How big of a deal is a five-cent increase? Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal says it’s one step closer to killing off the post office.

Few vehicles in the world have worked harder than U.S. Post Office Grumman LLVs have since they first hit the road in the mid-1980s. Well, after about 38 years, most of them are in pretty bad shape.

He’s a letter carrier for the U.S. Postal Service, so he’ll gather letters and packages for his route and puts them in a container that he carries for his journey.

Postal management at the local level has always been hit-and-miss. Over my long career, I have had a few excellent managers and a lot of terrible ones. The good ones almost break your heart when they end up leaving your office, as most ultimately do. A bad manager can severely alter the work environment.

Police said the package had been mailed from Medford, Oregon, through the US Postal Service, to a numerical house number on Sussex Drive in Smithfield that did not exist. The postal carrier reportedly left the package at the closest house number, and that resident called police.

We have created a new webpage to provide tools for Officers and Stewards to Organize new Members into the National Postal Mail Handlers Union.

More than a decade ago, the technology finally achieved what law enforcement entities have always wanted: a perpetual stream of mail service data that can be accessed at any time for nearly any reason.

The facade and lobby of the post office, which is on Fifth Avenue between San Carlos and Dolores streets, was red-tagged in the days following the April 24 incident, in which the driver lost control of the car, narrowly missed hitting a pedestrian, and bulldozed through the front of the building (she was uninjured).

Participants will hear from operational leaders and receive an overview of the knowledge and skills needed to be a competitive applicant.

We now have the performance data for the 60 days since that hearing, and the scores are nowhere near normal. Yes, they have improved since bottoming out in March, but they are still very poor, and by most measures, completely unsatisfactory.

The Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) has chosen and continues to use Armedia to implement ArkCase’s electronic filing and docketing system, here referred to as eDockets to streamline their filing process, increase efficiency and reduce reliance on paper documents. 

Sentencing and arrests and other articles I found today about postal workers committing postal crimes.