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 […]
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 Postmasters.org website: “Senator Akaka (D HI) and Congressman Gerald Connolly (D VA) have both introduced a bill that would add language to title 39 that puts into law that postmasters and other supervisory personnel shall have a reasonable and sustainable workload and schedule. These bills both address the unreasonable overload that the Postal […]
David Willis was convicted by a jury of soliciting murder using a facility of interstate commerce and promising payment, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 373; and using a facility of interstate commerce with the intent that murder for hire be committed, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1958. The district court sentenced Willis to […]
US Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Colleen K. Mouw,age 52, of Elk Point, SD, appeared before US Magistrate Judge John E. Simko on March 25, and pled guilty to an Information that charged her with theft of government funds. The maximum penalty upon conviction is one year in prison and/or a $100,000 fine, plus […]
Press Release from the United States Attorney’s office Eastern District of California SACRAMENTO, Calif.—United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced today that NANCY R. SCIOLINO, 52, of Lodi, pleaded guilty to felony embezzlement this morning before United States District Judge Frank C. Damrell Jr. The case was investigated by the United States Postal Service’s Office […]
BECKLEY, W.Va. – Malcolm L. Howell, 49, of Athens, Mercer County, West Virginia, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Irene C. Berger to five months in prison followed by five months home confinement for misappropriation of federal funds. Howell previously pled guilty in September 2009, admitting that over a period of four years […]