USPS Lists 139 Facilities As ‘Potential Candidates’ for Consolidation

APWU News
Click here to download the list. Note that it includes sites that have already been removed from consideration, including a number in the Northeast, as well as the Rockford plant that was taken off the list today.

Too-light usage leads to vanishing mail dropboxes

Lafayette (IN) Journal and Courier

Gallaher sentenced for post office supervisor's murder

Baker City (OR) Herald

Yakima postal service changes put on hold

Yakima Herald Republic

Man Gets 22 Years In Post Office-Check Scandal

KCBS TV Los Angeles

UPS Vows to Kill Postal Reform Over Single-Piece Parcels

"In the face of overwhelming bipartisan support, UPS is threatening to 'veto' the pending postal bill."
eNAPUS Legislative Newsletter

The postal customer always rings twice

Demanding service sometimes can yield results in the post-Katrina world
New Orleans Times Picayune

GAO Says USPS Delivery Standards, Reporting Need Improvement

DMNews.com
click here to download the 120 page report in .pdf format

USPS awards Lockheed $17.4M contract

Firm to build optical recognition equipment for BMCs
Binghamton Press and Sun Bulletin

ABX Air Subsidiary to Manage Dallas Transfer Center for USPS

Press release

White House, Mailer and UPS Demands Threaten Postal Reform

National Association of Postal Supervisors

Postal Service says some mail lost in New York highway collapse

Associated Press
see also the report from Time Warner Cable News

Boston tunnel closings force FedEx, UPS, others to pick up packages earlier

Boston Globe

APWU Launches Ad Campaign to Combat Consolidation

APWU News

Azeez Jaffer accused of financial, personal improprieties

Washington Post

Postal Service puts HR on Web

Associated Press

UPS Reports Strong Second-Quarter Profits, But Outlook Disappoints

DMNews.com

Small firms strive to win USPS business

Federal Times

Volume mailers look for service agreements in postal bill

Government Executive

Mail Carrier Loses Leg In Hit-And-Run

NBC 10 Philadelphia

Postal boss acknowledges Philadelphia problems

District manager now says new processing plant has caused delays
Philadelphia Daily News

Mail ads with credit card offers dropping off

Companies rethink inundation strategy
Chicago Tribune

Postal service says mistake led to embargo on mail to Israel, Lebanon

White Plains Journal News

Postal regulator set to unveil plan to split Royal Mail in two

The Independent

USPS gets a lift

RFID system designed for safety reporting delivers a bonus: asset management
Government Computer News

Postal workers back verdict in lawsuit

Courier Times
(click here to read the original story, or here to read the comments posted on that article)

New postal guidelines causing newspaper delivery delays

Steamboat Springs (CO) Pilot

Unresolved Issues Continue to Stifle Deal

eNAPUS Legislative Newsletter
also: NAPUS thinks Joe Lieberman should be relected to the Senate. (They're wrong).

USPS responds to Chicago pol's racist comments

CBS2 Chicago
see also "Natarus Goes Postal"

Return to Sender

A union rep gets roughed up trying to investigate a hostile work environment.
Salt Lake City Weekly

Twin cities mail center plan advances

St. Paul Pioneer Press

APWU: Anti-Labor Provisions Threaten Postal ‘Reform’

APWU News

Summertime Blues for Postal Reform

Multichannel Merchant

Tax data package feared stolen was actually just at post office

Minneapolis Star Tribune

Harkin provision to halt closure of mail center

Sioux City Journal

New Orleans: Lower 9th finally gets mail delivery

USA Today

Postal Workers Feel Heat After Cooling Malfunction

WRAL TV Raleigh NC

Postal reform bill talks stall over labor costs

Government Executive

Snake-in-mailbox joke comes back to bite prankster

Detroit News

Organized crime targeting Canadian posties?

Toronto Sun

Postal closing riles townsfolk

Wilmington (NC) Star-News

USPS Forms New Global Organization

DMNews.com

Post office cartoons win reprieve

Carmel (CA) Pine Cone

USPS Expands Marketing Relationship with Harte-Hanks

DMNews.com

Postal service wants to limit number of mailboxes

Mobile Register

NALC: Postal Reform in Jeopardy!

NALC News Bulletin
Mailhandlers: Postal Reform Takes Dramatic Turn For The Worse
Mailhandlers Union web site

APWU Joins Workers’ Rights Demonstration at NLRB Headquarters

APWU News

FedEx, UPS Subpoenaed in Antitrust Probe

Houston Chronicle

Postal Reform Tripartite

eNAPUS Legislative & Political Bulletin

California Man Arrested In Post Office Bomb Threat

KPIX TV San Francisco

Postal worker gets year in prison

Contract carrier falsified mileage reimbursements
The Intelligencer (PA)

Burrus Condemns USPS Plans to Privatize AMCs

APWU News

Anthrax death sparks lawsuit

Gazette.Net (MD)

Four postal workers arrested on drug charges

Boston Globe

USPS Eases Magazine Rules

Advertising Age

Pay-for-performance plan boosts managers’ salaries

Federal Times

The last rate case?

Gene Del Polito commentary for Postcom.org

PRC posts collection box database

postalnews blog

USPS dragnet continues to sweep up injured workers

Dan Sullivan commentary

OIG Report on USPS cost burdens

A brief summary of the extra costs Congress has imposed on the USPS.
USPS OIG web site

Man arrested in postal carrier stun gun attack

KATU TV Portland, Oregon

USPS Offers Final Rule on EVS for Parcel Select Mailings

DMNews.com

Postal Report: Las Cruces Mail Delivered Seven Months Late

KOAT TV Albuquerque

APWU, Local politician join forces on Gaylord consolidation

Gaylord Herald Times

Contract postal worker pleads guilty to Netflix thefts

Longmont (CO) Daily Times-Call

NALC's Young: Tide may be turning in USPS power struggle

Postal Record

APWU's Burrus: Our Action Plan to Fight Consolidation

"We must recognize that our traditional forms of struggle — grievances, NLRB charges, lawsuits — are not likely to be the most effective methods in this effort. This is a battle that must be waged in the court of public opinion."
American Postal Worker

Mail volume up 8% in May

"Total Mail Volume for May was 1.3 billion pieces or 8.0% above SPLY. With the exception of Periodical Mail and International Mail, all of the major mail categories posted volumes above their May 2005 levels.
Year-to-date, Total Mail Volume is 0.9% or 1.2 billion pieces above SPLY. A significant mail volume increase over SPLY for YTD is in the lower revenue-per-piece Standard Mail category, which increased 1.4 billion pieces or 2.1%. YTD, First-Class Mail volume is 0.6% less than SPLY generating only $470 million more revenue than SPLY."
USPS Financials page
click here for the Excel spreadsheet version of the report

USPS nears full strength in New Orleans

New Orleans Times-Picayune

USPS posts changes to temporary forwarding service rules

Federal Register

Mailhandler President Hegarty Blasts USPS on Contract Initiative

Mailhandlers Union web site

Valassis Buys Advo for $1.2 Billion

Advo Stock Soars, Valassis Shares Tumble
Associated Press
Valassis to Acquire ADVO
Press release

UPS, Pilots Reach Tentative Contract

DMNews.com

Direct Mail Spending Rises

Graphic Arts Monthly

Delivery failure

New sorting facility plagued by problems
Philadelphia Daily News

Jaffer resigns

USPS News Link

Home delivery- now you see it, now you don't...

Philadelphia Daily News

Navigating Today’s Parcel Shipping Environment

DMNews.com