Tuesday, July 14

APWU Burrus Update: Changes and Challenges

APWU web site

USPS prepares for five-day delivery

Federal Times

Fact checking Congress

Rep. Stephen Lynch says the USPS told him it may have trouble making its payroll- the USPS says it's not true...
Federal Times

Postal carrier sentenced for stealing mail to cash check

WQOW TV Eau Claire WI

Bridgeport Postal Clerk Pleads Guilty in Thefts

Hartford Courant

Postal Worker To Be Honored During All-Star Game

WWJ Detroit

Will Postal Rates Decrease Next Year?

Dead Tree Edition

Can This Life Ring Save the Postal Service?

Washington Post

Neither Rain, Nor Sleet, Nor Big Scary Dogs

New York Times

Brainstorm Ideas to Help the Postal Service

USPS OIG Blog

Friday, July 10

House Committee OKs Emergency Postal Relief Bill for House Vote

also: NAPUS “Intervenes” in Facility Consolidation Initiative, and Al Franken Makes Sixty
eNAPUS Legislative and Political Newsletter (.pdf file)

House panel votes relief for Postal Service

Federal Times

Durbin-sponsored legislation will keep mail processing center in Quincy (IL)

WGEM TV Quincy

The End of the Postal Service?

Has postal "reform" doomed the USPS?
Murray Comarow commentary via Postcom.org

Mail Carrier's Reunion With Baby Turns Emotional

WBNS-TV Columbus OH

USPS goes open-source with tracking system

Government Computer News

Officials in NJ town want their collection boxes back

Press of Atlantic City

US: 900 hybrids for Postal Service fleet

Automotive World

Plant Consolidations: APWU Locals Fight Back

APWU News

Thursday, July 9

Video: Postal van full of mail gets towed for parking in handicapped space

KOVR TV Sacramento

Decision on merging Utica mail operations into Syracuse delayed

Utica Observer-Dispatch

BOG schedules closed meeting for next Wednesday

June meetings were also closed to public
Federal Register

NALC Intensifies effort to save 6-day delivery

NALC News Bulletin

Downtown PO in Jonesboro (AR) faces "emergency" closure

Jonesboro (AR) Sun

Dude! Who Moved The Stamp Machine?

WFMY TV Greensboro NC

Bailing the Mail

Can government return profitability to the Postal Service?
WOWK-TV Charleston WV

CMOs slash marketing budgets in 2009, direct mail takes hit

DMNews

Plans for Cape Cod mail Consolidation detailed

Cape Cod Times

Mail distribution center in Pembroke Pines to lose major role

Miami Herald

Thursday, July 2

NY Metro, Northeast Areas to be merged

postalnews blog

Galligan retires as USPS Senior VP

USPS News Link
(PMG Potter announced today that NY Metro AVP Steve Forte will replace Galligan)

Jacksonville: Postal Pick-up Slip Lists Number for Sex Hotline (video)

postalnews.tv (click here for the text version)

Mail carrier charged in sex attacks

Chicago Sun-Times

Editorial: Postal predicament

Panama City (FL) News Herald

NAPUS Hotline for July 2

NAPUS

Mail-sorting operations to move off Staten Island, officials told

Staten Island Advocate

Residents start petitions as USPS plans national review on consolidating branches

Anderson (SC) Independent-Mail

USPS targeting Jackson MI P&D for review; could result in closure

Jackson Citizen Patriot

Postal worker pleads guilty to tossing mail into dumpster

WWL TV New Orleans

13 Post Office Branches On The Line In Connecticut

Hartford Courant
and in nearby Springfield MA: Post offices might be closing up shop (WWLP video via postalnews.tv)