USPS Issues Employee Communications Update Regarding PostalEASE Website Fraud

USPS Issues Employee Communications Update Regarding PostalEASE Website Fraud

From the article: "...Letter to be sent to only impacted employees notifying them of their situation and share information and next steps. Please note, Headquarters is also preparing a Stand-Up Talk to support these communications. Additonal information will be shared when made avaialble to the NPMHU. ..."

Article Reference: NPMHU Local 317
PostalEASE Website Fraud, Fraud, Alert, National Postal Mail Handlers Union (NPMHU),

Christmas City, USA | Post Offices home to popular postmarks

Christmas City, USA | Post Offices home to popular postmarks

From the article: "...As part of that tradition, the Noel Post Office uses volunteers to stamp the postmark on cards and letters. ...The Hadley, MA, Post Office also has a sought-after holiday pictorial postmark. ...Last year, we received requests for the postmark from across the country..."

Article Reference: link.usps.com
https://northpolepostmarkcancellation2017.blogspot.com/2017/11/north-pole-cancellation-north-pole.html

History on a stamp: An Post and the Decade of Centenaries

History on a stamp: An Post and the Decade of Centenaries

From the article: "A stamp is an inherently humble physical artefact — paper, ink, adhesive — yet it is also fundamentally part of the bricks-and-mortar of state-building. In the case of commemorative stamps, they express not only political and cultural meanings, but our understandings of the events they represent. Equally, stamps are touched, they move, they circulate, they are collected and saved, they are discarded. Perhaps few symbols of the State hold such universal appeal and are so widely used: stamps are simultaneously temporal, cherished, ubiquitous, and invisible."

Article Reference: www.rte.ie
Stamp Collecting, Postal History,

Calls to Remove USPS Mail Collection Boxes Grow Following Recent Thefts

Calls to Remove USPS Mail Collection Boxes Grow Following Recent Thefts

From the article: "According to Frank Albergo, head of the Postal Police Officers Association, the blue collection boxes continue to be a target for thieves. Albergo supports the removal of the boxes. “The blue collection boxes are being hit over and over again. Postal customers need to walk into the post office and mail their letters. ..."

Article Reference: www.nbcchicago.com
USPS Mail Collection Boxes, Blue Boxes UPS,