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USPS management announced [PDF] on May 17 that it would begin implementing a “modified” consolidation plan immediately, but the “new” plan [PDF] employs the same essential strategy as the old plan: Impose drastic cuts to service and the mail processing network, and eliminate tens of thousands of jobs. The only difference is that the “new” [...]

2 NEWS spoke with him shortly after learning that the Postmaster General is planning to go ahead and close the Dayton facility.  Senator Brown said, “The news so far is not as good as I hoped it would be.” Senator Brown, however, told 2 NEWS he is not giving up and is calling on House [...]

via Senator Collins Discusses Postmaster General’s Decision – YouTube.

Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Thursday issued the following statement in reaction to the U.S. Postal Service announcement that it would delay closing mail processing plants until 2013. “I appreciate that the Postal Service is moving forward with its downsizing in a way that is consistent with the Senate-passed 21st [...]

A former letter carrier in Shamokin who stole contents of mail not addressed to him to support a gambling addiction has been placed on two years probation. Terms of the probation for Joseph E. Clemas Jr. 40, of the Pottsville area, include a prohibition on any kind of gambling, including the state lottery. via Gambling [...]

Harsh Realities · Nationwide last year, 5,577 postal employees were attacked in more than 1,400 cities. Los Angeles topped the list with 83 postal employees attacked in 2011. Beyond the needless pain and suffering, medical expenses from dog attacks cost the Postal Service nearly $1.2 million last year. ●  “Children are three times more likely [...]

The Postal Service’s announcement that there are no immediate plans to offer incentives or VERA to EAS employees will be received by some as a mixed message. We are aware that some EAS employees have been waiting for some time to take advantage of an incentive. On the other hand, there are other EAS employees [...]

Today, the USPS announced plans to move forward with the modified netowrk consolidation plan.  With the May 15 moratorium now past, consolidation activities will start this summer. After a break from September through December, this first phase will resume in January 2013. A second phase will then continue beginning in February of 2014 unless our [...]

The U.S. Postal Service, after backing off plans to close rural post offices, will stick with its proposal to shut mail-processing centers, eliminating 5 percent of its workforce and saving $2.1 billion annually. The service, after a loss of $3.2 billion in the quarter ended March 31 and predicting it will temporarily run out of [...]

The nearly bankrupt U.S. Postal Service is moving ahead with plans to close dozens of mail processing centers, saying on Thursday it can no longer wait as Congress remains deadlocked over how to help. At a news briefing, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said the agency’s mail processing network had simply become too big, given declining [...]

For this reason, he made sure to sentence former Southwest Virginia Postmaster Cynthia K. Landore to prison time instead of only probation. “Mrs. Landore committed an outrageous breach of trust in this case,” Jones said. “She was able to do this because she held the job of postmaster, which gave her a good income and [...]

The U.S. Postal Service announced on Thursday it’s moving forward with a $2.1 billion cost-savings plan to consolidate postal plants over the next two years, with consolidations starting in July. The cuts will be limited in 2012, with 48 plants slated to be consolidated or closed in July and August, which will only impact 5,000 [...]

• 48 plants by the beginning of September. • No closures from September through December, during the election and holiday seasons. • 92 closures in early 2013. • 89 closures in 2014. In all, the cuts will leave the Postal Service with 232 plants, about half of its current network of 461 plants, a step [...]

WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), chairman of the subcommittee that oversees the U.S. Postal Service and co-author of the 21st Century Postal Service Act, released the following statement reacting to the Postmaster General’s announcement that the Postal Service would begin closing select mail processing centers in an effort to save approximately $1.2 billion [...]

If you’re a government worker claiming to have been injured on the job and seeking workers’ comp benefits, it’s a good idea to at least pretend to be injured. Jacquelyn V. Myers, a 55-year-old postal worker stationed in Tallahassee, was caught running in the world’s most famous marathon — all while she was actively seeking [...]