Friday, August 9

NALC: USPS finances are rebounding strongly as economy improves

postalnews blog

APWU: USPS Issues Stamps Honoring Workers, But What About Its Own? - postalnews blog

APWU News

Darrell Issa's Legacy Is Gumming Up the Entire House

New Republic

USPS Says Its Actions to Improve Efficiency Helped Lower Third Quarter "Loss"

Press release

USPS shows a $330 million year to date profit before (noncash) “trust fund” charge

postalnews blog

Postal workers save child from attempted kidnapping

USPS News Link

Expiring leases send two San Diego post offices off for closure

Save the Post Office

Video: High rent forces post office move in Iowa City

postalnews blog

Did Postal Service go ‘too far’ in halting mail delivery after attack on carrier?

Chicago Sun-Times

Men dressed as postal workers force way into Louisiana home; rob elderly woman

WWL TV New Orleans

Thursday, August 8

Mail Handlers and USPS Reach Agreement on Fishgold Arbitration Questions & Answers

postalnews blog

Rhode Island Letter Carrier Indicted for Allegedly Destroying, Stealing US Mail

postalcrime.com

Video: USPS Rejects California Chef’s Insurance Claim For Stolen Kitchen Knives

postalnews blog

Between a Rock and a Hard Place

"Carper is doing the bidding of the major mailers in his state"
Burrus Journal

Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe on USPS Budget Solutions

Businessweek

Postal contract driver and accomplice face five years in Connecticut robbery

Valley Independent Sentinel

Authorities release photo of "vehicle of interest" in Alabama postal worker shooting case

WFSA Montgomery

Berkeley protests continue despite warnings from US Postal Service

Daily Californian

13,000 pieces of mail recovered at Columbus postal carrier’s home

Columbus Dispatch

Friends remember Alabama letter carrier killed in vehicle crash

postalnews blog

Wednesday, August 7

Is Cliff Guffey undermining the APWU when he testifies before Congress?

Clint Burleson, Presdient of the APWU's Olympia WA Local, and candidate for APWU Clerk Craft Director

Driverless mail truck rolls through residential neighborhood in Port Chester NY

postalnews blog

Pennsylvania Letter Carrier Attacked By Pit Bulls

CBS Pittsburgh

Berkeley post office protesters defy order to move

Berkeleyside

Letter carrier assaulted in California road rage incident

Escalon Times

There’s a fungus among us: Mold strikes a third Illinois post office

Save the Post Office

Hawaii: Burned post office on Kauai unlikely to be rebuilt

Associated Press

Video: Three hurt after car plows into Hawaii post office

postalnews blog

Video: Naches WA postal worker off the job for stealing mail

postalcrime.com

Budget Cuts Are Delaying USPS and Federal Retiree Payments

Dead Tree Edition

Monday, August 5

Postal unions write joint letter to Reid against Carper-Coburn postal bill

postalnews blog

As prospects dim for postal reform, Senate bill already encountering flak

Federal Times

USPS IT contract oversight deficient, says IG

FierceGovernment

Meanwhile.... USPS Awards Two Contracts To AT&T worth $53.5 million

postalnews blog

USPS launches multi-channel marketing campaign to promote Priority Mail

postalnews blog

Wrong ZIP on Rhode Island lighthouse first day covers

postalnews blog

Door-to-Door Postal Delivery Is Part Of The American Experience

WGBH News

Sale of main Berkeley post office building means loss of rich history

"...the public paid for Berkeley’s post office" (NOT the US Postal Service...)
The Daily Californian

OPM: Retirement Backlog Gone by March 2014

Government Executive

Senate postal reform would reduce USPS payments into FERS

FierceGovernment

Speak Your Piece: 12 Points on Postal Service

"The wife of a part-time, contracted Postal Service driver explains a dozen things you may not know about rural America’s communications lifeline"
Daily Yonder

Three Due In Court In Connecticut Postal Truck Robbery

Valley Independent Sentinel

Postal changes put an end to tradition of Missouri family

Ozark County Times

Senator Carper introduces legislation to virtually end the USPS

NH Labor News

Thursday, August 1

USPS Eyes Alcohol Deliveries

National Public Radio

USPS gets creative with samples discount program

Marketplace

Video: Postal worker recounts details of pit bull attack

postu.be

One More Way Banks Screw Regular People (And Why We Need to Bring Back Postal Banking)

Huffington Post

Going, going, gone: Historic post offices on the GSA's auction block

Save the Post Office

Donahoe's Postal Vision

Direct Marketing News

Video: Ohio Postal Worker Under Investigation

Agents with the DEA and the United States Postal Service Office of the Inspector General spent hours hauling away bins of mail from a house in North Columbus
WSYX TV Columbus OH

Post office safe cracked, operations resume in Amarillo

Amarillo Globe-News

Royal Mail strike ballot planned over privatisation

BBC News