The following is a press release from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas: SEPT. 21, 2007 (HOUSTON, Texas) – A federal jury has convicted a former rural mail carrier for possessing stolen mail, United States Attorney Don DeGabrielle announced today. Diana Quinones, 49, who had worked for the United States […]
Michael Sargent, a former Bulk Mail Technician in Anchorage, AK, won a reversal of his conviction and sentence of 30 months in prison for theft of public property and theft of postal service property. An Appeals Court ruled that 1) the district court erred by holding that USPS proved Postage Statements [PS Form 3602] had […]
Information from both cases below: A Connecticut federal district court has granted an appeal by the U.S. Postal Service to “amend a declaratory judgment and injunction” issued in April prohibiting contract postal units from posting displays that involve religious proselytizing. “In Cooper v. United States Postal Service the court limited its ruling to the contract […]
A few excerpts from the recent federal case (note: the case was initially filed in 2003) In a suit brought by current and former postal inspectors against the Postal Service alleging that they are entitled to overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), summary judgment for the Postal Service is reversed in part […]
The Republican Reports: Former Hampden postmaster pleads guilty to embezzlement A longtime Hampden postmaster faces up to a year in federal prison after pleading guilty today to embezzling more than $27,000 in stamp proceeds over three years. George E. Podmore Jr., who resigned in July 2006, admitted selling stamps to postal customers at the retail […]
According to Ballot Access News: In 2000, the Initiative & Referendum Institute filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Service against a regulation passed that year that makes it illegal for petitioning to occur on post office sidewalks. The part of the case involving interior postal sidewalks is still in U.S. District Court in Washington, […]
Victoria Shaffer, a letter carrier was issued a notice of removal for threatening to kill her co-worker/former married lover. Shaffer filed a gender discrimination suit against the Postmaster General. According to federal court documents the case was recently dismissed because : 1) Shaffer’s evidence was not sufficient to support a finding that gender discrimination was […]
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld the Merit System Protection Board’s decision removing EAS-17 Customer Services Supervisor David Whelan from his position (see background of case below). The Court issued its non-precedential decision without an opinion.
Postal Address Management Systems Specialist is EAS position On August 7, 2007, the US District Court of the District of Columbia granted the USPS motion for summary judgment based on the NLRB’s clarification decision excluding the AMS Specialist position from the bargaining unit. In short, the court ruled that the February 2007 National Labor Relations Board […]
A 10-year employee of the U.S. Postal Service filed a lawsuit Monday accusing the agency of selling the personal information of its workers to credit card and other companies without consent. Lance McDermott, a mechanic for mail-processing equipment, said in the U.S. District Court complaint that he has been inundated with credit card, cell phone […]