CONCORD, N.H. – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited the U.S. Postal Service for five alleged willful violations of safety standards following an inspection at the Portsmouth, N.H., Processing and Distribution Center. The Postal Service faces a total of $350,000 in fines, chiefly for exposing workers to electrical hazards. […]
U.S. National Park Sites Included WASHINGTON — From Dallas to Detroit, Nome to San Juan, and 115 national parks, memorials and historical sites in between, recycling mail at Post Offices has just gotten more convenient. With more than 10,000 locations across the country, nearly 50 percent more than last year, it’s even easier to be […]
COLUMBUS — The U.S. Postal Service plans to conduct a new study at the Zanesville Processing and distribution Facility for possible consolidation of some operations into the Columbus Processing and Distribution Center. The study, known as an Area Mail Processing (AMP) study, involves a review of the mail processing and transportation operations to determine capacity […]
Mr. Zip’s Tip: USPS saw a 248% increase in online Post Office Box renewals in Fiscal Year 2009. The U.S. Postal Service has incorporated improvements in its Post Office Boxes website to make it more user friendly in obtaining a Post Office box. The changes are based on a USPS usability study and include: A […]
ANAHEIM, Calif., Aug. 13- Letter Carriers union President Fredric V. Rolando was elected by acclamation to a four-year term as head of the 295,000-member postal union by delegates to the 67th Biennial Convention of the National Association of Letter Carriers, the union announced today. Rolando, who also is a vice president of the AFL-CIO, currently […]
Washington, DC –The Postal Regulatory Commission invites press and interested parties to a briefing on the actuarial report of The Segal Company regarding calculation of U.S. Postal Service pension liability for former Post Office Department employees. Questions will be entertained following the briefing. What: Public briefing on the actuarial analysis of liability related to funding […]
Press Release Printing Industries of America’s members from across the country are gathering on Capitol Hill next month to oppose an emergency postal rate hike proposal that would dramatically bust caps on postal rate increases imposed by Congress in 2006. The USPS is petitioning to raise rates higher than allowed by current law, claiming that […]
Press Release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia WASHINGTON – Shareen Wilson, 42, a former mail carrier with the United States Postal Service (“USPS”), was sentenced today to 25 months of incarceration and ordered to pay $134,416.27 in restitution for her role in a scheme to steal United States and District […]
This failure to act is causing the Postal Service to waste millions of dollars each year in lost productivity POSTAL SERVICE MUST IMPROVE LOCAL MANAGEMENT PRODUCTIVITY AND FILL POSTMASTER VACANCIES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRYFrom The National League of Postmasters: The recession has had a devastating impact on the finances of the Postal Service. The Postal Service […]
Press Release from the U.S> Attorney for the District of Connecticut: August 11, 2010 David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that KEVIN RYAN, 54, of Avon, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to two years of probation for misappropriating postal […]