postalnews.com

Monday, October 31

Postal Workers Want Manager Returned To Sender

KSAT TV San Antonio

Sunday, October 30

They've got mail

'They may have cellphones in their pockets, earphones dangling from their heads and computers at home, but recent research shows young consumers still have a thing for the tried-and-true: mail.'
Dallas Morning News

Mailman Delivers a Little Normality to French Quarter

Los Angeles Times

The Smokes Are in the Mail

'Post office lawyers argue further that there is only one sure-fire way to find out whether these rectangular packages coming from Internet tobacco warehouses are cartons of cigarettes - a search warrant, one for each package.'
(Curious: window clerks didn't need search warrants to ask whether you were mailing explosives- why can't they ask you about tobacco?)
New York Times

Saturday, October 29

Deadlines Extended for Katrina-Impacted Employees

APWU News

Letter carrier gets hero's honor

Lancaster (PA) New Era

Friday, October 28

Senators meet to discuss hold on postal overhaul legislation

Government Executive

Trick or Treat - Senate Opening for S. 662

eNAPUS Legislative Newsletter

Thursday, October 27

Washington postal workers seek to revive lawsuits over anthrax

(Strange bedfellows: the postal workers are represented by right wing ideologue Richard Mellon Scaife's 'Judicial Watch'.)
Associated Press

NAPUS questions USPS policy on personal vehicle use

NAPUS Hotline

Be prepared for a January postal rate hike

Multi-Channel Merchant

Detroit Postal Worker Robbed Of Mail At Knifepoint

WDIV TV Detroit

Commentary: It's Time to Rethink Postal Reform

'What can be done to get Congress and the administration to keep their sticky fingers out of the postal service's wallet?'
DMNews.com

FedEx Readies for Busiest Day December 12

DMNews.com

Wednesday, October 26

Mediation next for supervisors' pay package?

From Postcom.org: Mailer's Council director Robert McLean says that the National Association of Postal Supervisors' rejection of the USPS pay package could lead to 'third-party mediation for the first time since Congress approved legislation allowing for such intervention'.
The NAPS web site continues to carry a notice dated October 18 indicating that the package had been rejected, and was being 'forced on the management organizations'.