USPS Files NSA Request for HSBC

DMNews.com

USPS contracting official sentenced to 46 months in prison

Press release

UPS to expand Louisville hub

Louisville Courier Journal

Postal Board Lays Down Markers on Reform

e-NAPUS Legislative Newsletter
click here to read the BOG letter referred to in the story, as posted on the Postcom web site.

US Post Office Web Tools gives away your password

O'Reilly Developer Weblogs

Jaffer responds to Wired columnist

USPS.com
Click here to read the article that prompted Jaffer's letter.

USPS managers asked to seek settlement agreement in advance of rate case

BtoBOnline.com

UPS to close Dayton hub next year, eliminating 1,400 jobs

'UPS has operated the hub at Dayton International Airport since Dec. 20, when the company bought it from Menlo Worldwide Forwarding'
Associated Press

Strasser Defends Escrow Rate Case Filing

DIRECT
see also the story in Government Executive- 'Postal Service prepares for rate hike despite strong financial results', and 'USPS' CFO: Escrow Forcing Rate Increase' at DMNews.com.
USPS financial reports through January are available here.

Gunman Holds Up Postal Carrier

KMBC Kansas City

Postal carrier held in ID-theft case

San Diego Union Tribune

Postal Workers Said Uninformed on Anthrax

Associated Press

Intelligent Mail Devices ready for deployment

Link Online

USPS releases January Financials

- Year To Date Net Income $1.8 billion
- YTD Revenue 3% over budget, 2.1% over last year
- YTD Expenses 1% below budget, 3.7% over last year
- USPS career workforce dropped by 3,000 in January, and is 14,000 lower than a year ago
- First Class volume in January dropped 3.2% from the prior year
- Standard mail increased 1.7% for the month
- Total mail volume for January was down 1%, total revenue for the month was down 1.7%
USPS web site

PMG Pleased With Pay-for-Performance System

Washington Post

Rural carriers key postal link

Cape Coral (FL) News-Press

Lower Postal Hikes Expected

Mediaweek

EU May Outlaw Word 'Free' on Direct Mail

DIRECT

Mail Order Survives, Thrives

Investor's Business Daily

NJ BMC Clerk guilty in fake disability case

Scranton Times Tribune

Rural carrier makes it to American Idol semi-finals

USPS Link Online

Postal worker charged with using credit card stolen on route

Chicago Daily Herald

Carrier charged with delivery- of methamphetamines

Odessa (TX) American

Illinois: 'Mishandled' Mail Starts Arriving Almost 3 Weeks Late

WPSD TV Paducah (KY)

Hate crime charged in mailman assault

Manteca (CA) Bulletin

White House, Hill staff seeking compromise on postal bill

Government Executive

Mailer Groups Outraged About Postal Pension Changes

DIRECT

USPS Reports Highest Quarterly Growth in 15 Years

DMNews.com

Unions oppose new machine at post office

Knight Ridder

Stamps.com Reports $900,000 From PhotoStamps

DMNews.com

November numbers raise USPS bottom line

Press release

Mailers Like Centralized National Cases Division

DMNews.com

Strong postage sales lift Stamps.com earnings

Dow Jones/AP

Delivery Problems

Pitney Bowes throws off lots of cash but hasn't yet figured out what to do with it.
Forbes

LA Postal worker alleged to have stolen $18 million in tax refund checks

Associated Press

FedEx, UPS tap Postal Service's core competency

Logistics Management

Mail carrier's co-workers concerned

Kinston (NC) Free Press

Postal Service boosts internal controls

Government Executive

Postal distribution center closing would impact Michigan city

Gaylord (MI) Herald Times

Dead letter shredder: A postal disservice?

Durham Herald-Sun

Postal Service suspends shipments on 2 airlines

Philadelphia Inquirer

USPS Starts Centralized National Cases Division

DMNews.com
see also the article in DIRECT

USPS Starts Custom Magazine on Direct Mail

DMNews.com

Mailers Not Surprised by White House Budget Plan

DMNews.com

Florida Truck Fire Destroys Mail

Lakeland Ledger

USPS Ready and Waiting for Valentine's Day

Press release

Postal Service asks for Cintas records

Cincinnatti Enquirer

The Bush Budget Bolero

e-NAPUS Legislative Newsletter

Investigation into postal carrier beating

The Modesto Bee

Postal report confirms Ohio workers' concerns

Mansfield News Journal

Postal worker who robbed own credit union fails to sway judge

Knoxville News Sentinel

Corporate Graphics Gets NCOALink License

DMNews.com

Woman urges free mail to troops

South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Live from DMA Catalog Day: Catalogers Need to Think Multichannel

DIRECT

NZ posties no longer 'wired' to snoop

'NZ Post created what amounted to a storm by wiring up their posties with wireless microphones to collect details on their customers as they do their rounds.'
The Inquirer

Online Banking Growing Rapidly, Survey Finds

Reuters

UPS Adds Distribution Centers in China

DMNews.com

Printer pleads guilty to bribing USPS purchasing specialist

Press release

PostNet Signs Agreement With DHL

Press release

Potter, Collins, Miller Address Postmasters

League of Postmasters web site

White House Budget Lacks Many USPS Funding Requests

DMNews.com

First Federal Mail Symposium Opens Today

Press release

Carriers Could Deliver Medicine to Public After Attack

New York Times
Experts Question Federal Initiative for Medicine Delivery in Cities After Potential Terrorist Attack
All Hands Network

Medical billings sold in lost mail

Anchorage Daily News

BOG sets agenda for meeting next week in Sarasota, FL

Press release

Postage Tax Provision Worries USPS

DMNews.com

USPS freeing envelope space

New software will support single bar code standard for intelligent mail
Federal Computer Week

Outlook 2005

- Why Will This Year Be Any Different in Reform Battle?
- Magazine Publishers Should Expect to See More of Same
- Publishers Read Opportunity in Affluent Market
- Generational Marketing, Census Offer DM Insight
- Inserts No Longer Just an Alternative
DMNews.com

Spates named acting V.P., Consumer Advocate

USPS Link Online

Post office rolls back postmark deadline

Orangeburg (SC) Times and Democrat

Reform Must Tackle the Issue of Costs

DMNews.com

California toddler killled by postal truck

San Diego Union-Tribune

Editorial: Finders keepers for orphaned books?

Hampton Roads Virginian-Pilot

Enduring & Emerging Coalitions For Postal Reform

and more...
E-NAPUS Legislative Newsletter

Ohio Postal Workers Worry First-Class Moving

Mansfield News Journal

$50,000 Reward Offered In Sacramento Post Office Robbery

MSNBC

Reader: Scarlet Letter Story Inappropriate

Cambridge Chronicle

Arbitrator Rules for Union in Major Attendance Case

APWU News

USPS gains package market share

Reuters

Pitney Bowes 4Q Earnings Fall 44 Percent

Associated Press

Media Mail searches raise privacy concerns

USC Daily Trojan

McHugh Questions USPS Rule Change on Use of Personal Information

DMNews.com

USPS Nets $21M From First Year of Capital One NSA

DMNews.com

Postal Uniforms Get 'Redesign'

DMNews.com

Police: Drug-Crazed Man Attacks Postal Carrier

Fort Smith (AR) Times Record

Add another postal program to the nixed list

'News zooms through the machinery of the U.S. Postal Service. Thursday, the Virginian-Pilot newspaper carried Debbie Messina's report on a terrific program at the Hampton Roads, Va., post office. For a decade, it has donated undeliverable books to libraries, a veterans hospital, churches and homeless shelters.

Tuesday, the Hampton Roads program was toast.'

Tacoma News Tribune

USPS 2004 Comprehensive Statement on Postal Operations

USPS web site

Postal worker robbed, bound and discovered in California town

San Francisco Chronicle

Panel: Direct Mail Remains Circulation's Lifeblood

DMNews.com

Cops say UPS driver delivered- marijuana

Philadelphia Daily News

From walking the route to walking the runway

Designers fashion carrier uniforms- tonight on Bravo.
USPS linkonline
Click here for a preview from the Bravo web site

Senator launches Royal Oak probe

Royal Oak Daily Tribune

Study: DM, Sales Budgets to Rise

DMNews.com

Postal Clerk Convicted Of Embezzling From Stamp Machines

Woonsocket Call

RPN Test Starts April 3

DMNews.com

Alpine Air to stop Hawaii mail flights

Pacific Business News

Postal Rumor Features 6% Increase

DMNews.com

USPS to deploy RFID-based vehicle management

UsingRFID.com

Postal worker drags man from burning apartment

Miami Herald