illinois post office break-in
September 07, 2016
- Video: Seinfeld Star, Newman The Mailman, Makes Appearance In Israeli Commercial
PEN - ‘Huge security gap’ lets dangerous packages enter US through postal system
Washington’s Top News - The nonpresidents who have been featured on multiple U.S. stamps
Linns - Linden Ave sure misses Ronnie the mailman
Shoreline Times
September 06, 2016
- Florida Postal Employee Charged With Delay Or Destruction Of Mail
PEN - Video: Owner angry that letter carrier pepper sprayed dog through fence
PEN - Amercians for Tax Reform Oppose USPS Reform Act H.R. 5714
PEN - Attention Retirees: Applications for Holiday Temp Jobs Due Sept. 11
PEN - OIG: Famous Former Postal Workers
- Festus, MO mailman foils postal truck theft
Festus Leader - NALC: Join UMWA’s ‘Keep the Promise’ rally in DC on Thursday
September 05, 2016
- 5 myths about labor unions
Chicago Tribune - 2016 federal duck stamp art contest gets underway Sept. 9
Linns - Five months after lead and copper were found in the water at the downtown Abilene Post Office and Federal Courthouse water still not safe to drink – KTXS
September 04, 2016
- Former Dunkerton, Iowa post office worker gets probation in theft
The Courier - Return to sender: Burning Man won’t accept mail anymore
Reno Gazette Journal - Woman Arrested, Found With Over 200 Pieces of Stolen Mail During Traffic Stop in South Pasadena – KTLA
- Laptop With Entire Clinton Email Archive Lost In The Mail
Breitbart News
September 03, 2016
- Video: Shot Fired During Attempted Robbery Of Chicago Carrier
PEN - Former Senior Claims Examiner at DOL Worker’s Compensation Office in Dallas Sentenced to 15 Months in Federal Prison for Taking Bribes – PEN
- Auto-repair mogul accused of running $30M postal-truck repair scam
NY Post - Kenosha County, Wisconsin Residents Ask “Where’s My Mail”
WTMJ - Lawsuit: Postal mgrs. ignored complaints about lovesick letter carrier
- Rain or snow, postal workers are here to serve the Upper Thumb
Huron Daily Tribune
September 02, 2016
- Iconic TV series Star Trek stamps released
PEN - Video: Willie Nelson Featured in New ‘Grand Alliance’ Video
PEN - Video: PMG thanks employees for recent successes
PEN - Update: Iowa Postmaster Indicted On Misappropriation Of Postal Funds Pleads Guilty – PEN
- Update: Former Ohio Postal Employee Sentenced For Allegedly Stealing USPS Money Orders – must pay USPS restitution in the amount of $15,929.90 – PEN
- USPS Heroes’ Corner – George Hearst, Painesville, OH
PEN - APWU: MVS Wins Important Ruling on Subcontracting Notification
PEN - PRC Announces Plan for 10-year Review of System of Regulating Rates and Classes for Market Dominant Products – PEN
- APWU: Two Settlements Address DBCS Staffing And Employee Orientation Disputes
PEN - UPS Announces U.S. Rate Changes Effective December 26
PEN - Photo released of suspect in attack on postal worker on South Side
Chicago Tribune - Anaheim company pays $3 million to resolve postal-fraud investigation
Orange County Register - How postal history tells the story of the atomic bomb
Linns
September 02, 2016
- Video: PMG thanks employees for recent successes
PEN - Update: Iowa Postmaster Indicted On Misappropriation Of Postal Funds Pleads Guilty – PEN
- Update: Former Ohio Postal Employee Sentenced For Allegedly Stealing USPS Money Orders – must pay USPS restitution in the amount of $15,929.90 – PEN
- USPS Heroes’ Corner – George Hearst, Painesville, OH
PEN - APWU: MVS Wins Important Ruling on Subcontracting Notification
PEN - PRC Announces Plan for 10-year Review of System of Regulating Rates and Classes for Market Dominant Products – PEN
- APWU: Two Settlements Address DBCS Staffing And Employee Orientation Disputes
PEN - UPS Announces U.S. Rate Changes Effective December 26
PEN
September 01, 2016
- Kansas City man charged with assaulting a mail carrier
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Disgruntled customers reveal the most frustrating (and hilarious) ways lazy postmen have dropped off their parcels – Daily Mail
- Change of address coming for historic Philly post office amid cash crunch
Inquirer Daily News