From the Federal Times Fedline blog: Senior Writer Stephen Losey won the first place award for investigative journalism for “Did top postal exec break contracting rules?”, which examined how former U.S. Postal Service executive Robert Bernstock awarded millions of dollars in no-bid contracts to his former business associates. “This look into non-bid contract giving by […]
It’s hurricane season, and Alabama employees — already well-versed in the consequences of natural disasters — are well prepared. In April, a massive, mile-wide tornado touched down in Tuscaloosa, then turned northward. The mammoth twister was responsible for a 200-mile path of destruction, 241 deaths, thousands of homeless residents and more than $10 billion in […]
Flat Rock, Michigan A former postal carrier voluntarily surrendered to police Friday morning on an arrest warrant for allegedly stealing prescription drug parcels from the mail.The carrier, 51, resigned from her job after an interview with agents in May, according to Scott Pierce, deputy special agent in charge of the U.S. Postal Service’s Office of […]
Postal Service close Sioux City, Iowa mail processing and distribution center: “One word says it all: Infuriated.Community leaders and Iowa’s two U.S. senators made no secret Friday of their frustration with the U.S. Postal Service’s announcement it will close Sioux City’s mail processing and distribution center and move it 75 miles north to Sioux Falls, […]
USPS CHANGES FAQs ONLINE USPS has posted several updates to the FAQs posted on the Organizational Changes website on Blue and LiteBlue. Updates include changes in the “Preference Eligible Employees,” “Non-Preference Eligible Employees,” and “Grade and Pay Retention” sections of the Organizational Change/RIF FAQs. A key update is a change in the saved grade and […]
June 16, 2011 – Hammond, Indiana—The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following: Chopper Loughran, 29, of Lake Station, Indiana, was charged in an indictment with two counts of making false statements in connection with Federal Workers’ Compensation Benefits. Loughran was employed as a United States Postal Service Letter Carrier at the Glen Park, Indiana […]
June 15, 2011- CAMDEN, N.J. – Lord T. Beyah pleaded guilty today to assaulting a postal employee during the robbery of a post office in Mizpah, N.J., on July 14, 2010, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Beyah, 48, a/k/a “Chance Burgess,” pleaded guilty to an Information, which charged him with assaulting a postal employee […]
USPS Proposal Not Good For Jobs, Local Community Las Cruces, NM (June 17, 2011) Today,Congressman Steve Pearce voiced his opposition to the proposed closing of the mail processing facility in Las Cruces. This move was already attempted in 2007, and failed so completely that the decision was reversed. The USPS has failed to demonstrate that […]
Global Express Guaranteed Service Continues Without Delay Due to the expectation by Canada Post officials that the strike by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers will last until at least sometime next week, USPS will suspend accepting mail destined to Canada — effective Saturday, June 18, 2011, 11:59 p.m. CDT — with the exception of […]
June 16, 2011 — By all appearances, Glenn Garvin has had a distinguished career as a journalist. But the current T.V. writer for The Miami Herald tripped badly in his debut as a critic of the Postal Service. Indeed, if “Mark a U.S. Postal Service bailout ‘return to sender’” were a pilot episode on television, […]