Tuesday, January 15

Lance Armstrong and the Post Office: No Miracle Delivered

"... his potential problems with the Postal Service are in a class of their own..."
The New Yorker
(For a much less serious assessment of Lance and his apology campaign, see The Onion:
"Lance Armstrong Admits To Using Performance-Enhancing Drugs To Show Remorse"

Killing the Post Office Softly: POStPlan implementation almost halfway done

Save the Post Office

US Postal Service pushes the digital envelope in battle for its future

The Guardian

Burrus: Difference between APWU contract and NALC arbitration award close to $1 million over an employee's lifetime

Burrus Journal

Congress Must Act Quickly to Pass Postal Bill, Guffey Says

APWU News

USPS Accelerated Cost Cutting Could Damage Service, Says PRC

eCommerce Bytes

Video: USPS stops delivering woman’s mail over technicality

postalnews blog

Loss of Manasota mail hub signals a shift

Sarasota Herald Tribune

Pitney Bowes pays lawmakers to push privatizing Post Office

peoplesworld

Armstrong “might” return some of USPS’s $31 million in sponsorship payments

postalnews blog

Friday, January 11

Burrus: A Union That Fights

Burrus Journal

USPS Statement on NALC labor contract arbitration decision

postalnews blog

NALC Contract Announced

NALC News

APWU IT/ASC Contract Heads to Mediation

APWU News

Tennessee postal employee charged with exposing himself to co-worker

WTVF Nashville

Appeals Court rules in favor of GameFly, says USPS gave Netflix special treatment

postalnews blog

End of the government check era approaches

Thomson Reuters Business News

$50,000 Reward Offered After Man Attacks Letter Carrier

WTXF Philadelphia

Video: Woman outraged over suspected mail theft

postalnews blog

Postal Service's fiscal cliff coming this spring

CNN

Stamp prices go up January 27

postalnews blog

Pitney Bowes' delayed Volly digital mail service gains print software partner

Post & Parcel

Friday, January 4

Will House Republicans Let The Post Office Save Itself This Year?

ThinkProgress

PMG names Ed Phelan VP, Delivery and Post Office Operations

postalnews blog

Postal Service to Host Cloud-Based ID Protection Network

Mashable

Yep, They’re Still Trying to Privatize the Post Office

NH Labor News

Catalogs That Effectively Drive Web Sales and Traffic

Datamann Blog

Thieves make off with collection box in California

San Francisco Chronicle

Dropped phone helps unravel postal holdup

Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette

Think tank to study privatizing most Postal Service operations

Washington Post

More USPS cutbacks ahead, after Congress fails to pass reforms

Post & Parcel

Thursday, January 3

South Carolina: Three hurt in collision involving mail truck

Anderson Independent Mail

NALC: A New Year's resolution to save the USPS

NALC e-Activist Network

Michigan rural carrier dies of crash injuries

WXMI TV Grand Rapids

PMG: Congressional inaction makes things worse for the USPS

"The Postal Service should not have to do business this way"
postalnews blog

Restructuring the U.S. Postal System

The Case for a Hybrid Public-Private Postal System
National Academy of Public Administration (.pdf file)

What’s that old saying about “good intentions”?

Carper and Issa pledge to work together on postal reform
twitter vis postalnews blog

Dennis Ross out as postal oversight chair

postalnews blog

USPS Honors 150th Anniversary of Emancipation Proclamation with Limited-Edition Stamp

postalnews blog

North Carolina man facing charges for stealing 'bags and bags' of mail

Wilmington Star News

Post offices facing cutback in window hours

Bristol VA News

Rants & Raves: Postal rave

Florida Times-Union

Wednesday, January 2

TSP closes out 2012 with strong showing

Federal News Radio

Editorial: Congressional inaction can be a good thing (if you're a community newspaper!)

Randolph (AL) Leader

U.S. Postal Service Chooses UM as Its Media Agency

Advertising Age

How the Postal Service began prefunding retiree health care and fell into a deep hole

Save the Post Office

Mail theft could turn your life upside down

Salt Lake Tribune

The House Fiscal Cliff Vote and Postal Reform

Courier Express and Postal Observer

Ridiculous Overtime at the USPS in 2013?

Postal Blog

USPS warns of “risky” approach to flats pricing policy

Post & Parcel

Testing Your Direct Mail IQ

Pitney Bowes Brilliant Communications Blog