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Thursday, April 30

• What’s Wrong …and What Can Be Done
  APWU President's Viewpoint, American Postal Worker magazine
• Postal Service may close New Castle PA mail center
  Associated Press
• Staten Island Residents Sound-Off On USPS Plan At Public Hearing
  NY1 News
• The state of the postal service: You've got (no) mail
  The Economist
• Catalog Tracker: Mailings Scarce in February, E-mails Up
  multichannelmerchant.com
• Jobs won't leave even if mail is sorted off Staten Island, postal workers told
  Staten Island Advance
• Iowa town sees end to post office impasse
  Des Moines Register
• Mail carriers aim to collect 1 million pounds of food
  Las Vegas Sun
• Woman pleads not guilty to bomb threats at Minnesota post offices, newspaper
  St Paul Pioneer Press
• Postal carrier pleads guilty to burglary, possessing stolen property
  San Diego Union-Tribune

  Wednesday, April 29

• USPS CFO, COO provide updates at MTAC meeting
  - volume forecast lowered to 180 billion pieces
  - volume and revenue trends continue downward
  - standard volume down 20% in Q2
  Postcom.org
• USPS Joins MasterCard Easy Savings Program
  "5 percent rebate for shipping services purchased online at the Postal Service website"
  Press release
• Residents grumble about North Port post office
  Sarasota Herald Tribune
• Chicago will have last 24-hour post office in U.S.
  Chicago Tribune
• Queens mail could get rerouted to Brooklyn
  Queens Courier
• New Slim-Jim Standards to Kick In May 11
  multichannelmerchant.com
• Don't close main Palm Beach post office, callers tell mayor
  Palm Beach Daily News

  Tuesday, April 28

• Dallas NALC Local has appealed 2,100 grievances in the last 6 months
  NALC Lone Star Branch newsletter via Postalmag.com
• 25 chicks left at post office rescued
  Arkansas Democrat Gazette
• Swine Flu Guide for Federal Workers
  Washington Post Federal Eye
• Online Postage Tools Can Save You Time and Money
  PC World
• Letter to the Editor: A novel way for Postal Service to cut costs
  Mansfield (OH) News Journal
• Another Delay for Intelligent Mail?
  Dead Tree Edition
• Texas Post Office robberies connected
  The (Brazoria County TX) Facts
• Postal Service interested in selling historic Palm Beach post office
  Palm Beach Daily News
• Kentucky Postal Worker Sentenced In Federal Court
  WBKO TV Bowling Green KY
• Court Favors APWU In Latest Round of AMS Dispute
  APWU News
• Mail Carrier Indicted On Mail Theft Charges
  KMGH TV Denver
• Letter carrier/robber sentenced
  Bradenton Herald

  Monday, April 27

• Contract Driver Pleads Guilty to Mail Theft
  WOWK-TV Huntington WV
• Appeals Court reverses MSPB on "zero tolerance" removal
  United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• The OIG Wants to Know How You Feel about Sick Leave
  USPS OIG Blog
• Georgia man sentenced in beating of mail carrier
  Macon Telegraph
• Senate to Consider Legislation Giving Sick Leave Credit to FERS Retirees
  APWU News
• In SoHo, They Hate the Post Office But Don’t Want to Lose It
  New York Times
• "Lost" New Deal murals turn up in USPS office
  Philadelphia Inquirer
• Four seriously injured in crash with postal truck
  Minneapolis Star Tribune

  Sunday, April 26

• Netflix: Kiosks Will Be No.1 Competitor, Future of Video Is Social
  "believes there is still a lot of growth in its rental by mail business... doesn’t believe that a streaming-only subscription would drive as big a shift away from DVDs as people think"
  NewTeeVee.com
• Liberating the Postal Service
  Commentary for Postcom.org by A. Lee Fritschler, Professor, School of Public Policy, George Mason University, former Chairman of the PRC (.pdf file)

  Saturday, April 25

• Postal service truck hits sheriff’s deputy
  Rockford (IL) Register Star
• PostCom podcast on the upcoming National Postal Forum
  featuring PostCom President Gene Del Polito, NPF executive director Mike Genick, and the Postal Service's Alixe Johnson
  PostCom.org
• Boston postal worker arrested after driving, crashing mail truck without a license
  Blast Magazine
• Federal Court Orders Postal Service To Reconsider Mailing of Illegal Animal Fighting Magazines
  Humane Society of the United States
• Debate over mail delivery continues in Elko
  Elko (NV) Daily Free Press
• Man attempts to rob South Bend mail carrier
  South Bend Tribune
• Former postal employee indicted for workers comp fraud
  Glens Falls (NY) Post Star
• As volume of mail decreases, Postal Service drops collection boxes
  South Bend (IN) Tribune

  Friday, April 24

• This week's NAPUS Hotline
  NAPUS web site
• Woman Indicted in Post Office Threats
  KAAL TV Austin MN
• A mid fiscal year assessment
  PRC Chairman Dan Blair's "A Word From the Chairman"
  Postal Regulatory Commission web site
• Murray Comarow responds to "Georg Jensen"'s "The Imminent Death of the U.S. Postal Service?"
  Postcom.org
• USPS seeks contractors to electrify LLVs
  Federal Business Opportunities
• Will Vehicle Cuts Really Help USPS?
  The Big Fat Marketing Blog
• Post office's blue boxes not safe at night
  Fort Worth Star-Telegram
• Gamefly: we’d like the same deal Netflix has!
  postalnews blog
• Postal Worker Accused Of Stealing Mail
  KETV Omaha
• City Wanted Post Office Building for Free — or for a Fee
  Kitsap (WA) Sun
• Congressman Calls for GAO Audit On Closing Florida Mail Center
  Lakeland (FL) Ledger
• APWU: Our Battles Over ‘Tour Compression’ Initiatives
  APWU Maintenance Divison

  Thursday, April 23

• USPS ‘Clarifies’ Some Early-Retirement Deadlines
  APWU News
• More bad numbers ahead for USPS
  Federal Times: Fedline blog
• PostCom: Rural carriers to fight "Summer Sale"?
  Postcom.org
• DMA's Jerry Cerasale on the Proposed USPS 'Summer Sale'
  Target Marketing
• PRC to host briefing on "Postal Product Innovation and New Opportunities for Postal Commerce"
  Federal Register
• Feds to end some newspaper, magazine subscriptions since "most publications can be found online"
  Associated Press
• Victims say more was taken than just mail in theft scheme
  They say they have a difficult time trusting the Postal Service
  Muncie (IN) Star Press

  Wednesday, April 22

• U.S. Postal Service taps optimization software to slash transportation costs
  Green IT - InfoWorld
• USPS Unveils Further Details on 'Summer Sale' DMA Provides Update on Current Outline
  Direct Marketing Association
• Mail Monster: Carrier Rifles Through Mail, Pockets Anything With Monetary Value
  WOIO TV Cleveland
• Chrysler pitches electric minivans for mail carriers
  Detroit Free Press
• Letter carrier charged with theft of mail
  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
• UPS May Say Revenue Fell for Only Second Time on Shipping Slump
  Bloomberg
• New Jersey postal worker accused of using stolen credit card info to steal $7,500
  New Brunswick Courier News
• Authorities say Muncie trio makes mail theft a family affair
  Muncie (IN) Star Press
• Detroit Letter Carrier Robbed
  WDIV Detroit

  Tuesday, April 21

• 83 Year Old Carrier Gets Safe Driving Award
  MyNC.com
• APWU Initiates Dispute Over USPS Failure to Furnish Notice of Changes to PS Form 1723
  APWU - Industrial Relations
• USPS to reduce fleet by 10,000 vehicles
  to reduce costs, help environment...
  USPS News Link
• APWU publishes PowerPoint slideshow to promote HR 22
  APWU News
• BookSwim: Netflix for books?
  CNET News
• Omaha Post Office Robbers Caught
  WOWT TV Omaha
• Post office juggling routes
  Lafayette (IN) Journal and Courier
• Postal contract carrier accused of theft
  McAllen (TX) Monitor
• Mail carrier signs, seals and delivers 50 years of service
  Bakersfield Californian

  Monday, April 20

• APWU-Led Consolidation Protests Gather Steam, Gain Public Support
  APWU News
• Authorities searching for Jacksonville post office gunman
  Man terrorized employees, customer during robbery attempt
  Florida Times Union
• USPS looking for supplier for standardized ID cards
  Federal Business Opportunities
• Mail Bans, Postal Woes
  Graphic Arts Online
  in the same issue: "National Postal Forum: Key Event" -
• New Deal art filled post offices
  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

  Sunday, April 19

• Going Postal
  The Imminent Death of the U.S. Postal Service?
  The American Interest Magazine

  Saturday, April 18

• Collection box stolen on Tax Day recovered in Sun City
  KVOA News 4, Tucson, Arizona
• WV Congressman Pushes Resolution to Maintain Six-Day Mail Service - Huntington News Network
  Huntington News Network
• Man held for trial in beating, robbery of Pennsylvania letter carrier
  Philadelphia Daily News
• Postcom reader: “Summer sale” raises lots of issues
  Postcom.org via postalnews blog

  Friday, April 17

• Q&A on rural route adjustments effective next Saturday
  Rural Carrier Updates (.pdf file)
• Illinois rural carrier dies in accident on route
  Bureau County (IL) Republican
• USPS ends Associate Supervisor Program (ASP)
  NAPUS Hotline
• Florida ongressman calls for review of plan to cut local postal jobs
  Bradenton Herald
• UPS, DHL end negotiations over $1 billion contract
  Atlanta Journal Constitution
• Netflix Subscribers See Red Over Cracked Blu-ray Discs
  "It almost looks like Netflix doesn't want to deal with the problem and they are pushing people to complain about the postal system"
  Wired
• APWU Local Shows Support for H.R. 22 at New York City Rally
  APWU News
• The Facts and Fictions of Online Shipping Costs
  >E-Commerce Times
• The Limitations of USPS Delivery Confirmation
  Auctioncope
• Collection box stolen in Arizona
  Sun City Daily News-Sun
• Mailman accused of not delivering bulk business mail, political flyers
  Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
• Postal worker threw away mail because it was printed on inferior paper
  KARE TV Minneapolis St Paul
• Post office robber, asssailant sentenced
  WVTM TV Birmingham

  Thursday, April 16

• Mail Moves America Update
  Postcom.org
• SF City Attorney Threatens Discrimination Lawsuit Against USPS
  Fog City Journal
• Postcom runs the numbers for summer postage discount program
  DIRECT
• Commentary: First-Class Inefficiency
  Forbes
• Postal employee and conspirator indicted in scheme to steal over $682,000 in stamps
  DOJ Press release
• Tax Day lines dwindle at post office
  Boston Globe
• Late Tax Returns, Angry Tax Payers After Post Office Closes
  WOWK-TV Charleston WV
• Tulsa postal protest battles closure
  The Oklahoman
• NY Postal Union Protests Cutbacks and Closings
  Epoch Times
• James A. Farley Post Office to close 24-hour window
  New York Daily News

  Wednesday, April 15

• Burrus: ‘Summer Sale’ Will Discount Our Future
  APWU News
• Catalog Mailers Like Mailing Discount, Probably Won’t Use It
  Media Buyer Planner
• Mailers Like Postal Discount Idea, Balk at Timing
  DIRECT
• Public meeting held to discuss Zanesville consolidatiion plans
  Zanesville (OH) Times Recorder
• Editorial: Last-minute filers will find post offices closed tonight
  "U.S. Postal Service gets a thumbs down for not staying open late tonight"
  Greensboro (NC) News-Record
• Voluntary Early Retirement update
  NALC Latest News
• Despite rally, Postal Service planning to move some processing off Staten Island
  Staten Island Advance

  Tuesday, April 14

• Making NPA Changes at Mid-year
  League of Postmasters Advocate magazine (.pdf file)
• Summer Postal Rate Rollback May Make Big Mailers Big Winners
  DIRECT Magazine
• DMM Advisory: May 11 Price Change – Updated Price List, New MailPro Available
  click here for the price list, or here for MailPro
  DMM Advisory
• Users face bulk mail blues
  Advertiser bemoans costly slow delivery...
  Buffalo News
• Video: Effort to stop junk mail meets resistance
  WVTM TV Birmingham
• Newspaper asks: Would stopping mail on Saturdays hurt your business?
  Sacramento Bee
• Nashville man convicted of robbing postal worker
  The Tennessean
• Acting VPs named for Network Operations and Delivery & PO Operations
  postalnews blog

  Monday, April 13

• Leveraging Postal Service Purchasing Power to Generate Revenue
  USPS OIG Blog
• Stamped Over Relocation Program
  Human Resource Executive Online
• USPS changes insurance claims processing
  AuctionBytes
• Ask President Burrus: Did the Postal Service really give our payroll records to the newspapers?
  APWU web site
• USPS, ACMA Comment on Summer Catalog Mail Sale
  multichannelmerchant.com
• Trade mag meeting hears "grim news" from USPS
  Audience Development
• Pacific Grove postman still delivering at 78
  Monterey Herald
• Post Offices Won’t Stay Open Until Midnight On Tax Day
  WFPL Louisville

  Sunday, April 12

• Some rural carriers not happy about "Summer Sale"
  ruralinfo.net
• Mailing systems rivals Neopost, Pitney Bowes share industry, home state
  Greenwich Time
• Pinehurst Post office hours cause emotional mail storm
  Fayetteville Observer

  Saturday, April 11

• Spam Replacing Postal Junk Mail?
  Slashdot
• Problem Solver: Is it smart for an online business to use direct mail?
  DMNews
• Texas RCA sentenced to prison for mail and identity theft
  Press release
• DMA statement on proposed USPS 'Summer Sale'
  DMA web site
• NAPUS Hotline
  ... cancelling cleaning contracts, employee organization presidents meet with BOG and more...
  NAPUS

  Friday, April 10

• Your next bank: The Postal Service?
  Federal Times
• Fowl Play? Michigan mail carriers dealing with agressive turkeys
  Grand Haven Tribune
• USPS Playing "Let's Make A Deal"
  Dead Tree Edition
• DMM Advisory: Intelligent Mail® Services Weekly Update
  USPS DMM Advisory
• Flint postal workers protest move to process Saturday mail in Pontiac
  Flint Journal
• Fixing the Financial Woes of the Post Office
  Brief audio report from WTOP Washington
• Valpak franchises opening up
  DMNews.com
• Reservists Pay Safety Net
  also- more on "FERS flu" remedy...
  Federal News Radio

  Thursday, April 9

• USPS tells NAPS information on RIF still not ready
  NAPS/USPS April Consultative notes
  see also: "NAPS to 'fully exercise our consultative rights under Title 39' on RIF issues"
• More executive changes at USPS HQ
  USPS News Link
  see also Postcom's summary of yesterday's announcements -
• Postal Service Launches 'The Simpsons' Stamps
  Washington Post
• Postal Service to slash carrier routes
  Federal Times
• Post office praises hero
  Carrier checked on woman to find she had fallen
  Coeur d'Alene Press
• West Virginia Postal Worker to Face Federal Charges
  WTRF-TV Charleston
• Postal carrier to be tried on 9 charges
  Detective: Man took gift cards and cash
  San Diego Union-Tribune
• Postmaster indicted in theft of $106,500
  Middletown (NY) Times Herald Record
• Study considers consolidation for Zanesville
  Zanesville Times Recorder
• USPS publishes new rules for insurance claims
  Federal register

  Wednesday, April 8

• NALC, USPS agree to new interim route adjustment process
  NALC web site (.pdf file)
• Columnist: Can't deliver a good defense for junk mail
  Los Angeles Times see also Gene Del Polito's response -
• Postal Service looks to consolidate city carrier routes
  USPS & NALC "could reach an agreement... as early as this week to consolidate letter carrier routes in the face of dropping mail volume"
  Federal Times
• 'Postal positions' ads won't deliver on promises of a job
  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• Lakeland Mail Center: No Rain, Nor Sleet, Nor Snow
  Lakeland (FL) Ledger
• Senators Ask Postal Service to Reconsider WV REC Closing
  Metronews Charleston (WV)
• Postal consolidation faces stiff opposition
  Wilkes-Barre Times Leader
• Postal worker arrested on mail theft charges
  WSYR Syracuse
• Mail Shenanigans in Maryland county council election?
  "Navarro’s campaign is alleging that a supervisor of a Silver Spring post office branch has been blocking their direct mail in the special election"
  Maryland Politics Watch

  Tuesday, April 7

• DMM Advisory: Final rule on letter sized booklets to be published this week
  Implementation postponed until Sept. 8, 2009
  DMM Advisory (see also the April DMM Update, issued yesterday)
• Organizational changes and VERA timelines updated
  USPS News Link Extra (note that links in the story only work on the USPS internal network- click here for the external VERA site)
• Get to the Post Office early on Tax Day
  Late night service on tax night is no more
  Virginia Gazette
• Post office to cut operating hours at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport
  Cleveland Plain Dealer
• No delivery for postcard deemed "obscene"?
  New York Post (You can click here to see the postcard) -
• Global postal sector feeling the pinch, but financial crisis not all doom and gloom
  Report from last week's Universal Postal Union conference
  postalnews blog
• HR 22: APWU Asks Members to Contact Congress
  APWU News

  Monday, April 6

• Small post offices: A dying breed?
  Middletown (NY) Times Herald Record
• 30 postal workers picket to save Winchester jobs
  Winchester (VA) Star
• Mail used to come on Sunday
  Belleville (IL) News-Democrat
• Postal Deficit Grounds Wilderness Mail
  NPR's Morning Edition (audio available after 9AM ET)
• Smiles, Frowns, Upside Downs
  ... curious excerpts from the USPS glossary of postal terms
  Schott’s Vocab Blog - New York Times

  Sunday, April 5

• MSPB upholds firing of mailhandler for poor attendance- lack of prior discipline not an issue
  Merit Systems Protection Board via PEN
• Postal Relief Bill Support Hits 252
  also: PRC Issues Compliance Determination and Keeps Tabs on Postal Suspensions
  eNAPUS Legislative and Political Bulletin
• Flats Sequencing Hits Some Bumps
  Dead Tree Edition
• Delivering the Mail Moment
  There's more to the mail than bills...
  FedSmith.com

  Saturday, April 4

• If health insurance companies ran the postal service...
  Kansas City Star Midwest Voices
• Tulsa postal closure defies customer survey results
  The Oklahoman
• Providence: Postal Service to trim 30 admin jobs across region
  Providence Journal
• NAPUS Hotline
  NAPUS

  Friday, April 3

• USPS Agrees to Slow Down District Consolidations
  NAPS Legislative Update
  note: from the NAPS web site- "The USPS provided NAPS with a copy of a revised timeline on April 2, 2009. NAPS has not agreed with all of the elements of the latest timeline and continues to pursue its consultative rights on this reorganization and downsizing."
• Postcom: Shoenfeld out as VP for Shipping and Mailing Services
  "PostCom has learned that Mailing Services vice president David Shoenfeld no longer works for the Postal Service." Shoenfeld, a 20 year FedEx employee before joining USPS, was "responsible for the growth and development of all postal mailing products, including First-Class Mail, advertising mail and Parcel Post. These products produce nearly 90 percent of all Postal Service revenue".
  Postcom.org
• HQ Agrees to "make changes in the timeline for District consolidations and other EAS impacts"
  click here for the revised timeline
  National Association of Postal Supervisors
• Teabags in the mail?
  USPS News Link
• Midland (OH) residents fight for post office
  Wilmington News Journal
• Editorial: Postal disservice
  Decision to move jobs lacks public openness
  Bradenton Herald
• USPS to market test LTL-like services
  ... plan would make use of excess capacity in postal network
  Logistics Management

  Thursday, April 2

• Woman charged with punching out Yonkers postal worker
  MidHudsonNews.com
• USPS Closing Three REC Centers, 1,490 Jobs Lost
  Associated Press
  see also this report from WSAZ TV Charleston WV
• PRC Chairman Blair: Next Postal Rate Hike: Less than 1%?
  multichannelmerchant.com
• Is it time for the USPS to price Business Reply as a bulk service?
  Gene Del Polito commentary for Postcom.org and click here for two more suggestions from Gene
• Postal service plans to cut Idaho backcountry airman's route
  Idaho Press-Tribune
• Mail Moves America: Workers and Small Business Oppose San Francisco's Job- Killing Do Not Mail Proposal
  Mail Moves America release via Postcom.org
• Study: Relocation of Winchester (VA) mail sorting would save $1.5 million
  Winchester Star
• Louisiana TE Carrier pleads guilty to mail theft
  Press release
• Missouri postmaster is charged with stealing $42,375 from PO
  KYTV Springfield MO
• Politically Direct: Economic Pinch Impacts US Postal Service
  Direct Marketing Association

  Wednesday, April 1

• Albany (OR) post office paying $10K a month for storage
  Albany Democrat-Herald
• House Approves Bill to Give Sick-Leave Credit to FERS Retirees
  APWU News
• Small Parcel Shippers Shocked by USPS Rate Hike
  multichannelmerchant.com
• Editorial: Congress must let Postal Service change
  Rapid City Journal
• Iowa Post Office to Close its Doors
  KAAL TV
• State employee information lost in the mail
  Baltimore Sun
• Three Manhattan POs to close?
  New York Post
• Postal Service Confirms Closure of Lakeland Processing Center
  Lakeland (FL) Ledger
• San Francisco Passes First ‘Do Not Mail’ Resolution in Nation
  Press release
• The Simpsons get postage stamps
  BBC News
• Elko: Delivery not delayed by changes: Spokesman says local letters to be sorted here — except for Saturdays
  Elko (NV) Daily Free Press
• Letters’ link soon to be lost?
  Worcester Telegram

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