Pushing the envelope
"Getting a job at the post office can take years, and once hired employees face hard work, timed routes, Mother Nature and the occasional dog..." Albuquerque Tribune
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Postcom podcast #2
Another podcast from Postcom: this week, a report on what the Postcom Board heard from USPS reps last week on proposed changes mail prep rules. Click here to download the podcast as an mp3 file, or here to listen online at the postalnews blog.
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Horrific crash shatters body; heroic rescue has her battling
'To visit with Maureen DePrince, in her hospital room in Philadelphia, nearly two months after the horrific accident that severed her legs as she stood behind her parked U.S. mail van, is to gradually settle in on a theory of what makes a person a person.' Philadelphia Inquirer
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Kids put their own stamp on school fundraising
"After years of handing over money for candy bars and wrapping paper, parents might see a new school fundraiser this year: their child's art on a postage stamp." Associated Press
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Where the Postman Always Honks Twice
For nearly two months, roughly 75,000 residents of East Harlem have not had a post office. Instead, they have a van. New York Times
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California postal workers linked to ID theft
"An identity task force is trying to find a group of postal workers at the Industry post office involved in a scam that caused the loss of $1 million" Associated Press
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Davis says reform bill will be 'finalized in November'
"the House was prepared to vote on a compromise version, and the Senate was ready to approve it by unanimous consent. But some members felt they needed to read the legislation before voting" Government Executive
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UPS: Collins blocked parcel compromise
UPS: "We reached an agreement that was palatable to UPS and the postal service. UPS and the postal service were walking in lockstep." However, ... when the compromise was presented to Sen. Collins' office, "they did not consider it or accept it." DMNews.com
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NALC: Reform bill fails in Senate over COP issue
Your Congress at work: "No conference committee was ever established and the bill that nearly passed the Senate was essentially a new version of the bill that none of our allies in the House, Democrat or Republican, had even seen. Indeed, few members of either the House or the Senate ever received a final version of the bill. Neither did the NALC or any of the other interested stakeholders. Had the House leadership forced a vote on it, few members of the House would have known for sure what was actually in the bill." NALC eActivist Newsletter
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