Monday, June 30

USPS announces “up to 82″ facilities to be consolidated next year

Postcom

APWU to Launch Vigorous Campaign Against Plant Closures, Consolidations

APWU News

All in a day’s work: carrier saves a life, continues route

good.postalnews.com

Editorial: Keeping the USPS alive

The Daily Iowan

Subtle Violations of Postal Regulations Can Cost Mailers Millions

Dead Tree Edition

SEIU Votes to Boycott Staples

APWU News

First upright $2 Jenny Invert pane auctioned

Linns Stamp News

Video: Linns Stamp News Monday Morning Brief for June 30

stamps.postalnews.com

Protesters against USPS-Staples partnership demonstrate in Downtown Berkeley

The Daily Californian

New Postal Museum exhibit: "Behind the Badge: The US Postal Inspection Service"

Smithsonian National Postal Museum

Video: PMG says USPS can provide 15 minute notice of package delivery

postalnews blog

Wednesday, June 25

House Committee Passes Amendment Restoring Six Day Delivery Requirement

Press release

Corpus Christi letter carrier threatened with gun

KRIS-javascript:void(0)TV

Maryland Letter Carrier Struck by Vehicle, Flown to Shock Trauma

WHAG TV Hagerstown

USPS revenue up 3% in May- YTD operating surplus $1.3 billion

postalnews blog

Video: USPS emergency drill prepares workers for the real thing

WLBZ TV Bangor

Casting call: city letter carriers, retail clerks needed for USPS ad campaign

USPS News Link

Video: Connecticut postal workers in court on fraud, larceny charges

WTNH New Haven

CBO: Issa’s postal bill would save USPS $23.6 billion, cost taxpayers $6.6 billion

postalnews blog

Postal Service vehicle flips onto side from collision with minivan in Kalamazoo

Kalamazoo Gazette

Issa silences Democrats, tells them they aren’t allowed to question his “integrity”

postalnews blog

Monday, June 23

Decline in FedEx's SmartPost volumes laid at the feet of Amazon's defection

DC Velocity

APWU: The Video the PMG Doesn’t Want You to See

APWU News

Police charge 82 year old postal worker with mail theft

postalnews.com

USPS Helps Restaurants Reach New Patrons With Every Door Direct Mail

What will the USPS call “Every Door Direct Mail” when they stop doing door to door delivery?
Press release

Valassis pulls newspaper coupons, swithches to USPS

Tampa Bay Times

Video: Linns Stamp News Monday Morning Brief for June 23

stamps.postalnews.com

NALC: Saturday mail delivery “on the chopping block” in Congress this week

NALC News

Postal Workers Due In Court In Workers Comp Fraud Case

CBS Connecticut

Thursday, June 19

Letter carrier accused of killing dog with a rock surrenders to police

postalnews.com

Kentucky postmaster sentenced for mail theft

Ledger Independent

Video: Florida Letter Carrier Honored After Saving Woman’s Life

postalnews.com

FedEx reports drop in SmartPost volume

postalnews.com

For National Postal Workers Day, Neopost asks: “What is the nicest thing a postal worker has ever done for you?

postalnews.com

Snail mail snooping safeguards not followed

POLITICO.com

The world’s largest postal network wants to become a bank—and it should

Quartz

USPS solicits bids for new delivery vehicles

postalnews.com

NALC: Say it ain’t so, Joe- USPS CFO tries to bamboozle the WSJ

NALC News

Canada Post workers rally in Halifax

CTV News

Dog attack on mail carrier shuts down delivery to owner, 3 neighbors

Bergen Record

Anti-gay group refuses mail with Harvey Milk stamp

Wonkette

Wednesday, June 18

Wyoming letter carrier dies after losing control of vehicle

Casper Star Tribune

Felony arrest warrant issued for letter carrier who killed Yorkie with rock

Fort Worth Star Telegram

Video: USPS apologizes for Guam address change fiasco

postalnews.com

Alabama letter carriers credited with saving customers' lives

AL.com

Franking Mail Subject of Legislation from Rob Woodall, Tammy Duckworth

Roll Call

Pilger NE: The mail survives a tornado, the post office doesn't

AL.com

N.J. woman rear-ended by mail truck driver busy eating a sandwich

New York Daily News

Postal Service Explores Sensors, Data Collection Via Vehicles, Mailboxes, Machines, Letter Carriers'

Weekly Standard

Tuesday, June 17

Judge dismisses grand theft charge against ex-Idaho City postmaster

Idaho Statesman

USPS claims rate hike didn’t cause drop in periodical volumes

USPS News Link

U.S. Postal Service: ‘The Financial Hole We’re In Is So Deep’

Corporate Intelligence - WSJ

UPS follows FedEx, introduces dimensional pricing

Press release

Man who twice stole from USPS gets 7-year sentence for theft of special mail key

postalcrime.com

Postal Reform - Laying the Cards on the Table

Quad/Graphics Leading Change blog

Letter Carriers’ 2014 Annual Food Drive collected 73 million pounds of food

good.postalnews.com

Vermont letter carrier rescues visually impaired woman from lunging dog

good.postalnews.com

OIG: USPS needs to act on replacing its delivery fleet

USPS OIG via postalnews.com

Cincinnati Postal Service to hold full-scale emergency exercise

WXIX TV Cincinnatti

Video: San Francisco Postal Service ranks amongst worst recycling offenders

KTVU San Francisco

Australia Post deliveries could be reduced to three a week by end of year

Aus.PostNe.ws

Monday, June 16

NALC: Fact-checking The Washington Post’s ‘Fact Checker’

NALC News

With Cantor Gone, House GOP Drops Postal Rescue for Highway Fund

postalnews.com

Alert postal workers help catch a thief

postalcrime.com

Farmers markets featured on upcoming USPS forever stamps

stamps.postalnews.com

How many people would be ‘out of work’ if USPS eliminates Saturday delivery?

Washington Post

USPS Suspends Delivery Confirmation in Underperforming Countries

EcommerceBytes

Pitney Bowes Introduces Mailstream On Demand for Off-Site Communications Production and Delivery

Press release

Imperforate U.S. stamps in the mailstream

Linns Stamp News

Video: Linns Stamp News Monday Morning Brief for June 16

stamps.postalnews.com

The Postal Service Is Not a Congressional Piggy Bank

Roll Call Opinion

Friday, June 13

Seven Connecticut postal workers charged with unemployment benefit fraud

postalnews.com

Is Staples trying to bribe teachers so they won’t support postal workers?

postalnews.com

Potential Participants in Class-Action Settlement Should Exercise Caution, APWU Warns

APWU News

Video: Woman in wheelchair fights to move mailbox off highway

postalnews.com

Iowa postal worker gets jail time for mail theft

postalcrime.com

Appeals court upholds firing of 44 year Chicago postal employee

postalnews.com

Not much chance for postal reform any time soon

Linns Stamp News: Washington Postal Scene

Pitney Bowes Expands Direct Mail Services in Southeastern U.S.

Press release

Thursday, June 12

Mail thieves strike again in Wichita

KSN Wichita

Video: Postmaster General’s State of the Business message for employees June 12 2014

postu.be

Pennsylvania window clerk stole $55K in money orders and cash

postalnews.com

Will Cantor's Defeat Sink the Highway-Postal Delivery Deal?

Direct Marketing News

Video: Iowa letter carrier helps save elderly customer’s life

postu.be

Video: Mail not being delivered to 300 Imperial MO apartment units

KMOV St Louis

Money order scheme gets Alabama postal worker home detention and probation

postalnews.com

Video: Colorado letter carrier honored for helping police nab burglars

KMGH Denver

Cresco TX downtown business owners and USPS reach compromise on CBUs

Cresco Times

Wednesday, June 11

Albany DM promoted to Manager, Package Platform

postalnews.com via postcom

Suspects allegedly stole 29 residential mailboxes and tossed them from interstate highway overpass

masslive.com

National Education Association, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists Join ‘Stop Staples’ Movement

APWU News

Colorado clerk saves co-worker’s life

USPS News Link

Video: USPS Packages Go Missing or Undelivered in Ohio

WSYX Columbus

Video: Canada Post union releases list of first homes to lose mail delivery

CanadaPostNews.com

Postal Service yanks Fort Worth Post Office off the market

Fort Worth Business Press

Global postal downturn will leave letterboxes feeling lonely

Sydney Morning Herald

Police identify Butler PA mail carrier struck by car on Friday

Butler Eagle

Kokomo letter carrier’s husband ejected from city council meeting on dog ordinance

postalnews.com

Australia Post workers consider striking

Aus.PostNe.ws

Friday, June 6

Video: Mad man attacks Oklahoma letter carrier with a bat

KFOR Oklahoma City

Boston postal worker gets 2 years in prison for stealing iPhones from mail

postalcrime.com

Hot Rods Forever Stamps on Sale at Post Offices Today

stamps.postalnews.com

USPS tells window clerks to be on the lookout for altered money orders

postalnews.com

APWU: Honoring One of Our Own on Anniversary of Normandy Invasion

APWU News

Poor Moya! Royal Mail boss’s pay was cut by $1 million- to a mere $2.3 million!

postalnews.co.uk

PRC Commissioner says radical change needed for USPS to survive

Watertown Daily Times

Residents of Alabama town concerned for future of post office

Shelby County Reporter

Jersey Post marks 70th anniversary of D-Day

postalnews.co.uk

OIG says USPS violated its own contracting rules in Diebold deal

postalnews.com

North Carolina letter carrier honored for saving woman’s life

Winston-Salem Journal

Video: USPS Systems at Work

USPS Video via postu.be

The Monopoly That Haunts the U.S. Paper Market: USPS

Dead Tree Edition

Thursday, June 5

New Jersey letter carrier saves woman's life

Bridgewater-Raritan NJ News - The Alternative Press

Cleveland VMF manager charged with extorting bribes in exchange for work contracts

Cleveland Plain Dealer

Postal Banking to the rescue in both Canada and the U.S.

Canadian Union of Postal Workers

Mail carrier robbed at gunpoint in Tukwila WA

KOMO TV Seattle

USPS losing millions to fuel-guzzling contractors

FierceGovernment

Canada Post suspends service in Moncton as RCMP manhunt continues

CanadaPostNews.com

Houston letter carrier's murderer to be released from prison

KPRC Houston

Scammers mirror USPS web site

Maryville MO Daily Forum

Georgia: USPS tells local candidate she can't campaign on PO property

Canton-Sixes, GA Patch

Wednesday, June 4

Staples exec mocks postal workers at “town hall” meeting

NH Labor News via postalnews.com

Idaho postal worker gets probation for embezzlement

postalcrime.com

USPS pays $55K in EPA fines for storage tank violations in Virginia

postalnews.com

Stolen mailbox found empty in Phoenix alley

ABC15 Arizona

North Dakota postmaster charged with taking funds

Associated Press

Post Office, Mailers Are at an Historic Juncture

Direct Marketing News

When work burns down: New Jersey letter carrier fights fire, then delivers mail

NJ.com

Siemens gives up trying to sell mail processing equipment division

postalnews.com

Postal service blows it! Why Wal-Mart and Google are cleaning its clock

"Postal Service has long resisted offering banking services. Here's why they -- and we -- could live to regret it"
Salon

Video: Customers react to the theft of 20,000 pieces of their mail

postalnews.com

Cost of Using eBay Hassle Free Returns Goes Up

EcommerceBytes

Tuesday, June 3

Mail collection box stolen in Phoenix; $10K reward offered

KTVK TV Phoenix

USPS disputes article that questioned value of Village Post Offices

liteblue.usps.gov

Mostly Forgotten History: The early United States Postal Service

Daily Kos

USPS May Delay Next Price Increase

Dead Tree Edition

Postal Unions Express Joint Opposition to USPS Highway Fund Scheme

postalnews.com

Staples Execs Get an Earful At Annual Shareholders’ Meeting

APWU News

Audio: NALC President Fred Rolando discusses USPS finnces

FederalNewsRadio.com

U.S. Postal Service offers reward in explosion at Marin CA post office

Marin Independent Journal

Thrift Savings Plan Funds Move Back to Black in May

Government Executive