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...."
From the article: "...In the past few weeks, there have been 28 incidents of vandalism or theft at mailbox clusters in Rio Rancho. Criminals rip open the mailboxes,..."
From the article: "...The Lampasas Post Office was robbed this week, continuing a string of post office burglaries across Texas, said Charlie Boswell, a Lampasas Police Department investigator...."
From the article: "...Police said a man walked into the open-air post office in downtown St. Petersburg on Monday, Feb. 10 and robbed the clerk...."
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From the article: "...U.S. crash investigators are focusing on pilot fatigue, training and adherence to procedures in the fatal Aug. 14 crash of a United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) jet freighter in Birmingham, Alabama. ..."
From the article: "...AKRON, Ohio - A postal carrier discovered the body of a man Tuesday in Akron who is believed to have died due to the bitter cold...."
From the article: "...Narcotics detectives disguised themselves as UPS drivers and delivered the package to the addressed residence and left it on the home’s doorstep. When David..."
From the article: "...A United States Postal Service letter carrier is facing theft charges after allegedly asking people along his route to borrow money..."
From the article: "...Items sent using the post office’s overnight or two-day shipping service, Priority Express, should be postmarked by Dec. 23 for Christmas delivery...."
From the article: "...The stamp design released in 2011 was not based on the statue in New York Harbor, as intended, but on a replica outside the New York-New York casino hotel in Las Vegas...."
From the article: "...FedEx employees gave their company an average "3.6" rating for quality. UPS employees, in contrast, scored their company a 3.3, and U.S. Postal workers gave USPS a lowly 2.8...."
From the article: "...Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) said in a Sep. 19 statement that he has serious concerns about the bill because it doesn't protect six day delivery and rural customers...."
From the article: "...a supervisor for the U.S. Postal Service stole a piece of mail from the loading dock..."
From the article: "...a non-profit organization devoted to the advancement and collecting of first day covers. ..."
From the article: "...The Postal Service is going to deliver Amazon packages on Sundays only to customers who live in New York and Los Angeles; eventually the program will encompass a few other big cities like Dallas, Houston, and New Orleans. That seems like it would discriminate against people who live everywhere else, particularly the residents of rural America, who will probably never get Sunday delivery, no matter..."
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...."
