October 13, 2019
- 60 P.O. boxes were broken into at Owasso, OK post office – PEN
- Amazon Is Firing Its Delivery Firms Following People’s Deaths
- Federal employee groups press Congress on paid family leave
- Magic number$ for feds, retirees: 1.6, 5.2, 2.6, 3.1
- A SC mail carrier was gunned down on the job. A suspect’s in custody, but questions linger
October 12, 2019
- Minnesota Postal Service Employee Pleads Guilty To Stealing More Than $100,000 In Government Benefits – PEN
- APWU Interest Arbitration Update: Management’s Financial Presentations
- Spooky Silhouettes Forever stamps now available for purchase – PEN
- Amazon’s delivery contractors announce upward of 2,000 layoffs even as the mega-retailer’s logistics demand balloons
- Postal worker says car defaced by anti-Semitic graffiti
- Mail carriers endure cold, snow to guarantee deliveries
October 11, 2019
- Massachusetts Man Sentenced for Mailing White Powder and Purported AIDS-Infected Blood to Online Dating Website – PEN
- California postal worker finds missing autistic teen girl and missing 3-year-old – PEN
- Arlington, TX man used a fishing device to steal $93,000 worth of checks from mailboxes
- US Postal Service rate increase request would boost Express, Priority mail
- Downtown Milwaukee post office eviction case tossed out by judge
- OIG: Delivery Scanning Issues – Stafford Post Office, Stafford, TX
October 10, 2019
- Georgia homeowner says surveillance video shows postal worker picking up package off doorstep – PEN
- Colorado residents say USPS letter carrier is peeling out on private road – PEN
- Former Postal Employee Sentenced for Stealing Mail – PEN
- OPM has told agencies to comply with three 2018 executive orders on union-and disciplinary-related matters
- United Postmasters and Managers of America: Postal Reform Talking Points and Key Messages
- U.S. Postal Service Announces New Prices for 2020
- NALC: Printed version of the 2019 Letter Carrier Resource Guide is now available to order
- OIG: Local Purchases and Payments: Miscellaneous Services – Kearny, NJ, Main Post Office
October 09, 2019
- Haitian Man Sentenced To Prison For Fraudulent Abuse of USPS Informed Delivery – PEN
- Aurora Woman Charged for False Armed Robbery Report at LaFox Post Office
- Puerto Rican Postal Service Employees Arrested For Conspiracy To Possess With Intent To Distribute Cocaine – PEN
- Jeep Wrangler USPS mail trucks will soon deliver their own recall notices
- Knoxville City Council asking USPS to weigh homeowner concerns over cluster mailboxes
- APWU: Dimondstein Re-Elected National President
October 08, 2019
- USPS temporarily suspends package delivery due to ‘porch pirates’ in Katy, TX neighborhood – PEN
- Former Nebraska postal employee sentenced in armed robbery of USPS truck
- Arkansas masked man accused of robbing post office and bank
- OIG: Zeroing in on Postal Vehicle Service (PVS) Efficiencies
October 07, 2019
- Universal Postal Union Compromise “A Huge Win” for US Small Business
- USPS truck stolen in Belmont Heights on Chicago’s Northwest Side – PEN
- Holiday Wreaths Featured on Postage Stamps – PEN
- USPS Relocation Expenses – Update offered on reimbursement requests – PEN
October 06, 2019
- ‘Wanted’ Poster Thwarts Mail Thief At Denver Apartment Building – PEN
- Houston hacker re-directs mail, steals banking information from Round Rock couple – PEN
- Sisters haven’t seen their mother’s ashes since they were mailed months ago
- OIG Audit: Assessment of the U.S. Postal Service’s Service Performance and Costs
October 05, 2019
- St. Louis Man Pleads Guilty to Robbing the Richmond Heights Post Office at Gunpoint – PEN
- USPS Spending More to Deliver Less, Audit Finds
- Maryland Couple Receives Postcard 60 Years After It Was Sent
- OIG: Local Travel Reimbursement – Las Vegas, NV, Huntridge Station
- OIG: Refund Permit Postage – Memphis, TN, Main Office Window Service
October 04, 2019
- Pukwana, SD Woman Charged with Theft of Mail – PEN
- Electronic Signatures Coming to USPS Deliveries
- Mail carrier with long-chain disability claim convicted
- Shirtless woman takes mail truck on joyride, which ends in crash, arrest, police say
- We Need to Talk About the USA – USPS and UPU – Postal Hub Podcast – Episode 172
October 03, 2019
- FEHB Premium Increase for 2020 Disappointing for America’s Active and Retired Federal Employees – PEN
- Lake, MS Woman Sentenced for Delay or Destruction of U.S. Mail by a Postal Employee – PEN
- OPM Announces 2020 Health, Dental, and Vision Program Premiums – PEN
- Public ranks USPS top agency in new poll – PEN
- NARFE Continues Push for Social Security Fairness, Supports New Legislation to Reform Windfall Elimination Provision – PEN
- East Bay woman sentenced in S.F. mail-theft scheme
- FEHB Premiums to Jump 5.6 Percent on Average
- Loss of Parcel Select business could hit USPS hard, consultancy says
- OIG: When Less Costs More Than It Should
- OIG Audits: Postal Vehicle Service Zero Base Reviews – Costing Best Practices
- OIG Audit: How does the U.S. Postal Inspection Service National Forensic Laboratory Services Safeguard Evidence?
- OIG Audit: Does USPS’s Expedited Packaging Supplies Program Effectively Increase Revenues and Manage Costs?
October 02, 2019
- USPS Says Package Security Enhancements Begin This Month – PEN
- Update: Wilmette Mail Carrier Under Investigation For Elder Abuse
- VERIFY: Is the RNC sending out a fundraising ‘Census’ with the words ‘Official Document?’ – PEN
- USPS recognized for military employment – PEN
- America’s most popular government agency: The Postal Service
- New U.S. Postal Service truck contract worth $6.3 billion may be awarded in 2020
- Another WEP Reform Bill Introduced
October 01, 2019
- USPS Ask Employees To Share Their Santa Stories – PEN
- A former Pewaukee, WI postal carrier gets probation after stealing more than $6,200 from 621 mail customers
- How a Broken Pay System Forced Postal Supervisors to Take USPS to Court
- Postal service to release redesigned Purple Heart ‘forever’ stamp
- Alabama artist wins Federal Duck Stamp Contest