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Wednesday, February 28

• PRC Chair Dan Blair discusses rate increase, forever stamp in online chat
  washingtonpost.com
• The bright side to postal rate increase
  DMNews.com
• Postal Service Changes Mail Pickup Times In San Diego
  NBC San Diego
• Petition grows in support of injured carrier's cause
  Press of Atlantic City
• San Diego Letter Carrier Robbed At Gunpoint
  NBC San Diego
• PRC Decision Receives Mixed Reaction From Mailers
  DIRECT
• Netflix Marks One Billion DVDs Delivered
  CIO Today
• Contract postal trucker dies in accident
  76 year old lost control on snow covered road
  Bergen (NJ) Record

  Tuesday, February 27

• USPS Contracting Out Mail Delivery
  PostalMag.com
• Lawmaker Plans To Kill Anti-Junk Mail Bill
  (State rep, a union member herself, suddenly remembers that postal workers can vote?)
  CBS 4 Denver
• 'Forever' stamp a dud?
  Salt Lake Tribune
• Opposition surprised by rapid deal at Canada Post
  Ottawa Citizen
• Royal Mail seeks 6p stamp hike,
  "The changes the Royal Mail hopes for will also see businesses lose the legal right to have franked [i.e. metered] mail delivered to every address in the UK."
  The Guardian
• PRC recommends 7.6 percent rate increase
  DMNews.com
• The lid is in the mail
  The Great Peanut Butter Recall
  WOWT TV Omaha

  Monday, February 26

• PRC approves 'forever' stamp, cuts requested increase by a penny
  Washington Post
  Detailed information from the PRC:
  
  • Text of the Opinion
    
  • Recommended Rate Schedules
    
  • Recommended Classification Schedules
    
  • Technical Appendices
    
  • Press Packet
• APWU: PRC Decision a Big Win For Customers, APWU
  APWU News
• APWU Launches Recruiting Campagin Aimed At Women
  APWU News
• Postal Regulatory Panel to Rule on Rates
  Associated Press
  click here for the PRC web site
• Magazine Publishers Await Postal Rate Hike
  Media Week

  Sunday, February 25

• Sarbanes-Oxley and Postmasters
  also: Postmasters Working State Capitols for Universal Mail Service
  eNAPUS Legislative and Political Newsletter

  Saturday, February 24

• Postal worker delivers big save
  WHDH-TV Boston
• Maryland Residents Complain Of Getting Mail Late, Tattered
  WBAL TV Baltimore
• New Mexico: Police catch pair stealing mail
  The New Mexican

  Friday, February 23

• USPS CFO responds to Nonprofit Alliance's criticisms
  Postcom.org
  click here to read the Alliance's press release
• Over 28,000 signatures collected for Maureen DePrince Home Makeover petition
  Gloucester County (NJ) Times
  read more and sign the petition at the NALC branch 908 web site
• USPS prepares mailers for new postal law effects
  DMNews.com
• Toledo letter carrier robbed
  WTVG TV Toledo
• Postal truck burns in Pennsylvania
  Lancaster Intelligencer Journal
• USPS asks PRC to approve fee schedule for 'premium' stamped stationery
  PRC web site (.pdf file)
• Going ‘Postal’ over poor service in Brooklyn
  The Brooklyn Paper
• Today's Postage Due comic strip
  postalnews blog

  Thursday, February 22

• New Mexico DM Says He's a 'Trouble-Shooter'
  Rio Rancho Journal
• Nine Minutes Late! "You're Out of Here!"
  FedSmith.com
• Postal Employee Charged With Mail Theft
  Hartford Courant
• Mail carrier sentenced to a year in prison for mail theft
  KOLD TV Tucson
• DMC continues fight against postage tax
  DMNews.com
• Potter: Move Update will be required for Standard Mail
  DMNews.com
• DMM Advisory: PRC, USPS schedule conference on reform impacts
  postalnews blog

  Wednesday, February 21

• Potter- no more break-even under new law
  USPS News Link
• All-mail elections may have a place in California's future
  Orange County Register
• Mail carrier recognized for saving man's life
  KARE TV Minneapolis-St.Paul
• DMers watching do-not-mail bills closely
  DMNews.com
• Today's Postage Due comic strip
  postalnews blog

  Tuesday, February 20

• NALC: Union has backing of Congressional leadership on 'contracting out'
  NALC Bulletin
• APWU, Mail Handler Raises Implemented Feb 3
  "...new pay rates for APWU-represented employees were implemented in Pay Period 04-2007 and will appear in checks dated Feb. 23... two pay periods ahead of the date initially promised..."
  APWU News
  see also the similar report on the Mail Handlers web site
• Former PMG Bill Henderson demoted from Netflix COO job
  Valleywag
• On the job: Public interaction the highlight for mail carrier
  Council Bluffs (IA) Nonpareil
• Editorial: Junk mail bill sends wrong message
  "It would be convenient for a newspaper to support a provision that creates havoc for a competitor, but it would be irresponsible."
  Aurora (CO) Daily Sun
• Postal workers recover after mercury scare
  Helena Independent Record
• PSI Opens 31st Presort Plant
  Spartanburg (SC) Herald-Journal
• Today's Postage Due comic strip
  postalnews blog

  Monday, February 19

• UK: Letter bomb suspect is arrested
  BBC News
• Louisiana town opposes closing of mail processing center
  Alexandria Town Talk
  Louisiana math (and gullible reporters)
  postalnews blog
• It’s quick and fast, that’s why mail goes so far away to get sorted
  Palm Springs (CA) Desert Sun
• GAO Report on USPS Fuel Costs
  Government Accountability Office
• The Strange Story of Postal Reform
  Murray Comarow commentary via Postcom
• UPS driver arrested in alleged package selling scheme
  WABC-TV New York
• Man demanding Social Security check slugs mail carrier in Delray Beach
  South Florida Sun-Sentinel

  Sunday, February 18

• Man struck, killed by postal truck in Massachusetts
  Berkshire Eagle
• NALC Rap Session Transcript
  New Jersey NALC Branch 38
• Postage stamps: Miniature artwork with mass appeal
  International Herald Tribune

  Saturday, February 17

• Postal truck driver dies in Montana highway accident
  Great Falls Tribune
• No ‘War on Washington’s Birthday’ here!
  postalnews blog
• Gone but not forgotten
  Stamp collectors search for a piece of history
  Escanaba (MI) Daily Press
• Man gets probation in snake mail prank
  Brainerd (MN) Dispatch
• Postal Workers Brave the Cold to Deliver Mail
  WLFI-TV West Lafayette, IN

  Friday, February 16

• Classified ad misleads about Post Office jobs
  WWAY TV Wilmington NC
• Neither rain ... nor power outages!!?
  Wilmington (OH) News Journal
• Editorial: Junk-mail registry a dead letter
  Denver Post
• Mail running days behind after storms
  Muncie Star Press
  ... meanwhile, in Vermont
  Rutland Herald
• On a mission for Maureen
  Friends seek injured mail carrier home makeover
  Press of Atlantic City
• Fundraisers planned to help Maine rural carrier
  Waldo Independent
• New Jersey neighborhood upset at loss of PO
  Newark Star Ledger
  also: Nebraska town to lose contract PO
  Bellevue Leader
• Today's Postage Due comic strip
  postalnews blog

  Thursday, February 15

• Mail Handlers and USPS Agree on Effective Dates
  NPMHU.org
• USPS Sings The Congress-Ran-Off-And-Took-My-Escrow Blues
  The Alliance of NonProfit Mailers is just a tad critical of the USPS's recent financial report.
  Postcom.org
• Ask President Burrus: What's the deal on casuals on tour 2?
  APWU News
• NAPS offers guidance on “Performance Improvement Plans”
  postalnews blog
• Senators Seek to Extend Sale of Breast Cancer Stamp
  Press release
• Update: Settlement (not?) near in letter carrier talks?
  Much ado about nothing (or maybe about a previously scheduled meeting?)
  postalnews blog
• Gunman Robs Kansas City Post Office
  KMBC-TV Kansas City
• DMM Advisory: Proposed Mailing Standards Update
  postalnews blog
• How to prepare for upcoming rate changes
  Window Book press release
• Mailman surely has a cool job
  Akron Beacon Journal
• Post office on way
  Pascagoula has made do with a trailer since Katrina
  Biloxi Sun Herald

  Wednesday, February 14

• Snow, rain, heat or gloom of night? It's all Greek to him
  Pocono Record
• Edmond post office survivor addresses tragic past - News
  University of Central Oklahoma Vista
• Alert carrier saves woman from house fire
  Northwest (IN) Times
• Commentary: Privatizing Canada Post is a bad idea
  The Globe and Mail
• Today's Postage Due comic strip
  postalnews blog

  Tuesday, February 13

• Bush budget would cut postal employee health benefits
  Also- Emerging Threat in State Capitols
  eNAPUS Legislative and Political Bulletin
• Police investigate bomb threat at North Carolina post office
  WWAY TV Wilmington NC
• Scare closes post office in Florida
  SW Florida Herald Tribune
• Postal Service seeks Bank of America NSA
  DMNews.com
• NALC publishes guide to 'National Reassessment Process'
  Guide on the withdrawal or failure to provide Limited Duty
  NALC What's New Page
• Today's Postage Due comic strip
  postalnews blog

  Monday, February 12

• NLRB Files Complaint Against DHL
  The charges are based on allegations made by the APWU which has been trying to organize approximately 3,000 DHL workers.
  APWU News
• USPS challenges do-not-mail bill sponsor
  Rocky Mountain News
• Will reform let USPS charge by season, day?
  DMNews.com
• Alabama Post Office 'a family place'
  Selma Times-Journal
• Baltimore postal worker holds on to history
  Man's memorabilia includes games, journal of carriers' working lives
  Baltimore Sun
• Today's Postage Due comic
  postalnews blog

  Sunday, February 11

• Tempe residents uneasy about plainclothes mail carriers
  East Valley (AZ) Tribune
• Bryan mail won't go to Houston
  Bryan-College Station Eagle
• More problems for University of Phoenix
  (The "University", actually a for profit corporation, offers discounts to postal employees. Buyer beware!)
  New York Times
• Rep. Herseth introduces bill to close veterans' reassignment loophole
  NAPS Legislative Newsletter via Postcom.org

  Saturday, February 10

• USPS statement on Midwest mail bombs
  Press release
• USPS won't move Glenwood Springs sorting
  Glenwood Springs (CO) Post Independent-Valley News
• Does valentine stamp cross the line?
  
  Sacramento Bee
• 2 get prison for postal thefts
  Arizona Republic
• Former postal worker sentenced in mail theft case
  Rogersville (TN) Review
• Today's Postage Due comic strip
  postalnews blog
  Postage Due archives

  Friday, February 9

• USPS: Reform Act mandates trigger $2.7 billion loss in first quarter
  USPS News Link
  click here for the full Quarter 1 results in .pdf format
• UPS Delivers the Goods for Investors
  SeekingAlpha
• Nonprofits seek delay in rate changes
  DMA Nonprofit Federation via Postcom.org
  (Click here for Postcom's comments)
• NALC Opposes 'Do Not Mail' Bill as Harmful to Postal Service and American Public
  Press release
• Hacker magazine says USPS lost its latest issue
  2600.com
• The rate case, and the shape of things to come
  DMNews.com
• PRC begins shift to regulatory agency
  DMNews.com
• Letter carrier files suit against dog owner
  Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette
• Post office changes mail time
  Fremont (NE) Tribune
• Today's Postage Due Comic Strip
  postalnews blog

  Thursday, February 8

• CBS 2 Undercover: Identity Thieves Go Postal
  'Our Cameras Show Local Post Offices Lacking Security'
  WCBS TV New York
• TRASHED: 200 pieces of mail
  Police looking for carrier after undelivered mail, some of it opened, is discovered in garbage can at carwash
  Lancaster (PA) New Era
• Letter carriers indicted in court
  Two face charges of destroying mail
  Tallahassee Democrat
• More letter bombs in UK
  The Guardian
  see also: Letter bombs: an expert writes The Register

  Wednesday, February 7

• Man charged with stalking postal worker
  Tullahoma (TN) News
• Beware of Cat: And Other Encounters of a Letter Carrier
  A personal account of a letter carrier's work by Minneapolis carrier Vincent Wyckoff. Scheduled to be published March 15. Available for preorders in our Amazon store.
• Ask President Burrus: OT scheduling under the new contract
  APWU News
• Analyst: Don't Be Fooled By Pitney Bowes' Recent 'Blowout' Quarter
  SeekingAlpha.com
• Effort on to save rural Post Office
  Plattsburgh (NY) Press Republican
• One Post Office Serves City Of 76,000
  CBSTV11 Dallas-Fort Worth
• Post office access issue spurs anger
  Kennebec (ME) Journal
• EEOC reinstates FMLA class action complaint
  Postalflame.org
• Missouri woman charged with stealing from post office
  seMissourian.com
• Fairport residents saved post office
  Willoughby (OH) News-Herald
  (note: check our blog entry from last year on other "special" post offices mentioned in the postal reform law)
• Texas post office burglarized for third time
  Greenville (TX) Herald Banner
• California Postman Helps Rescue Elderly Woman
  KTVU TV San Francisco
• Do Not Mail bill introduced in Texas
  KLTV 7 Tyler-Longview-Jacksonville, TX

  Tuesday, February 6

• APWU Challenges 'Driver Safety Instructor' position
  APWU News
  click here to read the USPS News Link article announcing the new position
• Update: Rural Carriers Reject Contract, Mail Count Cancelled
  A notice on the Wisconsin Rural Carriers web site confirms that the contract has been rejected, and that as a result, the mail count scheduled to start on February 17 will not occur.
• Mail Delivery To Resume For 2 Brooklyn Buildings
  WCBS TV
• Reward offered in post office robbery
  Yakima (WA) Herald Republic
• Pitney Bowes profit increases 80% as restructuring ends
  CEO sees postal reform implementation as company catalyst
  MarketWatch
• UPS places order for 27 Boeing freighters
  DMNews.com

  Monday, February 5

• Updated: APWU: Raises Take Effect March 3; Contract Changes Take Effect Feb. 3
  APWU News
• Postal Service Again Honored as Most Trusted Government Agency
  USPS News Release
• New Mexico: Postal Service Promises Fixes By April
  Albuquerque Journal
• APWU: First COLA under new agreement=zero
  APWU News
• Postal clerk's special deliveries warm Vanderbilt University
  Nashville Tennessean
• USPS Stamps out old mail system on Georgia island
  Island Packet

  Sunday, February 4

• Stamp locally, love globally
  Longmont (CO) Times-Call
• Stamp of approval
  Postal annex gets top US rating for workplace safety
  Boston Globe

  Saturday, February 3

• Update: Post Office Censors Josephine Baker Post Cards
  NY1 News
  click here to view the postcard
  as a reader points out in the comments, USPS News Link addressed this issue a couple of years ago: "Acceptance employees aren’t authorized to decide whether ... matter is, because of its content, nonmailable. They aren’t permitted to deny entry or exclude it from the mail. That’s the law."
• Berlin, postal bellwether
  Germany pushes its EU neighbors to end monopoly on letters
  International Herald Tribune
• Pipe bombs, letters probed
  Chicago Sun Times
• Box of mail delivered after 8 years in PO
  Great Falls (MT) Tribune
• Ground broken for new flats automation training center in Norman
  Norman Transcript

  Friday, February 2

• Driver hits Kansas Mailman
  Lawrence (KS) Journal click here for video
• Fire destroys upstate NY Post Office
  Plattsburgh Press Republican
• PRC establishes IG office
  DMNews.com
• Mail carrier ordered to repay stolen deposits
  Rapid City Journal
• The original inbox
  Financial Times
• Saying 'I love you' with a (post)mark of Fidelity
  St Louis Post Dispatch
• USPS Hikes Could Have "Huge, Negative" Impact on Overseas Book Sales
  Bookselling This Week
• India: Female force to deliver the mail now!
  Hindustan Times

  Thursday, February 1

• Postmaster resigns amid embezzlement probe
  Elizabeth City (NC) Daily Advance
• Ainsworth named VP for Delivery and Retail
  USPS News Link
• Mail Truck Driver Talks About Surviving Plunge Off I-30 Bridge
  MSNBC
• GAO drops USPS from 'high risk' list
  Associated Press
• Woman Claims Neighbor's Mailbox Is Obscene
  WFSB TV Hartford
  click here for the video report
• Contract awarded for POS systems for CPUs
  Press release

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