How Much Do Postal Workers Get Paid When They Retire?

From the article: "...FERS also uses the high-3 average, paying 1 to 1.1 percent of the high-3 average salary for each year of service. Under FERS, a postal worker with a high-3 average of around $60,000 and 20 years of service earns $1,007 a month without any deductions. That equals about $12,000 annually. A worker with the same salary and 40 years of service earns $2,013 monthly, or about $24,000 annually. However, FERS employees also receive Social Security benefits and distribution of their TSP payments, so this number is actually higher..."

Article Reference: work.chron.com
Retirements, FERS, CSRS,

Retiring mailman’s heartwarming sendoff goes viral

From the article: "...Beloved U.S. Postal Service employee Floyd Martin, who retired Thursday, has been delivering mail to the same community of residents in Marietta, Ga., for more than two decades. On his last day, a local journalist joined him on his route, and the heartwarming sendoff has gone viral..."

Article Reference: www.foxnews.com
Floyd Martin, Retirements,

Are forced mail cluster boxes harming new residential development and commercial development real estate sales?

Home builders working to preserve home mail delivery

From the article: "...Alabama home builders are continuing efforts to preserve home mail delivery. These efforts are in response to the United States Postal Service’s mandate requiring mail delivery to cluster mailbox units in new residential developments and commercial developments..."

Article Reference: www.wsfa.com
home mail delivery, Changes that are harming America's Economy, mail cluster boxes,

Jacksonville homeowner claims USPS mailman damaged his fence, Postal Service does nothing

Jacksonville homeowner claims USPS mailman damaged his fence

From the article: "...A Jacksonville man is battling the United States Postal Service after the mailman reportedly destroyed his fence with his vehicle...a mailman careened into his chain-link fence with a vehicle. He was told the postal service will get in contact with him, but it didn't..."

Article Reference: www.firstcoastnews.com

Postal Service Shake-Up Alarms Union of Mail Carriers

From the article: "...The initiative has been dubbed the Consolidated Casing Initiative, and the union says it splits the carriers’ job in two, with some workers arriving early in the morning to sort mail for multiple delivery routes, and others spending their entire shift making deliveries, leaving them on their feet for longer periods of time..."

Article Reference: www.courthousenews.com

Thieves use Postal Service "Informed Delivery" to monitor and steal mail

Thieves use USPS "Informed Delivery" to monitor and steal mail

From the article: "...Investigators say crooks use your name to sign up..."

Article Reference: www.koaa.com

Postal Service Utilizing Disgraced Former NLRB Commissioner

USPS Utilizing Disgraced Former NLRB Commissioner

From the article: "...for the private benefit of former Member Kirsanow and his client, the National Association of Manufacturers, and former Member Schaumber’s labor relations consulting and/ or legal practice.” In a second report in April of 2012, the OIG also indicated that Flynn did improper favors for Schaumber in return for Schaumber helping to secure Flynn’s nomination to the NLRB. Whatever the USPS is paying Flynn, he probably made ten times more working as head of labor relations for Dr. Pepper/Snapple. So why is he working at the Postal Service and is his public postal salary being supplemented by outside interests who would benefit from his presence in labor relations at the Postal Service? Given the Postal Service’s willful and blatant violations of the contract and the interests of many large corporations in eliminating unions, the hiring of a corrupt anti-union lawyer for national negotiations is disturbing, yet not surprising..."

Article Reference: contractnegotiations.blogspot.com
Contract Negotiations (APWU), Union Busting,

Former Postal Worker Charged in N.Y. for Falsely Obtaining $160K in Disability Benefits

From the article: "...A former motor vehicle operator for the United States Postal Service (USPS) has been charged with making false statements to obtain federal employees’ compensation, according to a complaint unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn, N.Y..."

Article Reference: www.insurancejournal.com
Disability Benefits

President Trump Calls for End to Discounts for International Mail

Trump Calls for End to Discounts for International Mail

From the article: "...Decades-old policy means a Chinese company can ship a product to a U.S. customer for less than it costs an American firm..."

Article Reference: www.wsj.com
International Mail Discounts, Discounted Postage,

Letter opened at Virginia's Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall triggers hazmat situation; 11 feel ill

From the article: "...Investigators are looking into an apparent hazmat situation at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Ft. Myer, Virginia, after a number of people began feeling sick after opening a letter, officials said. Arlington Fire, one of the units responding to the scene, said "11 people started feeling ill after the letter..."

Article Reference: www.foxnews.com

Residents Report Open Mail, Missing Gift Cards In Smithtown

From the article: "...A woman named Suzanne said 10 days she received two birthday cards in the mail and both had been opened. One was supposed to contain a $100 American Express gift card but it was gone..."

Article Reference: newyork.cbslocal.com

USPS Announces Voluntary Early Out Retirement (VERA)

From the article: "...January 4, 2018, the APWU was notified by letter that the USPS is offering voluntary early out retirement (VERA) for eligible clerk craft employees. This letter was received with no advance notification to the union or negotiations with the APWU over who the VERA applied to and under what conditions. The APWU immediately initiated information requests to USPS management regarding this VERA and demands for bargaining..."

Article Reference: www.apwu.org
Voluntary Early Out Retirement (2018), "No Cash, No Dash",

Postal Service Delivering Mail, Packages at All Hours

From the article: "...Detroit District Manager Lee Thompson. “We ask customers who are expecting a package to please turn on their porch light so our letter carriers can deliver safely..."

Article Reference: www.emissourian.com

Postal workers in Utah, across nation cite delivery problems

From the article: "...Utah Postal Service workers said they’re being forced to fake package deliveries to make it look like they’re meeting quotas for companies like Amazon and now, others are saying it’s not just an issue in the Beehive State. Fox 13 first reported the problems last week, starting with frustrated residents in Herriman. Several people said they noticed the Riverton Post Office kept scanning packages as delivered, but the packages would be MIA..."

Article Reference: fox13now.com
Scanning Issues

Mail from the US Postal Service found in a ditch in Georgia

From the article: "...The mail is from the US Postal Service and is addressed to residents in Bradley County, TN, and Catoosa County, GA. All of the mail has been turned over to..."

Article Reference: www.wrcbtv.com

House Oversight Committee Looking Into Postal Service Hatch Act Violation

From the article: "...Although the IG said the Postal Service violated the Hatch Act, it did not recommend any disciplinary action..."

Article Reference: www.fedsmith.com

USPS Sued by Artist After Printing Wrong Statue of Liberty on 4 Billion Stamps

From the article: "...Come Sept. 11, artist Robert S. Davidson intends to argue that the United States Postal Service (USPS) improperly extended those concepts to its benefit by using his sculpted rendering of the iconic work on more than four billion stamps, with roughly a quarter of the prints issued even after the entity had learned it was not the original New York City masterpiece..."

Article Reference: promomarketing.com
Statue of Liberty Stamp,

As U.S. Postal Service struggles, Stamps.com fortunes rise

From the article: "...the Postal Service isn't the only one making money when a mail carrier brings a new pair of shoes or a school backpack to your door. Private companies compete fiercely to sell postage, prepare labels and help retailers find the best deals for shipping their products. And several of them argue that a single company, Stamps.com, is getting unusually good deals from the Postal Service, allowing it to undercut the prices of rivals and reap profits that should be going to the government..."

Article Reference: www.chicagotribune.com

Labor Department begins monitoring opioid use by federal workers

From the article: "...The department's Office of Workers' Compensation Programs instituted a regulation requiring all doctors who want to prescribe any compounded medications containing opioids to file a Letter of Medical Necessity justifying the prescription and explaining why alternate treatments are not feasible..."

Article Reference: www.washingtonexaminer.com

Postal IG Sounds Alarm on Safety, Security

From the article: "... issues to include safety and security concerns. Auditors reviewed 51 facilities in the Eastern Area, finding that 32 had building safety and security issues, and the same number had potential OSHA violations..."

Article Reference: www.fedweek.com

2 postal workers indicted in marijuana distribution ring in West Philadelphia

From the article: "...Federal authorities say they used their positions at the West Market Post Office to funnel more than 100 kilos of marijuana to three separate drug organizations..."

Article Reference: 6abc.com
Postal drugs, mailing marijuana, mailing marijuana, postal crime,

Postal Service puts lifeline to communities in jeopardy

Deliveries to Two Downeast Islands off MDI in Jeopardy After Postal Service Crackdown

From the article: "...Islanders pay Hopkins for his deliveries, but he says the postal service contract — worth $80,000 a year — accounted for half his income. And delivering everything together — the mail and other freight items — is the only way to be cost-efficient. He has to pay ferry, fuel, and insurance bills, and hires help to get the mail from Swans’ Island to Frenchboro...."

Article Reference: mpbn.net

Postal worker says dog attack was 'horrendous'

From the article: "...He's trained to use his postal bag as a defense, but in this case it was no help. "It literally just jumped up at me and lunged at me and grabbed my arm. Knocked me backward onto my butt," said De Lashmit. He says the dog backed off for a moment before it came back and grabbed his leg. "That's when I knew it wasn't just going to be a bite. I knew it was an actual attack," said De Lashmit. He kicked at the dog and managed to get to his feet only to have the dog attack again...."

Article Reference: www.kwch.com
America's most dangerous jobs, dog attacks,

60 Years After Theft, Rare 'Inverted Jenny' Stamp Turns Up

Rare 'Inverted Jenny' Stamp Turns Up 60 Years After Theft

From the article: "...There are other known "inverted Jenny" stamps from that sheet of 100, but this newly discovered stamp is from the stolen block of four. "After careful expert examination the rarity was determined to be position 76 in the pane of 100 subjects," the Spink USA auction house said in a press release...."

Article Reference: www.npr.org