From the article: "...the Postal Service posted a $1.325 billion profit in Controllable Operating Income. That’s compared to a $912 million profit for the same period last year (SPYL). ..."
From the article: "...USPS service standard changes due to its “Network Rationalization Plan” have been in effect since phase 1 started on July 1st 2012, now phase 2 has started on Jan. 5th of this year. These changes are a result of the previous postmaster general’s efforts to close mail processing centers, reduce hours at post offices, eliminate a day of mail delivery, and take away door-to-door delivery. The idea is that reducing services will help USPS’s financial problems, when instead this will more likely drive people away from using first class mail. ..."
From the article: "...Two postal workers say they were robbed early Wednesday morning at a United States Postal Service processing center at 2800 N. Military Trail....."
From the article: "...given that the USPS is in the process of shuttering 82 mail processing centers. The Postal Service lowered delivery standards for letters and first-class mail earlier this year ..."
From the article: "...Tucson business leaders said they are experiencing significant delays in mail delivery since the U.S. Postal Service changed its service standards Jan. 5. ..."
From the article: "...Sadly, the previous Postmaster General chose a path of that undermined the USPS – closing post offices, slashing hours of operations, virtually eliminating overnight delivery of first-class mail, and outsourcing key functions to unqualified private companies...."
From the article: "...chronicle dozens of complaints over misplaced packages, poorly serviced routes and late deliveries. A few residents claim to be so fed up they drive to the post office in West Nyack or at the Palisades Center mall. "There are many issues," Carlin said. ..."
From the article: "...United Parcel Service Inc. said higher-than-expected seasonal expenses dragged down its earnings in the fourth quarter as the shipping giant took steps to avoid a repeat of the holiday shipping snafus that plagued its network in 2013. ..."
From the article: "...reporters spoke to postal workers at a post office in Davis, California. “We’re becoming slaves,” said Sharon, a letter carrier. “This used to be a good job, but they’re trying to claw us back to working at the minimum wage, while taking away our already meager pensions and benefits. With these most recent cutbacks that are supposed to start within days, they’re barely telling us anything. Everyone is interested and wants to know more, but they’ve barely said anything about it.”..."
From the article: "...Rick Stelzriede, 61, of Tracy is the only postal carrier with a river route in California, according to the U.S. Postal Service. Still, he downplays his unusual role...."
From the article: "...mail was damaged during a vehicle fire involving a United States Postal Service tractor-trailer Sunday morning, according to a USPS spokesman...."
From the article: "...APWU has vowed to join Black Friday protests at Walmart stores around the country if the company refuses to give their workers full-time jobs with decent wages. “We’re urging union members to join in,” said APWU President Mark Dimondstein. The Walton family, which owns Wal-Mart, controls a fortune equal to the wealth of the bottom 42 percent of Americans combined, but they are notorious for paying their employees low wages. Walmart workers are fighting for $15 per hour pay and the right to form a union...."
From the article: "...U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors today announced the appointment of Megan J. Brennan, the current chief operating officer of the Postal Service, as the 74th Postmaster General and CEO...."
From the article: "...The American Postal Workers Union is calling for President Drew Gilpin Faust to resign her seat on office supply store Staples’ board of directors if she won’t criticize the company...."
From the article: "...Richardson reportedly mailed the letters and then went to police to claim that her estranged husband, Nathan Richardson, was responsible for mailing them. Read More: Actress Sentenced to 18 Years in Prison for Ricin Letters | http://popcrush.com/shannon-richardson-walking-dead-actress-prison-ricin-letters/?trackback=tsmclip..."
From the article: "...Despite management’s false claims, the consolidations will end overnight delivery of single-piece first-class mail – even mail sent from one address to another within the same city or town, and even in areas where plants are not being closed or consolidated. “We must make sure the American people understand this fact, and we must mobilize them to work with us,” said Executive Vice President Debby Szeredy. “The USPS is relying on obsolete studies to justify the consolidations and refusing to hold new public meetings to solicit input from residents and businesses,” she said. “We must demand that management conducts new studies and holds new public meetings. If they refuse, locals should organize meetings themselves,” Szeredy said. “There is no distinction between ‘gaining facilities’ and ‘losing facilities’ in this fight,” said President Mark Dimondstein. “If overnight delivery is eliminated, America loses. Customers will leave the Postal Service in droves and the downward spiral of the USPS will continue. We will all feel the effect. - See more at: http://www.apwu.org/news/news-bulletin/consolidation-battle-takes-shape#sthash.Cfa63Lv4.dpuf..."
From the article: "...The mission of the Postal Service is set by legislation. Our broad framework, or business model, is established by the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 and the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006...."
From the article: "... Sharon Monahan, 18 years old and not sure what she wanted to do with her life, figured delivering the mail for awhile might not be too bad. Thirty-five years later, Monahan..."
From the article: "...In July 2014, the Consumer Price Index (CPI-W) fell slightly to 698.580. The sixth COLA adjustment under the 2010 National Agreement is: Per Annum: $686.00; Per Pay Period: $26.40; Cents Per Hour: 33¢...effective September 6, 2014, (pay period 20-2014, pay date September 26, 2014)."
From the article: "...Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe has lied repeatedly, not only to the media and postal employees but under oath to Congress. He has claimed he is only trying to make the Postal Service financially healthy and does not believe in privatization—is against it, in fact. While stating these things, he attempted to outsource to the private sector every postal trucking job in the state of California. My union had to go to federal court to force the issue into binding arbitration as our contract requires, and we have stopped it for now...."
From the article: "...It looks like the folks in L’Enfant Plaza will be the last to acknowledge what everyone else in the country already knows — customer service at the Postal Service is going way down hill, and fast. The plant consolidations have resulted in delayed mail, late delivery, and countless other service problems. Under POStPlan, service has declined due to reducing hours at post offices and replacing experienced..."
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After degrading access to postal services and in turn inconveniencing customers by cutting Post Office hours, closing Post Offices, slowing mail delivery standards, removing stamp vending machines from many Post Office lobbies, removing public mail Blue Box receptacles from the streets, and shuttering mail processing facilities across the nation, the Postmaster General argues that more convenient access to products and services are needed by pushing postal business toward Staple's stores and away from the convenience of nearby Post Offices. - @Postalgirl101-xyz
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From the article: "...Republican lawmakers voiced support for continued prefunding of U.S. Postal Service retirees’ health benefits at a congressional hearing Thursday, calling the payments necessary to avoid workers losing promised benefits..."
From the article: "...The driver — who was employed with Fredy Transportation — was transporting mail from Las Vegas to the Margaret L. Sellers Processing and Distribution Center, said Eva Jackson, a spokesperson for the USPS...."
