Santa Fe couple battles bungled mail delivery

Santa Fe New Mexican

Postage increase a big deal for businesses

Fort Myers News-Press

Man killed in collision with postal truck

Hernando (FL) Today

Lost items may await at post office

Charlotte Observer

REC closing hard to take

Modesto Bee

Mail carrier improving after wreck

"A postal official initially stated she was surprised Dobre was driving from the passenger side of the vehicle on U.S. 30. Postal officials conceded Thursday that it is a common practice for rural carriers, who use their own vehicles. More than a dozen current and former carriers e-mailed and called the Post-Tribune to say they have asked for postal vehicles equipped with steering wheels on the right for several years, because of the potential safety issue." See also: Carriers: Rural driving technique unsafe
Gary (IN) Post Tribune

Post office: Walk to your mail

"The post office recently told hundreds of city and Oakhill residents they will need to erect mail boxes along the edge of their streets or not receive mail delivery."
Ludington (MI) Daily News

NALC and USPS agree on neutral arbitrator

"Given this schedule, it is anticipated that a decision on the contract will be rendered in mid-November"
NALC Homepage

An added touch

Local post offices are being fitted with automated machines, but the service isn't without a few glitches
Newsday

Editorial: Don't stamp out brainy mags

Boston Globe

Carriers get a later start

Bradford (PA) Era

Burrus discloses plans to issue U.S. Slave Contributions stamp in 2008

Linn's Stamp News

USPS seeks to eliminate UAA mail

DMNews.com

Indiana rural carrier critical after crash

"Police are investigating whether driving on the wrong side of the car contributed to" the crash. A USPS spokesperson "said it is not Post Office policy to allow drivers to operate vehicles from the passenger seat. 'I'm shocked. We in no way condone operating a vehicle that way.'"
Gary Post Tribune

Feds arrest Iowan for mail bombs

"Tomkins is a former substitute letter carrier who worked weekends for the USPS... he was not an employee at the time the devices were sent."
Des Moines Register
see also the Chicago Sun-Times

DMA Fears Do-Not-Mail Legislation

multichannelmerchant.com

Attacker wore postal uniform

Jersey Journal

Mail worries begin anew in Las Cruces

Las Cruces (NM) Sun-News

Small Publications Face Crippling Postal Hike -- Based on Time Warner Recommendation

Democracy Now!

Modesto REC to close

Modesto Bee

Post office closure riles customers

Chambersburg (PA) Public Opinion

Five yerars later, anthrax fear still delays mail to Congress

KSL TV Salt Lake City

Judge says contract post offices can't promote religion

Hartford Courant

New York’s Main Post Office To Cut Window Service Just in Time for Rate Change!

NY Metro APWU

Public meeting to be held on relocation of Louisiana postal workers

New Orleans Times Picayune

Twin Falls consolidation plans dropped

Twin Falls (ID) Times News

Judge orders psychiatric exam for postal worker accused of threats

St Louis Post Dispatch

Postal Service going private?

Plan to increase contract carriers sparks concerns
Inland Valley (CA) Daily Bulletin

USPS, letter carriers at odds

Denver Post

Connecticut woman who killed letter carrier in 2003 arrested for drunk driving again

Hartford Courant

Car crashes into NH post office

Portsmouth Herald

Universal Envelope Identifier - "Smart Stamp" Technology Converges Internet and Mobile Phones with U.S. Postal Mail

Press release

Rockaway troubles are in the mail

New York Daily News

"I can't thank you enough"

Maureen Deprince meets the firefighter who saved her life
Press of Atlantic City

Surprising details emerge on Philadelphia Post Office sale

"The one person who is the custodian for the Post Office becomes the broker, developer and investor, and that's not right..."
Philadelphia Inquirer

Postal worker charged with making threat referring to Virginia Tech massacre

St Louis Post-Dispatch

Postmaster Testimony Spotlights Staffing Deficiencies

e-NAPUS Legislative Newsletter

It’s official: Beaumont REC to close in November

Press release

With facility closing, mailboxes need a home

Merced Sun Star

Spend money to mitigate the impact of postal rate increases

DMNews.com

Winnie the Pooh clears post office

Fort Wayne News Sentinel

Collins grills PRC chairman on Standard Mail rate decision

DMNews.com

Supervisors group opposes contracting out delivery

NAPS Legislative Bulletin via Postcom.org

NY mail carrier charged in groping case

Middletown (NY) Times Herald-Record

National Reassessment Process Phase II Unveiled

Mail Handlers Union Local 301 web site

Postal clerk gets 1 year in theft case

Louisville Courier-Journal.

Postal Service could stamp out 1,000 jobs at Beaumont REC

Beaumont Enterprise

Postal worker pleads to theft

Mobile Press Register

OIG sought list of employees with personal problems?

PostalReporter.com

OPM Suggests Retirement Reforms

Washington Post

More Postal Workers To Be Hired In New Mexico

KOAT-TV Albuquerque

Postal Service does not foresee layoffs despite pressures

Government Executive

A Large Load to Sort in USPS Overhaul

Washington Post

Senator Collins Introduces Resolution Reaffirming Constitutional Protections Of Sealed Mail

Press release

Bloomington, Watertown AMPs Halted; Bronx Study in Limbo

APWU News

Reporter wants to talk to CFC donors

If you've donated via CFC to the Cancer Aid and Research Fund, Children’s Christian Hunger Network, or any of another dozen organizations, a reporter for the St Louis Post-Dispatch would like to talk to you. Click for more information, including the list of charities.

E-filers give post office a break this year

Spartanburg Journal Herald

Catalogers strategize for looming postal increase

DMNews.com

Post Office to the First Amendment: Drop Dead

CommonDreams.org

Post office should see long lines

Atlanta Journal Constitution

Texas RCA sentenced to four years for mail theft

Irving, Texas carrier Stephen Glenn Edwards admitted in court yesterday that he stole "more than one-thousand pieces of mail."
Associated Press

USPS Promises Inquiry Into Bronx Sorting

"Congressman Jose Serrano, the postal workers union and many Bronx businesses are celebrating a promised investigation into the possibility that the Bronx' mail-sorting operations will be moved to Manhattan."
Bronx Times

UPS, FedEx look to neighborhoods

"The continued boom in online shopping and the rise of at-home work have shifted the businesses of Sandy Springs-based UPS and rival FedEx."
Atlanta Journal Constitution

Congress to investigate Chicago mail woes

Chicago Tribune

eBay sellers concerned over postage increases

AuctionBytes.com

Snail mail still crawls in New Orleans

New Orleans CityBusiness

Fun may end early for late tax filers

Omaha World Herald

USPS Awards Contract to Computerize Paper Personnel Files

Press release

Orange County Postal workers rally for their jobs

Orange County Register

NRLCA will join NALC to protest USPS headquarters

Rural Carrier Postal News Blog
and from the Washington Post: A Stamp of Disapproval for Mail Delivery Contracting

Online Bill Payments Surpass Checks for the First Time Among Internet Households

Checkfree press release

Vermont postal worker charged with stealing mail

Rutland Herald

Massachusetts Postal Employee Convicted of Mail Theft

An acting supervisor stole two guitars being mailed home by a soldier serving in Iraq.
Press release

Catalog mailers file motion to reopen rate case record

for "limited testimony on the avoidable and economically wasteful costs imposed on catalog mailers by unanticipated rate increases for Standard Mail Regular flats."
PRC web site (.pdf file)

Cops: Mailman on disability got second job

Newsday

‘Forever’ stamp debuts; jetmaker buys 24,000

Philadelphia Inquirer

Houston robber poses as letter carrier

KPRC TV Houston

Postal workers ready for the Forever rush

Deseret News

Search is on for Texas mailbox bombers

Corpus Christie Caller News

Wrong-side mailbox dispute resolved

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
see also: More Money Than Common Sense.

Postal reforms pledged in Chicago

Postmaster adding 200 letter carriers, improved training
Chicago Tribune

What Were They Thinking? (The PRC that is...)

DIRECT

Anthrax probe update sought

Times of Trenton

'Forever' stamps debuts in Philadelphia tomorrow

Philadelphia Inquirer

The missing-invitation mystery

Sarasota Herald Tribune

Trouble in Petaluma

Letters to the Editor:
- Rude postal clerk
- Postmaster responds
- 'Mystery Shopper'
Petaluma Argus Courier

Who was that fiddler in the subway?

Violinist Joshua Bell plays more or less unnoticed in the L'Enfant Plaza Metro station.
Washington Post

El Paso mail delays blamed on winter storms

El Paso Times

Postal worker killed in vehicle crash

Lexington (KY) Herald

Florida postal workers face stiff penalties

Tallahassee Democrat

Letter Carriers to Picket USPS HQ to Protest Outsourcing Mail Delivery to Private Firms

Press release

Second mailman expected to change plea in mail dumping case

Tallahassee Democrat

This is not the Postal Service you are looking for

Network World editor Adam Gaffin is not impressed by the Postal Service's new Star Wars look.
Network World

Online Booksellers Face Higher Costs for Shipping Abroad

"The Postal Service is taking the “ship” out of shipping, and thousands of small online booksellers are bracing for trouble."
New York Times

UPS franchisees packing it in: "franchise fiasco"?

"We feel – and have for quite some time – that our biggest competitor is UPS"
Dallas Morning News

Young to Burrus: Keep your advice to yourself

"Burrus has felt the need to criticize the NALC and other postal unions..., branding their leaders as “fools”...he once famously referred to the customers who generate the majority of the Postal Service’s volume—and revenue—as “vermin.” I try to ignore comments like these... But on March 1, Bill Burrus published something so ridiculous and contrary to the interests of city carriers and other postal employees (including his own members) that I must respond."
NALC Record

BOG Chairman Miller Suggested Privatizing USPS in 1988

Postalmag.com notes that in 1988, Miller, then Reagan's OMB Director, gave a speech at the right wing Cato Institute pushing privatization of the US Postal Service. Some excerpts:
- "The Postal Service should expand the practice of contracting out rural mail delivery to private carriers"
- "... I would agree that the Postal Service should be placed off-budget. But I think we should place the Postal Service off-budget by making it part of the private sector."
Cato Institute web site (Adobe .pdf file)
Update: Free "Free the Mail"? Almost!

Postal rate increase to be felt at the checkout line in Bush Alaska

USPS: "We understand that these costs are not insignificant. However, when you realize that bypass mail only covers 15 percent of its costs, this rate increase isn't exorbitant”
Alaska Journal of Commerce

Retiring the rural route

Virginia carrier retiring after 41 years on route.
Roanoke Times

USPS/NALC Negotiations Fail

“I truly regret to inform the membership that the top leadership of the United States Postal Service has flatly rejected NALC’s offer of a strategic partnership to protect the future of the Postal Service. We are shocked by their refusal to work jointly, and now have no choice but to pursue our bargaining goals through interest arbitration.”
NALC Bulletin

Postal Rate Hike Has Some Rethinking Business Plans

Memphis Daily News

USPS requests proposals for automating movement of letter mail in plants

Federal Business Opportunies

Breaking the Bond of Trust

Contracting out delivery service threatens survival of the USPS
NALC Record

USPS seeks contractors for Terminal Handling Services throughout US

The USPS posted a notice of its "intent to solicit for Terminal Handling Services (THS) at 66 sites throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. The THS provides integrated material handling services in support of the USPS air and ground networks."
Click here for the synopsis, including the list of proposed sites.

FedEx hit with labor complaint in contract delivery dispute

Worcester Telegram
see also the comments of Malcolm Harris. former USPS Manager for Market Intelligence and Analysis.

Social Security checks late for 300 residents

"Spartanburg Postmaster Dave Becker said the delay stemmed from the failure of a Philadelphia office to mail the checks on time."
Spartanburg (SC) Herald-Journal
The Owensboro KY Messenger-Inquirer reports in its print edition that residents there are also without checks.

Holiday mail lifts earnings for Kitty Hawk

Fort Wayne Journal Gazette

USPS publishes proposed new standards for Periodicals

DMNews.com

PRC grants Catalog Coalition request to extend consideration of Standard Mail rates

The Commission granted the Coalition's request for late intervention in the rate case, and will consider its motion to reopen the record on Standard Mail flats.
PRC web site

USPS Publishes Proposed New Standards for Periodical Mailing Services

(Note- the link takes you to a .pdf document with the full text of the proposed rule.)
USPS web site

Rain, sleet... crime?

Postal carrier foils suspected burglary attempt
Carlisle (PA) Sentinel

NYC Letter Carriers Keep Eye on Elderly

1010 WINS News

Postal Employee Is Sentenced in Mail Thefts

Ellsworth (ME) American

Commentary: Looking for your mail? Maybe I've Got It!

Whte Plains Journal News

PO Mix-Up Leaves Thousands Without Social Security Checks

NY1 News New York City

Update: Postal workers charged in ID thefts using passport info

Carlisle (PA) Sentinel
This story in the Reading Eagle has additional details about the case.

Commentary: There is a better way

Postcom's Jim O'Brien says admitted inaccuracies in USPS demand assumtions justify lowering catalog rates. "I would favor adjusting the volume assumptions to reflect higher catalog volumes this fall based upon a lower rate... even with a reduced rate, this would yield the exact same revenue". (So... more volume to handle, at "the exact same revenue"? Who pays the added expense if there's no added revenue?)

Catalogers seeking solutions to postal predicament

multichannelmerchant.com

Higher Postage Could Mean Lower Paper Costs

multichannelmerchant.com

Letter carrier rescues children in runaway minivan

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review video report from KDKA TV

Postal Desperation: A Last Minute Call to Action to Protest the Pending Rate Hike

Catalog Success

USPS awarded patent for mailbox decontamination method

United States Patent Office

Postal Service reservists eligible for back pay

"complying with the decision could cost the Postal Service upwards of $200 million"
Army Times

United regains $400 million Postal Service contract

Chicago daily Herald

USPS requests extension of RPN ('Post it notes') test

USPS filing at PRC web site

Rates, reform main topics at Forum

DMNews.com

Celtics putting stamp on U.S. mail

Boston Herald

New York State Acquires Farley Post Office in Penn Station Redevelopment

CoStar Lead Street

Baking soda find sparks postal alarm

Santa Rosa Press Democrat

Modern methods could stamp out postal station

Roanoke Times

PRC sets schedule for reconsideration of rate case

PRC web site

USPS, Management groups form task force on "deteriorating work environment"

"Of primary concern to the group are the threats, intimidation and retaliation."
Click here to read the original letter from NAPUS, NAPS and the League.
NAPUS web site

Letter carrier goes the extra yard for his customers

Fort Wayne News-Sentinel

'Star Wars: Episode VII- The Philatelic Menace'

"Stamp collectors are up in arms about plans for 15 new "Star Wars" stamps"
From the Washington Post's Reliable Source column

eNAPUS Legislative and Political Newsletter

NAPUS web site

Contract carrier makes plea deal

Accused of throwing away mail
Lancaster (PA) Intelligencer Journal

Google goes postal, introduces paper email

... use it with today's other Google beta introduction, Google TiSP (BETA), the free in-home wireless broadband service.

Office mailrooms sent packing

Modern technology changing the way we communicate
Ontario (CA) Daily Bulletin