Tuesday, December 29

FedEx grappled with late surge in holiday shipments

Memphis Commercial Appeal

St Louis postal workers claim million dollar Powerball prize

postalnews.com

Police: Florida postal worker crashed mail truck while drunk

Florida Today

NYC postal workers busted for stealing gift cards, tossing mail

NY Daily News

Video: Residents of Columbus OH neighborhood fed up over not getting mail delivered for days

WSYX TV Columbus OH

Neighbors call police after suspect reportedly tries to attack Dayton mailman

WDTN TV Dayton

USPS officials are no-shows for hearing on ballots-postmark problem in Ohio

Akron Beacon Journal

USPS and FedEx Say Winter Storms Are Impacting Delivery

EcommerceBytes

Wednesday, December 23

Tuesday, December 22

Postal Service Is on Track to Gain Larger Share of Holiday Deliveries

Dow Jones

Indiana PSE charged with theft of missing gift card

Anderson Herald Bulletin

APWU: For the first time in more than a decade, the clerk craft shows an increase

APWU News

Santa goes postal in Christmas, Fla.

USA Today

How Big Variations in Postal Rates Hamper Online Shopping in Europe

Wall Street Journal

High-volume online shopping is putting a strain on shipping firms and causing delays

Los Angeles Times

Amazon Prime eases rural Alaska's pricey shipping woes

Alaska Dispatch News

Florida rural carrier rescues couple from wreck

USPS News Link via good.postal.news

USPS’s Operation Santa to Ring The Nasdaq Stock Market Closing Bell Today

postalnews.com

Thursday, December 10

PRC seeks public comment on its role in post office closings

postalnews.com

MO mail carrier notices untouched mail, finds farmer stranded for 3 days

WDAF TV Kansas City

Pennsylvania rural carrier sentenced to year in prison for using mail to distribute drugs

postalnews.com

Oregon rural carrier accused of stealing mail, ID theft

KOIN TV Portland OR

Nebraska rural carrier rescues customer thrown from horse

good.postalnews.com

Video: Carjacking of mail carrier in Milwaukee caught on camera: “Thank God she got out safe”

Fox6 Milwaukee

Video: Postal Worker Honored For 50 Years Of Service

WTVF Nashville

Video: USPS tests machines, mailboxes for future mail delivery

TheDenverChannel.com

Mail delays likely as wind, flooding damage Spokane postal facility

Spokane Spokesman

Wednesday, December 2

Maine: Postal employee saves mail after delivery truck catches fire

Bangor Daily News

Ohio postal worker pleads guilty to delaying, destroying mail

Dayton Daily News

USPS mail truck catches fire in Easton MD

WMDT TV Salisbury

Video: Postal inspectors investigating a rash of mail thefts in Bakersfield

KGET TV Bakersfield

USPS Warns Washington Newspaper: No Marijuana Ads In The Mail

Willamette Week

Post office installs cluster unit without providing keys

Victoria, Texas Advocate

Post Offices open Christmas Eve, New Year’s Eve

postalnews.com

Postal Service Offers Holiday-Themed Stamps

stamp.news

USPS “#PostalProud” initiative targets parcel throwing, misdeliveries

USPS News Link

Tuesday, November 24

Former postal employee arrested in alleged investment scam

WPLG TV Miami

Video: Postal inspectors investigating robbery at Tennessee post office

WBBJ TV Jackson TN

Video: Bakersfield residents frustrated by repeated cluster box mail thefts

KBAK Bakersfield

Video: Family grieves daughter’s loss for the second time after ashes are lost in the mail

KRDO Colorado Springs

USPS Apologizes for Misplaced Mail in Texas Subdivision

NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

Update: Cops arrest post office worker in anti-Muslim attack

NY Daily News

North Dakota postal worker pleads guilty to stealing money

Associated Press

Video: Albuquerque mailman shot at while on the job

KRQE TV Albuquerque

Few Postal Jobs Will Be Cut in 2016

Dead Tree Edition

Video: Postal worker wanted in suspected hate crime against Muslim women In Brooklyn

WCBS New York

Saturday, November 21

Thursday, November 19

Video: Adjusting to USPS delays in Northern Minnesota

KDLH TV Duluth

Postal Service Sends Its Holiday Card Early

Direct Marketing News

Mail carrier hospitalized after postal truck, car collide in Michigan

Bay City Times

USPS is Hiring Career Clerks Off-the-Street

21st Century Postal Worker

Woman killed after crashing into Postal Service truck in Elizabethtown KY

WAVE Louisville

Postal delays noted in Jackson Hole

Jackson Hole News&Guide

Video: Peoria Man Hit by Mail Truck

WMBD Peoria

New video explains Self Plus One enrollment type

postalnews.com

Royal Mail PLC Results for the Half Year Ended 27 September 2015

postalnews.co.uk

Wednesday, November 18

Mail thieves target North Austin neighborhood for second time

KEYE TV Austin

Alaska mail carrier stole drugs from mail, charges say

Alaska Dispatch News

Video: Woman bites, assaults postal worker, police officer

postalnews.com

UK Mail shares plunge after troubled move to new automated plant

postalnews.co.uk

eBay scammer steals identity of USPS OIG agent investigating him

The Register

Upstate New York Postmaster Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement

postalnews.com

Royal Mail expands its national same day network through acquisition of eCourier

postalnews.co.uk

Dim Weight: What’s the Deal with Parcels?

PostalVision 2020

Video: APWU’s Dimondstein Appears on ‘The Big Picture’ with Thom Hartmann

APWU News

2 former postal workers among 9 accused of falsely receiving unemployment benefits

mycentraljersey.com

Going Postal in Turkey

How to pick up a package in Istanbul, in many uneasy steps.
New York Times

Tuscaloosa Mail Carrier Pleads Guilty to Accepting Bribes to Deliver Drug Packages

postalnews.com

Monday, November 16

APWU: Reported USPS Loss is “Essentially a Fraud”

APWU News

Delivery economy: Receiving parcels evolving for consumers as volume expands

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

New Mexico post offices overwhelmed with passport requests

Durango Herald

Postal banking would defeat predatory lending for good

South Jersey Times

Sellers Say January USPS Rate Hike Threatens Their Business Model

EcommerceBytes

TV station investigates complaints at post office in North Houston

KTRK Houston

Measure to Measure: Data, management, and the reliability of the mail

Save the Post Office

More than just window dressing: Front clerk at Brainerd Post office retires after 22 years

Brainerd Dispatch

Wednesday, November 11

Video: Transgender employees at center of controversy over restroom at Pittsburgh post office

WTAE Pittsburgh

Tennessee man arrested for exposing himself to letter carrier

WJLE Smithville TN

Campaign Urges USPS to Create Stamp in Honor of Japanese-American WWII Soldiers

NBC News

Pitney Bowes expands presort network through acquisition of Zip Mail Services

postalnews.com

Let's talk about democratic socialism

"Americans do not think that profiteering makes sense when it comes to subways and buses, highways and roads, the postal service"
Baltimore Sun

Postal Service releases on-time performance reports for Q4 2015

Save the Post Office

Missouri: Former Postal Worker Pleads Guilty to Stealing

postalcrime.com

Video: USPS temporarily stops delivering mail to Tulsa neighborhood because of ‘aggressive dog’

KJRH TV Tulsa

Deutsche Post DHL Profit Plunges on Software Costs

Handelsblatt

Friday, November 6

USPS Has Shed 250K Employees in the Past 20 Years. Here’s How

Government Executive

Confusing regulations stymie postmark hand-back service

Linns Stamp News

Fourth Dayton area postal worked charged with illegal conduct this year

Dayton Daily News

APWU Files Unfair Labor Practice Charge in Response to ‘Stay Survey’

APWU News

Tennessee PMR charged with theft of postal funds

KNIA Knoxville

Video: USPS Worker Throws Greensboro Man’s Package To Front Door

WFMY TV Greensboro NC

I designed the Canada Post community mailbox, but send your hate mail elsewhere

The Globe and Mail

Sacramento couple sentenced for 2012 burglary of postal vehicle

Sacramento Bee

Thursday, October 15

Two Western NY Letter Carriers Charged with Bribery in Connection with Narcotics Trafficking Operations

postalnews.com

Lakewood postal carrier, Thomas Bulger, 76, is longest serving in Ohio

Cleveland Plain Dealer

Using the Census to analyze USPS on-time performance

Save the Post Office

Theft prompts mail stoppage at Bronx apartment complex

Riverdale Press

Video: Headlamp bearing letter carriers deliver late into the night in Colorado

The Denver Channel

Editorial: Mail delays unacceptable

"The quagmire that is the U.S. Postal Service has grown from annoying to ludicrous here in eastern Idaho"
Idaho State Journal

‘It Was Electric’: Bernie Sanders addresses APWU conference

postalnews.com

Scranton postal worker charged with stealing cash from greeting cards

postalnews.com

Sunday, October 11

Former Letter Carrier Admits to Receiving Bogus Travel Expenses for Medical Care

postalnews.com

Florida: Tornado strikes U.S. Mail tractor-trailer on Sunshine Skyway Bridge

Bay News 9

Return to sender, address unknown: USPS v. SCE and the high cost of undeliverable mail

Save the Post Office

Top postalnews.com stories of the week October 4-10

postalnews.com

Iowa PO closes temporarily due to structural concerns

Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil

Survival of world’s postal service hinges on ability to quickly change, innovate, UN says on World Post Day

United Nations News

Elko NV PO backs off on mailbox location requirements

Elko Daily Free Press

Mayors continue fight for Pocatello mail center

Idaho State Journal

Friday, October 9

Watson wins special election for NALC director of retired members

NALC News

Postal worker who landed gyrocopter at Capitol rejects deal to plead guilty to felony

Washington Post

USPS Renegotiates with China Post on ePacket Rates

EcommerceBytes

APWU, USPS Resolve Dispute over Forced Bids in Motor Vehicle Craft

APWU News

USPS deals with unprecedented flooding in South Carolina

USPS News Link

How prefunding retiree health benefits impacts the Postal Service's bottom line — and how Brookings got it wrong

Save the Post Office

Baltimore mailbox set on fire

WBAL TV Baltimore

Curbside mailboxes in Greater Cleveland offer style, creativity (photos)

Cleveland Plain Dealer

Thursday, October 8

USPS announces holiday shipping deadlines

postalnews.com

Connecticut motor vehicle operator files $1 million sex harassment suit against her boss, his boss and USPS

postalnews.com

Do thieves have the master key to your mailbox?

The Eastsider LA

Postal employees fall to internal phishing sting

Federal Times

Video: Police looking for mail thieves caught on-camera in Connecticut

WTIC Hartford

Washington state carrier retires from route he served since 1978

Issaquah-Sammamish Reporter

Video: Postal carrier gives folks the finger

KGTV San Diego

Second USPS: Postal vehicle ends up with shattered rear window

WKYC TV Cleveland

Judge Ridicules USPS Change-of-Address Regulations

Dead Tree Edition

Wednesday, October 7

Video: USPS tells customers in Georgia subdivision: install cluster boxes or your mail will be returned to sender

WXIA TV Atlanta

The Postal Pulse results are out (sort of)

Save the Post Office

South Carolina postal employees help prevent scam

good.postalnews.com

Oshkosh postal worker gets plea deal in mail theft

Oshkosh Northwestern

Online package orders overwhelm college mailroom

The Daily Campus (University of Connecticut)

Feds fight postal worker's hit-run tickets in New Jersey

Jersey Journal

Fuel Prices Fall, but FedEx and UPS Boost Surcharges

Wall Street Journal

Photo shows flooded mail trucks in Columbia SC

Facebook: Going Postal

Senators Respond to GAO Report on USPS Delivery Performance Measurement

postalnews.com