Letter to the Editor: Study does not mean Oshkosh plant will close

Oshkosh Northwestern

Sioux City: Local, state leaders to meet with Potter

Sioux City Journal

Postal Employee Fights Off Attackers Despite Being Stabbed

WFTV Orlando

Perfect Postal Storm Brewing

eNAPUS Legislative Newsletter

High court blocks Dallas exec's suit against postal inspectors

Dallas Morning News
click here to view the full Supreme Court decision

'Junk mail' tax break moving toward approval in Florida

Sarasota Herald Tribune

Postal Service re-opening New Orleans facility today

Baton Rouge Advocate
see also this press release

Postal Service's Change-of-Address Filings at Historic Levels

Press release

Canada Post uses legal loophole to knock off rival

CTV News

Angry over shift changes, Canada Post workers walk off job

Kitchener Record

Credit Card Mail Offers Grow 16% in 2005

DIRECT

Slow Pace of Bookspan NSA Scares Mailers, USPS Says

DMNews.com

Advo Swings the Ax

TheStreet.com

House leader won't join Sioux City in postal dispute

Sioux City Journal

Davis asks Postal Service to hold off on rate increase

Postal Service asked to hold off on rate increase (4/26/06)

Reflections on the Postal Forum

DMNews.com

Ask President Burrus

What are the union’s plan to assist with conversion of PTFs in Associate Offices?
APWU web site

First day on the job, last day on the job

Postal driver fired after crashing fence
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette

Former postal carrier pleads guilty to stealing $100,000 in checks from mail

Wilmington (DE) News Journal

APWU Asks District Court to Put Consolidation on Hold

APWU News

Chemical in package sickens 20 postal workers in Alabama

CNN

Oshkosh postal facility could be closed

Oshkosh Northwestern

Edmonton postal workers remember fallen comrade

Edmonton News

You Say Tomato, I Say Junk

"George Orwell would have loved the letter I received recently from Azeezaly S. Jaffer , the U.S. Postal Service's vice president of public affairs and communications."
Washington Post columnist John Kelly
see also this response from Mail & Jobs Coalition executive director Peter Miller

Pitney Bowes Posts Higher 2Q Profit

Associated Press

Source: No Rate Case Until May

DMNews.com

Consumer Complaint Sparks PRC Case

DMNews.com

Bundle Prep Rules Hit April 30

DMNews.com

Sioux City Congressional delegation demands meeting with Postmaster General

Sioux City Journal

Idaho congressmen oppose Twin Falls consolidation

Press release

Postal Worker Sheds Light On El Paso Problems

KFOX TV

Anthrax missing from New Jersey state lab

Asbury Park Press

Trenton APWU Excessing Update

Trenton Metro Area Local

Louisiana: More post offices to hand out mail

New Orleans Times-Picayune

Thefts end 24-hour post office lobbies

Visalia (CA) Times Delta

APX Fallout Claims More Victims

Traffic World

It Ain’t Just Rates

also: The Buckeye State Primary
eNAPUS Legislative Newsletter

Mail Delivery Problems Still Happening In El Paso

KFOX-TV

USPS addresses concerns in Sioux City

Sioux City Journal (see also the statement from Iowa Senator Tom Harkin)
... but doesn't address them in Aberdeen...
Aberdeen American News

Postmaster PFP Results

NAPUS Hotline

UPS Net Profit Rises 10 Percent

DMNews.com

Veteran Dallas Postal Employee Sentenced To Prison

CBS 11 TV Dallas-Fort Worth

Web server outage

We were knocked offline for about an hour and a half due to problems at out hosting service this afternoon. We have an offsite web page at postalnews.info that you can bookmark, which we'll use to provide information if the main web sites encounter problems in the future.

Postal official says changes won't affect service

Sioux City Journal

Iraq Vet Sergeant Jason Lyon Is Offered a Mail Carrier Position by the Postal Service

Press Release

SW Area VP Lopez Retiring

USPS News Link

Ruling to Benefit Retirees Who Were Injured on the Job

APWU News

Reform, FASB, and Tough Decisions

Gene Del Polito commentary for Postcom.org

Waiting for Godot...And the Bookspan NSA?

Postcom.org

Clerk fills in 50 year old card's history

Daytona Beach News-Journal

Postal service to audit Aberdeen

Aberdeen (SD) American News

Postal Rate Hikes to Hit Firms Hard

Kiplinger Forecasts suggests rates for business mailers will rise a total of 15% over the next two years.
Kiplinger Forecasts

PRC weighs in on service changes

No, not the plant consolidation changes- this PRC report deals with the changes made in 2000-2001! (The complaint was filed in June 2001)
PRC web site

Few in line at post office to mail taxes due to e-filing increase

Norwich (CT) Bulletin

This Time, the Postal Service Has a Right To Gripe

DM News Blog

USPS Customized Packages Bolster Brands

DMNews.com

Postal employees respond to Wall Street Journal attack

USPS News Link

Plant consolidation information is incomplete, legislators contend

"A one-page summary sheet doesn't cut it."
Sioux City Journal

Stamp Dispute Lands at 11th Circuit

"a greeting-card maker... claims that it has trademarked the perforated border around postage stamps- and... the U.S. Postal Service has violated the company's rights."
Law.com

Midwestern Printer Targets Direct Marketing for Growth

DMNews.com

Accounting change could spur postal reform effort

A proposal tightening accounting for pension costs "heightens the urgency to get postal reform done"
Government Executive

ELM outlines whistleblower protection

USPS News Link

Former St. Petersburg postal worker charged with theft

Associated Press

Trenton APWU Wins Appeal of Arbitration Award

Trenton Metro Area Local
text of court decision

Jaffer: 'Wall Street Journal insults my fellow postal employees'

USPS News Link

Act of kindness faces postal hurdle

An Omaha neighborhood showered its mail carrier with special deliveries Tuesday in honor of his new baby. But a Postal Service policy may mark many of the gifts "return to sender."
Omaha World Herald

Toy Car Causes Hazmat Scare At Texas Post Office

KPRC TV Houston

Man faces charges in Change of Address scam

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Faking It: FERS and Sick Leave

Government Executive

Postmaster Saves Mail from Fire

WFIE TV Omaha

Burleson: Mailers Getting Nervous About Public Resistance to Consolidation Plans

Press release

Arkansas: Batesville AMP On Hold

Batesville Daily Guard

Mail carrier indicted on charges of stealing letters

Reno Gazette Journal

Federal appeals court upholds prison sentence of postal worker

WPRI TV Providence

Canada: Rural routes uprooted

Toronto Star

The Blind Leading the Blind

Gene Del Polito commentary for DIRECT

Members of Congress Ask GAO to Address Consolidation Concerns

APWU News

NALC: "disastrous deterioration in working conditions" faces carriers

NALC Postal Record (.pdf file)

Study: Number of Online Banking Customers rose 27 Percent

DMNews.com

Mail won't wait for late tax filers

Indianapolis Star
meanwhile, in Chicago:
Post Offices Open Late For Last-Minute Tax Filing
CBS 2 Chicago

Memorial service honors slain supervisor

USPS News Link

NALC: Employees opposed to real estate in TSP

NALC News

Ask President Burrus: Maximizing PTF's

APWU web site

Late mail arrives with (court ordered) apology

Danville Commercial News

Future Postal Rate Hikes To Be Higher Than Expected?

"Rumors are circulating that the next postal rate increase will be higher than what postal officials have previously suggested. Rather than an increase in the mid-single digits, some sources are saying the increase could be in the double digits."
Folio Magazine

Residents of Florida town want mail delivery restored

Charlotte Sun

Reyes meets with postal officials to address reported delays

El Paso Times

Mailers Anticipate Next Rate Case After Potter's NRF Speech

DMNews.com

Breaking a sound barrier

"The USPS is launching a nationwide push to install videophone devices and services that will make it easier for its 4,000 deaf employees to communicate with their colleagues"
Boston Globe

Mail mystery

Tampa: Residents complain of no mail delivery in new developments
BayNews9.com

Glade Park: Neither snow, nor rain nor public controversy

"...credit the Postal Service with trying to be responsive to the residents’ concerns... it listened to local concerns and has tried to come up with a plan to address them."
Grand Junction Sentinel

White House Outreach To ... Labor Unions?

National Journal Hotline

NAPS members push for reform

New Haven Register

Harkin announces meeting on Sioux City PO

Press release

Postal workers picket to save Sioux City facility

Sioux City Journal

Union says postal worker upset over request to deliver extra mail

The Oregonian

Community copes with tragedy

Baker City Herald

Murder suspect was told by victim he was being given more work

Associated Press

The Circus Is In Town

This week's legislative shenanigans
eNAPUS Legislative Newsletter
(and check out the NAPUS Legislative Agenda mentioned in the newsletter)

Neighbors: Postman kept to self

The Oregonian
Police: Postmaster was target in Oregon slaying
The Oregonian
Baker City post office reopens in wake of shooting
Baker City Herald

USPS Touts Four-State Barcode, OneCode Products

DMNews.com

Postal workers will picket against consolidation

Sioux City Journal

Barnett still shilling for payday loan scammers

postalnews blog

Time Warner to APWU:You Got It Wrong!

Time Warner responds to APWU Olympia President Clint Burleson's essay "Consolidation Plans Will Benefit Big Mailers At Expense of Citizens"
Postcom.org

Five Consolidation Studies Put ‘On Hold’

APWU News

APWU: USPS is not seeking to increase contracting out of custodial work

Letter from Steven G. Raymer, Director, APWU Maintenance Division

Garrett Park uneasy about postal changes

Montgomery County (MD) Gazette

New Jersey Post Office loses the little things that made it unique

"Neither birds nor posters nor community indignation, it seems, will keep the government from the swift completion of its appointed retail standardization."
New York Times

Rural address revamp could be to blame for postal headaches

McAllen (TX) Monitor

Update: Mailman forced to drop Senate bid

click here to read the original story
Danbury News Times
NALC's Hatch Act info page

A Stunning Reversal of USPS Dire Predictions

APWU Burrus Update

Letter to the Editor: A Failure to Report

Olympia APWU local president responds to the Olympian's 'Let the Postmark Go' editorial
postalnews blog

Postal clerks robbed at gunpoint

Orlando Sentinel

BOG nominee accused of ‘Jack Abramoff’ style politics

postalnews blog

Postal worker killed in Oregon shooting

Baker City Herald
more:
- Customer Service Supervisor killed, letter carrier in custody
USPS News Link

Postmark operation might get canceled

Beaumont (TX) Enterprise

Four Charged In ID Theft Scheme Involving Mail

KNBC-TV Los Angeles

Postal Forum Hammers Home Importance of Address Quality

DMNews.com

Residents seeth at loss of mail

Grand Junction (CO) Sentinel

Mail collection time change vexes some

Birmingham News

Postal Service ponders job moves in Daytona Beach

Daytona Beach News-Journal

Potter: Energy Costs Fuel Upcoming Rate Increase Filing

DMNews.com

Postal Service mulls operational rate hike

Government Executive

Mickey Barnett Goes Postal

An interesting blog entry on the BOG nominee. Also- click here to read the comments of Barnett foe Ron Godbey, who is mentioned in the Joe Monahan story.
New Mexico Politics with Joe Monahan

USPS orders more wireless asset management systems

Government Computer News

New Orleans postmark returns for first time since Katrina

New Orleans Times Picayune

“The mail works!”

Potter delivers keynote address at National Postal Forum
USPS News Link
click here to read the PMG's speech, or here to download as a .pdf file

Rate Case, Reform Topics of Concern at NPF

DMNews.com

USPS to Announce Rollout Schedule for New Four-Stage Barcode

DMNews.com

Mailers Take Stand on Postal Reform

DMNews.com

Britain: First-class stamp price now 32p

BBC News

Excessing in Trenton

From the APWU Trenton Metro Area Local web site

Why Postal Trucks Park in Traffic

Washington Post

Pit Bull Attacks Virginia Beach Postal Worker

Associated Press

Baucus questions shift in mail processing

Helena Independent Record

Grenade found at Atlanta BMC; 196 evacuated

Atlanta Journal Constitution

Lasting NAPUS Conference Impact

also: White House Change
eNAPUS Legislative Newsletter

Residents wonder: Prowler or postal worker?

Ottumwa (IA) Courier

Postal Service Shelves Study of Centralia Processing Center Consolidation

WJBD Radio Salem IL