Battle Creek Postmaster returns to job on Monday

Battle Creek Enquirer
(earlier: B.C. mail scandal 'was just flawed')

Postal worker robbed

Royal Oak Daily Tribune

Postal Service Reverses Ban On Toy Collections

Hartford Courant

Driver Who Killed Mail Carrier Sent Back To Jail

Hartford Courant

Postal Contract Driver Shot in New Mexico

Farmington Daily Times

Calif Supreme Court denies FedEx appeal on contract drivers

Reuters

Pity the postman when catalog season comes

Staunton (VA) News Leader
(click here to read Postcom's response to this story)

DVD rentals costly to Postal Service

Washington Times

No Toy Collection at Post Offices in Connecticut

Associated Press

Postal officials deny city's use of safety reports

Elmira (NY) Star-Gazette

Florida Casual Accused Of Dumping Letters

WESH TV Orlando

USPS creates web site for retired employees

Keeping Posted.org

APWU: PTFs in Large Offices Eliminated as of Dec. 1

APWU News

Posted: Paint mailbox or else

Fort Wayne (IN) Journal Gazette

Edmond's first post office ledger found

Edmond (OK) Sun

Post office experiences lull before Christmas crunch

Naples Daily News

Rural carrier gets fine, probation for dumping bulk mail

Baraboo (WI) News Republic

Burrus tells OIG to butt out of bargaining process

APWU News

Postal workers ready to deliver

Danville (IL) Commercial-News

Strategies for 'dead letters'

Baltimore Sun

USPS seeks contractors for VOE survey

Email or web-based distribution envisioned
FedBizOpps

Alaska bypass mail proposal by USPS being examined

Alaska Journal of Commerce

Mail trucks vandalized at Texas post office

News 8 Austin

Managing a National Network in a Slowing Economy

Economist Alan Robinson's Courier, Express and Postal Observer

Randalia soldiers on without its post office

One of twelve POs closed in Iowa this year
Cedar Rapids Gazette

This Is My Very Lazy Mailman

Tech Talk

Buying stamps elsewhere helps the post office, postmaster says

Benton County (AR) Daily Record

How does your mail get from here to there?

Canton (OH) Repository

Flat Sequencing System (FSS) Info Published

RuralInfo.net has a collection of information on the FSS, including background, deployment schedules, and more.

Milwaukee PO tells light duty employees it has no work for them

WTMJ Milwaukee

Great Neck pans mail center site

Newsday

USPS opens third training center in Norman

Norman Transcript

Nothing compares to good ol' greeting cards

Naperville Sun

Arbitrator denies rural ‘fletters’ grievance

postalnews blog via ruralinfo.net and nrlca.org

Donors say 'bah, humbug' to Operation Santa rules

Newark Star Ledger

Fired worker wins lawsuit against abusive postmaster

Medrord (OR) Mail Tribune

Contractor admits to stealing from mail

Kane County (IL) Chronicle

Dog owner faces felony charges in attack on carrier

San Jose Mercury News

Teamsters ratify 5-year United Parcel contract

Reuters

Self service postal machines will end lines at the windows (in 1948!)

Akron Beacon Journal

TrackingTheWorld Designs GPS Letter Logger for USPS

Press release

Couple claims mailman tossed undelivered mail

KOB TV Albuquerque

USPS proposes smaller facility in Aliso Viejo

Orange County Register

Chicago mail delivery improves, study finds

Chicago Tribune
but on the other hand...
Chicago worst again in mail service
Chicago Sun Times

Mailing costs pushing catalogs online

Florida Today

Environmental Groups Cutting Catalog Stacks

New York Times

Driver insists he fell asleep before hitting carrier Maureen Deprince

Press of Atlantic City

Identity thieves using postal service for scam

Newport News-Times

Sending a Scent by Snail Mail

New York Times

U.S. Postal Service Destroyed By Four Reckless Teens In Car

More satire from the Onion. Past Onion stories: The PMG's Missing Laptop and Diversity Training

Postal Service to mark ‘Year of the Rat’

Buffalo News

As holidays near, Postal Service pressed to deliver prompt service, too

NY Daily News

FedEx lowers earnings estimate, stock tumbles

Memphis Commercial Appeal
related: UPS Senior VP Sells Stock Associated Press

Senate GPO/WEP Hearing Yields Sympathy

eNAPUS Legislative Newsletter

Mailman Accused of Attempted Kidnapping

Fox 13 Memphis

APWU-Backed Bill Introduced in Congress

Legislation Would Require Bargaining Over Subcontracting
APWU News

Postal Service’s oldest employee still going strong at 93

USPS News Link

Pitney Bowes to Cut 1,500 Jobs

Houston Chronicle

Reward offered in shooting of Chicago letter carrier

The Daily Southtown

Letter carriers rescue seniors

Contra Costa Times

USPS Instructs Managers to Comply With Contracts

APWU News

US Postal Service revenue fell short in October

Reuters

Postal Rates Hikes Will Follow Reform Bill

Catalog Age

Preferential treatment for Netflix?

OIG asks why DVD mailers pay machinable rates when 70% of DVDs are processed manually
eKey Technologies

Disabled vets claim job harassment at USPS

WCNC TV Charlotte

Design Dilemma

Of the seven billion greeting cards Americans buy each year, square ones are a small minority. But for the U.S. Postal Service, they loom large.
Wall Street Journal

OIG says USPS pays too much of employees' health insurance

Suggests shifting $1 billion in costs to workers over next decade. (Adobe .pdf file. The specific recommendations, along with the USPS response, are blacked out- the OIG offers no explanation for the redactions).
USPS OIG web site

AT&T Delivers 5,400 BlackBerrys To USPS

Information Week

Postal Service will work with city

Letter carriers will point out property hazards, violations
Elmira (NY) Star Gazette

Police: Postal Worker Shot For Delivering Slow Mail

WMAQ TV Chicago

USPS responds to passport gouging charges

Orlando Sentinel

DMA report predicts spending increases

BtoB Magazine

Outsourcing your mail

USPS plans to use private contractors to deliver mail in Kansas City
eKC Online

New Health Plans Are Worth a Look

Washington Post

Battle Creek mail scandal 'was just flawed'

Battle Creek Enquirer

Stamping out counterfeit postage

Boulder Daily Camera

Sticker Shock: Retired postal worker finds health insurance premiums rising 54%

Buffalo News

UPS's Ground-Shipping Rate To Jump by 4.9%

Wall Street Journal

Video: Sensitive employee information ends up in open dumpster

WJLA TV Washington

Burrus Outlines Ambitious Agenda at All-Craft Conference

APWU News

Supervisor faces felony charges for falsifying clock rings

Lockport (NY) Union-Sun & Journal

Mix-up affects political mailings

Richmond Times-Dispatch

Georgia postal worker pleads guilty to misappropriating $112,000

WALB TV Albany (GA)

Vermont postal worker busted for stealing veteran's meds

Burlington Free Press

Ex-postal employee gets 14 months for taking $128,000

Houston Chronicle

Jury: Montana clerk lied about disability

Billings Gazette

Direct mail is still DM champion

DMNews.com

Mail may be rerouted as routes shift

Livingston (MI) Press & Argus

Postal worker gets 14 months for stealing $128,000 from post office

KRIS TV Corpus Christi

Burrus Outlines Ambitious Agenda at All-Craft Conference

APWU News

FedEx pays $253K to settle dispute

Worcester Telegram

BOG sets agenda for next week’s meeting

Press release

Editorial: U.S. shouldn't be overcharging citizens for their passports

Orlando Sentinel

Retired carrier who became sheriff's deputy killed in Florida

NALC Press release see also this story from the AP, and this story from the Sun Sentinel

Mail truck crash sends driver to hospital

Lafayette (IN) Journal and Courier

PitneyBowes tool 'addresses' undeliverable mail

DMNews.com

Bill Clinton Tells APWU: This Election Belongs to You

APWU News

Is a direct mail crackdown looming?

DMNews.com

Panama City post office investigation under way

Panama City (FL) News Herald

El Paso Residents Complain About Opened Mail

KFOX El Paso

Letters extinct in digital age

Springfield Republican

Canada Post launches in Second Life

DMNews.com

ACMA to USPS: Be Very Concerned About Catalog Circ Cuts

multichannelmerchant.com

Canadian lottery scheme using fake USPS checks

USPS News Link

Virginia PO swamped by political mail

Manassas Journal Messenger

Rural mail success was spelled RFD

Charlottesville Daily Progress

Bill would stamp out postal delivery of bootleg cigarettes

Report says sales support terrorist organizations
NY Daily News

Postal Service Says Killing Small Periodicals is a "Win-Win"

Mother Jones

OIG finds significant weaknesses in internal financial controls in Chicago

... and click here for more on Chicago's postal woes
USPS OIG web site (.pdf file)

Letter carrier charged with theft

Vineland (NJ) Daily Journal

Charges are pending against a contractor caught mishandling mail

Mexico (MO) Ledger

Governor Bilbray campaigning for Hillary Clinton

Laughlin (NV) Times

NAPUS to Submit Testimony at Senate GPO/WEP Hearing

eNAPUS Legislative Newsletter

Senators: USPS gouges travelers over $97 passport fees

Associated Press

OIG: MODS data not reliable

USPS OIG Audit Report (.pdf file)

Postal Service halts vehicle buys

Federal Times

Opt-out services challenge catalogers

DMNews.com

Rutgers to host conference on Universal Service

Rutgers web site

HCR driver pleads guilty to destroying artifacts

News 10 Now Syracuse

Contract carrier, brother stage fake robbery

WGXA TV

Police arrest postal carrier on indecent exposure accusations

Aiken (SC) Standard

Union Condemns USPS Invitation to‘Ignore Agreements’

APWU News

Authorities: Postal Worker Had Bomb-Making Materials

WRTV Indianapolis

How to escape jail in a mailbag

The National Post