March 16, 2020
- NZ Post couriers stop taking signatures to avoid spread
- USPS: Blue, LiteBlue pages to keep workers informed
- USPS is encouraging employees to use videoconferencing and teleconferencing in place of travel when possible
March 15, 2020
- 2 White Plains USPS employees test positive for coronavirus – PEN
- USPS keeping normal operations during the coronavirus pandemic
March 14, 2020
- Former Secretary-Treasurer of NALC Branch 536 indicted for embezzlement of union funds in the amount of $65,033 – PEN
- Mail carrier in viral dog chase video calls for increased awareness of postal worker safety
- Suspicious package turns out to be coronavirus hoax
- Royal Mail: Changes to doorstep parcel deliveries to minimise coronavirus risk
March 13, 2020
- Cremated remains update from USPS – PEN
- A Postal Worker Loved His Job. But An 8-Day Postal Strike Was A ‘Dignity Thing’
- Coronavirus could normalize voting by mail. That will create other problems
- President Trump nominates two transportation executives to USPS board of governors
- USPS seeks definition of its universal service obligation
March 12, 2020
- St. Louis Mail Handler Sentenced for Stealing Medication Parcels for His Own Personal Use – PEN
- APWU Has A New Union Contract – PEN
- As More Feds Contract Coronavirus, Agencies Scramble to Keep Employees Safe
- Blue Cross Loosens Some Policies in FEHB Due to Coronavirus
- Visions for the Future of USPS are Aligned in Some Ways, Contradictory in Others
- Trucker awarded nearly $900K after Lawrenceburg post office fall
- U.S. senators seek to ban federal employees from using TikTok on their phones
March 11, 2020
- Expanding USPS Nonpostal Products and Services Could Result in Benefits, but May Have Limited Viability – PEN
- Springfield, MA Man Pleads Guilty to Damaging a Postal Vehicle and Stealing Mail – PEN
- USPS Service Alert Regarding COVID-19 – PEN
- Postal Banking Is Unlikely to Improve USPS Finances: GAO
- Belmont residents ask community post office to clean up
- Missing Holiday Cards Arriving In March? Hawthorne, NJ Residents Say Postal Mail Now Completely Unreliable
March 10, 2020
- USPS clusterbox break-ins are leaving some North Austin residents feeling unsafe – PEN
- Coronavirus update – PMG delivers message to employees
- $25K reward offered for information in Chicago postal worker armed robbery
- Ohio postal worker suspended after harassing his boss
- OIG: Options to Reduce Unfunded Retirement Liabilities
- OIG: Accuracy of Surface Visibility Scans and Reporting
March 09, 2020
- USPS district manager responds to Herald editorial about issues in North Dakota
- Mail bonding: Is the postal service the future of voting? Not exactly. Officials see mail voting as an increasingly popular option in Southern California. But it’s not a panacea.
- NPMHU Joins AFL-CIO Coronavirus Task Force
- OIG to USPS: Improve Scanning Practices
- OIG: Scanning Issues Persist
March 08, 2020
- Postal worker airlifted after mail truck accident
- Coronavirus: Calls to Protect Federal Employees Ramping Up
- Federal Agencies Prepare for Coronavirus Disruptions
March 07, 2020
- Mailman goes above and beyond in wake of Tennessee tornado – PEN
- Oklahoma Postal Clerk Sentenced to Jail Time for Embezzling Postal Funds and Making False Records – PEN
- Representatives Connolly and Bost Introduce Postal Supervisors and Managers Fairness Act – PEN
- House passes smaller USPS reform bill to eliminate pre-funding benefits
- USPS Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic Policy – March 6, 2020
March 06, 2020
- Postal Service refuses to pay for repairs after mail carrier fleeing dogs leaps on truck
- USPS isolates section of Scarborough, ME processing center due to mercury spill
- Driver charged in crash that killed U.S. postal worker
- Undelivered packages from West Miami-Dade USPS office causes concern
- OIG Audit: Mail Delivery and Customer Service Operations – Chatsworth Post Office, Chatsworth, CA
- OIG Audit: Local Purchases and Payments: Miscellaneous Services – Ellensburg, WA, Main Post Office
March 05, 2020
- Former Kansas Postal Workers Union President Pleads Guilty to One Count of Failure to Maintain Records – PEN
- Union: New sorting initiative at Saco facility slows postal delivery
- Postal trucks were parking illegally. So Jersey City started ticketing the postmaster
- US Postal Service contractor chooses propane for parcel deliveries
- CORONAVIRUS UPDATE FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYEES
March 04, 2020
- Arlington Heights Residents Are Fed Up With The Lost And Late Mail, Say Postal Service Is Unresponsive – PEN
- USPS to handle historic census mailing – PEN
- Safety Issues Again Cited at Postal Facilities
- Mysterious mailboxes appear along Fort Bragg Main Street, in neighborhoods
- Golfer Arnold Palmer honored with Forever stamp – PEN
- Muskegon postal worker sentenced for ‘thoughtless, stupid’ mail thefts in 2019
- Senators Make Bipartisan Push to Better Protect Feds From Synthetic Opioids
March 03, 2020
- Omaha Rural Carrier Convicted of Theft of Mail by a Postal Employee – PEN
- West Virginia Letter Carrier Sentenced in Marijuana Conspiracy Involving Marijuana Distribution – PEN
- Former Groton, MA Postmaster Pleads Guilty To Stealing Government Funds – PEN
- What takes Asheville snail mail so long to be delivered?
- Ex-OSHA employee gets probation, ordered to pay restitution for fabricating worksite inspections in Nebraska – including four in Lincoln at the U.S. Postal Service
- Woman, two men kidnapped USPS mail carrier over suspected stolen package
- Bruyneel: I hit rock bottom after US Postal scandal
March 02, 2020
- NPMHU: Coronavirus- Flu Response and Prevention – Mandatory Stand-Up Talk
- Navistar to start work on new order of postal trucks in Springfield
- USPS fixes broken mail equipment in Citrus County after neighbors Turn To 10
- OIG: No Letting Up
March 01, 2020