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Monday, August 31

• How should Postal Service pay be set?
  USPS OIG Blog
• Direct mailers sponsor survey on 5-day mail delivery
  Lehigh Valley Postal Customer Council
• Management Approaches to Restructuring
  Courier, Express, and Postal Observer
• Dispute Over Sunday Premium When on Administrative Leave Appealed to Arbitration
  APWU - Industrial Relations
• APWU Rebuts Myths About the US Postal Service
  APWU News
• Postal Buyouts, What's Next?
  Federal News Radio
  (and on the lighter side, check out the Onion's "man on the street" reaction to the buyout offer...)
• Envelope gimmicks: Juicing up the impact of direct mail
  BtoB Magazine
• Former Pueblo postal worker indicted
  Pueblo Chieftain
• Downtown Arlington (TX) post office may face cancellation
  Fort Worth Business Press

  Sunday, August 30

• More Florida postal workers being paid to sit around
  KeysNet.com
• Two charged with stealing $120,000 in money orders
  Washington Examiner
• Many post offices closing early Friday
  Gloucester County (NJ) Times
• Editorial: Postal Service clams up over Kalamazoo consolidation plan
  USPS spokesperson "has required the Gazette to file a Freedom of Information Act request in writing for each and every question we would like to ask"
  Kalamazoo Gazette

  Saturday, August 29

• America’s Class War: Who Is Winning?
  APWU American Postal Worker Magazine
• Postal Service Plans to Update Its Closure List
  Washington Post
  see also the letter sent to the PRC yesterday
• As Internet Booms, the Postal Service Fights Back
  New York Times
• As recession wears on, mail gets a little lighter
  Peoria Journal Star
• Congressman says Kalamazoo plant won't be closing
  Kalamazoo Gazette
• Lehigh Valley postal workers get a job security boost
  Imminent closing of Wilkes-Barre distribution center means more mail here, less likelihood of a similar fate
  Allentown Morning Call

  Friday, August 28

• How To Hit The 2010 Retirement Trifecta
  Federal News Radio
• NAPS- all "impacted" EAS employees expected to be placed in jobs
  National Association of Postal Supervisors
• The Big Lie: Postal Arbitrators as the Cause of the USPS Crisis
  APWU Burrus Update
• Former upstate NY postmaster pleads guilty to theft
  Canandaigua Daily Messenger
• Tucson man stole $29K worth of plastic USPS bins
  Arizona Daily Star
• New law would ban mail order cigarettes
  Salamanca (NY) Press
• Employee Incentives Paid to Postal Management as of June 2009: $47 million
  Letter Carrier Connection (.pdf file)
• Few Likely to Step Up for USPS Employee Buyout Offer
  multichannelmerchant.com
• Old Chicago post office site goes for $40 million to anonymous buyer
  Chicago Tribune
• OIG OKs elimination of convention leave for Postmasters
  USPS OIG web site (.pdf document)
• Man hit by postal truck in Connecticut
  Norwich Bulletin
• Wilkes-Barre Plant to Close
  Wilkes-Barre Times Leader

  Thursday, August 27

• The Case FOR Postal-Style Healthcare
  US News
• USPS is paying employees to do nothing
  Key West Citizen
• Mail woman attacked; Southgate man charged
  Detroit Free Press
• How the U.S. Postal Service Is Saving Millions Through Energy Efficient Retrofitting
  Fast Company
• Judge allows Massachusetts rural carrier's suit to continue
  Judge finds evidence of a "campaign of harassment"
  MetroWest Daily News
• Mail truck hits toddler in Utah
  Deseret News
• Family Feud: Caught In The Crossfire
  Federal employee unions disappointed with some Obama policies
  Federal News Radio
• One local U.S. Postal Service employee accepts buyout
  (slow news day in Naples yesterday?)
  Naples Daily News

  Wednesday, August 26

• What the postal service left out of the early retirement deal
  Dead Tree Edition
• Former El Paso postman sentenced for worker's comp scam
  KDBC TV El Paso
• NAPUS asks for buyouts for Postmasters
  NAPUS prez says he asked for incentives in May, was told USPS couldn't afford it... "apparently funds are now available..."
  NAPUS
• USPS offers $15,000 retirement incentive to clerks and mailhandlers
  Moratorium on excessing until October 9
  USPS Newslink
  See also this from the APWU
• As recession wears on, the mail's a little lighter
  Associated Press
• USPS offers incentives; will you take them?
  Buyouts come five months after PMG said buyouts were not realistic: "Our employees would love some kind of a windfall, but the fact is, we can’t afford to"
  Federal Times
• NALC: No buyouts for carriers
  "complements of... carriers remain more closely aligned with the Postal Service’s needs... new early-out programs should reduce the number of postal employees in other crafts excessed to the city carrier craft in the months ahead."
  NALC
• Fire chars mail truck
  Forsyth (GA) News

  Tuesday, August 25

• Zumbox raises $8 million to fund paperless postal service
  National rollout set for later this year
  Press release
• Man arrested after bomb threat at Utica area post office
  Syracuse Post-Standard
• Former postal employee pleads guilty to lesser charge
  Rochester (NY) Democrat & Chronicle
• Advertising Delivery: A Governmental Function?
  Courier, Express, and Postal Observer
• Snail mail slowdown
  Houston Chronicle
• Hawks a Problem for Mail Carriers
  SaskatoonHomepage.ca
• Postal official addresses concerns about Dallas Main Post Office at town hall meeting
  WFAA TV Dallas
• Gamefly seeks to force USPS to disclose details of Netflix deal
  postalnews blog
• Downtown Greensboro delivers for its carrier
  Greensboro News & Record
• Operation Graphic Hand: Nixon sends the Army in to move the mail
  Postal history- the Army's after action report on the 1970 postal strike and the decision to use troops to sort and deliver mail
  Governmentattic.org

  Monday, August 24

• Burrus: Can We Help the Postal Service?
  APWU Magazine
• Fighting Contract Postal Units
  APWU Magazine
• Unions oppose 5-day delivery, other proposals to cut USPS costs
  Federal Times
• TSP Millionaires
  Washington Times
• It's not 1994 Anymore (or 1984 for that matter)
  Why bashing the USPS in the health care debate doesn't make any sense
  Open Left see also Salon -
• Small post offices wondering if fate is sealed
  Los Angeles Times

  Sunday, August 23

• Declining Volumes Lead to FSS Expansion
  Dead Tree Edition
• Post office closings may seal an era
  Daily Breeze
• New Haven: Driver seriously injured in collision with postal truck
  New Haven Register
• Report says 5,216 rouites have been eliminated by Interim Adjustment Process
  lettercarrierconnection.com
  more information on the MIARAP program is available at the NALC Local 3825 web site
• Jogger hit, killed by postal service truck
  Boston Globe

  Saturday, August 22

• Postal worker pleads guilty to destroying mail
  Miami Herald
• Editorial: US Postal Service Needs to Cut Back and Make Changes
  Wall Street Journal

  Friday, August 21

• The Postal Service and the Federal Budget
  Courier, Express, and Postal Observer
• Story in Mailers’ Publication Pointedly Misses the Point About Postal Salaries
  APWU News
• USPS Assailed for Airing Ads During Bigot’s TV Broadcasts
  APWU News
• USPS updates FSS deployment plans
  USPS News Link
• Kalamazoo mail processing may be moved
  Kalamazoo Gazette
• Employee at private mailbox provider stole credit cards from mail
  Portsmouth NH Herald
• Postal Workers 'Excessed' to a 120-Mile Commute
  Manhattan to Montauk
  East Hampton Star
• N.J. post office workers preparing for possible closures
  Newark Star Ledger

  Thursday, August 20

• Court nixes religious displays in postal station
  Reuters
• Postal and NYC Workers Accused of Running Gambling Ring
  New York Times City Room Blog
• OIG agents with search warrants raid West Oakland CA P&DC
  San Jose Mercury News
• Meet the New PRC Chairman, Ruth Y. Goldway
  multichannelmerchant.com
• Residents of Florida town told of delayed, moldy mail
  Gainesville Sun
• PMG responds to President's comments on USPS
  USPS News Link Extra
• Public sends message: Don't close post office
  Pensacola News Journal
• Texas postal employee indicted for mailing marijuana
  DOJ Press release

  Wednesday, August 19

• USPS Station and Branch Closures: ‘Short-Sighted’ Strategy Will Mean Long-Term Damage
  APWU News
• Winning in Turbulance
  Lessons for the USPS?
  Courier, Express, and Postal Observer
• Postal Service moving workers
  Berkshire (MA) Eagle
• Post office reopens one day after crash
  Vineland (NJ) Daily Journal
• Postal Workers Say Sorting Switch Will Slow Mail
  WRTV Indianapolis

  Tuesday, August 18

• Postal Service Bankruptcy
  Courier, Express, and Postal Observer
• USPS still advertising on Glenn Beck Show as other companies yank spots
  BNET Advertising Blog
• Less junk mail: Good for you, bad for economy
  CNN Money
• Donahoe: the current USPS business model is “not sustainable.”
  USPS News Link
• Snailmailr: send physical mail from the web
  Download Squad
• Chicagoans rally for letter carrier facing dismissal
  Chicago Sun Times
• Kentucky postal employee admits to mail theft
  WFIE TV Evansville
• Reader’s Digest Plans Bankruptcy Filing
  New York Times Media Decoder Blog

  Monday, August 17

• Plunge in Credit-Card Mailings Slows
  Brandweek
• Deflation Will Keep Postal Rates In Check -- Maybe
  Dead Tree Edition
• Editorial: U.S. Postal Service needs express delivery of help
  Newsday
• Lawsuit-filing postman loses latest round
  Waterbury Republican-American
• Pushed to brink, U.S. mail continues cutbacks
  Kansas City Star
• Battle brewing over junk mail
  Chicago Tribune
• Postal Workers Protest Proposed Cuts
  WBNS TV Columbus OH
• The Postal Service's Bid for Deliverance
  The deficit-burdened agency asks Congress to consider new jobs for carriers, such as drug delivery, that utilize their 'last mile' advantage
  BusinessWeek

  Sunday, August 16

• USPS plans to conslidate CFS units in Western Area
  postalnews blog

  Saturday, August 15

• U.S. Postal Service Fights for Survival
  US News and World Report

  Friday, August 14

• NAPUS Hotline for August 14
  NAPUS
• NAPS letter expresses "disappointment" in Obama remarks on USPS
  National Association of Postal Supervisors
• League of Postmasters President responds to Obama comment on USPS
  National League of Postmasters - Presidents Message
• Opening the mailbox (to other carriers)
  Courier, Express, and Postal Observer
• Mailbox Explodes in Northeast DC
  WTTG TV Washington
• Editorial: Postal Service mission remains vital in the digital age
  St Louis Post-Dispatch
• Postal Clerk Pleads Guilty to Stealing More Than $600,000 Worth of Stamps
  Washington Post
• Postal carrier driven to, from and around route because of drunk driving arrests
  KOAA TV Colorado Springs

  Thursday, August 13

• Letter carriers respond to GOP "smear" letter
  NALC News
• USPS staffing down 5.7% from a year ago
  ... but staffing reductions haven't reduced costs
  postalnews blog
• The Postal Service's Early-Retirement Snafu
  Dead Tree Edition
• Postal disservice
  Consumers kept in dark about change of plan
  Watertown (NY) Daily Times
• Direct Mail May Fall 10% This Year
  Brandweek
• Scenic Route: Couple navigate four-wheel-drive beach to deliver mail
  Winston-Salem Journal
• Postal poverty
  As the world changes, the U.S. Postal Service must change with it
  Spartanburg (SC) Herald-Journal

  Wednesday, August 12

• New PRC chairman will "emphasize the needs of the average citizen mailer as opposed to the business mailers"
  Santa Monica Daily Press
• People Magazine to honor postal heroes
  USPS News Link
• USPS will offer 20% discount on presort first class mail from Oct 1 to Dec 31
  Postal Regulatory Commission web site
• Arbitrator Issues Decision in ELM 13 Dispute
  APWU - Industrial Relations
• APWU files dispute over district consolidations
  APWU - Industrial Relations
• Ex-letter carrier accused of opening mail agrees to plead guilty
  Tampa Tribune
• Global Postal Monitoring System Goes Live
  RFID Journal
• First class: Postal Service will leave its mark as it fades into history
  Bergen Record
• Post Office Vandalized With Obama 'Joker' Posters
  WFTV Orlando
• Otisfield mail box to remain
  Lewiston (ME) Sun Journal
• Postal truck hit from behind, mail secured
  Payson (AZ) Roundup
• Burrus: USPS Rate Policies Add to Fiscal Woes
  APWU News
• The President and the Postal Service
  Washington Post

  Tuesday, August 11

• Watertown mail processing will move to Syracuse
  WWTI TV Watertown NY
• Three injured in traffic accident; Mail carrier charged
  Georgetown (SC) Times
• USPS Five-Day Delivery Will Not Impact Direct Mail Catalogers
  Arandell Corporation Blog
• PRC public forum on workshare methodologies to be broadcast live on web at 1PM today
  Postal Regulatory Commission
• Dear John: Your post office is closing
  Shipping businesses anticipate more customers with Postal Service changes
  St Louis Suburban Journal
• Tough going for the U.S. Postal Service
  Cutbacks are coming, but how many people care?
  Morris County (NJ) Daily Record
• Thousands of pieces of mail damaged in flooding; many destroyed
  WAVE 3 TV Louisville
• Number of mail routes in Muncie to be reduced
  Muncie Star Press
• Enough with the Nazis- time for a beer?
  Postcom notes that APWU President Bill Burrus didn't tell his members how many of their jobs would be lost should the USPS implement an exigent rate hike. The item goes on to remind readers (correctly) that Burrus once referred to mailers as "vermin", in a 2006 article entitled "Our Struggle". Postcom not so subtly points out the title's similarity to Hitler's "Mein Kampf"- "My Struggle".
  
  We've been critical of Burrus in the past for his vilification of mailers, but to his credit, he doesn't appear to have taken the bait this time around. Last time we checked, Del Polito and Burrus both represented groups that rely on the USPS for their economic survival. It would be nice if they could put aside their differences for now, and concentrate on what they agree on.
  
  Anyone want to order up a couple beers?

  Monday, August 10

• Fixing the Mail: Neither Snow nor Rain nor…Red Ink?
  BusinessWeek
• Opt Me Out! The USPS Needs an Overhaul
  Tech Broiler | ZDNet.com
• US Postal Service faces protest over cutbacks
  The Guardian
• How Should the Postal Service Sell Its Products?
  USPS OIG Blog
• S.1507 Update: Vote Delayed on Bill to Undermine Pay and Benefits; Grassroots Action Campaign Extended
  APWU News
• Netflix should buy the US Postal Service
  David Strom’s Web Informant
• Mailbox ‘edict’ has residents in huff
  New Haven Register
• Salt Lake City airport postal facility could close by Oct. 1
  Salt Lake Tribune

  Sunday, August 9

• Direct mailers make seniors a special target
  Kansas City Star
• Carrier arrested after ditching vehicle
  Denton (TX) Record Chronicle
• Ohio: Clerk, MVS Driver, Supervisor indicted for workers comp fraud
  DOJ Press Release
• Is it time to rethink ailing post offices? Some suggestions
  Detroit Free Press
• Over the top? Postcom prez compares APWU's Burrus to Nazi
  Postcom.org
  Update: looks like Gene's given his choice of words a rethink- the Nazi references have been removed from his essay and the Postcom home page. Read the essay here, and read about Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies here.
  Update #2: A reader points out that Gene Del Polito first floated the "Big Lie" label in reference to Bill Burrus in a commentary written for DIRECT magazine in 2002. "As we know from history, spreading untruths is part of the world's legacy from the 1930s. Back then, telling the “big lie” was an important part of the tactical game used by Europe's most infamous demagogues as a means for coming into and staying in power."

  Saturday, August 8

• Probe of contract post office closes with no charges filed
  Youngstown (OH) Vindicator
• Fixing the Postal Service
  >Courier, Express, and Postal Observer
• Postal union seeks support to fight possible downsizing at Kilmer P&D
  Central New Jersey Courier News
• Postal union seeks support to fight possible downsizing at Edison facility
  Postal union seeks support to fight possible downsizing at Edison facility | mycentraljersey.com | MyCentralJersey.com
• The Postal Service May Be Headed the Way of the Pony Express
  New York Times

  Friday, August 7

• Let’s Outsource the Post Office - Executive Suite Blog - NYTimes.com
  "Just kidding … sort of..."
  Joe Nocera's Executive Suite blog for the New York Times
• UPS Employees Say They Were Forced to Lobby Against FedEx
  Washington Post
• Clunker Cash – Postal Pity
  eNAPUS Legislative & Political Bulletin
  see also this week's NAPUS Hotline -
• Postal truck catches fire in Wisconsin
  WKOW TV Madison
• Watching the (Federal) Workforce
  Three lawmakers have gained new prominence with federal employee issues.
  Government Executive
• Goldway named chair of PRC
  Press release
• Zanesville: Postal jobs staying put
  Zanesville Times Recorder
• Barrier to Postal Service Downsizing Is Being Ignored
  Very few eligible employees taking early retirement
  Dead Tree Edition
• Generational shift blamed in Postal woes
  Baltimore Sun
• GAO: Postal Service in financial disarray
  The Hill
  read the GAO report "Restructuring Urgently Needed to Achieve Financial Viability" -
• Give-and-Take On the Coburn Amendment
  APWU News
• Senate Bill Would Destroy Collective Bargaining
  Burrus: Amendment Assesses 'A Tax on Postal Workers'
  APWU News
• US Postal Service Seeks OK To Enter New Lines Of Business
  Dow Jones

  Thursday, August 6

• Senators Fret Over Postal Service’s Finances
  New York Times
• OSHA proposing$58,000 in fines against Eau Claire's Processing Center
  WEAU TV Eau Claire
• Testimony from today's Senate subcommittee hearing
  Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs : Hearings
• Potter Seeks ‘Fundamental Restructuring’ Of Postal Laws
  USPS News Link
• The USPS in Crisis: Senate Subcommittee Hearing Today at 10 AM
  United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs
  Watch the hearing on CSPAN. CSPAN live stream link.
• Postal Service Faces Gloom Of Economy
  National Public Radio (audio)
• Tobin to leave BOG for post in Department of Education
  Press release
• No Exigent Rate Case—For Now
  multichannelmerchant.com
• Postal Worker Hospitalized After Dog Attack
  CBS 4 Miami
• Charleston Letter Carrier pepper sprays robber
  WCBD T Charleston SC

  Wednesday, August 5

• Summary of today's Board of Governors meeting
  - Jack Potter will remain PMG "for many more years to come."
  - Financial presentation
  PostCom
• USPS will pay managers for environmental performance
  Federal News Radio
• $2.4 billion loss for USPS in third quarter
  Washington Post
  see also the USPS press release
• Editorial: America needs a smaller Postal Service
  Roanoke Times
• Postal Service going the way of phone booths
  Baltimore Sun
• Seattle postal worker charged in theft; $208, 307 check deposited
  Seattle Times
• Postal Service May Close 14 (Not 53) Branches in New York City
  New York Times
• Post office responds to criticism, returns to longer hours
  Morristown (NJ) Daily Record
• Letter carrier charged with drug dealing on route
  Carrier's brother is Minneapolis Chief of Police
  St Paul Pioneer Press
• Can the Postal Service Still Afford Periodicals?
  Dead Tree Edition
• Odd: Postal Service Offers Yard Grooming Tips
  consumerist.com
• Going Part-Time Into Retirement
  Federal News Radio

  Tuesday, August 4

• The Patient is not Dead
  Courier, Express, and Postal Observer
• Ex-postal worker allegedly took gift cards
  Louisville Courier-Journal
• PRC website fails to deliver?
  Wichita Independent Examiner
• Thieves Use Postal Service To Steal Identity
  WFTV Orlando
• Anthrax case not closed: Panel reviews Bruce Ivins, mail probe
  USA Today
• Privatization may solve the USPS's money problems
  Fortune
• With Volume Down, Shipping Discounts Abound
  multichannelmerchant.com
• Editorial: Take fast action to save U.S. mail
  San Antonio Express-News
• Mail Truck And Pickup Collide In Bethlehem PA
  WFMZ TV Allentown
• Contract Mail Carrier Snags Traffic Signal, Snarls Ensue
  Cape May County Herald

  Monday, August 3

• Detroit: Bulk mail facility faces drastic changes
  Southgate MI News Herald
• The Challenge of Retail
  Courier, Express, and Postal Observer
• Board of Governors meets in closed sessions today and tomorrow
  Federal Register
• Passionate little town seems ready to secede again
  Proposed post office closing prompts protests
  Grass City (CA) Union
• ‘Junk mail’ deliveries drop off
  Tallahassee Democrat

  Sunday, August 2

• Sun City paves the way for postal workers of the future
  KNXV Tv Phoenix
• Kucinich Demands Thorough Analysis of Cleveland Post Office Consolidation Review
  Press release
• USPS closings could leave 14 million square feet of retail space vacant
  CoStar Group

  Saturday, August 1

• Grand jury indicts Indiana letter carrier
  South Bend Tribune
• Seeing past the gloom to a brighter tomorrow
  NALC President's Message
• ABM: Elimination of Saturday delivery 'inevitable'
  BtoB Magazine

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