From the article: "...Management hasn’t proposed it directly to Congress, but everything they are doing is lining the Postal Service up for privatization. ..."
From the article: "... had to fight with the Postal Service to get information about assessed values and other details on the sales. It’s no surprise that the Postal Service would be less than cooperative. As Byrne’s study reveals, many of the facilities were sold at less-than-market value, and it appears that the main beneficiary of most of the sales was the Postal Service’s real estate broker, CBRE...."
From the article: "...The man, identified by Guam Memorial Hospital officials as Roland Reyes, 40, was driving a FedEx delivery van southbound on Marine Corps Drive...."
From the article: "... during a September 2009 appearance on "The Price is Right," when she was able to spin the "big wheel" twice, according to a federal indictment...."
From the article: "...It should come as little surprise that revenues at the Ewa Station have been declining. Several years ago, the hours at the post office were reduced from eight a day to half a day, and then in 2011 they were reduced to just two hours a day, noon to 2 p.m., with no hours at all on Saturday...."
From the article: "...newspapers are looking to Congress and the courts to stop the discount deal the United States Postal Service (USPS) struck with the big direct mailer Valassis...."
From the article: "...The medical examiner in Birmingham, Alabama reports the two-person crew died from blunt force injuries in the crash. Pilots Shanda Fanning of Lynchburg, Tennessee and Cerea Beal, Jr. of Matthews, North Carolina..."
From the article: "... the Postal Service’s plan to re-rank mail processing plants has become public knowledge despite their best efforts to keep the information confidential until September 6, 2013. The confidential nature of the discussions between NAPS and USPS Labor Relations was due to the fact that the Postal Service had not finalized their plans nor had they briefed Area and District Managers...."
From the article: "...inside the Mangum, Oklahoma, Post Office, Jim Ed Bull heads out to load his Ford Ranger with the day's mail. Bull is responsible for the longest mail route in the U.S., 187.6 miles (301.8 kilometers) around and through the tiny towns of Duke and Eldorado in drought-stricken southwest Oklahoma. Bull, a retired high school principal at 72, went back to work for the Post Office and is part of the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. labor force -- those who work past their 65th birthdays. ..."
From the article: "...revenues are increasing. For the first nine months of the year, operating revenue is up $668 million, a 1.3 percent improvement, thanks primarily to more e-commerce. Revenue from shipping and package services is up 7.5 percent over last year. First-class packages are up over 15 percent, and Standard parcels, Parcel Select, and Parcel Return are up almost 20 percent...."
From the article: "...A mail carrier’s truck was also involved somehow. The truck was parked on Bonnell and had blood on part of the front hood. The mail carrier was not physically hurt, but..."
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From the article: "...the closure of the Glenwood Springs mail-sorting facility in 2011 — a move that the postal service at the time estimated would save $1.2 million per year — has resulted in delays and reflects badly on the agency’s image. ..."
From the article: "...The National Register of Historic Places has designated 2,530 postal buildings as worthy of preservation. Under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the register is administered by the National Park Service as part of a national program “to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America's historic and archeological resources”..."
From the article: "...barring clauses prohibiting layoffs in collective bargaining agreements, and holding employees to the same standards as other federal workers, including the reduction-in-force provisions in place at other agencies...."
From the article: "...Similarly to Issa, Cummings called for the Postal Service to be able to lay off employees, though Issa’s bill goes further in nullifying existing and future collective bargaining agreements. Cummings’ bill would also grant USPS the authority to offer buyout incentives through 2016 -- providing voluntarily separated employees with $25,000 or an extra one-to-two years of credited service...."
From the article: "...Guntersville Post Office was closed this morning and police were called to the scene after liquid spilled from a package and two workers got sick, said Debbie Fetterly ..."
From the article: "...U.S. Postal Service has abandoned plans to offer a financial incentive to bulk mailers that adopt its Full Service Intelligent Barcode program. - See more at: http://www.btobonline.com/article/20130627/DIRECT0202/306279995/usps-scraps-track-and-trace-mail-promotion#sthash.0IL7zetx.dpuf..."
From the article: "...The U.S. Postal Service confirmed on Thursday that its website is experiencing glitches. Online sellers reported problems accessing the site, and sales of some merchants who tied their services to the USPS were severely impacted...."
