USPS introduces muscle car themed stamps
From the article: "...Today, the USPS is introducing a new set of stamps featuring five of America’s most legendary muscle cars...."
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From the article: "...Today, the USPS is introducing a new set of stamps featuring five of America’s most legendary muscle cars...."
From the article: "...“The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) today continued its tradition under the leadership of Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe of shooting itself in the foot,” Nader said...."
From the article: "..."We think by eliminating overtime and by looking at some of the flexibilities we have with the part-time workforce, and potentially working with the unions on some buyouts, we'll easily hit that."..."
From the article: "...In response to an APWU request, the Postal Service has agreed to postpone any mode conversions of Postal Vehicle Service work to Highway Contract Routes (HCRs) at least until March 4, when an arbitration decision on the issue is expected, APWU President Cliff Guffey has announced. The agreement applies to California..."
From the article: "...The APWU has received reports that some retiring union members are receiving confusing and sometimes inaccurate information regarding their last day of work. ..."
From the article: "...When Jason Jones saw that one of his typically friendly customers hadn’t picked up his mail in days and left no footprints on his snow-laden stoop, the postal worker started to worry. ..."
From the article: "...The House bill, which never left committee, would have deferred near-term payments on retiree health care benefits, allowed the agency to move to a five-day delivery week and created an independent board to recommend facility closures. ..."
From the article: "...The National Association of Letter Carriers and the U.S. Postal Service announced Friday that the three-person interest arbitration panel chaired by arbitrator Shyam Das had concluded its work and issued an award that sets the terms of a new 4.5-year labor contract PR Newswire (http://s.tt/1yjpQ) ..."
From the article: "...Businesses in the area were forced to close early on Thursday when water was shut off, and some customers avoided the area over the weekend. Parts of a nearby parking garage at the main downtown post office were flooded and an estimated 50 vehicles belonging to employees or the Postal Service were submerged...."
From the article: "...been complaining about long lines at post offices, delayed mail and returned mail. Williston, Watford City, Ray and Tioga have been among the most affected communities. ..."
From the article: "...“Mitch Cade has demonstrated superb leadership as the Senior Plant Manager in the Suncoast District. While some might tend to relax at the end of a long career, Mitch pushed harder than ever to ensure that Suncoast had a successful holiday season,” said District Manager Nancy Rettinhouse. “Mitch is truly one of those managers who would never ask someone to do something that he would not be willing to himself. His operational expertise, combined with his phenomenal work ethic, will be missed in the Suncoast District. On behalf of the Suncoast District postal employees, I wish Mitch the very best in the next chapter of his life.”..."
From the article: "...The phrase was born from a series of postal shootings in 1983 that continued, almost annually, until 1997, including one in 1991 in Ridgewood, in which an ex-postal worker named Joseph M. Harris murdered his ex-supervisor, her boyfriend and two co-workers. The wave of Post Office shootings were “aimed more at supervisors and fellow employees who were perceived by the assailants as cruel or unfair,” Don Lasseter, the author of “Going Postal,” said..."
From the article: "...Stolen from a post office in December 1941, 86 WWII Christmas cards from Nazi soldiers stationed on the British island of Jersey were recovered by the Jersey Archive in 2006...."
From the article: "...Flames ruined the mail in the front of the truck near the driver's seat, but packages..."
From the article: "...According to a follow up news release from Hopkins issued Thursday, witnesses told police a white male entered the post office and posed as a customer. As the postal worker opened the cash register, the man pulled out a handgun. He then reached over the counter and removed an undisclosed amount of cash from the register...."
From the article: "...Monday will be the biggest shipping day for the postal service, with 658 million pieces of mail being mailed nationwide, 140 million more than usual...."
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. ..."