Postal News January 2012

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January 2012

1/31/12

USPS to propose repeat mobile barcode promo -

PRC: Order Denying Motion for Reconsideration of Ruling Establishing Procedural Schedule (PDF) -

The synergy of losses: How much will downsizing really save? -

Grove postmaster arrested on rape, strangulation charges -

Postmaster in "shock" over unexpected post office closure -

IRS Decision Costs the Postal Service Millions -

1/30/12

Six Years Ago - The Goleta Post Office Massacre -

USPS Cuts 50 Full-Time OU (Norman Training Center) Employees -

Kuwait Postmaster Convicted of Stealing $565,000 in Money Orders -

NPMHU: Before any Mail Handler decides to transfer to letter carrier, they should also consider the following... (PDF) -

CBO Report on S.1789 Could Kill Postal Reform in the Senate -

End is near for North Palm Springs post office -

Saying goodbye to downtown post office -

Delivery Dilemma: Company that mails data on discs ponders digital downloads in face of proposed USPS changes -

NALC Opens Its Archive For Research -

A Surprise Leader in the Print-Media Bankruptcy Sweepstakes -

UK: Private-sector TNT to go head-to-head with Royal Mail -

1/29/12

Senate Postpones Consideration of Postal Bill -

Britain Pledges Money to Save Rural Post Offices -

Contract post offices, closing faster than they open -

Video: Mailman Wins $1Million Superprize from Publishers Clearing House (from last March) -

USPS List of CPUs and CPOs -

Temple residents fight to keep post office open -

Arkansas and Its Post Offices -

Postal Worker Helps Nab Sheboygan Drug Dealers -

1/28/12

Why Mail Matters: Political Attack Ads Can be Tougher -

Postal investigator admits to perjury -

With a Postal Service like this one, we need e-textbooks -

New Postal Service Program Could Mean More Junk Mail -

Congressman Hinchey calls for a moratorium on the closing studies -

Moonshine sparks postal evacuation -

1/27/12

USPS Launches Express Mail Flat Rate Box -

PMG: Situation "Unsustainable" -

Postcom: The Challenge of Good Legislative Execution -

APWU: Senate to Vote on Postal Bill: Members Must Take Action NOW! -

Humor Hotline: Fake USPS Sick Call Number -

21st Century Post Office: Aligning With the National Broadband Infrastructure Initiative (PDF) -

Rumor: Netflix Shipping Center Layoffs Because of Declining DVD Shipments? -

Former postal worker gets probation in painkiller theft -

Post Office Photo Collection -

Faith restamped in Postal Service -

New 45-cent commemorative stamps unavailable to many post offices -

1/26/12

GM Running Three Shifts at Plants (USPS planning to do the same) -

PMG Donahoe on CNBC's "Squawk Box" Tomorrow -

Postal employee, 4 others indicted in $590K theft of Treasury checks -

How the USPS is Using Its Flexibility Under the APWU Contract -

APWU Discourages Members From Participating in 'Align Networks' -

A Letter to the Post Office: May I Suggest a Few Things... -

WhiteHouse.gov Petition: Fire and Replace Postmaster General Donahoe -

Ex-postal employee pleads guilty to assaulting postmaster while asking for job back -

Ex-letter carrier testifies about ramming his former supervisor's car -

USPS Recognized for Environmental Innovation -

Postal Service Works to Boost Hyper-local Business -

A Turnaround at Netflix, as its Mail Sector Shrinks -

Ex-postal employee gets prison for stealing $30K -

1/25/12

Postal Service Union Members Warn Altadena About Post Office Closure -

USPS: Letter Carrier Positions Available -

USPS Launches '2nd Ounce Free' -

New Post Office Closing Appeal Rules (PDF) -

UK: Post Office Deal With Royal Mail Opens Door to Independence -

Dog Issues Delay Rupert Mail Delivery -

Letter Carrier's Tip Gets 40-lb. Marijuana Bust -

Pickel Retiring From USPS -

We Already Have a Veterans Job Corps -- It's Called the Postal Service -

OPM: Fixing Retirement Backlog 'Vitally Important' -

1/24/12

Community Celebrates Post Office Victory -

Prosecutors: N.J. postal worker took part in tax scheme -

USPS Shoots for $1 Billion in Annual EDDM Sales -

Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Campaign to Dismantle the Post Office -

Issa Says USPS is Committee's Priority; USPS Should Cut 260,000 Employees -

Poll: Postal Rate Increases - Did you even know about it? -

Rep. Offers Proposal To Help the USPS Battle Deficit -

How UPS, FedEx Move 25 Million Packages a Day -

Man finds dumpster full of mail -

72-Year-Old Postal Employee Makes Shocking Confession -

USPS name change from "package" to "parcel" fails ecommerce sites -

When it absolutely, positively has to be there whenever we get around to it -

1/23/12

Group hosting "Teach In" to inform public about USPS prefunding mandate (PDF) -

Postal Service's FOIA Position Termed "Bizarre" -

Postal union talks reach impasse, arbitration likely -

Trailer with 39,000 pounds of advertising mail burns north of Waycross -

You see it coming, so prepare now for end of job -

Healthy going forward: PMG says USPS will focus on its strengths -

Holiday gift goes missing at USPS for more than a month -

Six Day Delivery and H.R. 2309 -

1/22/12

Fighting for the Setauket Post Office -

Making sense of the Post Office financial situation -

USPS Raising Price of Stamps Today | Stamp prices go up as postal labor talks fail -

A new pledge to fix late, shoddy mail -

Opening Brief of Petitioner GameFly, Inc. -

Closing of post office needs environmental review -

1/21/12

Man accuses post office of losing expensive baseball card collection, jewelry -

Former postmaster: Closing post offices not the way to save money -

USPS shuts down Clearwater Beach location -

Waynesville postal worker sentenced on federal fraud charges -

1/20/12

Postal Service has 180 job openings in SC -

Politicians pitch salvation plan for Hares Corner -

Poll: Which of These 4 Print-Related Giants Is Headed for Bankruptcy? -

Buffalo: Postal Service is hiring despite threat of closure -

Oshkosh man who took mail carrier hostage gets 15 years in prison -

1/19/12

Former Roxbury mailman sentenced to prison, ordered to repay $9K -

Collins says Postal Service situation is dire -

USPS Strategy for 2012: Add Value to the Mail -

Postal Reform Act of 2011 Report (PDF) -

New Postal Prices Start Sunday -

Sen. Susan Collins: US Postal Service cannot be allowed to fail -

Custer's last stand and your retirement -

Union City mayor thinks three of city's four post offices will close -

USPS Requests PRC Issue Advisory Opinion on Operational Changes by Mid-April (PDF) | USPS Statement -

A post office worth preserving -

1/18/12

Henrietta: USPS Hiring for Distribution Center -

Dillons to End Postal Service Contract -

Careless mailman caught on tape -

Canada: Return this postal box to sender -

Postal cuts: 5 Montana libraries forming next-day delivery courier system -

Peekskill man charged in assault of postal worker -

USPS fares worse in recession than foreign posts -

Postal workers aren't 'mules,' Mr. Johnston -

Portland Area Postal Workers Rally to Save Jobs, Saturday Delivery -

Postal Service Self-Sufficiency, Financial Viability and the Business Model -

The Political Economy of Postal Reform in the Victorian Age (PDF) -

1/17/12

Canada: Postal union choked over city's 'no admail' sticker -

Forget that Tweet: Pen a handwritten letter on Tuesday -

USPS Helps Asian Sellers Export Goods to US via eBay -

What else could postal carriers do? -

Postal Service is cost-cutting itself to death -

Hope's post office hopes for a miracle -

Contract units aid USPS -

USPS its own worst enemy -

Triggered direct mail adds to choice -

IG: Postal Service usually had valid business case for past mail plant mergers -

Global Postal Services Market to Reach $323.6 Billion by 2015 -

'If you think the internet revolution has been rough on print media, wait until you see what the tablet revolution does' -

A Round of Alplaus -

1/16/12

Mitchell's 'Smiling Postman' saluted for friendly service -

Highway Post Office Bus -

Proposed postal service closing concerns Ozarks businesses -

Post Office Closings in 2011: Lists, maps, the whole mess -

Forbes: Creative Destruction is Not a Management Philosophy - It Can Be Avoided Kodak, Hostess, Microsoft -

To Avoid Collapse The Post Office Should Deliver Health Care and Other Services -

Photos of Amazon's Warehouse -

1/15/12

Letter Carrier Bites Back Against Dog Owner -

SUV Rear Ends Postal Vehicle, Pinning Carrier Between -

Postal Service backers rally in Flat Rock -

CT mail industry backs postal service cutbacks -

USPS changes to slow bill payments -

Bulk mailer puzzles over possible mail center closure -

Clarence Boggan delivers more than the mail -

Competing bills aim to fix Postal Service -

Sweden: Dwellers forced to deliver their own mail due to crime -

1/14/12

Yawner: US Postal Service launches package tracking app -

Higgins wants to meet with postal chief -

N.D. delegation urges officials to reconsider Postal Service closures -

Hiring freeze leaves town with limited postal service -

Candy-eating raccoons leave mess at post office -

Most of the mail lost in postal truck wreck recovered -

1/13/12

Residents amass against post office closing in Acushnet -

Mail slowdown: Some Charlotte area residents just now receiving holiday catalogs, ads (ads all the way back to Cyber Monday) -

Post office offers weekly reminders why it's failing -

Downtown Yankton Post Office Customers Brace for Change -

Post offices reach end of the road in US -

New Jersey Postal Workers Bracing for Cuts -

US Postal Service Sued in Dispute Over Campaign Mailings -

The Check's in the Mail - for Two More Days -

1/12/12

Garon: A savings account at the post office -

At cramped forum on possible postal cuts, Collins says 'proposal could create a death spiral' -

Retirement Incentives at the USPS -

U.S. Postal Service Past Network Optimization Initiatives (PDF) -

Cresco postmaster: State of USPS might be improving -

Postal inspectors uncover six pounds of marijuana -

Residents, business owners oppose Postal Service plan to shutter Teterboro plant -

Lawmakers have postal workers backs in Wallingford -

1/11/12

Postmaster follows route to retirement -

Postal worker shot with BB gun -

Fight ahead for federal pay raise -

Problem dogs put one 18th Avenue block's mail delivery on hold -

Our View: Postal problems make us sick -

Postal workers make last minute dash before comment period ends -

No Kodak Moment for USPS -

Post office restructuring might do harm -

Measuring the Impact of Network Optimization -

Thrown Overboard: Publishers Feel Abandoned by the U.S. Postal Service -

Aquilent Extends USPS Work for Project Phoenix Website Redesign | Project Phoenix Audit Report (PDF) -

PayPal Link to USPS Shipping Zone (must be logged in to PayPal to see USPS and UPS options) -

Beloved Postal Worker Retires -

1/10/12

USPS Selects Verizon as a Prime Contractor to Help Manage Advanced Communications Platform -

USPS' Link Converted to Online Publication -

'This post office will not be closed in vain' -

Who Failed, Amazon or the USPS? -

Hundreds of Postal Workers and Allies March in Oregon -

Postal Service Missing Thousands of Scanners -

1974: Living High at the P.O. -

Postal Carrier Attacked by Two Dogs on Lorain Route -

USPS Employee Stuck in Trailer -

Rep. Ross reinforces fight against USPS closings -

Proposed cuts worry Erie region businesses that lean heavily on Postal Service -

Man Pretending to Be Mail Carrier Robs Greenville Family -

USPS SW Area Update: Jerry Long is the New Postmaster of Miami, Florida -

District Manager Has Oops Moment at USPS Public Meeting (Page 3, 1st Paragraph) (PDF) -

1/09/12

Saving the Post Office: The Models of Kiwibank and Japan Post -

USPS SW Area Update: SW Area VP Linda Welch Retiring -

Portland: Scenes from Rally to Save the Postal Service -

Postal Worker Gets Prison Sentence for Workers' Comp Fraud -

The Last Post Looms: When did you last get an old-fashioned letter? -

Postcodes and Geocodes - Changing the Address System? -

Mass Appeals at the PRC -

Get a Bunch of Free Discount Coupons by Pretending to Move -

Mail Expected to Slow as Postal Service Deals With Losses -

Large mailers object to plan to close Wallingford postal center -

Portland postal workers rally against cuts -

1/08/12

Possible loss of post office latest trouble for town store -

Post office closes; town vows to fight on -

USPS tries to survive in new era -

Post office closings worry many in W. Virginia -

1/07/12

USPS seeking sources to transport mail in optimized network -

Verdi residents struggle without their torched post office -

Mail carrier helps woman who fell and couldn't get up -

Longtime Dover-Foxcroft postmaster retires -

USPS Paid FedEx $1.4 Billion for Airfreight in 2010 -

1/06/12

What's Behind Postal Crisis? Privatization. -

The Postal Market Drove Employment Growth in December Jobs Report -

PRC Commissioner Nanci Langley Begins Term as Vice Chairman (PDF) -

FedEx Seen Losing $400 Million in Next Postal Contract -

USPS to offer credit billing to direct mailers -

Critics of Rockford postal closing plan question decisions, process -

Occupy417.com: VIDEO - Springfield USPS Center Closure Meeting -

Chinese dragon stamp draws fire for 'scaring' the world -

Shrewsbury postal center backers erupt at public meeting -

USPS Testing Gopost Shipping Kiosks -

1/05/12

Psst: Need a Credit Card? -

PRC Customer Relations Specialist Job Opportunity (PDF) -

Postal Reform Bills Could See Action Early This Year -

The Postman Always Writes Twice -

Postal worker's call helps injured elderly man -

Print catalogs: Taboo? -

How Many People Use the Post Office? Does the Postal Service Even Know? -

PUBLIC MEETINGS: Heated showdown between postal workers, USPS officials over Springfield job cuts | Rage in Buffalo | PA: Outrage | Worries in Central Florida | Irate in Vermont -

No Such Thing as a Free Ounce: Does 'Second Ounce Free' Make Sense for USPS or for Mailers? -

The Postal Service Lies to the People of the Bronx -

1/04/12

Letter Carrier Delivers Couple From Burning Home -

Tiny Towns Fight for Post Offices, and Survival -

Post Office Changes Could Slow Collections, Cost Large Companies Up to $100 Million Annually -

January jumpers: Why some feds are retiring now -

Postal unions under the gun -

Video: Postal workers protest Wayne processing center closing -

Butte community members attend USPS meeting -

Postal workers protest likely closure of Springfield processing facility -

Forest Park post office building fails to sell, taken off the market -

USPS memo highlights privacy violations -

Lesson from the U.S. Postal Service -

1/03/12

Another LLV Catches Fire -

Why Mail Matters: Santorum's Rise Came Too Late for Direct Mail Attacks -

On the Road: Postal Trucks as Vehicles of Discovery -

Going Postal: The Continuing Tragicomedy of the USPS -

Longtime postal carrier won't ring bell anymore -

Wrecking America's Postal Service -

Marketers Eye USPS' Struggles With Caution -

Dead Tree Edition's Best (and Worst) of 2011 -

Ikea's cardboard pallets intrigue -

Indianapolis: Police investigate fake virus parcel -

Saving snail mail one postcard at a time -

1/02/12

Planned Post Office closures hurting Wyoming communities -

Moratorium on postal closings won't halt process -

500 jobs could be lost in downtown Youngstown if USPS closes processing center -

Postal workers' plight viewed as personal -

Postal Service's list of Philadelphia endangered sites goes from 14 to 1 -

Business up at postal unit in Oak Grove -

Week in Review: Protests, dissents and a fury that won't go away -

1/01/12

January 2012 Audiobooks Review by Jonathan Lowe -

Postal Retirement Q&A January 2012 by Roseanne Jefferson -

A Close Up Look at goPost -

Send that email via snail mail -

TOP NEWS STORIES

Postal Service's Overfunding of Pension Plans Grows to $13 Billion
1.27.2012 - Mailing Systems Technology Reports: "The Postal Service is overfunding its two pension plans by more than $13 billion, according to the latest projections by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). This overfunding comes at a significant cost to the organization as it has racked up debt to pay for prefunding of its healthcare plan, while continuing to make large annual payments into overfunded pension plans." -

USPS Declines to Extend Contract Negotiations With NALC
1.20.2012 - NALC reports: "The United States Postal Service declined to extend collective-bargaining negotiations with the National Association of Letter Carriers, triggering an impasse that will automatically send the matter to mediation under the auspices of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. If no consensual agreement is reached in a 60-day period of mediation, the issues will be submitted for final and binding resolution before an "Interest Arbitration" panel." - Impasse 'a surprise to just about no one' - USPS, union talks expire for third time since November - USPS Labor Negotiations Fact Sheet (PDF) - NPMHU: Impasse Declared -

USPS Reminding Employees About Public Disclosure Policy and Lobbying Restrictions
1.18.2012 - With proposed legislative actions dominating postal discussions, the USPS is reminding employees about rules that "prohibit the communication of confidential, proprietary, and non-public information, as well as information that would violate anti-lobbying laws." - Permitted and Impermissible Activities (PDF) - APWU: Postal Workers Have the Right to Speak Out Against Facility Closures -

APWU Warns Members: Beware of Risks in USPS Campaign For Voluntary Transfers to Letter Carrier
1.13.2012 - The APWU is warning members about risks associated with a USPS campaign encouraging voluntary transfers to the carrier craft. Risks include loss of seniority, loss of limits on excessing, and possible loss of protection against layoffs. -

Postal Service's Plan to Close Post Offices Hits Roadbumps
1.04.2012 - "The Postal Service's recent decision to delay the closing of hundreds of mail processing centers and thousands of local post offices until May has given critics plenty of time to question the agency's strategy to climb out of the red," reports Federal News Radio. -

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