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Monday, April 30

• Santa Fe couple battles bungled mail delivery
  Santa Fe New Mexican
• Postage increase a big deal for businesses
  Fort Myers News-Press
• Man killed in collision with postal truck
  Hernando (FL) Today
• Lost items may await at post office
  Charlotte Observer

  Sunday, April 29

• REC closing hard to take
  Modesto Bee

  Saturday, April 28

• Mail carrier improving after wreck
  "A postal official initially stated she was surprised Dobre was driving from the passenger side of the vehicle on U.S. 30. Postal officials conceded Thursday that it is a common practice for rural carriers, who use their own vehicles. More than a dozen current and former carriers e-mailed and called the Post-Tribune to say they have asked for postal vehicles equipped with steering wheels on the right for several years, because of the potential safety issue." See also: Carriers: Rural driving technique unsafe
  Gary (IN) Post Tribune
• Post office: Walk to your mail
  "The post office recently told hundreds of city and Oakhill residents they will need to erect mail boxes along the edge of their streets or not receive mail delivery."
  Ludington (MI) Daily News

  Friday, April 27

• NALC and USPS agree on neutral arbitrator
  "Given this schedule, it is anticipated that a decision on the contract will be rendered in mid-November"
  NALC Homepage
• An added touch
  Local post offices are being fitted with automated machines, but the service isn't without a few glitches
  Newsday
• Editorial: Don't stamp out brainy mags
  Boston Globe
• Carriers get a later start
  Bradford (PA) Era
• Burrus discloses plans to issue U.S. Slave Contributions stamp in 2008
  Linn's Stamp News
• USPS seeks to eliminate UAA mail
  DMNews.com

  Thursday, April 26

• Indiana rural carrier critical after crash
  "Police are investigating whether driving on the wrong side of the car contributed to" the crash. A USPS spokesperson "said it is not Post Office policy to allow drivers to operate vehicles from the passenger seat. 'I'm shocked. We in no way condone operating a vehicle that way.'"
  Gary Post Tribune
• Feds arrest Iowan for mail bombs
  "Tomkins is a former substitute letter carrier who worked weekends for the USPS... he was not an employee at the time the devices were sent."
  Des Moines Register
  see also the Chicago Sun-Times
• DMA Fears Do-Not-Mail Legislation
  multichannelmerchant.com
• Attacker wore postal uniform
  Jersey Journal

  Wednesday, April 25

• Mail worries begin anew in Las Cruces
  Las Cruces (NM) Sun-News
• Small Publications Face Crippling Postal Hike -- Based on Time Warner Recommendation
  Democracy Now!
• Modesto REC to close
  Modesto Bee
• Post office closure riles customers
  Chambersburg (PA) Public Opinion
• Five yerars later, anthrax fear still delays mail to Congress
  KSL TV Salt Lake City
• Judge says contract post offices can't promote religion
  Hartford Courant
• New York’s Main Post Office To Cut Window Service Just in Time for Rate Change!
  NY Metro APWU

  Tuesday, April 24

• Public meeting to be held on relocation of Louisiana postal workers
  New Orleans Times Picayune
• Twin Falls consolidation plans dropped
  Twin Falls (ID) Times News
• Judge orders psychiatric exam for postal worker accused of threats
  St Louis Post Dispatch
• Postal Service going private?
  Plan to increase contract carriers sparks concerns
  Inland Valley (CA) Daily Bulletin
• USPS, letter carriers at odds
  Denver Post
• Connecticut woman who killed letter carrier in 2003 arrested for drunk driving again
  Hartford Courant
• Car crashes into NH post office
  Portsmouth Herald
• Universal Envelope Identifier - "Smart Stamp" Technology Converges Internet and Mobile Phones with U.S. Postal Mail
  Press release

  Monday, April 23

• Rockaway troubles are in the mail
  New York Daily News
• "I can't thank you enough"
  Maureen Deprince meets the firefighter who saved her life
  Press of Atlantic City
• Surprising details emerge on Philadelphia Post Office sale
  "The one person who is the custodian for the Post Office becomes the broker, developer and investor, and that's not right..."
  Philadelphia Inquirer

  Saturday, April 21

• Postal worker charged with making threat referring to Virginia Tech massacre
  St Louis Post-Dispatch
• Postmaster Testimony Spotlights Staffing Deficiencies
  e-NAPUS Legislative Newsletter
• It’s official: Beaumont REC to close in November
  Press release
• With facility closing, mailboxes need a home
  Merced Sun Star

  Friday, April 20

• Spend money to mitigate the impact of postal rate increases
  DMNews.com
• Winnie the Pooh clears post office
  Fort Wayne News Sentinel
• Collins grills PRC chairman on Standard Mail rate decision
  DMNews.com

  Thursday, April 19

• Supervisors group opposes contracting out delivery
  NAPS Legislative Bulletin via Postcom.org
• NY mail carrier charged in groping case
  Middletown (NY) Times Herald-Record
• National Reassessment Process Phase II Unveiled
  Mail Handlers Union Local 301 web site
• Postal clerk gets 1 year in theft case
  Louisville Courier-Journal.
• Postal Service could stamp out 1,000 jobs at Beaumont REC
  Beaumont Enterprise
• Postal worker pleads to theft
  Mobile Press Register
• OIG sought list of employees with personal problems?
  PostalReporter.com
• OPM Suggests Retirement Reforms
  Washington Post
• More Postal Workers To Be Hired In New Mexico
  KOAT-TV Albuquerque

  Wednesday, April 18

• Postal Service does not foresee layoffs despite pressures
  Government Executive
• A Large Load to Sort in USPS Overhaul
  Washington Post
• Senator Collins Introduces Resolution Reaffirming Constitutional Protections Of Sealed Mail
  Press release
• Bloomington, Watertown AMPs Halted; Bronx Study in Limbo
  APWU News
• Reporter wants to talk to CFC donors
  If you've donated via CFC to the Cancer Aid and Research Fund, Children’s Christian Hunger Network, or any of another dozen organizations, a reporter for the St Louis Post-Dispatch would like to talk to you. Click for more information, including the list of charities.
• E-filers give post office a break this year
  Spartanburg Journal Herald
• Catalogers strategize for looming postal increase
  DMNews.com

  Tuesday, April 17

• Post Office to the First Amendment: Drop Dead
  CommonDreams.org
• Post office should see long lines
  Atlanta Journal Constitution
• Texas RCA sentenced to four years for mail theft
  Irving, Texas carrier Stephen Glenn Edwards admitted in court yesterday that he stole "more than one-thousand pieces of mail."
  Associated Press
• USPS Promises Inquiry Into Bronx Sorting
  "Congressman Jose Serrano, the postal workers union and many Bronx businesses are celebrating a promised investigation into the possibility that the Bronx' mail-sorting operations will be moved to Manhattan."
  Bronx Times
• UPS, FedEx look to neighborhoods
  "The continued boom in online shopping and the rise of at-home work have shifted the businesses of Sandy Springs-based UPS and rival FedEx."
  Atlanta Journal Constitution

  Monday, April 16

• Congress to investigate Chicago mail woes
  Chicago Tribune
• eBay sellers concerned over postage increases
  AuctionBytes.com
• Snail mail still crawls in New Orleans
  New Orleans CityBusiness

  Saturday, April 14

• Fun may end early for late tax filers
  Omaha World Herald
• USPS Awards Contract to Computerize Paper Personnel Files
  Press release
• Orange County Postal workers rally for their jobs
  Orange County Register

  Friday, April 13

• NRLCA will join NALC to protest USPS headquarters
  Rural Carrier Postal News Blog
  and from the Washington Post: A Stamp of Disapproval for Mail Delivery Contracting
• Online Bill Payments Surpass Checks for the First Time Among Internet Households
  Checkfree press release
• Vermont postal worker charged with stealing mail
  Rutland Herald
• Massachusetts Postal Employee Convicted of Mail Theft
  An acting supervisor stole two guitars being mailed home by a soldier serving in Iraq.
  Press release
• Catalog mailers file motion to reopen rate case record
  for "limited testimony on the avoidable and economically wasteful costs imposed on catalog mailers by unanticipated rate increases for Standard Mail Regular flats."
  PRC web site (.pdf file)
• Cops: Mailman on disability got second job
  Newsday

  Thursday, April 12

• ‘Forever’ stamp debuts; jetmaker buys 24,000
  Philadelphia Inquirer
• Houston robber poses as letter carrier
  KPRC TV Houston
• Postal workers ready for the Forever rush
  Deseret News
• Search is on for Texas mailbox bombers
  Corpus Christie Caller News
• Wrong-side mailbox dispute resolved
  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
  see also: More Money Than Common Sense.

  Wednesday, April 11

• Postal reforms pledged in Chicago
  Postmaster adding 200 letter carriers, improved training
  Chicago Tribune
• What Were They Thinking? (The PRC that is...)
  DIRECT
• Anthrax probe update sought
  Times of Trenton
• 'Forever' stamps debuts in Philadelphia tomorrow
  Philadelphia Inquirer
• The missing-invitation mystery
  Sarasota Herald Tribune
• Trouble in Petaluma
  Letters to the Editor:
  - Rude postal clerk
  - Postmaster responds
  - 'Mystery Shopper'
  Petaluma Argus Courier
• Who was that fiddler in the subway?
  Violinist Joshua Bell plays more or less unnoticed in the L'Enfant Plaza Metro station.
  Washington Post

  Tuesday, April 10

• El Paso mail delays blamed on winter storms
  El Paso Times
• Postal worker killed in vehicle crash
  Lexington (KY) Herald
• Florida postal workers face stiff penalties
  Tallahassee Democrat

  Monday, April 9

• Letter Carriers to Picket USPS HQ to Protest Outsourcing Mail Delivery to Private Firms
  Press release
• Second mailman expected to change plea in mail dumping case
  Tallahassee Democrat
• This is not the Postal Service you are looking for
  Network World editor Adam Gaffin is not impressed by the Postal Service's new Star Wars look.
  Network World
• Online Booksellers Face Higher Costs for Shipping Abroad
  "The Postal Service is taking the “ship” out of shipping, and thousands of small online booksellers are bracing for trouble."
  New York Times

  Sunday, April 8

• UPS franchisees packing it in: "franchise fiasco"?
  "We feel – and have for quite some time – that our biggest competitor is UPS"
  Dallas Morning News
• Young to Burrus: Keep your advice to yourself
  "Burrus has felt the need to criticize the NALC and other postal unions..., branding their leaders as “fools”...he once famously referred to the customers who generate the majority of the Postal Service’s volume—and revenue—as “vermin.” I try to ignore comments like these... But on March 1, Bill Burrus published something so ridiculous and contrary to the interests of city carriers and other postal employees (including his own members) that I must respond."
  NALC Record
• BOG Chairman Miller Suggested Privatizing USPS in 1988
  Postalmag.com notes that in 1988, Miller, then Reagan's OMB Director, gave a speech at the right wing Cato Institute pushing privatization of the US Postal Service. Some excerpts:
  - "The Postal Service should expand the practice of contracting out rural mail delivery to private carriers"
  - "... I would agree that the Postal Service should be placed off-budget. But I think we should place the Postal Service off-budget by making it part of the private sector."
  Cato Institute web site (Adobe .pdf file)
  Update: Free "Free the Mail"? Almost!
• Postal rate increase to be felt at the checkout line in Bush Alaska
  USPS: "We understand that these costs are not insignificant. However, when you realize that bypass mail only covers 15 percent of its costs, this rate increase isn't exorbitant”
  Alaska Journal of Commerce
• Retiring the rural route
  Virginia carrier retiring after 41 years on route.
  Roanoke Times

  Saturday, April 7

• USPS/NALC Negotiations Fail
  “I truly regret to inform the membership that the top leadership of the United States Postal Service has flatly rejected NALC’s offer of a strategic partnership to protect the future of the Postal Service. We are shocked by their refusal to work jointly, and now have no choice but to pursue our bargaining goals through interest arbitration.”
  NALC Bulletin
• Postal Rate Hike Has Some Rethinking Business Plans
  Memphis Daily News

  Friday, April 6

• USPS requests proposals for automating movement of letter mail in plants
  Federal Business Opportunies
• Breaking the Bond of Trust
  Contracting out delivery service threatens survival of the USPS
  NALC Record
• USPS seeks contractors for Terminal Handling Services throughout US
  The USPS posted a notice of its "intent to solicit for Terminal Handling Services (THS) at 66 sites throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. The THS provides integrated material handling services in support of the USPS air and ground networks."
  Click here for the synopsis, including the list of proposed sites.
• FedEx hit with labor complaint in contract delivery dispute
  Worcester Telegram
  see also the comments of Malcolm Harris. former USPS Manager for Market Intelligence and Analysis.
• Social Security checks late for 300 residents
  "Spartanburg Postmaster Dave Becker said the delay stemmed from the failure of a Philadelphia office to mail the checks on time."
  Spartanburg (SC) Herald-Journal
  The Owensboro KY Messenger-Inquirer reports in its print edition that residents there are also without checks.
• Holiday mail lifts earnings for Kitty Hawk
  Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
• USPS publishes proposed new standards for Periodicals
  DMNews.com
• PRC grants Catalog Coalition request to extend consideration of Standard Mail rates
  The Commission granted the Coalition's request for late intervention in the rate case, and will consider its motion to reopen the record on Standard Mail flats.
  PRC web site
• USPS Publishes Proposed New Standards for Periodical Mailing Services
  (Note- the link takes you to a .pdf document with the full text of the proposed rule.)
  USPS web site

  Thursday, April 5

• Rain, sleet... crime?
  Postal carrier foils suspected burglary attempt
  Carlisle (PA) Sentinel
• NYC Letter Carriers Keep Eye on Elderly
  1010 WINS News
• Postal Employee Is Sentenced in Mail Thefts
  Ellsworth (ME) American
• Commentary: Looking for your mail? Maybe I've Got It!
  Whte Plains Journal News
• PO Mix-Up Leaves Thousands Without Social Security Checks
  NY1 News New York City
• Update: Postal workers charged in ID thefts using passport info
  Carlisle (PA) Sentinel
  This story in the Reading Eagle has additional details about the case.
• Commentary: There is a better way
  Postcom's Jim O'Brien says admitted inaccuracies in USPS demand assumtions justify lowering catalog rates. "I would favor adjusting the volume assumptions to reflect higher catalog volumes this fall based upon a lower rate... even with a reduced rate, this would yield the exact same revenue". (So... more volume to handle, at "the exact same revenue"? Who pays the added expense if there's no added revenue?)

  Wednesday, April 4

• Catalogers seeking solutions to postal predicament
  multichannelmerchant.com
• Higher Postage Could Mean Lower Paper Costs
  multichannelmerchant.com
• Letter carrier rescues children in runaway minivan
  Pittsburgh Tribune-Review video report from KDKA TV
• Postal Desperation: A Last Minute Call to Action to Protest the Pending Rate Hike
  Catalog Success
• USPS awarded patent for mailbox decontamination method
  United States Patent Office

  Tuesday, April 3

• Postal Service reservists eligible for back pay
  "complying with the decision could cost the Postal Service upwards of $200 million"
  Army Times
• United regains $400 million Postal Service contract
  Chicago daily Herald
• USPS requests extension of RPN ('Post it notes') test
  USPS filing at PRC web site
• Rates, reform main topics at Forum
  DMNews.com
• Celtics putting stamp on U.S. mail
  Boston Herald

  Monday, April 2

• New York State Acquires Farley Post Office in Penn Station Redevelopment
  CoStar Lead Street
• Baking soda find sparks postal alarm
  Santa Rosa Press Democrat
• Modern methods could stamp out postal station
  Roanoke Times
• PRC sets schedule for reconsideration of rate case
  PRC web site
• USPS, Management groups form task force on "deteriorating work environment"
  "Of primary concern to the group are the threats, intimidation and retaliation."
  Click here to read the original letter from NAPUS, NAPS and the League.
  NAPUS web site

  Sunday, April 1

• Letter carrier goes the extra yard for his customers
  Fort Wayne News-Sentinel
• 'Star Wars: Episode VII- The Philatelic Menace'
  "Stamp collectors are up in arms about plans for 15 new "Star Wars" stamps"
  From the Washington Post's Reliable Source column
• eNAPUS Legislative and Political Newsletter
  NAPUS web site
• Contract carrier makes plea deal
  Accused of throwing away mail
  Lancaster (PA) Intelligencer Journal
• Google goes postal, introduces paper email
  ... use it with today's other Google beta introduction, Google TiSP (BETA), the free in-home wireless broadband service.
• Office mailrooms sent packing
  Modern technology changing the way we communicate
  Ontario (CA) Daily Bulletin

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