Dispute among Senate Dems threatens postal reform before May 15 deadline

The Hill

Satisfaction Guaranteed (not!): Redefining "service" — the Postal Way

Save the Post Office

Northern Virginia residents battle to save local post offices

Office of Rep. Gerald E. "Gerry" Connolly (D-VA) News Release

Video: Postal Truck Strikes 6-Year-Old Child

Fox Atlanta via postalnews blog

Defendants Convicted in Widespread Identity Theft Scheme

Mail Carrier Obtained U.S. Citizenship Under Stolen Identity and Then Stole Identities of Over 85 Victims on Her Mail Route
postalnews blog

Mail-sort centers' fate unresolved, with Congress in recess

Middletown NY Times Herald-Record

Postal worker confesses to stealing $40,000 worth of valuables in mail

New York Daily News

USPS Plans to Allow Mailer Logos and Marks on Permit Indicia

postalnews blog

More on this week's Senate hearing, and the future of reform legislation

eNAPUS Legislative and Political Bulletin

Maintenance Craft PSE National Dispute Resolved

APWU News

Mail stopped after post office gets it dead wrong

KVAL TV Eugene OR

House postal bill would save billions, CBO says

Government Executive

West Virginia Senator Introduces Postal Service Bill

Press release

APWU Calls for April Actions to Save the Postal Service

APWU News

Reward offered for info on suspects involved in assault on letter carrier

Newark (DE) Post

Postman’s heroics draw adoration from neighbors

San Diego Community News Group

National Postal Forum - This Ain't Your Grandfather's Post Office

eCommerce Bytes

Opinion: Cloned Postal Service op-ed offers small comfort

Kennebec Journal

What happened to postal reform?

Washington Post

Another LLV bursts into flames- carrier rescues mail

WKMG TV Orlando

US Senate considering commission to review USPS business model

Post & Parcel

Why letter carriers can’t expect a retirement incentive anytime soon

postalnews blog

Wisconsin carrier pleads guilty to driving postal van while intoxicated

Northwoods River News - Rhinelander, Wisconsin

Magazines' Digital Circulation More Than Doubles-- But Remains Small

Advertising Age

Barbara Quirk: Hightower’s take on Post Office is right on

The Cap Times

PRC Chides Cash-Strapped Postal Service for Pricing Issues

eCommerce Bytes

People Will Tell You That You're Late and You'll Hate Them for It

The diary of a TE letter carrier
San Diego Reader

NYC clerk gets 5 years probation for workers comp fraud

postalnews blog

PRC Approves Sequel to USPS's QR Code Promo

Catalog Age

Lawmakers seek to limit postal executive compensation

The Hill

Why Merchants Should Move to Intelligent Mail Barcode Full Service

MultiChannelMerchant

Hallmark Cards to close Sunrise Greetings subsidiary

Kansas City Star

Florida letter carrier busted for trying to "deliver" 10 pounds of pot

KeysNet.com

Postal Service bars TV cameras from meeting with businesses on service changes

KYTV Springfield MO

Mail burned in fire at Ohio Post Office

WXIX TV Cincinnatti

Retired postal worker in American Samoa charged with stealing money, stamps

Honolulu Star-Advertiser

USPS February Financials: Year to date loss from operations: $46 Million- from PAEA: $5.6 Billion

postalnews blog

Banks find opportunity in U.S. Postal Service woes

Reuters

Postmaster general supports ‘practically everything’ in draconian Issa-Ross bill

NALC via postalnews blog

USPS Planning Retirement Incentives To Help Downsizing, Donahoe Testifies

Dead Tree Edition

Bernie Sanders says steps may lessen impact of postal cuts

Burlington Free Press

GOP Senators block GOP authored postal reform bill in bid to help Big Oil?

postalnews blog

Cloture Vote Fails on S. 1789 USPS Reform Bill

Postmasters.org via postalnews blog

USPS plan to set up own health plan faces lawmakers' skepticism

Federal News Radio

APWU: Senate Debate on Postal Bill Expected in Mid-April

APWU News

Highlights from today's House committee hearing on USPS health benefit plans

Postcom

Largest Postal Union Calls on Senate to Reject S. 1789 As Currently Drafted

Press release

Postmasters Hear Frank Assessments of Challenges Facing the USPS

NAPUS

A Final Tale from the CPU Hit List

Going Postal

USPS Seeks 'Soft Landing' For Downsized Employees, Donahoe Says

Dead Tree Edition

NALC: Senate will take up S. 1789 after Easter recess

postalnews blog

Modern Times at the Postal Service: Network Rationalization gives work to idle machines

Save the Post Office

Expert: USPS pullout would jeopardize federal health insurance program

Federal Times

Postcom: S. 1789 on hold until after Easter recess?

postalnews blog

Sanders aims to save postal service jobs

Barre Montpelier Times Argus

Senate turns attention to the Postal Service

Washington Post

Post office debate triggers lobbying

New York Times

Australia Post launches online letterbox

Adelaide Advertiser

Editorial: Wrong message- USPS executives not making sacrifices like others

Daily Independent (Ashland, KY)

It’s Show Time: NAPS Leg/Reg Update – March 24, 2012

postalnews blog

NAPUS: Senate Finally Ready to Move on Postal Bill

NAPUS

USPS still can't get its story straight on secret survey

Save the Post Office

APWU Makes Progress On ‘Shared Services’

APWU News

NAPUS Board Prepares to Deal with Tough Issues

postalnews blog

Video: Arizona woman blames post office for losing 10 packages

postalnews blog

Congressman requests immediate review of “loophole” the USPS may be using to close offices

postalnews blog

Mail handlers’ contract talks move to mediation process

postalnews blog

Postal Service steers attention away from 'flawed' revenue study

Government Executive

North Carolina supervisor guilty of workers comp fraud

Watauga Democrat

Man Who Fatally Hit Postman, Severing His Legs, Charged With Vehicular Manslaughter

LAist

Why the Postal Service is Needed: the Digital Divide

Courier Express and Postal Observer

NALC: Senate could vote on S. 1789 on Monday

NALC

Postal Service could play vital role during anthrax attack

Federal Times

Postal bill vote to be held over Mikulski's opposition

Salisbury MD Daily Times

Kansas OIC indicted for money order fraud - postalnews blog

Press release

77 year old Kansas letter carrier admits not delivering mail

Lawrence Journal World

Postal reform bill to hit Senate floor next week

The Hill

Mikulski places hold on postal legislation “in objection to flawed USPS consolidation plan”

Press release

NALC’s Rolando: Ryan GOP budget a “path to inequality and national decline”

postalnews blog

Wisconsin letter carrier cited for drunk driving while delivering mail

Northwoods River News - Rhinelander, Wisconsin

Postal Service Delivers a Record share of FedEx Ground Shipments

Courier Express and Postal Observer

Secret market survey reveals USPS plans would cost over $5 billion in lost revenue

Save the Post Office

Rhode Island mail handler to plead guilty in card theft

Associated Press

Feds probe possible theft of passport payments at Pennsylvania post office

Wilkes-Barre Citizens Voice

Postal workers union warns of impact of closings

Worcester Telegram & Gazette

To cut costs, Postal Service turns to groceries

New York Times

Senators to PMG: Clean House before Cutting Rural Post Offices

Press release

Politics, Network Optimization and Early Retirement

Courier Express and Postal Observer

USPS has cut 27,547 career jobs in the last 12 months

... but it has spent $1.3 billion on overtime so far this fiscal year
postalnews blog

Letter: Greed is undermining the noble work of USPS

Wilmington (DE) News Journal

Connecticut postal worker due in court in theft case

Associated Press

Your Local Post Office: From Public Service to Profit Pi�ata

Politicus USA

What UPS-TNT Merger Could Mean for Postal Service

ChiefMarketer.com

California postal clerk pleads guilty to embezzlement

Sacramento Bee

Cash4Gold missing jewelry still not found

WFTS TV Tampa

USPS Targets Small Businesses for Growth

Press release

Oakland postal employee charged with wire fraud

San Francisco Chronicle

MIT forum discusses USPS future

The Tech

Sen. Susan Collins faults the Postal Service (and the Postmaster General)

"What’s noteworthy is not so much what Collins said, but how she said it—criticizing Postmaster General Pat Donahoe in sharply personal terms"
Federal Times

"Because we said so": The unassailable logic of postal managers and their salaries

Save the Post Office

UK Government to take on Royal Mail pensions

postalnews blog

When Will USPS VERA Announcements Come, What Will be Offered, and Who Will Be Eligible?

Courier Express and Postal Observer

NAPS wooing postmasters?

postalnews blog

Congress should stop targeting federal employees

Federal Times

Editorial: The USPS vs. Maryland's Eastern Shore

Salisbury Daily Times

Could Royal Mail’s Approach to Postal Retail Services Work in the United States?

Courier Express and Postal Observer

Idyll Banter: Junk mail? Worth more than you know

Burlington Free Press

Editorial: Rural post offices must be preserved

Salem (OR) Statesman Journal

It was a very good year: The salaries of USPS executives

Save the Post Office

Arizona letter carrier convicted on mail theft charges

Press release

90 days in jail for Detroit VMF technician in bribery case

WLNS TV Lansing

Delaware letter carrier robbed at gunpoint

WPVI TV Philadelphia

Senator calls on PMG to visit rural post offices before closing them

Billings Gazette

Maryland Senators outraged over lack of transparency or public input on plant closing

Press release

Optimized Postal Service Infrastructure

Courier Express and Postal Observer

Man Who Robbed Postal Carrier Sentenced To 13 Years

WCMH TV Columbus OH

Updated USPS Employee Salary Database

Updated as of February 2012
Asbury Park Press

If at first you don’t succeed, try revising the survey

Save the Post Office

USPS Early Retirement, RIF, and Reasignments Rumors

Courier Express and Postal Observer

Teen faces felonies for allegedly shooting mail truck with pellet gun

Gwinnett (GA) Daily Post

Drug-dealing mailman walks after rehab stint

Gloucester Times

Mail delivery delayed, customers in Maryland say

Gaithersburg Gazette

Even money-losing rural post offices must stay open, Senator says

Salem (OR) Statesman Journal

Hopes of a Senate hearing for US postal reform “within weeks”

Post & Parcel

North American advertising spend to increase in 2012

"...direct mail has and will continue to hold steady"
Direct Marketing News

The U.S. Postal Parcel Service

DC Velocity

Congress’s war on the post office

The Postal Service faces a threat greater than email or economics: Politics
Salon

A Stunning Admission: USPS Hasn’t Considered Combined Effect of Proposed Changes

APWU News

Reid says he'll plow ahead on postal reform

The Hill

Postal workers: ‘We can’t do this by ourselves’

Frederick MD News-Post

Connolly Calls on USPS to Release Hidden Report

PotomacLocal.com

Dead Tree Edition: Printed Magazines or Digital Magazines: Do We Have To Choose?

Dead Tree Edition

South Carolina town again fights to keep post office open

DatelineCarolina

Gene Del Polito: It’s Time To Eliminate The USPS Monopoly

Courier Express and Postal Observer

Three keys to saving the U.S. Postal Service

Baltimore Sun

VER announcement coming?

postalnews blog

The Case of the Missing Market Research Study

Save the Post Office

Postcom introduces quarterly journal for "mail owners and end users of the mail"

Postcom.org (.pdf file)

Gene DelPolito: A New Approach for Government Provision of Postal Services

Courier Express and Postal Observer

Communities miss perks of old post offices

Parkersburg WV News and Sentinel

U.S. Postal Service Cutbacks May Impact Large Customers

Long Beach Business Journal

NALC: Issa continues campaign to dismantle the Postal Service

postalnews blog

Video: New APWU TV ad

APWU

Postal Service defends executive salaries as lawmaker looks to cap pay

Government Executive

Direct Mail: Alive And Kicking - Forbes

Forbes

Great minds think alike, and so do USPS District Managers

Save the Post Office

Gene DelPolito: The Impact of Congressional Inaction

Courier Express and Postal Observer

Best Date to Retire Tips

Government Executive

Workers, supporters protest closing of Maryland mail sorting facility

Frederick News-Post

Police searching for man in Kentucky post office theft

WYMT TV Hazard KY

Gene Del Polito: The Prospect for Any USPS Reform Legislation This Year

Courier Express and Postal Observer

Katherine Tobin to return to USPS Board of Governors

postalnews blog

What Should Be Done to Save the Postal Service?

Letters to the Editor of the New York Times from the DMA and the NALC

USPS takes advantage of disaster to eliminate door to door delivery in Joplin MO

postalnews blog

Closure of Frederick MD Mail Processing Facility 'utter disaster'

Hagerstown Herald Mail

Letter: Postal profits diverted

Pueblo Chieftain

Why Not Allow Phased Retirement For Postal Workers?

Dead Tree Edition

Postal Supervisors: Congress is Causing the Postal Service’s Problems

NAPS Leg/Reg Update

Postal worker who discovered children living in school bus speaks out

KENS TV San Antonio

‘Hero’ Mailman Stops Attempted Abduction In Bucks County PA

KYW TV Philadelphia

USPS Salutes Girl Scouts’ 100th Anniversary with Forever Stamp

postalnews blog

Private mail haulers try to steer through uncertainty of Postal Service changes

KYTV Springfield MO

Containers fall off mail truck in Amity PA, block lane

Reading Eagle

In Easton, loss of mail center would ripple through economy

Baltimore Sun

The Post Office is not broke--and it hasn't taken any of our tax money since 1971

"Answering the lies that privatization zealots and FedEx are peddling "
Hightower Lowdown

Congresswoman Announces Legislation To Cap USPS Executive Pay

postalnews blog

More AMP Studies Released: Network Rationalization not looking very rational

Save the Post Office

Gene DelPolito on the Status of Postal Reform Bills

Courier Express and Postal Observer

In Meeting With PMG, Sen. Brown Pushes To Minimize Ohio Closures, Preserve Rural Post Offices, And Maintain Six Day Delivery

Press release

Best time to retire: Not now!

Federal News Radio

How Postal Service's cost-cutting moves may affect Philadelphia area

Philadelphia Inquirer

Network Rationalization Operational Consolidation Studies

Postalmag.com

Senate approves 'phased retirements' for feds

Federal Times

Lost and Found: Mail Unites Lost Pets with Owners

National Postal Forum Industry Blog

California postal worker dies days after pit bull attack

North County Times

USPS spokesperson retracts "guarantee" that no one will be fired in plant consolidation

Queens Chronicle

Kansas postal worker indicted for mail theft

Press release

How Republicans crippled the United State Postal Service

Jersey Journal

"We must not be rushed into false choices": Two Congressmen call for sanity

Save the Post Office

California letter carrier hospitalized after pit bull attack

North County Times

Closure of US post offices threatens smalltown America

The Guardian

Arizona Congressman Introduces Bill to Prevent Post Office Closures In High-Growth ZIP Codes

Press release

Postal reform may be the only thing our do-nothing Congress does this year

postalnews blog

Burrus: Confusing Dates

Burrus Journal

Rural carrier arbitration update

Ruralinfo.net

USPS will suspend consolidation efforts during “election mailing season”

Press release

More numbers on the AMP studies, and they still don’t add up, not even close

"Now that we can see the final AMP studies for more than half the facilities, it looks like the Postal Service may not save anything at all."
Save the Post Office

What kind of a Postal Service do you want?

Save the Post Office's Steve Hutkins on the USPS OIG Blog

Post office clerk arrested in Connecticut

Middletown Press

Connecticut congressmen push for vote on bill to cut wasteful spending, not USPS jobs

Press release

Hispanic Letter Carriers Instructed Not to Speak in "Native Tongue" on Workroom Floor

Tom's Postal Blog

Elderly driver crashes into Arizona post office

Eastern Arizona Courier: News

Carper: PRC’s legitimacy and role endangered by delay in issuing advisory opinion

postalnews blog

Burrus: APWU contract was changed after ratification vote

Burrus Journal

USPS sues APWU over the size of employee lockers

St. Paul Business Journal

Editorial: ‘Study’ justifies bad decision

Postal Service relies on a flawed report in attempt to close Buffalo mail facility
Buffalo News

The U.S. Postal Service is worth saving

"Remove the unfair mandates, and the financial crisis disappears."
Bergen Record

Ohio Letter Carrier Admits To Trashing Mail

WBNS TV Columbus

Gay postal worker sues over alleged discrimination

Key West Citizen

Texas Congressman Steps Up Efforts To Save Contract Post Office

KWTX Waco

Phony Postal Inspector Busted For Swiping Pot Shipments

The Smoking Gun

MSPB Issues Precedent-Setting Decision in NRP Cases

APWU News

Postal Service may RIF up to 2,000; buyouts, early outs also expected

Federal Times

Who gets the blame for postal service problems?

"Congress, which has a habit of ignoring pressing problems, especially during election years, shares a lot of the blame"
Tulsa World

Questions for Mr. Hammond: The Senate considers a nomination to the PRC

Save the Post Office

Decades of delivery

Youngstown’s Postal Service ... from boom to bust
Youngstown Vindicator

Postal carriers brave the darkness

Chicago Daily Herald

Postal worker: 'They're tearing apart my business'

Wallingford Record Journal

Local leaders demand to see postal facility study

Dayton Daily News

Editorial: It’s galling- Postal Service’s top executives get big salaries

Cumberland Times-News

The numbers on Network Rationalization just don't add up

Save the Post Office

Dennis Ross claims he isn't an idiot

Government Executive

Ex-post office worker facing charges of theft

La Porte Herald Argus

More Stories from the CPU Hit List

Going Postal

House GOP readying another attack on federal workers

NALC e-Activist Network

Rep. Meehan Announces Independent Review of Southeastern PA Plant Consolidation

postalnews blog

Post office at former leper colony on Molokai saved from closing

Press release

Congressman Connolly Defends PRC Chairman Goldway as Advocate of Innovation

Save the Post Office

USPS, Supervisors fail to reach agreement on pay package

National Association of Postal Supervisors

USPS Looks to Hire Hundreds of Rural Carriers in Pennsylvania

WPMT York PA

Tucson Mail Service Going to Hell in a Hand Basket (via Phoenix)

Tucson Weekly

Postal workers give management a vote of "No Confidence" on VOE survey, but who's listening?

Save the Post Office

USPS Central Repair Facility to Remain in Topeka, Expand

Press release

Editorial: There is time, and there are ways to save postal centers

"... it is now clear that the USPS was only going through the motions when it asked for public input into its plans"
Youngstown Vindicator

Franken: Mail cuts hurt businesses, families

Bemidji Pioneer

Wisconsin letter carrier stole 9,000 pieces of mail

LaCrosse Tribune

Buffalo plant study spurs questions

Fails to account for shipping costs, Congressman "livid"
Buffalo News

Senator, BOG exchange volleys over USPS executive pay

Billings Gazette

Congressman calls on USPS to delay closures, consolidations until Congress can act on comprehensive postal legislation

Press release

Lawmakers question postal regulator chief's travel as USPS bleeds cash

The Hill

Postal Cuts a Dead Letter in Congress

Wall Street Journal

Postal Workers Need Support from the 99%

Labor Notes

How Many Postal Workers Will Consolidations Affect?

APWU News

Minnesota man sentenced to 18 months for manufacturing fake postage stamps

postalnews blog

Video: Postal Worker’s Legs Severed In Freak Fatal Accident

CBS Los Angeles

Pay raise or retiree COLA: Timing is everything!

Federal News Radio

Florida: Mail truck bursts into flames

Naples Daily News

Marketers split on the impact of mixed postal promotions

Direct Marketing News

Editorial: USPS should close Boston site, allow for expanded South Station

Boston Globe

Editorial: Reforming the Postal Service

New York Times

Postal worker indicted in Alabama PO shooting

postalnews blog