MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Two years ago Thursday, a postal worker named Art Tilson died at the Minneapolis Post Office Distribution Center. His friends believe his life could have been saved if there had been an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) in the building. As they did last year on the first anniversary of Tilson’s death, several […]
Congressman Dennis Ross (R-Florida), Chairman of House Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service, and Labor Policy has scheduled a hearing entitled, “Postal Infrastructure: How Much Can We Afford?” on Wednesday, June 15th, at 1:30 p.m. in room 2154 Rayburn House Office Building. This is the third hearing that Ross has scheduled on USPS or […]
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s detectives recently recovered more than $1 million in stolen plastic products — including USPS pallets, trays and tubs — from a site in Industry, CA. Officials’ 5-month-long investigation recovered about $164,500 worth of the Postal Service’s distinctive orange and black pallets. To date, law officials have made no arrests, but the […]
Some postal employee organizations failed to file their required IRS tax-exempt returns for three years in a row. On the list is the National Association of Postal Supervisors in Alexandria VA, plus some NAPS chapters like Norfolk VA and California State. Some local units of the National League of Postmasters, NAPUS, NALC and APWU are […]
DETROIT — A garage owner accused of paying bribes and providing a prostitute to get millions in repair work with the U.S. Postal Service used his cooperation with investigators to help his wife avoid prison in an unrelated fraud, people with knowledge of the case have told The Associated Press. Sarah Fawaz, facing more than […]
Protesters turned out in force Tuesday morning for a rally designed to create more support in preventing the Valley Falls Post Office from closing on July 8. Town resident Derrick Watson, who heads an organization named “The Concerned Citizens of Valley Falls – Save Our Post Office, indicated last Thursday that he had sent an […]
and Postmaster Relief (PMR) and Postal Support Employee (PSE Issues On June 7th, NAPUS leaders, along with heads of the League and NAPS met with Postal Headquarters officials to discuss how some of the changes in the new USPS-APWU contract will impact post offices. The discussion included a question and answer session on the recent […]
VSE and WBI to deliver repowered fuel efficient gasoline Long Life Vehicle (LLV) prototype ALEXANDRIA, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–VSE Corporation (NASDAQ: VSEC) announced today that it has received notification from the US Postal Service (USPS) that it will be awarded a contract to deliver a more fuel efficient repowered gasoline LLV prototype delivery vehicle for the existing […]
USPS Audit Report “Conflicts of Interest: Facility Leases and Contract Delivery Services (Report Number DA-AR-11-008) Federal regulations and Postal Service policies seek to minimize conflicts of interest to ensure that every citizen can have confidence in the integrity of the federal government. Postal Service policies encourage employees to avoid creating the appearance that they are […]
USPS OIG Audit Report on “Postal Service’s Innovation Process for Competitive and Market-Dominant Products” To overcome its current financial challenges, the Postal Service must recognize innovation not as the byproduct of an effort to improve operational efficiency only, but as a distinct strategic goal and activity. It must embrace a culture of innovation that begins […]