Man Tries To Rob Post Office, Threatens To Detonate Bomb

WOWT TV Omaha

Rising costs make mass mailing efforts less popular

Arizona Republic

Former carrier gets three months for theft of mail

Alton (IL) Telegraph

Postal service cuts funds that promote food drive

Rochester (NY) Democrat and Chronicle

Idaho Courier Survives Postal Cost-Cutting

New York Times

50 years later, mail man still on job

Hattiesburg American

Man dressed as postal worker robs store in Brooklyn

New York Post

Time for the USPS to wake up and smell the coffee

Gene Del Polito commentary for Postcom.org

Postal service finances continued downward spiral in April

postalnews blog

Why USPS Must Consolidate Its Mail-Processing Network

Dead Tree Edition

Georgia: supervisor gets jail time for stealing $57,000

Florida Times Union

Northern Tier (PA) mail truck catches fire

Elmira (NY) Star-Gazette

Letter carrier babysits while grandma, neighbor douse fire

St Paul Pioneer Press

Post office refuses to deliver mail on one way street because carrier would have to turn left???

Portsmouth NH Herald

Mail carrier robbed at gunpoint

Harrisburg (PA) Patriot-News

Time for "PostalServiceDeathWatch.com?

Postcom notes the "Newspaper Death Watch" web site, and suggests the USPS is headed down the same path...
PostCom Home Page

Zip code change riles Arizona residents

Arizona Republic

Mail handler sentenced for false military leave claims

Indianapolis Star

Businessman pleads guilty to defrauding USPS

Buffalo News

Electric Drive Vehicles For Mail Delivery: Identifying Key Issues

Paper prepared by Michael Ravnitzky, who is on the staff of the of the Postal Regulatory Commission. See also the presentation "Develop Next Generation Postal LLV Using Stimulus Money for Electric Vehicles?", prepared by Erik Toomre of Mobility Future LLC

WV Contract Mail Carrier Sentenced for Mail Heist

WHSV TV Harrisonburg VA

Landlord's unpaid utility bill closes Post Office

Watertown (NY) Daily Times

Rasmussen poll: 74% Say $1 Postage Stamp Likely in Next 10 Years

Rasmussen Reports

Postal Service Pursues Hassle-Free Consolidations

Dead Tree Edition

The USPS Responds to GameFly Complaint, Denies Giving Preferential Treatment to Blockbuster

Shacknews

School bus crashes into PA post office - The York Daily Record

York Daily Record

League President responds to PMG on suspension of PM convention leave

League of Postmasters (.pdf file)

Hey Wait a Minute Mr. Postman

how not to deliver a parcel...
Brooklyn Heights Blog

"Augmnented reality" incorporated into new online ads for PO

Wall Street Journal via Postcom.org

The fight over rehiring retirees

Federal Times

Post Offices Present and Preserve Work of Hundreds of New Deal Artists

Washington Post

USPS wants to sell greeting cards in post offices

Federal Business Opportunities

Letter carriers honored for lifesaving efforts

Gloucester County (NJ) Times

Slidell postal worker guilty in theft of mail

Baton Rouge Advocate

Some postal operations might be shifted from Quincy IL to Springfield

Springfield IL State Journal-Register

Postal Service to pay less for homes to relocate workers

CNN

NAPUS Accuses USPS of Breach of Faith For Suspension of Convention Leave

NAPUS press release (.pdf file)

Live From the ACMA Forum: H.R. 22 Should Be Law By Year’s End

multichannelmerchant.com

NH Congressman seeks investigation of alleged falsification of carriers' timekeeping records

Nashua Telegraph

Postal service suspends postmasters' convention leave

League of Postmasters

Live From the ACMA Forum: Catalog Industry Broken

multichannelmerchant.com

Home confinement ordered for contractor who destroyed mail

Buffalo News

Lawmakers urge halt to closure of New Castle (PA) mail facility

Allegheny Times

Binghamton consolidation plan draws protests

Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin

House Panel Action on HR 22 Delayed, Congressional Interest in Five-Day Delivery Begins to Grow

National Association of Postal Supervisors Legislative and Regulatory Update

Mail-stashing gets Michigan postal worker probation

Detroit Free Press

Amazon’s New Service Goes Postal Over Slow Broadband

GigaOM

Postal Service Makes Strong Push for 5-Day Delivery

Washington Post

Chicago to lose last 24-hour post office

Chicago Sun-Times

GAO Report backs Philadelphia Daily News 'Dead Letter' stories

Philadelphia Daily News

Postal unions vow to battle Watertown consolidation

Watertown (NY) Daily Times

NAPS: Changes coming for Maintenance organization

National Association of Postal Supervisors

GAO Report: Network Rightsizing Needed to Help Keep USPS Financially Viable

Government Accountability Office (.pdf file)

Burrus Assails USPS Response to Financial Crisis

APWU News

Gas prices are latest threat to USPS bottom line

Federal Times

Liberating the Postal Service

Huffington Post

Printed Direct Mail Declining

Study suggests 39% decline over next 5 years
Brandweek

Summary of today's House postal oversight hearing

Postcom.org

USPS Vows It Won't Cut Service

Graphic Arts Online

Mail, packages scatter entire length of Indiana Toll Road

WSBT South Bend

USPS to hold meeting on Long Beach (CA) consolidation

Long Beach Press-Telegram

Arizona: Your Zip Codes May Change Soon

KSAZ TV Phoenix

Dead Tree Edition: L.L. Bean Says Ye$ to Summer Sale

Dead Tree Edition

USPS cuts 24 admin jobs in Providence as deficit looms

Providence Business News

Mail truck runs into creek, mail carrier dead

Beaufort (SC) Tribune

OIG confirms Philadelphia P&DC understated delayed mail volumes

"The Philadelphia P&DC reported about 19,000 delayed pieces of FCM in fiscal year (FY) 2008, similar-sized facilities had an average of 1.5 million pieces for the same period."
USPS OIG (.pdf file)

OIG Report on city carrier street performance

- reduce number of DOIS reports
- consider switching to evaluated routes
- increase GPS tracking of carriers
USPS OIG (.pdf file)

Postal workers criticize proposal to shift operations - Utica, NY - The Observer-Dispatch

Utica Observer-Dispatch

The United States Postal Service & Power Company?

Dead Tree Edition

Mail Carrier Attacks Dog?

Fox 5 TV New York

DMA Calls on Direct Marketers to Contact PRC Chairman to Encourage Endorsement of Proposed USPS Summer Sale

Direct Marketing Association

NPF: USPS financial situation drives morning panel

DMNews

Armed robber hits New Jersey PO

postalnews blog

Subcommittee Holds Hearing Tomorrow to Evaluate the Postal Service’s Cuts in Operations and Network

House Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the District of Columbia

USPS issues final, more-inclusive ‘summer sale’ guidelines

BtoB Magazine

Postal Service Expects Steeper Declines

Washington Post

Potter names new Chief Postal Inspector, VP for Finance and Planning

USPS News Link

Comarow: USPS "on the verge of collapse"

Letter to Congressman Stephen Lynch, via Postcom.org

Postal worker attacked on route in Gaithersburg

Gaithersburg (MD) Gazette

Greening your mail cuts costs as well

DMNews

Potter bullish on USPS' in recession: National Postal Forum

DMNews

Editorial: The USPS needs help

DMNews

Congressmen help convince the Postal Service to drop rural cost-cutting measures

New Richmond (WI) News

Postal cuts rankle rural residents

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

APWU questions Utica consolidation plan

Utica Observer-Dispatch

Letter Carrier to the Rescue

WGRZ TV Buffalo

Editorial: Raw deal- Pennsylvania artwork now under U.S. Postal Service copyright

Harrisburg Patriot-News

Charity beats mail carriers to food donations

Denver Post

Small Kansas Town Fights To Keep Post Office

KMBC Kansas City

Postage increase makes for pricier nuptials

Sacramento Bee

Scams now more frequent through snail mail

Beloit (WI) Daily News

Postal Rate Hikes Unlikely Next Year

Dead Tree Edition

Why shippers like zoneskipping

Logistics Management

APWU, Mail Hauler Agree to One-Month Contract Extension

APWU News

NAPUS Hotline for May 15

NAPUS

Postal Worker Benefit Cuts in the Works?

NAPS Legislative Update May 15 2009

Man sentenced to 3 years for dumping, hiding undelivered mail

Tampa Tribune

Excessing: Know Your Rights

APWU News

Update: Postal workers caught in drug sting (includes video)

Fox 25 News Boston

Reassigned postal workers facing big financial hardships

Tri State Defender (Memphis)

Update: Rural mail carrier accused of ID theft

Toledo Blade

Syracuse ex-postal worker gets probation for workers comp fraud

Syracuse Post-Standard

Five Massachusetts postal workers arrested on illegal prescription drug charges

Lawrence (MA) Eagle Tribune

Arbitrator orders supervisor reassigned for "get your gun" comment

NALC Local 3825 via PEN

"Truckload" of mail found in carrier's home

Gainesville Sun

NALC: Limited Duty Carriers suffer the ultimate harm

NALC Local 2902 Bulletin (click here for the complete bulletin)

R.R. Donnelley Stalks Quebecor World

Dead Tree Edition

Postal increase forces businesses to cut more

Miami Herald

Northern Virginia Chamber critical of postal consolidation

Northern Virginia Daily

Postage increase produces long waits

New Orleans Times Picayune

The mail must go through

Police: Letter carrier ran over firefighter’s foot
Warren (OH) Tribune Chronicle

Former post office fleet manager charged in kickback scheme

Cleveland Plain Dealer

The Men and Women behind the Eagle

FedSmith

USPS ad campaign to promote Priority Mail "brand awareness"

USPS News Link

Local Political Campaigns — The Forgotten Mail Volume Generator?

USPS OIG Blog

USPS launches enforcement initiative against business mailers

"The potential financial exposure for big national mailers can be seven or eight figures."
Postcom.org

Postal service: Worker stole $20,000 in stamps for mortgage

Detroit Free Press

Despite rate increase, opportunities abound to deliver efficient, cost-effective direct mail campaigns

BtoB Magazine

Junk Mail's Endless Summer

Huffington Post

Postal service launches direct-mail promotional campaign

BtoB Magazine

Letter Carriers’ Union President Young Says Frequent Postage Increases Can Be Avoided

NALC Press Release

What the May 11, 2009 Postal Rate Increase Mean For Your eBay Business

Auctioncope Auction Blog

Simpsons Stamps Rouse Ire

Roll Call

More than 3,500 sign petitions supporting Plant City post office

Tampa Tribune

Peel 'em and weep: First-class stamps rise 2 cents

Associated Press

Monkeying Around with Postal Pallets

Dead Tree Edition

Post Offices Closes, Town Mad

KSFY TV Sioux Falls SD

Man plows into East Anchorage post office

KTUU TV Anchorage

Harrisburg museum delivers collection of post office art

Johnstown Tribune Democrat

Postal workers in Arizona help find missing child

Sierra Vista Herald

Forever Stamps not lasting long

Athens (GA) Banner Herald

UPDATE: USPS Agrees To Pay Insurance Claim On Lost Laptops

Consumerist

A more “green” Postal Service?

Federal Times

This week's NAPUS Hotline

NAPUS Hotline

APWU Initiates Dispute Over Revisions to Contract Postal Unit Handbook

APWU - Industrial Relations

After Postal Plus closes, customer sorts own mail at Spring Hill post office

St. Petersburg Times

USPS mulls cost-cutting plan to sort letters in East New York

New York Daily News

Postal Service reconsiders; contract renewed for Idaho wilderness pilot

Associated Press

USPS: Your Five New, Insured Laptops That We Lost Are Worth $74

Consumerist

APWU to picket at New Castle PA Plant Friday

USPS is "studying consolidating the majority of the New Castle mail-processing operations into the Pittsburgh GMF"
Ellwood City Ledger

NY postal worker arrested for alleged misappropriation of funds

EmpireStateNews.net

Loisiana postal worker pleads guilty to theft of money orders

Press release

Ex-police chief gets probation for DUI while "driving for the Postal Service"?

Kansas City Star

Watertown (NY) AMP study suggests changes

"Reassigning 9 workers could save $1.15m"?
Watertown Daily Times

Postal Service Ends Second Quarter with $1.9 Billion Loss

USPS Press Release - see also the Federal Times: Postal Service suffers more losses in second quarter

USPS: Ve Haf Vays of Making You Use Our Barcode

Dead Tree Edition

PMG:"Postal Service desperately needs help from Congress"

Letter from PMG Jack Potter to "selected Members of Congress" via PostCom

Simpsons Get ‘Stamping Ovation’ To Tune of 1 Billion Stamps

USPS press release (.pdf file)

Feeding America's Hungry

The Nation’s Largest One-Day Food Drive, May 9
USPS Press release - see also the NALC Food Drive page

Busted pipe damages 5,000 pieces of mail

Charlotte Observer

GAO: Intelligent Mail Benefits May Not Be Achieved if Key Risks Are Not Addressed

"lacks a comprehensive strategy,... information on costs and savings"
GAO Report via Postcom.org

Maine letter carriers to make special delivery for pets on May 9

Portsmouth (NH) Herald

USPS Notifies APWU of Flu Guidelines

APWU News

‘FMLA Restoration Act’ Introduced

APWU News

Postal workers allege USPS supervisor treats them 'inhumanely'

Orange County (CA) Register

Postal customer asks if window sales pitches are really necessary

"I have better things to do than stand there and listen to something I have no desire to hear."
Winston Salem Journal

Wild USPS Mail Delivery Services

"Crazy Technology for Sending Mail through the Years"
Popular Mechanics

San Francisco City Attorney Sues Postal Service on Behalf of SRO Tenants

BeyondChron

NALC President will retire soon

NALC Bulletin

Recession forces new focus in e-commerce marketing

"online business is better suited to withstand an economic downturn than physical stores or catalogs..."
Associated Press

DMA Nonprofit Federation Partners with US Monitor On First Ever Mail Delivery Study

DMA press release

UK Government rejects plan to make Royal Mail a not-for-profit company

The Guardian

Redplum mailer lets marketers dissect why some mail practices are not ideal

DMNews.com

Editorial: U.S. Postal Service sends junk mail

NY Daily News

Postal detectives crack the case of messy, missing addresses

Glendale REC is one of just five sites still operating
Arizona Republic

No one at fault in rural carrier's death

Bureau County (IL) News

Small post offices hang in

Kentucky Enquirer

As mail dwindles, post office struggles

Columbus Dispatch

As postal service swims in red ink, cost of sending mail to Mexico to jump nearly 10%

New Haven Register

NDC Presentation details plans for redesigned BMC network

Postcom.org

New Kindle aimed at newspaper readers?

Channel Wire

Details of "Summer Sale" Announced

Postal Regulatory Commission (.pdf file) see also Dead Tree Edition

First-class ripoff

News experiment finds pricier priority mail isn't faster than 42-cent stamp
NY Daily News

Post office stamped out by lost lease

NY Daily News

Federal Administrative Judge has Harsh Words for San Francisco USPS Management

Postal Employee Network

Irritation rises at old stamping grounds

"Forever is how long it takes to buy a stamp at the post office. "
Buffalo News

Postal Workers and Paper Dust

HealthNewsDigest.com

FedEx lawsuit alleges UPS 'most reliable' ad is false

Memphis Commercial Appeal

California Postal Worker Charged With Opening Cards and Stealing Money

Associated Press

Congressional Budget Plan Recognizes Postal Challenge, But …

eNAPUS Legislative & Political Bulletin

SC postal worker charged with mail theft

The State (Columbia SC)

Non-Profit execs assess impact of possible mail delivery cutbacks

NonProfit Times

Mail carrier caught with meth

Redding (CA) Record Searchlight

Jointly issued details of MIARAP agreement now available

Document "details the parties' mutual understanding of the provisions of the Modified Interim Alternate Route Adjustment Process"
NALC web site (6MB .pdf file)

USPS doesn't have antiviral drugs for carriers who would deliver meds in pandemic

Washington Post

Pitbulls maul Connecticut letter carrier

WTNH TV New Haven

Postal worker’s call prevents house fire

Tomah (WI) Journal

Waxman asks postmaster general about mailbox removals

Los Angeles Times

Editorial- Go postal on buttleggers: Congress must shut down mail-order cigarette tax cheats

New York Daily News

The Big Debate: Print or Digital Media - Which is more Sustainable?

Press release for The Green Media Conference

Arbitrator Grants Postal Nurses Raises, Job Security

APWU News