Former Louisiana Postal Employee Pleads Guilty to Mail Theft
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – United States Attorney Duane A. Evans, announced that HAROLD SAINTES, JR. age 52, of Franklin, Louisiana pled guilty as ...
Durbin Talks Postal Reform With Illinois Members Of The United Postmasters And Managers Of America
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) today met virtually with Illinois members of the United Postmasters and ...
USPS Announces Shipping Dates for Holiday Military Mail
WASHINGTON, DC — Making sure those serving in the nation’s armed forces and diplomatic service receive their presents and care ...
NLRB’s General Counsel Signals Possible Expansion of ‘Weingarten’ Rights
On Aug. 12, 2021, newly appointed National Labor Relations Board (the Board) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued Memorandum GC 21-04 ...
Detroit posthumously honors Aretha Franklin with post office naming
DETROIT -- Aretha Franklin was given a bit of posthumous R-E-S-P-E-C-T on Monday when a post office in her hometown ...
The Postal Service’s tiny check-cashing test sparks a big reaction
It’s a far cry from the postal banking system that progressives favor and bankers dislike, but the U.S. Postal Service’s ...
5 Lessons Learned as the CISO for the U.S. Postal Service
While serving as the chief information security officer for the U.S. Postal Service from 2015 through March of this year, ...
New postage stamp could honor civil rights icon John Lewis
U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff wants to honor his mentor with a new postal stamp. The Democrat sent a letter to ...
Postal Service changes heading into holiday season include faster sorting, more employees, and higher postage rates
The U.S. Postal Service is running pretty smoothly compared to where things were this time a year ago. In the ...
Banks criticize USPS experiment with banking services
Banking groups are bucking the notion of the U.S. Postal Service getting involved in banking after the USPS rolled out ...
USPS hosting a Health plans webinar on Oct. 6
Postal Service employees can participate in an upcoming webinar to learn about different health plan options within the Federal Employees ...
USPS adds notifications to Informed Visibility
Informed Visibility has added a new feature that allows employees using USPS-issued mobile devices to receive alerts. The Informed Visibility ...
US Postal Service carrier’s truck stolen while delivering mail in Northwest DC
WASHINGTON D.C. (7News) — Police in the District are searching for a suspect who stole a U.S. Postal Service delivery truck ...
USPS has extended the Special Exempt pay for Exempt Postmasters that was originally approved on May 20, 2020
Below is the letter from Doug Tulino extending the special exempt pay due to having to work as a result ...
Postal Service Launches Banking Pilot With Hopes to Expand in Early 2022
The U.S. Postal Service has launched a pilot program to offer customers financial services, an unexpected first step toward realizing ...
Yes, you can legally buy unclaimed Amazon and USPS packages. Here’s how
If a Postal Service package hasn't been claimed within 90 days, it'll likely be auctioned off on GovDeals, a company the ...
Don’t Abandon First-Class Postal Service
Starting with Benjamin Franklin, one postmaster general after another endeavored to speed up the U.S. Mail. In this ongoing quest to move ...
OPM announces 2022 FEHB premiums
Notice for USPS employees: In 2022, the employer contribution rate for FEHB plans is the same across all Postal labor ...
APWU – Latest COVID MOUs and Liberal Leave Policy Extensions until Dec. 31
President Dimondstein signed extensions on the COVID MOUs late last night (September 30), through December 31, 2021. The liberal leave ...
GAO – Better Use of Climate Data Could Enhance the Climate Resilience of Postal Facilities
GAO's analysis of the United States Postal Service's (USPS) data found that about 1,065 USPS facilities—about 3 percent of USPS's ...
NALC – Several COVID-19 related MOUs extended through December
By joint agreement (M-01966), several COVID-19 related memorandums of understanding have been further extended through December 31, 2021. These memoranda ...
- ‘We are tired’: USPS employees feel toll from retention challenges To compound these problems, local union employees and the USPS inspector general’s office claim USPS data doesn’t accurately capture the state of the workforce challenges, and how severely the current workforce is spread thin.
- Yes, USPS workers will be required to get vaccinated, but not under executive order for federal workers USPS workers won't be required to get vaccinated under the executive order for federal employees, but will be required to get the shot under the rule for businesses.
- Beware of New Scam Using USPS Name, Citing Delivery “On Hold” The scammers send an official-looking email complete with US Postal Service logos that say you have a package that can’t be delivered because of an insufficient address. Next they ask for a small amount of money to “re-deliver” your package.
- APWU – Questions & Answers for the MOU, Re: Additional Function 1 Staffing Q&A document signed by APWU President Mark Dimondstein and USPS Vice President, Labor Relations, Katherine Attridge on January 8, 2021, regarding the Function 1 Staffing Memorandum of Understanding, dated December 24, 2020
- Postal worker’s mother says he was bullied before Memphis shooting The mother of a letter carrier who shot a supervisor and a manager before killing himself in a Tennessee postal facility says he was not a violent person and had been bullied at work
- Mahindra Withdraws Bid To Supply Trucks To The US Postal Service Mahindra was one of only three manufacturers chosen from a pool of 15 applicants to move on to this stage in the process, which will be funded by the USPS and include an extensive period of testing and evaluation.
- 4 Las Vegas men allegedly used USPS priority mail envelopes to sell drugs Four Las Vegas men are under arrest, according to court documents, showing they were caught selling millions of dollars worth of cocaine using the United States Postal Service.
- USPS Begins Fiscal First Quarter with Improved First-Class Mail Service Under New Service Standards The U.S. Postal Service reported service delivery performance scores for the first week of the fiscal first quarter started in October that showed continued gains across all First-Class, Marketing and Periodical mail categories.
- Joaquin Castro questions whether postal workers broke federal law by hiding mail Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) has signaled that the moving of a backlog of mail from San Antonio's main United States Postal Service facility prior to his tour of the building earlier this week could have broken federal mail tampering laws.
- USPS, exempt from vaccine mandate, sees uptick of employees in quarantine Administration officials, however, told Federal News Network Tuesday that USPS employees are not subject to the administration’s vaccine guidance, but are “strongly encouraged” to follow it. The Washington Post first reported USPS employees were not subject to the federal workforce’s vaccination requirements.
- USPS to Implement New Service Standards for First-Class Mail and Periodicals on 10/1 On October 1, the Postal Service will implement new service standards for First-Class Mail and Periodicals. These new service standards will increase delivery reliability, consistency, and efficiency for our customers and across our network.
- USPS highlights careers in cybersecurity Throughout October — National Cybersecurity Awareness Month — the team is highlighting various information technology jobs and their roles in securing the USPS network.
- Informed Delivery now allows multiple addresses The Postal Service has upgraded Informed Delivery to better serve customers who have more than one address.
- APWU – Sixth COLA Increase Announced In accordance with the 2018-2021 Collective Bargaining Agreement, career employees represented by the APWU will receive a 93 cent per hour cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), effective August 28, 2021.
- Mail theft complaints skyrocket while postal service cuts back postal police CLEVELAND — At the same time postal customers are being charged more to mail letters and packages, complaints of mail theft are skyrocketing while postal police are being ordered to stop investigating.
- Postal Service Blames ‘Street Crime’ and Absenteeism for Mail Delays Just weeks after the U.S. Postal Service implemented new standards to slow a significant portion of mail delivery, Democrats in Congress are on the verge of proposing legislation to create additional barriers for management before it can take similar actions in the future.
- USPS facility in Kearny condemned after partial roof collapse injures ‘numerous employees’ “It appears the heavy rains caused the partial collapse of the bulk mail postal facility’s roof, injuring numerous employees, none life threatening,” Santos told HCV this morning.
- DeJoy’s 10-Year Postal Plan Threatens Mail-In Ballots, States Say Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is again trying to make major changes that pose a threat to timely delivery of mail-in ballots, according to a complaint filed by a group of Democratic state attorneys general.
- NARFE Warns of Perils to Mandatory Medicare Measures as Part of Postal Reform As the debate on reforms to the United States Postal Service (USPS) continues, NARFE shared concerns over past and current proposals targeting the health benefits of postal service retirees. In a letter to the leadership and members of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform regarding today’s hearing on the financial path forward for the USPS, NARFE ...
- Learn about USPS areas, regions To operate more efficiently and better serve customers, the organization recently consolidated its seven delivery and retail operations areas to four: Atlantic, Central, Southern and Western-Pacific.