Customer in Delaware: On Tuesday, I visited the downtown Wilmington Post Office at 8:30 a.m. There was only one counter person and 20 people waiting in line. This is totally unacceptable service from the United States Postal Service. This is the biggest and busiest post office in the state. via Delaware online It is going […]
Eight Postal Service workers were arrested and indicted Thursday on felony mail theft charges in Orlando. According to the indictments, the workers opened or stole mail, including gift cards, debit cards, vases and other valuable items, while working for the United States Postal Service as employees or contract workers. via WJXT Jacksonville
OSHA has cited the U.S. Postal Service for exposing workers to potential electrical hazards at its mail processing facility in Huntington, W.Va. Proposed penalties? $212,500. According to the release: The willful citations address the facility’s failure to properly train employees, use safety-related work practices when exposed to energized parts and provide proper electrical protective equipment. […]
Press Release Oct 13, 2010 United States Attorney Michael J. Moore announced that on October 12, 2010 in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, in the Albany Division, RENEE GARRETT, age 60, a resident of Cairo, Georgia, was found guilty after a jury trial of three counts of Theft of […]
USPS Can’t Find 27 Year Postal Employee’s Official Personnel Folder (OPF) Several years ago USPS implemented a program to convert all paper personnel folders to electronic folders. The Postal Service awarded the contract to SOURCECORP BPS, Inc. to convert the files from paper to electronic as part of the Electronic Official Personnel Folder (eOPF) program. […]
Service delivers the new standard for online marketing by combining proven direct-marketing capabilities with localization Ottawa – Starting as early as November, Canada Post will anchor a new direct-marketing network that will connect advertisers and consumers at a local level. Using the successful model introduced by CentrSource, a progressive e-commerce company, the new service will […]
APWU News APWU President William Burrus has ridiculed assertions about the Postal Service that appeared in a recent column in the E-Commerce Times: “There were so many misstatements in your article,” Burrus wrote [PDF], “I hardly know where to begin.” In the Oct. 8 article, Theodore di Stefano, a managing partner at an investment banking […]
USPS looking for solution to eliminate paper, ink and workhours associated with labeling Mail Transport Equipment in a Mail Processing Environment The United States Postal Service (USPS) utilizes a large array of material handling equipment (rolling stock including carts and dollies) during mail processing that we refer to as Mail Transport Equipment (MTE). This equipment […]
Affordable Mail Alliance Comments on informal ruling issued by a Postal Regulatory Commission lawyer Oct 12, 2010 regarding USPS possibly raising postage rates. THE OCTOBER 12 LETTER-RULING OF THE OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL IS EITHER UNLAWFUL OR INEFFECTIVE. The OGC letter, if treated as a binding substantive ruling, violates the due process rights of AMA […]
A U.S. Postal Service worker has filed suit against the homeowner who allegedly allowed her dog to attack the letter carrier. Kelly Tillerson claims she was attacked by a dog as she was delivering mail…. Because of the incident, Tillerson experienced physical pain, suffering and mental anguish and lost earnings, according to the complaint … […]