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Thursday, August 7

• Postal worker plans to change plea
  Bismarck Tribune

  Wednesday, August 6

• USPS lost $1.1 billion in third quarter
  Press release
  see also CFO Glen Walker's presentation delivered to the MTAC meeting today, provided by Postcom -
• Officials Say Documents Tie Scientist to Anthrax Attack
  New York Times
• News from today's Mailers Technical Advisory Committee meeting
  Postcom.org
• Mailing industry think tank plots an FSS future
  USPS News Link
• Quad/Graphics expanding direct mail division
  Business Journal of Milwaukee
• Report Outlines Junk Mail's Climate Impacts
  MarketWatch
• Protesters block access to Pennsylvania Post Office
  Kittanning (PA) Leader Times

  Tuesday, August 5

• Federal agent dies after Fla. post office shooting
  Associated Press
• USPS cuts impede ‘We Deliver’ promise
  People's Weekly World
• Meriden postal routes cut
  Meriden (CT) Record Journal
• Chiefland Post Office turmoil results in resignation
  Levy County (FL) Journal
• Postal manager indicted for FMLA fraud
  Doctor claimed working full time as a real estate agent was therapeutic for his incapacitating "stress".
  The Federal Sector FMLA Blog
  see also "Alteration of FMLA Medical Certification Results in Criminal Indictment of NJ Postal Worker" -
• Pallet Lessons from the USPS
  MaterialsHandling.net
  see also: GPS tracking helps USPS locate missing pallets -
• Waterbury post office may close
  Waterbury (CT) Republican-American
• Is your Netflix queue destroying the environment?
  Slate Magazine
• NAPUS corrects USO study story
  eNAPUS Legislative Bulletin

  Monday, August 4

• Former Postal Worker Pleads Guilty to Mail Theft
  WGRZ TV Buffalo
• Ex-postmaster cleared in theft investigation
  "Schultz said this week the [OIG] investigator who led the charge against her is now subject to an internal investigation."
  Galveston County Daily News
• Anthrax Evidence Is Said to Be Circumstantial
  New York Times
• FedEx Downshifts
  Punishing fuel costs and a shaky economy is forcing FedEx Express to reexamine its business model
  Air Cargo World
• CFO: Tools guide Postal Service decision-making
  Federal Times
• UPS nears agreement with drivers, handlers
  Chicago Sun Times

  Sunday, August 3

• Anthrax Case Renews Questions on Bioterror Effort
  New York Times
• Postal Workers Go Without Answers
  Anger, Distrust Linger at Anthrax Site
  Washington Post
• "Local Postmark" lobby drops no longer required
  Postal Bulletin
• Post-Anthrax, Mail Sent Around Inconvenience
  Washington Post
• Tiff with postal carrier keeps some ballots out of mail
  KING TV Seattle

  Saturday, August 2

• Confusion on route when mailman falls ill
  lehighvalleylive.com
• Shipping Costs Start to Crimp Globalization
  New York Times
• It's not over for Jersey anthrax victims
  Trenton Times
  and from the New Haven Register: Doubts linger about unsolved anthrax attacks -
• Time for bold moves: Third quarter results suggest bleak outlook for USPS
  "The combination of secular and cyclical trends are having a devastating impact on postal volumes and revenue and cost-cutting efforts cannot happen fast enough to counter the decline in revenue."
  Courier, Express, and Postal Observer
• USPS seeks VERA authority for Postmasters
  League of Postmasters News Briefs

  Friday, August 1

• Man dead, wife 'critical' after crash with postal 18-wheeler
  Lower Hudson (NY) Journal News
• USPS Delegates USO Review to National Academy of Sciences
  eNAPUS Legislative Newsletter
• Postal workers rally in support of Cleveland AMC
  WKYC TV Cleveland
• Apparent suicide in anthrax case
  Los Angeles Times

  Thursday, July 31

• FERS Sick Leave Reimbursement Bill Moves Forward in Congress
  NAPS Legislative and Regulatory Update
  see also: NALC Legislation and Political Action -
• Postal Service wants limits on its universal service obligation
  Federal Times
• Seniors angry about end of postal truck
  Asbury Park Press
• Ex-postal worker settles lawsuit / He alleged he was fired after complaint of discrimination
  San Francisco Chronicle
• "Union busting" FedEx CEO on McCain's shortlist for VP?
  Press release

  Wednesday, July 30

• Gas station employee charged $87K to USPS using Voyager card numbers
  "the station submitted 815 separate charges for payment by the USPS, representing about 12 percent of the total charges for the Houston district"
  KPRC Houston
• Breaking a town from the center
  Vermont town gets its post office back- but for how long?
  Boston Globe
• Former Sioux Falls postmaster files discrimination lawsuit
  "Kim Pritchard says she was passed over for promotions because she is white and a woman."
  Sioux Falls Argus Leader

  Tuesday, July 29

• Young: Carrier VERA not likely until next year
  "Young, who is in close contact with USPS on the issue, emphasized that if there is an “early out” offer to city letter carriers, it would be limited and not likely to occur before 2009."
  NALC News
• USPS Unable to Justify Outsourcing, GAO Finds
  APWU News
  text of the GAO report -
• Possible pipe bombs found at two PO's in Ohio
  Athens Messenger
• $50,000 reward in mail carrier hit and run fatality
  Corsicana Daily Sun
  see also: Evett remembered as loving father, husband

  Monday, July 28

• Sorting out postal law
  Questions for new PRC Commissioner Nanci Langley
  DMNews.com
• Letter carrier's job inspires son's game
  Boston Globe
• Editorial: Rocking the mail boat
  "Summer residents of Sutton Island (Maine) have lost their special private postal service, and there may be a moral to the story."
  Bangor Daily News
• A Direct-Mail Pioneer Fights Back As His Catalog Business Struggles
  Will a move to the web save the day?
  Inc.com
• Man charged with harassing Syracuse letter carrier
  Syracuse Post Standard

  Sunday, July 27

• Carrier shot with BB gun
  Newark (NY) Courier Gazette

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