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Friday, September 29

• Montana postal workers to protest consolidation plans
  Helena Independent Record
• USPS tightens computer security rules
  postalnews blog
• Parcel dispute prevents agreement on reform bill
  From Postcom.org:
  "It has been reported that efforts to secure enactment of postal reform last night failed. Reportedly, disagreements over the disposition of single-piece parcels were insurmountable."

  Thursday, September 28

• Pitney Bowes to Manage USPS Transfer Center in Atlanta
  Press release
• APWU Sets Oct. 26 for Nationwide Day of Picketing
  APWU News
• Bush appoints Thurgood Marshall, Jr. to USPS Board
  White House Personnel Announcement
• USPS, customers at odds over mailboxes in Mississippi
  Jackson Clarion-Ledger
• Mail recovery items ending up on eBay, at flea markets
  Cox News Service
• Preparing for the Postal Rate Hike
  MultiChannelMerchant

  Wednesday, September 27

• USPS posts new standards for domestic mail
  The new rules for domestic mail under the proposed rate increase have been made available in today's Federal Register
• Editorial: Going Postal On Taxpayers
  "Postmaster General John E. Potter is right about one thing: His agency's former public affairs chief, Azeezaly S. Jaffer, has left quite a legacy."
  Hartford Courant

  Tuesday, September 26

• Eleventh-Hour Debate Over Parcel Rates Could Kill Postal Reform
  MultiChannelMerchant
• Mail carrier's good works curbed by Postal Service
  Muncie Star Press
  click here to read the original article: "St. Francis of the Post Office"
• Why It Pays To Organize
  "Postal employees, the most unionized folks in the federal family, will continue to pay lower health insurance premiums than white collar civil servants next year."
  Mike Causey for FederalNewsRadio.com
• DMA Calls for Cooperation From Mailing Community on Postal Reform
  DMNews.com
• Burrus: Enough Is Enough!
  "While mailing-industry spokesmen wage a constant propaganda tirade against the salary and benefits received by hard-working postal employees, behind closed doors these phonies demand continued excessive discounts in order to pad their own profits."
  APWU News

  Monday, September 25

• Commitment to injury-reduction programs paying off for USPS
  Federal Times
• FBI Is Casting A Wider Net in Anthrax Attacks
  Washington Post

  Sunday, September 24

• Is Mail Safer Since Anthrax Attacks?
  Questions Remain About Post Office Security 5 Years After 5 Died
  CBS News

  Saturday, September 23

• NLRB: APWU was guilty of unfair labor practices with its own employees
  National Labor Relations Board
• USPS takes customer complaints in Chicago
  WLS TV Chicago
• League President seeks better postal pay, benefits, budgets
  Federal Times
• Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow ...
  Still carrying the mail after 47 years
  Framingham (MA) Tab
• Postal Reform to be Kicked to Lame Duck Session
  also: NAPUS to Congress: Protect Residential & Rural Parcel Post
  eNAPUS Legislative Newsletter
• APWU Negotiations Update
  APWU News

  Friday, September 22

• Mail Handler Contract Update
  NPMHU: The Mail Handler Update
• Some Question PMG's May 6 Postal Increase Date
  MultiChannelMerchant
• Masked Men Rob Postal Truck
  WPVI TV Philadelphia
• FedEx Profit Rises 40% In 1st Quarter
  Associated Press

  Thursday, September 21

• APWU Asks U.S. Lawmakers to Support Citizens’ Right to Be Heard on Consolidation
  APWU News
• Potter Says USPS Must Be Ready for May 6 Rate Increase
  DMNews.com
• DMA Calls on Members to Help Get Postal Reform Passed
  DM News Blog
• Unions want share of USPS financial success, protection for health benefits
  postalnews blog
• American Airlines shares in postal contract
  Dallas Business Journal
• Tea bag protest worries postal officials
  Peoria Journal Star
• Rural carrier beats ticket for not sitting behind the wheel
  Associated Press

  Wednesday, September 20

• UPS, Teamsters kick off talks for new contract
  Reuters
• Payroll checks stolen from mail in Maryland
  WJLA TV Washington
• Postal Service downplays risk after loss of laptop
  Palm Beach Post

  Tuesday, September 19

• After Jaffer case, USPS rewrites rules on expenses
  Federal Times
• DHL Global Mail Expands U.S. Mail Terminal Network with Phoenix Facility
  DMNews.com

  Monday, September 18

• Jaffer Scandal Heats Up
  "On Friday, Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (R-Va.) who chairs the House Committee on Government Reform, and the committee's ranking minority member, Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), sent a letter to Potter requesting a pile of records linked to Jaffer's case. "The Inspector General's report of clearly unacceptable conduct by a senior postal official is troubling to all of us," the letter reads. The Postal Service has until Sept. 28 to respond."
  Washington Post
  more: read Jaffer's response to the OIG charges
• United Mail delivers big results
  Expanding Louisville business counts its mailings in the millions
  Louisville Courier Journal
• Pre-Retirement Sickos
  Mike Causey, Federal News Radio

  Sunday, September 17

• Fundraiser planned for injured NJ Letter Carrier
  Benefit for Maureen Buscher DePrince, the New Jersey letter carrier who lost both legs in a motor vehicle accident in July.
  Postalmag.com
• Bad form for changes of address
  San Jose Mercury News
• Pedaling the post
  Delivering the mail on a bicycle
  St Petersburg Times

  Friday, September 15

• Postmasters meet with HQ on 2007 pay package
  NAPUS Hotline
• About that 75 grand a year
  The South Missourian
• Growth in North Carolina Town Strains Postal Service
  ABC 11 TV Raleigh
• Postal Service considering new plant in Wisconsin
  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• ADVO shareholder meeting was over in nine minutes, no questions asked
  Hartford Courant

  Thursday, September 14

• Union Says USPS Is Cutting Security Short by Cutting Postal Police
  KYW Newsradio 1060 Philadelphia
• APWU: USPS Rate Proposal Shifts Costs From Major Mailers to Individual Customers
  APWU News
  click here to read Kathryn Kobe's testimony referred to in the story
• GOP, Dems embrace post office legislation
  No, not postal reform legislation, just slapping names on post offices: "Post office naming is now the most common form of legislation"
  The Hill
• Letter carrier stole donations intended for fire victim
  WREG-TV Memphis
• Postal plan upsets court, county officials
  Kansas City Star
• Advo Stockholders Approve Valassis Merger Agreement
  DMNews.com
• New Mexico: Shut post office riles residents
  Santa Fe New Mexican
• Comergent Helps Pitney Bowes Deliver Postage with Images On Demand
  Press release

  Wednesday, September 13

• Lane named Vice President, Capital Metro Area
  USPS News Link via postalnews blog
• Governors Approve Change to Periodicals and Extend NSA
  DMM advisory via Postcom.org
  Also available from Postcom is a copy of the presentation given to the BOG by new Chief Financial Officer H. Glen Walker summarizing the USPS budget for the fiscal year that begins October 1.
• Postal Service Plans for More Than $1 Billion in Cost Reductions
  - rate increase set for May
  - first class volume expected to drop by 2.8%
  Press release
• Mixed-Mail & Parcel Sorting Technology Provides New Business to Mail & Parcel Processing Centers
  Press release
• Maryland postal worker gets a year in jail for workers comp fraud
  Southern Maryland Online
• SteelCloud Receives $1.4 Million Contract from Lockheed Martin for USPS Program
  Press release
• Shape matters- Proposed Postage-Rate Increase Pushes Mailing Efficiency
  Press release

  Tuesday, September 12

• Postal Worksharing and Bicycle Assembly
  postalnews blog
• 9/11: Church Street station
  postalnews blog
• NAPUS: Reform Update- and Is Congress interested in the Jaffer scandal?
  eNAPUS Legislative Newsletter
• Postal overhaul languishing despite compromise offer
  Government Executive
• Mailers Council Asks Congress to Let USPS Manage Its Operations
  DMNews.com
• Shareholder class action suit filed against Advo
  Bloomberg

  Monday, September 11

• Neighborhoods want blue boxes back
  The Postal Service is eliminating underused mailboxes across U.S.
  Los Angeles Times
• Rate Case Testimony Online
  Links to testimony provided to the PRC last week by all rate case participants
  Postal Rate Commission web site

  Sunday, September 10

• DMA, Other Groups File Rate Case Testimony With PRC
  DMNews blog

  Saturday, September 9

• Carrier fired for lottery win was on 'last chance' agreement
  postalnews blog
• APWU Negotiations Update
  APWU News

  Friday, September 8

• Postal Service Hasn't Made Case For Rate Hike, Newspaper Group Says
  Editor and Publisher
• Police Say Indiana Postal Worker Used Position To Get Drugs To Sell
  WRTV Indianapolis
• APWU: Postal Service Falls Short in Attempts To Get Public Input on Consolidation
  APWU News

  Thursday, September 7

• Lottery win gets rural carrier fired
  Des Moines Register
• Arizona PM charged with gambling away his office's receipts
  Press release
• July financial results released
  USPS Financials via postalnews blog
• Valassis Says Advo Concealed Data Related to Buyout
  Bloomberg.com
• UPS Upgrades Visibility tools
  DM News Blog
• Lack of Postal Reform Leads to Blame Game
  multichannelmerchant.com

  Wednesday, September 6

• Advo Moves Forward With Proxy Meeting Plans
  DMNews.com
• Federal Employees to Get Enhanced Dental and Vision Insurance
  Washington Post

  Tuesday, September 5

• U.S. colleagues aid injured mail carrier
  Cherry Hill (NJ) Courier Post

  Monday, September 4

• ‘God Bless America' poster yanked from PO lobby
  Santa Maria (CA) Times

  Sunday, September 3

• ADVO Responds to Valassis' "Meritless" Claims
  Press release via Bloomberg
  A heavily redacted copy of the Valassis complaint is available here
• Collection boxes secured in wake of thefts
  Bakersfield Californian
• Florida Letter Carrier Named 'Hero of the Year" for Rescuing Hurricane Katrina Victims
  Press release

  Saturday, September 2

• First Day Cover Misspells 'Motorcycle'
  Associated Press
  click here to see the image of the cover from the USPS online store

  Friday, September 1

• USPS won’t ask Jaffer to repay questionable expenses
  Federal Times
• Jaffer Denies Accusations
  Associated Press
• Jaffer and Kalkines
  postalnews blog
• Advo Misled Valassis to Boost Buyout Price, Suit Says
  Bloomberg
• PRC OKs Paid Circulation Proposal
  DMNews.com
• UPS Pilots Ratify Contract
  DMNews.com

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