Consumer-Grade Surveillance at the Post Office?

'Hop-on.com announces that the USPS has made an "initial order" of the company's consumer-grade surveillance system, and we ask why'
Security Info Watch

Postal Service seeks applicants for carriers in Ohio

Fremont News-Messenger

USPS Still on High-Risk List

DMNews.com

Judge Dismisses Postal Inspector's Porno Sting Case

FindLaw.com

Russian Government to Issue Guns to Postmen

mosnews.com

Digital color postmarks create new collectibles

South Florida Sun-Sentinel

USPS execs fret over IT

Federal Computer Week

New Jersey postal worker dies after truck crash

The Press of Atlantic City

Postal worker saves a life

Capital News 9 Albany NY
see also the story in the Albany Times Union

Postal Carrier Attacked in Seattle

KIRO TV

The longest time in shorts

Mailcarrier, courier go head-to-head with bare legs in winter; courier still going
Holland (MI) Sentinel

Is good news bad for reform?

E-NAPUS Legislative Newsletter

UPS quarterly profit hurt by market share loss

United Parcel Service Inc. on Thursday reported a slim increase in its quarterly profit as U.S. package volume dropped sharply, increasing concerns of market share losses to rivals such as FedEx Corp.
Reuters

Scarlet letter scare

Cambridge Chronicle

DMA- Rate case talk is just speculation

DMA web site

Two rate cases?

Postcom's Gene Del Polito relays a rumor that the USPS will initiate an across the board 6% rate increase request in March 'with an eye toward moving the case to settlement' followed by an additional 5% increase to be filed in 2006. The Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers tells a similar tale.

Direct Mail Readership Rises

DMNews.com

DMA sounds optimistic note on rate hike

BtoB Online

Northeast Area VP to retire

Northeast Area Vice President Jon Steele announced yesterday that he will retire from the Postal Service on March 3.

The postal service has a novel approach

Hampton Roads Virginian-Pilot

UPS looks beyond rocky Q4 operations

'UPS will have some explaining to do when it releases its fourth-quarter earnings Thursday. The Atlanta-based package delivery giant cut its forecast two weeks ago, citing weather issues and sluggish demand in the last week of the year. The explanation left analysts unconvinced.'
MarketWatch
Earnings webcast scheduled for today at 10 AM EST via Yahoo Finance.

Stop the US Mail!

'...the best reason for ending the postal monopoly: to make home package delivery cheaper. ... it's no secret that UPS and FedEx hate delivering to our homes, because of the time it takes to get out of the truck and ring the bell. The penalty is staggering - residential deliveries often cost 10 to 20 percent more than those for businesses. Allowing these package humpers to carry first- and third-class mail would make this "suburban tax" disappear.'
Wired

NALC: USPS derails search for better way to adjust routes

Postal Record

Alleged mail thief bagged

Seattle Times

Was postal worker victim of vendetta?

Jersey Journal

Carriers face dread letter days

New Bedford Standard Times

The Mail Handler - Winter 2005

The latest issue of the Mailhandlers Union magazine is available online, with articles on postal reform, a new Contract Interpretation Manual, and more.

USPS: Delivery Should Return to Normal Today

DMNews.com

Trenton P&DC Update

Trenton Metro Area APWU Local web site

Virginia teen to be sentenced for attack on postal worker

WWBT-TV Richmond
Click here to read the story about the attack, from WRIC-TV, posted in March of 2004.

Mold Shuts Down Post Office in Iowa

Associated Press

Rumors from Postcom.org

- 'the USPS is looking at filing a six percent (6%) average postal rate increase request with the Postal Rate Commission some time in March'
- 'when USPS senior vice president for operations John Rapp retires, his vacant position will be going unfilled'
- if the USPS gets back its overfunding of its CSRS retirement obligation, it 'may not have to raise postal rates before January 2007'

Postmaster Reliefs Will Get a Raise in Pay

League of Postmasters

Neither war nor sandstorms

Send a letter to California, and a tornado in Oklahoma or a traffic jam in Los Angeles could hold it up a day or two. Send mail to Iraq and, well, 'sometimes unexpected things happen.'
Knoxville News Sentinel

Canadian postal workers challenge NAFTA

Canadian Press

"Evangelist" Says Offerings Lost in Mail

Los Angeles Times

Postal inspector sentenced for mail fraud

UPI

E-NAPUS Legislative Newsletter for 1/21

NAPUS web site

University of Phoenix partners with USPS

USPS link online
Note: In September, the University of Phoenix, a for profit company, paid the US Department of Education a $9.8 million fine, "the largest of its kind", for "hard sell recruiting tactics" that the Department said "range from illegal to unethical" click here for more from the Arizona Republic.

Canada Post unable to locate $275,000

Toronto Star

ELM revision: Use of Leave on a Worked Holiday

Postal Bulletin

Advo 1Q Profit Falls on Expansion

Associated Press
Click here for webcasts of Advo's earnings call and annual meeting.

Bigger raises expected under USPS performance pay

Federal Times

USPS Offers Support Ruling for Personal Information, Standard Mail

DMNews.com

USPS Periodicals Mail, Merchandise Can Be Sent at Parcel Post, BPM Rates

DMNews.com

Corporate America Pays Bush's Inaugural Party Bill

'Rival express deliverers, FedEx Corp. and UPS Inc., each donated $250,000 to the inaugural committee... UPS and FedEx have strong interests in trade, security and regulatory policies, like new shipping routes, overseas competition and the overhaul of the U.S. Postal Service.'
Reuters

Commentary: It's time to get involved

'This year, postal legislative reform will be among the key things on Congress' and the Administration's agenda. Some time before mid-year, the Postal Service will be filing a request before the Postal Rate Commission for new, higher rates. Washington decision-makers are begging to hear from those who 'actually pay postage' to help them understand how these developments can affect their businesses and the people they employ.
Gene Del Polito essay for DIRECT

Tracking Postal trucks

Federal Computer Week
Click here to read the ID Systems press release

Canada Post ad competition may have been biased

Canadian Press

USPS finalizes Marina del Rey closure

Daily Breeze

UPS Vs. FedEx Vs. DHL

Forbes.com

Universal Postal Union gets new chief, ready to keep letters coming in digital age

United Nations News

Fruit flies sent through mail break law

Associated Press

Latest E-NAPUS Legislative Newsletter

'The change in the [USPS] Board [of Governors]' leadership and composition places almost every star in alignment for postal reform'
NAPUS web site

Through rain and sleet (but not big snow piles)

Logan (UT) Herald Journal

Mail carriers brave cold routes

Fairmont (MN) Sentinel News

Post Office Will Put Its Stamp on Inauguration

Associated Press

Congressman plans to cut postage costs on packages to Iraq

Memphis Commercial Appeal

Mail and movies combine at store

St Petersburg Times

USPS Hits Pickup, Service Milestones

DMNews.com

APWU: 'We look forward to working with the new leaders of the Board of Governors and to helping them serve the American people'

APWU News

Junk Mail?

Letter to the editor of the 'Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune' from Peter Miller, Executive Director, Mail & Jobs Coalition

Mailman dodges bullets, delivers mail

KFOR TV Oklahoma City

Nor Sleet, Nor Inaugurations....

FederalNewsRadio.com

Potter: USPS Delivered Amid Snow, Ice Storms

DMNews.com

Former Frederick, Md., postal employees sue lawyers for failed claim

Knight Ridder

Postal Service planning for new jobs in South Carolina

The (Columbia) State

UPS Warns

UPS trimmed fourth-quarter guidance Tuesday, blaming a sharp drop in domestic shipping volume in the last week of 2004.
TheStreet.com

Postal Service To Spend $82 Million On New Processing Center in Maine

Associated Press

USPS Governors Elect Leaders

Press release
More from the USPS web site.

Justices let stand lawsuit against gun maker

The Supreme Court declined Monday to consider dismissing a lawsuit seeking to hold gun manufacturers responsible for the 1999 shooting of a letter carrier.
Chicago Sun Times

Four Indicted In Oakland Postal Worker Attack

KTVU TV

UK Stamp prices to rise again?

Gibbons Stamp Monthly

Davis Pushes McHugh Bill

Committee on Government Reform web site

APWU rips labor rules in Bush reform proposal

Government Executive

McHugh Gives Postal Reform Fast Start

DMNews.com

Carrier killed in California collision is identified

Sacramento Bee

Postal facility to close

More on the Duluth REC site closing
Duluth News Tribune

Postal worker killed in vehicle crash

Sacramento Bee

USPS Joins National Response Plan

Press release

Duluth REC to close July 8

Duluth News Tribune

Deja Vu With John McHugh

also in this issue: 'Governmental Affairs Facelift' and 'Social Security Reform and FERS'
NAPUS Legislative Newsletter

Post-office bandits arrested after stickups at Quebec outlets

Macleans

Medication in the mail closes Carolina post office

Anderson (SC) Independent Mail

Police: Man plucked mail from collection box

St Petersburg Times

Postal surveillance cameras swiped

Daytona Beach News-Journal

Senate Democrats Lose Committee Assignments

APWU News

BOG sets agenda for next week's meeting in Washington

Federal Register

Postal carrier delivers woman from danger

Salem (OR) Statesman Journal

Mailers Warm to Reintroduction of Postal Bill

DIRECT

McHugh Reintroduces Postal Reform Bill

DMNews.com

Postal reform: the saga continues

Catalog Age

Postal worker seeking new trial in harassment lawsuit

Associated Press

Postmaster General Seeks Employees' Aid to South Asia Victims

Press release

Congress Returns, Postal Reform Awaits

DMNews.com

Postcom Q&A on postal reform

Postcom.org

Germany Continues Mail Privatization

Deutsche Welle

Refunds due customers for not-so-Express Mail

Camden Courier Post

UPS, FedEx, DHL Raise Rates

DMNews.com