The Fort Worth postmaster is on paid administrative leave while the watchdog arm of the U.S. Postal Service investigates the office, several sources said. The inspector general is investigating possible problems with the recording of mail volume, which can be a key driver of budgeting and efficiency measures, officials said. The Postmaster said he continues […]
FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) — The U.S. Postal Service says residents in Johnson County will get an explanation and an apology when mail found in the home of a deceased postmaster is finally delivered. Postal Service spokeswoman Leisa Tolliver-Gay told the Southwest Times Record Friday that a “customer” found 500 letters at the home of […]
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – Elgin’s former postmaster has pleaded guilty to theft of public funds and filing a false tax return. U.S. Attorney Sanford Coats says 63-year-old James E. Draheim of Elgin entered the guilty pleas on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Oklahoma City. Coats says that between October 2005 and September 2009, Draheim […]
A Columbia postmaster arrested in March on suspicion of attempting to steal clothing and sunglasses from a Columbia department store pleaded guilty Tuesday. Joyce M. Herron, 55, of Mexico, Mo., entered a plea of guilty to misdemeanor stealing in city court. She was sentenced to two days in the Boone County Jail and was permitted […]
From NAPUS: Effective immediately, Postmasters in offices that are downgraded two or more grade levels as a result of Delivery Unit Optimization (DUO may voluntarily be placed non-competitively into other vacant positions… This policy change is being implemented to allow Postmasters who have been reclassified to lower level Postmaster positions an opportunity for placement into […]
Also Warns Postmasters About Using Facebook Phil Jones, the NAPUS Legal Defense Plan attorney speaking on the final day of the convention: He complained the USPS is being controlled by bean counters that only are concerned with the bottom line. He referenced the more than 3,000 vacant offices and said that some are being run […]
From the National League of Postmasters September 10, 2010 Draft legislative provisions are floating around the Senate that 1) eliminate the prohibition against closing, for financial reasons only, small rural post offices and 2) gut the statutory Post Office Closing Provisions that are designed to protect rural communities. The League believes that such provisions are […]
National Association of Postmasters of the United States (NAPUS) submits the following comments in support of the Postal Service’s July 6 request of the Postal Regulatory Commission to approve a rate adjustment due to “extraordinary or exceptional circumstances: It would be shameful if those who argue for furloughs would have the unintended consequence of advocating […]
GREENBELT, MD. — Prosecutors say a former postmaster has pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $60,000 in stamps from the post office where he worked. Fifty-six-year-old Gilbert Ennis of Lanham entered the plea Tuesday. He will be sentenced Dec. 6 and has agreed to pay restitution from his federal retirement account. According to his plea agreement, […]
“Jackie Strange joined the Post Office Department as a temporary clerk in 1946 while still in college. She worked her way up through the system, often as the first women in her managerial positions. Rising from work as a temporary clerk, she was promoted to postmaster, then acting manager of mail operations, followed by a […]