CRESTWOOD, KY — Love can now last forever as the U.S. Postal Service issued today the Garden of Love Forever stamps and related philatelic products, which go on sale nationwide at local Post Offices, online at usps.com and through the toll-free line, 1-800 782-6724.
Turnkey Network Appliance Helps Businesses Achieve 2011 Paper Suppression and Cost Reduction Goals LOS ANGELES, CA — (MARKET WIRE) — May 23, 2011 — Zumbox,the leader in digital postal mail services, today announced at CS Week the availability of its Zumbox Digital Postal Mail Gateway (DPM Gateway), a secure network appliance that will automatically and […]
A Durango man was sentenced Friday to 60 days in jail for spitting his own feces on a police officer. Paul Kausalik, 62, stood still and showed no emotion as 6th Judicial District Judge David Dickinson handed down the punishment. Kausalik apologized to his wife, the officer and the community. His wife was in the […]
Kevin R. Kosar, Ph.D., is a researcher and writer in Washington, DC. Kosar is also an “Analyst in American National Government- Congressional Research Service.” He has written reports and given testimony on the financial condition of USPS. In one of his recent CRS reports to The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the Subcommittee […]
Oops, this is rare. The USPS was caught in misstatement. USPS claimed that a customer’s PO Box number 343 was accessible therefore his complaint should be dismissed. The District Court asked USPS if the customer’s PO Box was accessible why five items of mail it sent to the plaintiff were returned as non-deliverable? USPS said […]
“Last year, Burger King launched an ad campaign that included television commercials featuring a “letter carrier” singing about breakfast at Burger King rather than delivering the mail. USPS objected to the commercial, resulting in a negotiated settlement favorable to both sides.” PostalReporter posted the video on this site last year but it has been removed. […]
Recently, Congressman Dennis Ross wrote on his Facebook page that 80-82% of USPS operating costs is labor. Normally, estimating figures in a public forum is no problem. But when the Chairman of a House Subcommittee covering the U.S. Postal Service starts doling out numbers they should be accurate and not pulled out of thin air. […]
Chairman Carper and Ranking Member Brown, thank you for the opportunity to submit my comments as Chairman of the Postal Regulatory Commission for inclusion in today’s hearing record. I regret being unable to testify in person. We all know that in four months, the United States Postal Service will conclude its fiscal year and it […]
The new APWU and USPS collective bargaining agreement will be signed on Monday, May 23rd. Below is a timeline of effective dates (subject to change). Also “The APWU Industrial Relations Department has produced a Guide to Local Negotiations that contains a wealth of information to assist locals in bargaining over Local Memorandums of Understanding (LMOUs) […]
Effective June 13, 2011, online retention for Track and Confirm items will be reduced from 60 to 45 days to improve system performance due to expected increases in mailpiece volume, which may slow lookup time. Event details for items more than 45 days old will be stored (archived) in offline files. In these cases, users […]