Educate Yourself: Postal industry is under attack

Gene Del Polito commentary for DIRECT

USPS should publish preparation makeup standards and rules accompanying the rate case

Commentary for DIRECT by Bob McLean, executive director of the Mailers Council

Senate Committee Vets Postal Governor Nominees

eNAPUS Legislative Newsletter

Burrus Outlines APWU’s Contract Goals for Rank and File Bargaining Committee

APWU News

Postal worker charged with embezzlement, supervisor with extortion

Huntsville Times

Rate Case Volume Assumptions are Too Optimistic

Cary Baer commentary for DMNews.com

Private taxpayer data lost in the mail

St. Paul Pioneer Press

Through the revolving door

postalnews blog

Reducing UAA Mail Means Changes for Mailers

DMNews.com

UPS in deal to carry mail for US Postal Service

Reuters
... and from the Wall Street Journal: "If UPS pulls off the deal with few operational hitches, it could be in a strong position to compete for some or all of the postal business now handled by FedEx when that contract comes up for renewal in 2007."

Hearing today for New Mexico Lobbyist Nominated to BOG

postalnews blog

APWU: Victory Elusive in Postal ‘Reform’

APWU News

Postal Service Backs Out of Nuke Deal

Watchdog group says DOE project would have used USPS funding to bypass Congressional, environmental reviews
Albuquerque Journal via Nukewatch.org
see also the Los Alamos Monitor, and Azeez Jaffer's statement at USPS.com

$82 million postal facility opens July 8 in Maine

Portland Press Herald

Disney Stationery Animates a Postal Spat

Washington Post

Alaska bypass mail change delays shipments, food

"Under the program... the USPS pays air carriers to deliver the mail... charging shippers third and fourth class postal rates for what is essentially first class service"
Associated Press

USPS proposes new rules on meters, PC postage

Federal Register

Pen pall: Future looks bleak for letter writing

New York Times

Pro-hunting group upset at Humane Society stamps

postalnews blog

DMA Fact Book: Direct Mail Still the King

DMNews.com

Mail Thefts on the Rise in Southern California Community

Riverside Press-Enterprise

Let's help the new postal sheriff

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Fifteen Legislative Days to Go for Reform

also: USPS Governors Confirmation Hearing Next Week
eNAPUS Legislative Newsletter

USPS gains efficiencies through contracting

Federal Times

Postal Service will delay Sioux City decision

Sioux City Journal

Letter carrier attacked with Taser in Oregon

KATU-TV Portland

United Airlines loses postal contract

Chicago Tribune

Los Alamos Goes Postal

Nuke lab gets USPS funding for new science complex
DefenseTech.org

Comparison shopping for shipping

RedRoller seeks to become Travelocity for shippers (as long as you don't want to use UPS)
Fairfield County Business Journal
RedRoller web site

DMA head warns marketers of postal challenges ahead

DIRECT

FedEx Corp. Net Income Increases 27 Percent in Fourth Quarter

DMNews.com

'Hurt' postal worker makes full restitution

Daily Herald (IL)

Postal Service helps soldiers stay in touch with families

Pueblo Chieftain

An Unusual (and Unsuccessful) Request for a Promotion

FedSmith.com

Four former Arizona postal workers indicted on charges of mail theft

Arizona Republic

Cox Target Media Will Use trackmymail.com to Monitor ValpakDelivery

DMNews.com

USPS expands licensing program

Press release

Postal Progress- But some deliveries still elusive in city

New Orleans City Business

Postal reform inches closer to the finish line

NAPS Legislative Update

Police arrest 17 trying to retrieve 'secret plans' to privatize Canada Post

Ottawa Citizen

Post Office Said to Abet Cigarette Sales to Kids

New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer says the U.S. Postal Service has become "the delivery arm of a massive criminal enterprise."
ABC News

The checks in the mail, but who’s delivering?

"Southwest Florida is short about 200 substitute mails carriers and it’s putting a strain on the US Postal Service."
WBBH TV Ft Myers

House OKs Postal Appropriations

also: Jefferson Loses Committee Post, and NAPUS Chapter Conventions Pushing Politics and PAC
eNAPUS Legislative Newsletter

Mailbox removals inconvenience some customers

Waterloo Cedar-Falls (IA) Courier

Mail over the counter for Katrina victims ending June 30

New Orleans Times Picayune

USPS: Filling finance jobs is top recruitment challenge

Federal Times

Proposed Postal Service changes meet resistance in Yakima

Yakima (WA) Herald Republic

Aberdeen post office's future unsure

Aberdeen (SD) American News

Letter carrier heads to jail

Brookline (MA) Tab

Rate Shock!

Gene Del Polito Commentary for DIRECT

Woman wants to be delivered from junk mail

Knight Ridder News Service

Canadian Postal Workers Plan Protest

DMNews.com

Inspector General agrees to audit Sioux City postal consolidation study

Sioux City Journal

ADVO Discusses Postal Rate Case

Press release

Revenue forgone appropriation advances, with strings attached

postalnews blog

Texas PM says cluster boxes are out

"Twenty-five years ago, the post office thought it would be a great idea to have community mailboxes, but now that policy has changed."
San Antonio Express News

Postal service expanding operations in Baton Rouge

Greater Baton Rouge Business Report

Politicians weigh in on Tampa/St Pete consolidation

"Postal officials say it would make them more efficient. Too efficient, some say."
St Petersburg Times

USPS talks up expanded eBay services

Datamonitor

NIOSH Report on DBCS Safety at Denver GMF

Report evaluating injury prevention procedures for workers operating Delivery Bar Code Sorter (DBCS) machines. Click here for the earlier (1993) report referred to in this document. (Adobe .pdf files)
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)

USPS April financial results released

Net profit of $103 million becomes net loss of $147 million after escrow allocation.
USPS Link Online
click here for the full report in .pdf format, or here for the Excel version

BBB Warns Of False Post Office Job Openings In South Dakota

Yankton Press & Dakotan

Pitney Bowes Launches Stamp Expressions

DMNews.com

Wait a minute, Mister Postman

8 Florida postal workers keeping mail for themselves
Orlando Sentinel

Newspaper tests delivery services

"The Postal Service- yes, the post office!- had the lowest price, and got our package there the quickest."
Indianapolis Star

Maryland Postal Worker Pleads Guilty to Making False Statements to Obtain Workers Comp

Southern Maryland Online

Fired postal worker wins reinstatement

Bucks County Courier Times

Laid off injured postal worker says “It can happen to anyone”

Dan Sullivan commentary

DeLay De-Legacy

also: "Postal Conferees Meeting? Not Yet"
eNAPUS Legislative Newsletter

Postal carrier attacked by Pit Bull

KVII-TV Amarillo

USPS Board Approves Bookspan NSA

DMNews.com

Pennsylvania postal worker in fair condition after crash

Allentown Morning Call

World Marketing Launches InsideTrack For Mailers

DMNews.com

Carrier Stabbed in Philadelphia

WPVI TV

Rockford: Public Calls USPS Plan a Stupid Idea

WTVO-TV Rockford (IL)

Letter Carriers Collect 70.5 Million Pounds in Nation's Largest Anti-Hunger Food Drive

NALC releases final results of food drive
Press release

Postal worker sues home owners for cracked steps

Madison County (IL) Record

Postal Worker Apparently Killed By Truck at Chicago BMC

WMAQ TV Chicago

E-Mail Addresses to Steer Snail Mail?

"The U.S. Postal Service was recently asked to start delivering packages and letters based on someone's e-mail rather than street address."
eWeek.com

Burrus: USPS serves business, not the people

APWU Magazine

One sticking point removed in postal reform measure

Government Executive

USPS Finds Buyer for Marina P&D

The Argonaut

NALC Issues White Paper on Overtime, Staffing and Scheduling

(click here to download the paper in .pdf format)
NALC Contract Administration Unit

Advance Post to open mail-sorting facility in Macon

Macon Telegraph

Investigating mayhem by mail truck

WTNH TV New Haven

Post Office Robbery In North Carolina

WSOC TV Charlotte

Postage Increase damage mitigated

"Yes, mailers will be hit with a postage increase next year. But they may be able to save money by drop shipping and commingling."
DIRECT

Postal move pending in Gaylord MI?

Gaylord Herald Times

APWU: No Semblance of Order in SD Reassessment Program

Postalmag.com