From the article: "...Tuesday, December 4th The Save Our Post Office Coalition of SF, Save the Berkeley Post Office Committee, Berkeley-East Bay Gray Panthers, SF Gray Panthers, The Living New Deal, Grandmothers Against War, joined retired and current postal workers to tell Richard Blum, CBRE, Inc.” Stop selling our post offices.” Occupy SF & Occupy Oakland camped out over night in front of his SF financial district office, 909 Montgomery, with tables of information on CBRE and Blum. ..."
From the article: "...Police are investigating after a postal worker was shot in Cahokia, Illinois...."
From the article: "...According to Spratlin, it has been difficult for letter carriers to start their routes on-time due to the large volume of holiday mail and staffing shortages...."
From the article: "...Postmaster General Pat Donahoe wants to cut that workforce to 402,000 by 2016. This year alone, about 4,200 postmasters left with the encouragement of a $20,000 incentive, while almost 3,000 mail handlers accepted $15,000 buyouts to retire or quit...."
From the article: "...reportedly opened a suspicious package that came into the campus post office Nov. 19 and then called campus police, who notified the First District Drug Task Force...."
From the article: "...A postcard mailed nearly 70 years ago has finally arrived at the former upstate New York home of the couple who sent it...."
From the article: "...The achievements of Lady Bird Johnson were commemorated today with the dedication of the Lady Bird Johnson souvenir Forever stamps sheet...."
From the article: "...man was driving under the bridge when a steel mailbox and an 8x8 piece of wood hit the vehicle..."
From the article: "... announced by the U.S. Postal Service on Thursday, all but one of the top five executives for the nation's mail service had an overall compensation increase this year, records show..."
From the article: "...A 69-year-old post office worker who renders paintings for silk scarves that retail for over $300? Yep...."
From the article: "...It turns out that at least three USPS officers made more than the legal compensation limit for their respective work category, according to the agency’s inspector general. In a report made public this month, the Postal Service watchdog reveals that one of the officers, identified as the president of digital solutions, made a whopping $306,250 last year. This exceeds even the “critical position” cap set by the federal law...."
From the article: "...BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) - Postal Service workers in Jefferson County are now sorting absentee ballot mail by hand after CBS42 brought errors to the organization's attention...."
From the article: "...The PMG and the BOG have displayed outright disregard for the advice of their regulator and total contempt for providing service to the American public. They have put the postal ship on a course that will inevitably result in fewer jobs, decreased service, and ultimately privatization. Ignoring the public interest..."
From the article: "...FedEx can add the same number of seasonal workers as last year because it has been hiring staff throughout 2012, especially at the Ground and SmartPost divisions that will handle the bulk of the holiday volume, said T. Michael Glenn, executive vice president of market development and corporate communications...."
From the article: "...Federal retirees will receive an inflation adjustment of 1.7 percent in January, translating to about a $50..."
From the article: "...question the very basis of universal service, and they are laser focused on a future model of the United States Postal Service as a privatized entity. What becomes apparent from the 2002 plan, as well as subsequent documents that address the progress of implementing the plan, is that the senior management of the Postal Service saw the future in terms of a greatly reduced network. From the standpoint of retail, Postmaster Jack Potter and then Patrick Donahoe called for the closure of as many as 15,000 post offices. For the mail processing network, the vision suggested that the future was in outsourcing much of the mail processing network through worksharing and similar initiatives...."
From the article: "...Going green just got easier thanks to the initiatives of the U.S. Postal Service. If you have old cellphones, PDAs, digital cameras or any other electronic devices lying around and gathering dust, don’t just toss them out. Give USPS..."
From the article: "...Congressman Henry A. Waxman this week sent a letter to Shoshana Grove, Secretary of the Postal Regulatory Commission, appealing the decision by the United States Postal Service (USPS) to close the Santa Monica Post Office. In the letter Waxman states that USPS did not follow proper procedure on rules..."
From the article: "...the Postal Regulatory Commission last week officially dismissed a union complaint seeking to block the U.S. Postal Service’s downsizing of its mail processing plant network...."
From the article: "...After seeing his winning numbers online one Sunday morning in early July, the 59-year-old Cortlandt resident and retired U.S. Postal Service worker decided not to leave his house for the rest of the weekend so he could safeguard the ticket...."
From the article: "...Some researchers believe at least partial privatization is inevitable — meaning a shift to shareholder ownership and Wall Street scrutiny, with new management priorities and financial incentives for executives...."
From the article: "...The U.S. Postal Service's net loss widened to $5.2 billion during the April through June period, and the cash-strapped agency warned on Thursday that without help from the U.S. Congress it will face low cash and be unable to borrow money this fall...."
From the article: "...But the idea raises a question: If Geddes and the AEI are correct and the USPS is such a bottomless money pit, why would anybody want it? Who ever heard of buying a service company with no upside? What's in it for them? Well, real estate, actually, and Geddes and every commenter hints at this. Privatizing the USPS has the potential of being one of history's biggest -- and most profitable -- real estate deals ever. ..."
