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Mail service issues in the news – 04/25/24

Mail service issues are in the news every day.  Below are the latest articles I found.

USPS credits higher salaries, new leadership, increased staffing for delivery improvements

The agency also increased starting salaries to attract and retain employees. A letter carrier in the city now earns $22.13 per hour, and rural carriers start out earning $20.38.

USPS OIG – An Expensive Drive to Nowhere

Our special agents found the retiree had filed about 1,440 false claims, with over 530 of them reflecting inflated mileage to go to medical appointments. They also found over 910 claims didn’t coincide with actual medical appointments and claims submitted by the providers to the DOL for services rendered.

USPS mail thefts and robberies – 04/25/24

Postal worker robberies and other mail thefts are becoming a daily event. These are the ones I found today.

Senators call on postal board to abandon DeJoy’s USPS reforms

The overhaul is harming the Postal Service, Democrats say, though postal leadership says it just needs more time.

A postal employee successfully performed the Heimlich maneuver on a choking co-worker

Mail Processing Clerk Kharalyn Ford was recently in the break room of the Memphis, TN, Network Distribution Center when a co-worker dining near her began to choke and gasp for air.

US Postal Service to migrate air cargo to UPS during summer

The U.S. Postal Service plans to shift daily air cargo volumes to UPS before the contract with FedEx expires in September to ensure no service interruption for customers heading into the busy holiday shipping season, the agency and company officials said Tuesday. 

USPS reminds postal workers that ethics rules apply both during and after USPS employment

The Postal Service wants employees to follow its ethics rules about contracts, both during and after their tenure with the organization.

Yakima County man sentenced in 2019 crash near Harrah that killed rural mail carrier

Schilperoort, 44, was sentenced to 8½ years in prison after pleading guilty to a charge of vehicular homicide in Woods' death. Yakima County Superior Court Judge Jared Boswell accepted the sentence recommended in the January 2023 plea agreement.

Mail service issues in the news – 04/24/24

Mail service issues are in the news every day.  Below are the latest articles I found.

Lawmakers urging expanded IVF coverage for FEHB enrollees

Enrollees in the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) program just began seeing better coverage of in-vitro fertilization (IVF) for the first time this year. But some members of Congress are looking to take things a step further.

Former postal manager who stole drugs from the mail pleads guilty to drug and gun charges

Minni used his position as the Greece Post Office station manager to take parcels containing controlled substances, such as marijuana, out of the mail stream and into his private office, remove the contents, and then return the empty packages back into the mail stream.
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