August 31, 2022
- Man accused of pulling knife on a mail carrier in Swampscott, MA speaks out
- Reminder: Postal-Only Health Plan Not Coming Until 2025
- USPS Waiting on Notification of Denholm Building Sale to Decide Future of Downtown Worcester Post Office
- Update on USPS situation in Deary
- Former Georgia postal worker sentenced 30 years, must forfeit house in child sexual assault, mail fraud case
August 30, 2022
- USPS says put politics aside: Employees reminded of Hatch Act prohibitions
- DELIVERING FOR A M E R I C A – Plan at a glance | Read full plan: USPS Delivering for America
- U. of Alabama Huntsville: Is the climate change predictions accurate? Climate model warming is bias -“He says that the models, which are simply theoretical hypotheses that need testing, failed a significant test of their ability to represent the way the real world works. “This tells us we shouldn’t have much confidence in their forecasts, since they weren’t able to characterize the past 40 years correctly,” Dr. Christy says. A separate test indicates that the disparity still exists, Dr. Christy says. “We actually ran the test through 2021 a little later and achieved the same result.”
- ‘Modern-day Bonnie and Clyde’ admit to fraud charges related to pilfered mail, stolen funds – PEN
- USPS looking to hire automotive technicians in Buffalo
- PostNord Finland to roll out SwipBox parcel locker network
- Mailman continues delivery route after crash in Spokane Valley
- OIG: Inflation and USPS – A Complex Relationship
- OIG: Managing Cybersecurity Tools for One of the World’s Largest Networks
August 29, 2022
- Former Georgia postal employee sentenced to 30 years in prison for producing child pornography and possessing stolen mail – PEN
- Florida Letter Carrier Pleads Guilty to Stealing Verizon Wireless Cash Deposits – PEN
- Indiana mail carrier arrested again for Operating While Intoxicated after falling out of her truck
- Biden administration will stop mailing free at-home COVID-19 tests – lack of funding – PEN: but they will add other peoples college debt to your taxes
- Reposted: Postal Service Health Benefits (PSHB) Program FAQs – read it and weep
- Motherload – Trove of old postal equipment uncovered
- USPS employee responds effectively to two wildfires
- USPS to hold 8 job fairs in 6 counties over the next 19 days
August 28, 2022
- Moves to Consolidate USPS Facilities Did Not Start with DeJoy – Neither Did Late Mail – PEN
- Former Postal Worker Pleads Guilty to Mail Theft from Kenner, LA Post Office – PEN
- Round Rock Trustee Harrison, two others report getting inappropriate packages in mail
- Federal government to halt free COVID-19 at-home tests by early September
August 27, 2022
- Florida Letter Carrier Sentenced for Possessing Stolen Mail – PEN
- USPS Lists Hundreds of Post Offices and Other Facilities Where It Will Consolidate Operations
- Postal worker saves woman who was attacked
- Dogs in postal worker fatal attack put down
- CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Mailbox thieves repeatedly hit Business park in NW Harris County, TX
- Analysis challenges U.S. Postal Service electric vehicle environmental study
August 26, 2022
- Average Time to Deliver Mail Remains at 2.5 Days – PEN
- The postmaster persisted – the left just loves PMG DeJoy
- DeJoy installs 70 postmasters at convention
- PMG visits employees, customers in TX, LA
- Postal worker who died in dog attack loved her church group, gardening & Gators football
- Postal Service is chasing freight brokers as the agency scrambles to slash costs
- Two Maine towns are sharing one mail carrier. Here’s how it’s going
- Porch piracy enters Capitol Hill’s crosshairs
- Eastern Kentucky University football player accused of robbing postal worker, faces federal charges
August 25, 2022
- Couple used U.S. Postal Service to traffic meth into Northern Michigan, police say
- Dog attacks on postal workers are a common hazard. It happens thousands of times a year
- Cincinnati-area residents out millions as mail theft surges; local checks being sold online
- Vermont postal problems persist
- Can Biden fire US Postmaster General Louis DeJoy? – No, he cannot
- USPS employee rescues customer from dog attack
- Montpelier Foundation, former box holders want answers on post office closure
August 24, 2022
- PMG DeJoy makes USPS workspaces a priority – “And yes, I say … let there be light and I mean that literally,” DeJoy said in the Eagle, a USPS publication
- 10th Circuit says Fort Collins postal worker may not sue union for false information
- Rural Florida letter carrier died after being attacked by 5 dogs when her vehicle broke down – Also see: ‘They were ripping her apart’: Family in shock after Florida postal worker killed by pack of dogs
- Ex-postal worker told to work on Sundays asks Supreme Court to review religious-exemption rules
- Change of address fraud jumped 167% in 2021; report cites weak security on USPS website
- “Ridiculous” stress on USPS contractors closed a Colorado town’s post office. Now, residents drive 60 miles for mail – blame COVID
- NPMHU: Arbitrator Brent Rules on Subcontracting of Kansas City Surface Transfer Center
- More than 600,000 mail-in ballots requested for Massachusetts primaries
August 23, 2022
- Mail-in ballots from 2020 discovered in Baltimore USPS facility – PEN: oh yes, lets vote by mail – YOUR vote counts
- Charlotte Mail Thief Is Sentenced To Prison – PEN
- Why USPS Is Disproportionately Impacted by High Inflation – COLA requirements contribute highly, on top of the current government admin’s high inflation rate
- Postal Service Health Benefits (PSHB) Program FAQs – read it and weep
- Video: Letter carrier awarded $400 after offering a stranger her last $5 – PEN: remember, USPS employees are not allowed to accept gifts like this
- NPMHU: 2022 Contract Update #6
- Postal worker in critical condition after being mauled by 5 dogs in Florida
- Coloradans targeted by change of address fraud
- Where Mail is the Lifeblood: Naval Station Guantanamo Bay To Open New Post Office
- VOXX Automotive Corporation Provides Update on its Award from Oshkosh Defense to Support the U.S. Postal Service and Their Initiative to Modernize the Postal Delivery Vehicle Fleet
- OIG: Tightening USPS Wireless Security
August 22, 2022
- USPS to conduct hiring blitz in Riverside, San Bernardino Counties
- UPS Drivers Say ‘Brutal’ Heat Is Endangering Their Lives
- USPS: Fall wellness challenge – Six-week program begins Sept. 12
- USPS, GSA to expand USAccess locations
August 21, 2022
- Postal service says a mailman was assaulted, robbed at gunpoint in Salt Lake City
- The longest line in Washington is at your local post office
- UPMA: Official notification of the Sorting & Delivery Centers initiative
August 20, 2022
- Former California Mail Carrier Charged with Bank Fraud, ID Theft for Allegedly Stealing Jobless Benefit Debit Cards from Her Mail Route – PEN
- Massachusetts Letter Carrier Arrested for Mail Theft – PEN
- The Questionable Financial Basis For The U.S. Postal Service’s Receipt Of $10 Billion From Taxpayers
- Master key stolen from postal worker in Covington, KY
- Another post office master key stolen in Greater Cincinnati, leaving residents on edge
- Pa. court ends impasse on primary election results, orders counties to tally undated mail-in postal ballots – PEN: want to make certain your vote is counted? Get out and vote – skip the mail
- Orange County GOP challenges mail ballots under new Florida election law
- Maryland USPS worker robbed at knife-point in front of a $3 million home
- The mail must go through — and it has since 1816 at the oldest post office still operating
- Agencies Told to Stop Asking Federal Employees About Their Vaccination Status
August 19, 2022
- USPS Service Performance Consistent Across All Mail Categories – PEN
- Video: Mail carrier saves letters from Postal Service truck that caught fire in Melville
- Colorado Springs USPS letter carrier receives Hero Award for saving young girl
- Elizabeth, CO spends $200K on mailboxes, still no mail
- Scam Alert: Fake texts claiming to be from USPS making the rounds
- Pennsylvania man bought human body parts via Facebook – shipped through USPS
- USPS Receives Their Very Own Set Of BAPE STAs
- OIG: Management of Suppliers’ Contractual Performance
August 18, 2022
- USPS driver delivering Amazon packages dies when truck goes over embankment near Elma, WA
- A D.C. therapist waits (and waits) on mail containing at least $45,000
- Fire destroys Postal Service truck in Melville
- Postal worker says he’s lucky after car damaged by falling metal at Seaport construction site
- Two Kentucky postal workers robbed in two weeks
- USPS: Employees must protect the mail
- OIG: Cybersecurity and the Postal Service
- OIG: Inflation and the U.S. Postal Service
August 17, 2022
- Ohio woman admits lying to Postal Inspectors about St. Louis romance scam – PEN
- York, PA Woman Sentenced for Mail Fraud – PEN
- Suspect With Knife Robs Postal Worker in Chevy Chase
- Lower-Performing Postal Facilities Share Common Personnel Issues, IG Says
- Attempted murder suspect dies in crash with postal truck fleeing Detroit police
- Amazon is raising seller fees for the holidays to manage through surging inflation
- The Postal Service’s response to a Jim Crow exhibit is unacceptable. It needs to reopen Montpelier Station
- Post Office Says It Will Stop Delivering Mail To Luxury Ooltewah, TN Apartment Complex; Cites “Hostile Environment”
- USPS delay sought for streamlining classifications
August 16, 2022
- USPS Just Institutionalized Election Interference With New Mail-In-Ballot Division
- USPS Ending All Open Area Mail Processing Studies – PEN
- The Post Office’s Explanation for This Makes No Sense – PEN: we agree
- Queens mail carriers busted in alleged $16M fraud scheme
- Louisville police investigating multiple mail carrier armed robberies from last 2 weeks
- Proposed legislation could help put the kibosh on porch piracy
- OIG: Understanding Poor Plant Performance
August 15, 2022
- USPS program offers new affordable package and document delivery options for small businesses
- Meet the man who played a key role in finding who sent poop-laced letters to Republican politicians
- USPS to replace old ACE workstations
August 14, 2022
- Postal Service shuts Montpelier Station office over racial segregation exhibit – PEN: USPS has no valid reason in attempting to erase history.
- Mailing It In? Experts Doubt USPS Can Get a Handle on Ballots This Fall – PEN: The completion and validity of national elections should not rest upon the shoulders of USPS – go to the polls and vote.
- Bus service taking people from Colorado City to Pueblo to get mail after post office closure
- Biden administration abolishes ICE labor union
- Biden’s Public Service Reform Act Would Wreck The Civil Service and make all federal workers at-will employees
August 13, 2022
- Queens Letter Carriers Charged with Bribery Scheme and Theft of Mail Linked to Covid-19 Benefits Fraud – PEN
- Mail carrier robbed at gunpoint for keys by 2 men in Kentucky
- Police searching for robber accused of injuring mail carrier during attack in southwest Houston
- Warrant Not Needed for Letter Carrier to Inspect Pierced Package
- Ethics are integral to working for USPS
August 12, 2022
- USPS Average Mail Delivery Time Consistent at 2.5 Days – PEN
- York, PA Postal Employee Indicted for Assaulting Fellow Postal Employees – PEN
- Nobody’s Using the USPS Postal Banking Pilot
- Postal Service Nixes Inspections, So OSHA Seeks Warrants
- Postal worker finds naked toddler wandering Ocala, FL street
- Thieves break into Ballard post office, steal automated postal machine before ditching it
- Postal unions demand USPS ramp up hiring to address understaffing
- Rising 2022 Inflation Adds to USPS Q3 Losses
- GAO Agrees to Investigate TSP Website Problems
August 11, 2022
- As Pressure Ramps Up Against USPS Reforms, DeJoy Asks Stakeholders to Fall in Line – PEN: Even a blind man could see that DeJoy is trying to save USPS – something former PMG’s failed to do for years. If you double the cost of fuel that USPS needs to complete operations and cause inflation to be the highest since 1981 then what do you think will happen? Give us a break – price increases and cutting costs MUST happen.
- Assaults on Mail Carriers Skyrocket as Crime Rates Rise
- Botetourt County, VA man charged with abduction, sexual assault of female mail carrier
- Transient man arrested after assaulting postal employee in Bellingham, WA
- Mail carrier receives award for heroic actions during a residential fire in Carmichael
- Police investigate package that caught fire at Cassville, Mo. Post Office
- Ohio man arrested after allegedly sending three dozen feces-filled letters to GOP
- NPMHU: Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) set at $2,455
- APWU: Second COLA Increase Announced
August 10, 2022
- PMG DeJoy’s Remarks During Aug. 9, 2022, Postal Service Board of Governors Meeting – PEN
- Las Vegas Mail Carrier Pleads Guilty to Mail Fraud Conspiracy – PEN
- Connecticut Letter Carrier Pleads Guilty to Theft of Mail – PEN
- Lynn, MA Letter Carrier Pleads Guilty to Mail Theft – PEN
- USPS Announces Proposed Temporary Rate Adjustments for 2022 Peak Holiday Season
- USPS to request rate increase due to inflation, DeJoy says
- NALC: Sixth contract COLA set at $2,455
- USPS Reports Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2022 Results
- Chicago police investigate after man hit by US Postal Service van
- USPS can’t lick inflation, seeks to hike stamp prices again – who can?
- NALC 2022 Convention: Rolando 1 | 2
- Statement of APWU President Mark Dimondstein in Response to Recent Remarks by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on Future Postal Staffing
- Delivery drivers caught trashing and stealing: What happens after they are caught?
- OIG: Field Operation Reviews at Select Plant and Delivery Units in the New Mexico Area
- OIG: Improving Service Performance and Mail Processing Efficiencies at Historically Low Performing Facilities
August 09, 2022
- Sheriff expresses anger as US attorneys fight traffic ticket issued to postal inspector
- Ohio postal employee accused of opening mail to take cash, gift cards
- U.S. Postal Inspection Service offers $50,000 rewards after mail carriers robbed in Boca Raton, Fort Pierce
- Neither snow nor rain may stop the mail — but in parts of Minnesota, staffing shortages are delaying delivery
- Fire causes suspension of Waco Post Office operations
August 08, 2022
- Postal inspectors in Ohio on lookout for ‘suspicious’ packages to intercept
- Man Assaults Mailman Delivering Mail in Pennsylvania
- ‘I need my mail’: Some Portland residents concerned with mail delivery delays
- Average Federal Salary by Year, Gender, and Race: 2017 – 2021
- NALC: Recent letter carrier deaths
August 07, 2022
- Sen. Portman Opposes Democrats’ Reckless Tax & Spending Bill – What’s good for the American driver should be good for the Postal Service – PEN
- Huntington far behind on mail truck maintenance
- USPS: Utilities cost reduction program to expand
- OPM Retirement Backlog Drops Below 30k in July
August 06, 2022
- Former Georgia USPS letter carrier pleads guilty to scheme to deliver drugs through the mail – PEN
- Former Louisiana Postal Employee Charged with Embezzling the Mail – PEN
- Four Defendants Indicted in Little Rock Mail Theft – PEN
- Former Portage County court mediator charged with mailing feces to Republican elected officials
- Chicago thieves with USPS master keys target Edgewater building; postal carriers’ union demands change
- Philadelphia Couple’s Dream Wedding Nearly Derailed After $20,000 Check Stolen From Collection Box
- How Often Do They Change the Tires on a USPS Mail Truck?
- APWU: After Pressure, Management Sets Retroactive Pay Date
- NPMHU: 2022 Contract Update #5
- OIG: Issues Identified with Postal Inspection Service’s Security Clearance Procedures
August 05, 2022
- Postal Employees Voice Major Concerns as USPS Begins Implementing Its Delivery Consolidation Plan
- Scammers tried to steal our mail. Then they opened a bank account in our names
- USPS contractor adds propane autogas vehicles to fleet
- HOA threatens to fine residents after vandals damage cluster mailboxes in south Charlotte
- U.S. attorney in Columbus: Man who robbed mail carriers at gunpoint is part of trend
August 04, 2022
- USPS Reports Steady Service Performance Across All Categories – PEN
- Columbus, OH man who robbed 2 mail carriers at gunpoint sentenced to more than 6 years in prison – PEN
- Vivian, LA Man Sentenced for Assaulting Postal Carrier – 11+ Years – PEN
- ‘DJ Love Dinero,’ postal worker charged in California-to-NY cocaine-, fentanyl-trafficking scheme
- Mail carrier gets probation for running over woman, lying about it
- NALC and USPS agree to convert CCAs to career status and directly hire career letter carriers in 43 more installations
- Former Louisiana Letter Carrier Pleads Guilty to Stealing Items from the Mail He Was Entrusted to Deliver – PEN
- PMG DeJoy aggressively pushes his agenda for USPS
- Shreveport man sentenced in death of postal worker
- Colorado City contractor says USPS abandoned community, post office remains closed
- USPS issues stamps featuring Buzz Lightyear
August 03, 2022
- USPS Has No Reason to Have 630,000 Employees – Yeah, right – PEN
- Three arrested in Texas meth by mail case
- FedEx Box Containing Atlanta Murder Victim’s Body Missing
- $2.8 million spent with USPS from Pennsylvania campaign accounts
- USPS tests new self-service concept
- Old Post Offices get new lives as hotels
August 02, 2022
- World’s First: Dronedek ‘Mailbox of the Future’ to Start Accepting US Mail in Lawrence, IN – PEN
- California Attorney General Announces Settlement with USPS to Prevent Transport and Delivery of Illicit Cigarettes – PEN
- Texas driver charged with theft of mail and official postal keys – PEN
- NY postal worker Gerome Fowler accused of stealing thousands of dollars worth of Costco rebate checks from mail
- Postal workers reminded they cannot profit from speeches, articles or books about official duties
- NYC, 4 States Settle With Postal Service Over Cigarettes
- Former Maine softball coach admits to lying about job to keep USPS workers’ comp benefits
- State reps demand answers after reports of ‘mountain’ of undelivered packages, mail in North Sound
- How a computer glitch sent hundreds of British postmasters to jail
- Mailed checks are being stolen and bank accounts emptied – this happened to me recently …PEN owner
August 01, 2022